Skua

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[–] Skua@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (7 children)

The UK is having a general election in a little over a month, and we have a similar electoral system and a similarly miserable political landscape. It's fairly applicable here too.

[–] Skua@kbin.social 43 points 1 year ago (38 children)

The fact that trump has won 50% of his elections and looks to be 2/3 in a few months should make everyone reconsider the quality of candidates we’re running against him.

After the Dems last lost an election, you got Biden as your next candidate. Why are you expecting this approach to suddenly produce a candidate you would like?

[–] Skua@kbin.social 56 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I think you should vote for someone you believe in, rather than voting for someone who is not someone else

This would be the ideal situation, but for so long as we have first-past-the-post it's a fundamentally ineffective way to vote. Thanks to Duverger's law, unless one of the two big parties just so happens to coincide with your views then the best you can do is to vote against whichever of the big two you dislike most. "Big two" here depends on your constituency - it may not be Labour and the Conservatives locally, but it is true that virtually every constituency has at most two realistic options. Labour may not be very good, but if they're in power it's probably at minimum going to make this a better place for asylum seekers and trans people (or whoever the Tories would go after next), and Labour's voting record on the environment really is far better than the Conservatives' too.

[–] Skua@kbin.social 26 points 1 year ago

party cannon it is

[–] Skua@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

China isn't that big for domestic cobalt extraction, it's Chinese companies working in other countries. The biggest reserves are in Congo-Kinshasa and Australia, but Australia doesn't extract much

[–] Skua@kbin.social 16 points 1 year ago

I love how four of the six countries we can see names for are literally next to each other as well

[–] Skua@kbin.social 22 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Weshesh, one of the groups Ramesses III said he defeated when the Sea Peoples attacked Egypt. As far as I know, though, they're one of the groups that we have basically no other mentions or evidence of, so we have no idea who they were

[–] Skua@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That fact that this is coming from a lemmynsfw.com account is beautiful

[–] Skua@kbin.social 19 points 1 year ago

The feature itself is fine, the fact that it's literally in between you and turning regular shuffle on and off is incredibly irritating

[–] Skua@kbin.social 32 points 1 year ago

This is an apt comparison, especially since Buckfast is also caffeinated

[–] Skua@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

I think we have the same cat

Little scam artist is getting himself double dinners and still looks that good

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