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The public are wishing on a monkey's paw. When people say this, they're thinking, "the average MP, if independent, would agree with me, because I am correct about things".

They want MPs to agree more with them. In reality, the median MP is further from the median voter than the median party is.

"What about blind people using the bus?" is a weirdly common canard right now.

There's variations on, 'this bike lane is pointless because it doesn't enable some obscure local journey', on a proposal that is protected and connected for almost anyone heading into work.

"It's actually going to make cycling more dangerous by encouraging Lime bikes†"

† Dockless rentals; the implication is that they're inexperienced cyclists.

"Women should know their place"

"...and what place is that?"

"Oh we're still working on the details. Key thing: know their place."

The ability of car drivers to devise hypothetical scenarios to justify traffic violence is simply unmatched.

If you send every single person who drives drunk to prison, you may well end up imprisoning fewer drunk drivers than a country that sends 10% of drunk drivers to prison.

Stringent, and consistently enforced.

If you send every single person who drives drunk to prison, you will send very few drunk drivers to prison.

It's always worth parsing these posts through an understanding that 'capitalism' often just means 'bad people making bad decisions', rather than a specific political economy. If you do that, these posts are perfectly cogent.

This is half true.

The USA does have a very long formal campaign season where candidates are out doing events and canvassing voters.

But, very few candidates are deciding on their positions and image that close to an election. Those sorts of decisions are normally made a year out.

Old timey euphemisms for gay sex

"I am personally annoyed by how people talk to me on social media" is rarely a good explanation for voting trends.

I think Nate would be a lot more persuasive if he just said the actual problem, because I can easily empathise that being spoken to like this is annoying.

Could you point me to something I can read - or perhaps write something yourself - expanding on this? This is a new idea to me and not Jewish so I'm interested to learn more but no idea how to go about it.

I can't articulate this well at the moment, but it feels like a lot of our problems stem from the concept of organization becoming female coded and therefore considered kinda gay by society at large.

I'm seeing a series of these articles where ex-NIMBYs simply reinvent some variant of YIMBYism that's been around for a decade or more.

"Yes! We can focus YIMBY reforms on public sector housing, which faces mostly the same barriers as the private sector. Google 'left YIMBY': this isn't new.".

In a city that has literal building sized murals glorifying the actions of terrorist organisations.

This would be great in London

Montreal’s Bixi which designed the bikeshare technology Toronto’s Bikeshare is based on, now has rentable bike trailers.

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I totally agree that local authorities are to blame. They have Section 106 for a reason and they choose to use it to build places like that.

I live in Brixton. We have plenty of benches, bus stops, and indoor third spaces.

I do spend my time reading up, talking to people, and visiting places, and learn about how are things the rest of the country.

In their homes. The causes of young people's loneliness is very similar to the causes of old age people's loneliness.

I think it's both: there's a warm and comfortable space you can go, you'll choose that. But also, the third spaces you're pointing to (benches, bus stops) are going away. We grew up before ubiquitous car-first estates sprung up. Lots of teens live in places with no benches or bus stops.

Range voting provides good results for voters, but provides parties with a strong incentive to play up their differences with their nearest competitors. This isn't great for political culture. Systems like AV encourage parties to play up 'we're the second choice for X voters'.

This system allows all of the nice mathematical proprieties of each system without any of the perverse strategic downsides.

But, more importantly, it'll give the talking heads something to discuss on election night between 10 and 2 that isn't endlessly relitigating the election campaign.

5/5

Once determined, ballot counters convert the ballots to the defined system, and count according to the defined system, and declare a winner.

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Whilst voters are voting, the returning officer powers up a lava lamp, and as the clock strikes the end of polling, the returning officer counts the number of distinct wax bubbles, and looks up which system will be used to count the votes.

3/🧵

Voters would fill out a single ballot, assigning a distinct number from 1-100 to each candidate, 0-33 indicating disapproval, 34-66 indicating degrees of apathy, and 67-100 indicating approval.

2/🧵

AV, negative voting, (fractional) approval voting, range voting, D21, and Borda Count are interesting voting systems which have weird strategic incentives for politicians or voters in niche situations.

To resolve this, I propose (half-jokingly) the random count system of elections.

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Brixton Tesco doesn't charge for trolleys.

So, yeah, pretty good metric.

Unionist/Loyalist groups are increasingly mobilising along general anti-immigrant. Northern Ireland is integrating with GB politics in the worst way possible.