The Belgian government didn’t investigate for months. An NGO fighting against human rights violations in Palestine did track them on social media, saw they were at Tomorrowland in Belgium and filed a complaint. Only then the government acted by questioning the soldiers.

They might realize that increasing wealth inequality might not be good for them either on the long term. They are so rich that losing 99% of their wealth doesn’t have any real impact on their day to day life anyway.

Trade with the EU hasn’t completely halted, we still buy gas from Russia.

The world makes much more sense if you realize that despite all our achievements and knowledge we are just hungry, angry, horny apes in clothes.

Wasn’t this confirmed to be an AdBlock (Plus) bug? https://twitter.com/gorhill/status/1746263759495077919

Well no, it’s obviously utf-8

They are probably yes, but the French might not agree since é isn’t included. Let alone the vast majority of the world who doesn’t use the latin alphabet.

What is a standard character? It’s not a simple question.

We have escalators that don’t stop in Europe? I didn’t even know those existed.

Not really , they use the Open Data Commons Open Database License which means it can be used commercial but they have to release changes under the same license.

If you can’t see pedestrians on the road (on time) you’re either driving too fast, or you’re not paying enough attention, or you’re driving a car that is not suited for roads with pedestrians. That’s totally on the driver.

Leaving that aside, what do you think causes the increase? Dark clothes getting more popular…? I believe it’s the rising popularity of bigger cars with bad visibility (and maybe also the increase of phone usage while driving).

No, reunification isn’t the status quo, that’s ending the status quo.

Xijinping saying mainland China and Taiwan will reunite basically means he wants to invade Taiwan. That is newsworthy.

At this time is history reunification means joining the PRC, there’s no question about that. And support for that is very low in Taiwan.

The reason they don’t say that in official statements and prefer the status quo is because they are afraid of war.

I don’t know anything about a “constitutional vow”.

They are named the Republic of China and claim all (or most?) of mainland China in the claimed territories, (but where those are defined I can’t find):, I suppose it’s not really wrong to call that wanting to be a part of China.

Also in the amendments they talk about the free area and the mainland area https://law.moj.gov.tw/ENG/LawClass/LawAll.aspx?pcode=A0000002

Of course it’s a very misleading claim because if they would claim anything else they risk war with the PRC.

All the discussion I’ve seen is also about independence vs the status quo, not independence vs joining the PRC. That’s not really on the table.

I assume it’s mostly not detected correctly

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You mean like explained here: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JtKAScORevQ ? That’s indeed not ideal, but I would say still absolutely better than FPTP?

That said, approval voting does look better to me.

I stopped using it because my cables got always damaged after a few weeks/months of usage. With a (big) phone in my pocket it’s just not possible for me to put no stress on the jack.

I actually stopped listening music on the road for a few years after that until I started using Bluetooth headphones/in ears. Now I wouldn’t go back to cable even if it didn’t break down so fast.

I assume you mean ranking your second choice lower can make your first choice win? I would say that’s actually a great advantage of RCV, it means moderates have more chance to win. Someone who’s liked by everyone but is nobody’s favorite can win.

EDIT: After some reading, I retract my statement, Ranked has a bunch of glaring flaws and can be worse sometimes.

Care to elaborate? Ranked choice isn’t perfect, (a perfect voting system is mathematically impossible : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow’s_impossibility_theorem ) but I don’t see where it would be worse than FPTP.