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melvisntnormal
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me if hayfever didn't exist:
This might be getting into the weeds a little, but to me, "bottle of water" implies a single-use bottle already filled with water, while "water bottle" implies a bottle that is made to be (re)filled with water
... unless I'm the cause of the crisis, then I'm a mess
Wow, TIL, thanks for the info!
Oh okay, fair enough. Out of interest, what does Jagex have against the Brits?
Nope, just straight up blocked
I tried to follow that link and it seems Cloudflare blocked me. Don't suppose you know who I'd need to talk to to resolve that would you?
Something that I've found with Sync is that I needed to open the post itself first before I open the image. I assumed that Sync doesn't fetch the uncompressed image until you do so
For UK general elections (what we call elections to Parliament, our national legislature), the UK is divided into 650 constituencies, each of which elect one MP by FPTP. There is no party-list component.
The situation is different for other elections:
- STV: used in all Northern Ireland elections (except general elections), Scottish local elections, and Welsh local elections starting from 2027, subject to the council choosing to do so itself
- AMS (Additional Member System): used for elections to the Scottish Parliament, Senedd (Welsh Parliament), and Greater London Assembly
- Closed Party List: used to elect the Senedd starting from 2026, and formerly used for elections to the European Parliament prior to Brexit
- FPTP: used in all other elections
AMS is what we call MMP. Assemblies elected by AMS are composed of some single-member seats elected by FPTP which are then grouped into larger regions, each of which are allocated a certain number of seats to be used for the proportional component. These also use closed party lists, and is probably where the idea that our FPTP system is FPTP + party lists. It's not: FPTP is exactly the same in the UK as it is in the US. If there's any component on top of that, we call it AMS.
I think they've made one for every iteration. It's where we get some of the alternate canon names for the protagonists, like Akira Kurusu and Minato Arisato.
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Slightly tangential, but something that really pisses me off is how we had something like this system for elections for mayors and some other local positions.
The Supplementary Vote was used for all combined authority mayoral elections until the Elections Act 2022 abolished it. It was basically the Alternative Vote (Instant Runoff/Ranked Choice Voting) but limited to two choices: the top two candidates who received the most preferences would advance to a runoff which used the second choices. It's similar to the French system but it's all done on the same ballot instead over two separate votes.
The Tories had it in their manifesto to replace it with FPTP, and they did that through the EA2022. I knew they weren't on board with changing parliamentary elections to a better system, but getting rid of (marginally better) established systems says a lot to me about what they think about democracy.