Zompist Bboard Again

So, I speak from a UK perspective (as others here do), but with the House just 6 seats away from a Republican majority, the Senate elections already showing a Republican majority, and the President-elect being Donald Trump (I think some states allow for faithless electors, but still...), are there a...

I remember there was more of a genre divide than a generational divide when I was a teenager. There was the pop/rock/metal crowd and the rap/R'n'B crowd, and neither group could stand the others' music. That mention of a "pop/rock/metal crowd" makes me wonder how a mashup of the cheeriest...

I'm trying to come up with something snarky to say about this, but can't. " Reform UK under pressure to prove all its candidates were real people ": https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jul/08/reform-uk-under-pressure-to-prove-all-its-candidates-were-real-people They went so ...

This could be a "strictly speaking, but", but the MP in my constituency announced, on the day the election was called, that parliament has been suspended, and that, within the confines of the law, he was only an "acting", MP, not an actual Member of Parliament, meaning that, for...

This could be a "strictly speaking, but", but the MP in my constituency announced, on the day the election was called, that parliament has been suspended, and that, within the confines of the law, he was only an "acting", MP, not an actual Member of Parliament, meaning that, for ...

One takeaway is that Labour's actual absolute number of votes during this general election is down 557,040 in comparison to the 2019 one, despite the comparative 1.7% rise in proportion of total votes The Lib-Dems had a similar result, with absolute votes falling by 195,379 from 2019, but seeing a 0...

Well, exit polls are up on the BBC website: Labour: 410 (+209) Conservative: 131 (-241) Liberal Democrats: 61 (+53) Reform UK: 13 (+13) Scottish National Party: 10 (-38) Plaid Cymru: 4 (+1) Green: 2 (+1) Others: 19 (I think that's compared to the 2019 election result, though, not the actual state of...

(Oh, and the RationalWiki article mentions this, but it's a little obscure: the LibDems allied with the Conservatives in 2010, a bold move which took the party from 57 seats to 8.) And this happened, interestingly enough, after a period of a few years when they had managed it to successfully convin...

I've been keeping an eye on the Electoral Calculus website for the constituencies of Richmond (North Yorkshire)* (where I lived up until 6 months ago, Sunak's seat), Thirsk & Malton (the constituency that that address now falls into, thanks to boundaries being changed), and Darlington (the cons...

Over in the British Politics Guide thread in Ephemera, sangi39 just posted b) Richmond has returned Conservative MPs for over a century with absolute majorities all but twice (relative majorities in 1989 and 1997, with 5% and %20 leads respectively), Until today, I had thought the terms "absol...

I've been keeping an eye on the Electoral Calculus website for the constituencies of Richmond (North Yorkshire)* (where I lived up until 6 months ago, Sunak's seat), Thirsk & Malton (the constituency that that address now falls into, thanks to boundaries being changed), and Darlington (the const...

It should have been resolved now Pabappa got in touch with me and another moderator, but mods don't have the right permissions to do that sort of thing, so we forwarded on the message to the two admins, and one of them has done a reset to TomHChappell' login attempts

It's a bit weird that I watched and re-watched TNG era Star Trek for decades and never once thought about how creepy a computer system listening to everything you say in your room would be in real life until Amazon started selling Alexa. Watch again...the characters say "Computer!" and th...

Local elections tomorrow! Not for everyone (next one for my local council is 2027, woop woop), but the last big set of local elections ahead of the planned-for-2024 general election, so I guess this could be a pretty big one as far as how the various parties might react And a week later, the result...

Local elections tomorrow! Not for everyone (next one for my local council is 2027, woop woop), but the last big set of local elections ahead of the planned-for-2024 general election, so I guess this could be a pretty big one as far as how the various parties might react

I did for what I intended to use as a calendar for my moon druid in D&D. Then I asked out DM how long the year was in our campaign and he said "300 days"... completely messed up my plan. Ouch! Sorry to hear that. Neat concept, though! Haha, it's fine. I was hoping that I'd be able to ...

Not enough conworld calendars incorporate the Metonic cycle . Every 19 years, the lunar cycles return to the same position within the solar year. By the time this happens, the lunar calendar is exactly seven phases behind, so you can add a month to seven of the nineteen years as scheduled leap mont...

A whole bottle of wine is that much alcohol? As I related above, my parents don’t usually look kindly on alcohol (outside of Communion wine), so I don’t have occasion to drink it often. How much is too much? 750 mL of 29-proof red wine. What's that, like 14.5%abv (the US has "proof" at tw...

Man in Space wrote: ↑Sun Apr 02, 2023 9:33 pmTitle

How much is too much?

Raphael wrote: ↑Mon Mar 27, 2023 8:11 amThat was close.

SNP leadership election?