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  • The problem with FPTP is that you can't just vote based on policies.

    You also have to consider who is most likely to win the seat and whether you have to vote AGAINST who you don't want rather than FOR who you do want.

    CGP Grey explains it succinctly, here: https://youtu.be/s7tWHJfhiyo

  • Sunderland Council to continue using chemical weedkiller
  • Just fucking let the weeds grow. They're there for a reason.

    reduced resident satisfaction about weeds clogging up paths

    Clogging up? Are some dandelions really stopping people from getting down a path? I don't think so. Plants don't tend to grow very well on trodden paths, any that do grow will be on the edges becoming just an aesthetics problem.

  • Mark as read on scroll not working.
  • It worked for me perfectly from release until a couple of days ago. Ads started appearing in the app around the same time it stopped working, so perhaps they're affecting how it works? I dunno.

    If I click the tick to denote a post is read, it'll disappear. And posts still dim during scroll as if the app knows they're read but just isn't hiding them anymore.

  • DIY Supermaterial Could Save You From Heatstroke: Salt based PCMs
  • I was engrossed and believed everything he said right up to where he said those little hand warmers are great. They're pish. They require boiling water before every use and don't last all that long. Unfortunately, that makes me dubious about the rest of his claims.

  • See the top 4 locations in England with the most snakes
  • Amazing, thanks!

    The interactive map is pretty cool. It's interesting that the further north you go, the more it just becomes adders.

    My only interaction with snakes in the wild was in the Cairngorms. Twice in the same day! Both were just sunbathing on the path, and both times I almost stood on them before I saw them at the last second. Terrifying stuff. I'm pretty sure they weren't adders though, although I'll admit I know next to nothing about snakes, so who knows.

  • I don't use crossbows in video games
  • The only game I recall playing where crossbows were a weapon class of their own, and not just another type of gun, is Witcher 3.

    I completed the game, and the two large DLCs, and the crossbows were completely pointless. Magic, swords, and even fists were used regularly, but the crossbows just gathered dust. I unlocked and levelled up pretty much everything in that game, and still, the crossbows were pointless.

  • Touching Grass: The Grassening
  • For real, though, you can almost cut out medication if you drink nettle tea. I only use antihistamines for convenience on days I don't have time or am not in the mood for tea. But usually 1 cup, sometimes 2 on breezy days, and it's fine.

  • Greek coastguard threw migrants overboard to their deaths, witnesses say
  • "That's something that happens. The migrants travelling the Aegean Sea, very often they abandon the children. They don't seem to have the same... affection we have for children."

    The blatant dehumanisation is sickening as well.

  • The majority of people in Scotland said they had no religion in the 2022 census
  • "The number of people who described themselves as Muslim increased by 43,100 over the same period."

    "Scotland’s Census found that 2.5% of people aged 3 and over had some skills in Gaelic in 2022. This is an increase of 43,100 people since 2011 when 1.7% had some skills in Gaelic."

    What's the chance that it's 43,100 Muslim Gaelic speakers? 🤔

  • Stagecoach cuts services amid 'falling passenger numbers and rising costs'
  • I've not used buses in a long time. I'd rather walk 45m across the city than fuck about trying to get a 20m bus journey as they're so unreliable. That could be why passenger numbers are low if people are doing similar, finding alternatives.

    This was... a few years ago, but a friend of mine lived in [small unnamed village so I don't dox myself] as a teenager and after a night out his only option home (except a bank loan for a taxi) was to get the 10 to Inverness, ask the driver to drop him off at a junction along the way (not a bus stop) and walk 1.5 miles in the dark along a narrow country road. What could possibly go wrong?

    The reason for this is Stagecoach deemed the bus that went to his village and around some of the other larger villages in the area too expensive and cut it. Essentially stranding a few thousand children, teenagers, pensioners, and anyone unable to drive really, because they weren't making enough profit. Not a loss, just not enough profit. This bus then got subsidised by the council due to outcry, but that seemed to dry up eventually, too.

    Another Stagecoach fuck up was when they got the contract to do all the school bus runs. This would be a council fuck up too as they clearly didn't vet Stagecoach properly. So Stagecoach have the contract to transport hundreds of children and which buses do they decide to use? Well, putting out the shiny new buses isn't going to net them any profit as they've already got the contract, they're getting paid regardless of which bus they use. So they chose their most beat-up falling apart buses. Some buses would fill up with smoke from the engine, some buses struggled to drive up hills, but the worst was when a bus came to a crossroads, the driver applied the brakes annnd nothing happened. A bus full of children just went zipping across the junction. Luckily, there was nothing coming from the other directions, but that could have been disastrous. Of course, parents and teachers found out, a meeting was called, and Stagecoach got scalded by the council and improved their buses. But only improved them juuust enough. They were still pieces of shit by the time I left school 5 years later.

    Anyway, my point is, I agree, Stagecoach are shite. First are shite. Nationalised buses are definitely the way forward.

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