They used YouGov polling to fill out the missing data (though they do acknowledge the limitations, including tactical voting) https://electoral-reform.org.uk/latest-news-and-research/publications/a-system-out-of-step-the-2024-general-election

@[email protected] since you asked about this in your comment

FPTP: you get one vote, and each constituency elects one representative. Whoever has the most votes in each constituency wins, every other candidate in the constituency gets nothing.

AMS: Like FPTP, but with an extra layer of regional elections. The results of the regional are weighted towards parties that got a lower number of seats in the FPTP section than their share of the votes (so a party that comes second or third a lot but rarely wins in FPTP will do well). This isn't completely proportional, but it does shift the results a bit towards proportionality and makes it so that votes for non-winning candidates still have some effect.

STV: Instead of voting for one person, you rank the available choices. The candidate with the fewest first-preference votes is eliminated, and that candidates votes are given to their second preference. This repeats until someone gets a majority. This reduces the pressure of tactical voting compared to FPTP, because you can pick a first preference even if you don't expect them to win and a lower preference as your "well at least it's not the other big party that I dislike more" as a backup

Party list PR: Each party is given a number of seats equal to their share of the national vote. The party's most popular candidates in each constituency get seats first (so results will tend towards candidates that are popular in each area, though not strictly. This sacrifices local representation for maximum proportionality

The UK's general elections are currently FPTP. The Scottish Parliament and Welsh Senedd use AMS, the Northern Irish Assembly uses STV, and the UK used Party List PR for EU elections prior to Brexit

I think it's an attempt to say "I'm annoyed/upset, but also I don't want to fight, please leave me alone"

Oh, and a quick overview of the parties. All left-right descriptions are within the UK's mainstream Overton window:

• LAB (red): Labour. Currently in power, centre-left to centre. Rooted in trade unions, though that relationship has grown increasingly strained.

• LD (orange): Liberal Democrats, colloquially Lib Dems. Usually found somewhere between the two major parties, like economic liberalism a lot.

• GRN (green): Greens. Specifically, Green Party of England and Wales, as the Scottish and Northern Irish Green parties are separate things. Progressive, pro-environmentalism, and anti-nuclear (power and weapons)

• SNP (yellow): Scottish National Party. A little left of Labour on most issues, but not hugely. The big distinction is that they are pro-Scottish-independence or, failing that, in favour of increased autonomy for Scotland within the UK. Not ethnonationalist, thankfully. Currently in power in the Scottish parliament and the most successful party in Scotland in UK general elections.

• PC (dark green): Plaid Cymru. Take the SNP description and replace "Scotland" with "Wales" and the policies are pretty much there. Less electorally successful than the SNP, but doing well recently.

• REF (light blue): Reform UK. Populist right / far right. Basically just the latest vehicle for the biggest anti-EU voice in British politics, Nigel Farage (the guy who recently got challenged by Count Binface). Currently positioned to, potentially, remove the Conservatives from their extremely long run as one of the UK's two big parties.

• CON (dark blue): Conservatives, colloquially Tories. Traditionally on the rightward end of mainstream British politics, started drifting ever further right as their prior run in government stretched on. Sort of struggling to figure out exactly what their deal is and rebuild in the wake of that mess, particularly as heaps of their members and voters went to Reform.

That's re-apply buffs time!

I hope you enjoy it! They're fairly frequent doing-the-dishes entertainment for me, since it's the kind of thing where you want to be able to watch but don't need to constantly watch

I loved my paladin who was just fine at everything. We needed a tank? She might not hold up compared to an equivalent barbarian, but she has a big hp pool and a bunch of tricks to stay standing. Need DPS? She can't do it all day, but for a while she can empty spell slots into smites at a horrid rate. Need healing? Sure, she's no cleric, but she'll keep you in the fight. It was awesome being able to just plug any gap and solve any problem in a fight

Catholicism (the majority denomination of Christianity in Poland by far) is actually pretty easy-going about what counts as idolatry. You can have a lot of depictions of important figures, which is apparent in basically every Catholic church having such statues

Oh hey, I've had some Starward! It was a sample in a tasting set I was given as a gift. I don't remember a huge amount about it just now, but I do remember that it made a good impression

Not sure I'd call myself an artist here, but I made you a completely AI-free version. I've tweaked a few small things, but can change them if you want. If you like it, it's yours to use with no payment required

You're welcome! I'm also in the UK but a couple hundred miles north of you. Whitby looks lovely, I hope get to stop by some time

Isn't that like 4,000 years before the first records of coffee being prepared as a drink?

Edit: upon a little research, the tablet in the image is a version of the Instructions of Shuruppak. The oldest known copies we have, of which the depicted tablet is one, do indeed date back to around 2,600 BCE. However, the text is supposed to be the words of an ancient king given as advice to his son much earlier. In fact, the first part of the text is, "In those days, in those far remote days, in those nights, in those faraway nights, in those years, in those far remote years, at that time the wise one who knew how to speak in elaborate words lived in the Land." The speaker is said to be the son of king Ubara-Tutu, who is mentioned on the Sumerian king list as having reigned for over 18,000 years prior to the great flood of Sumerian myth. We can't really put any actual dates on that and have no archaeological evidence for basically anything relevant, but some archaeologists date it around some known localised flooding around 400 years earlier than the writing of this tablet

Anyway there's nothing in there about coffee or even about the habits of The Youth These Days, but it does contain such pearls of ancient wisdom as "you make bad decisions when you are drunk" and "hurting yourself with an axe is bad actually". There is a missing chunk that mentions beer and the god Ninkasi, herself associated with brewing and beer, so it's possible that there was something about the flavouring of beer in that bit, but the trasnslation I'm looking at makes no mention of it

https://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/section5/tr561.htm

Edit again: also the original poster was joking

Absolutely wild that Trump and Vance thought they could just intimidate a guy that has been completely unshakeable through the last three years of what Zelenskyy has dealt with

The reason it exists is so bizarre too. It stems from the rivalry between the republics of Venice and Ragusea (modern day Dubrovnik). Venice was gradually asserting control over more and more of the Adriatic coastline and Ragusea didn't much fancy sharing a land border with its rival, so it just gave up one tiny stretch of land each to its north and south to the Ottoman Empire. Venice would therefore have to come by sea or risk angering the Ottomans. Eventually Austria manages to annex the Dalmatian territory of both Venice and Ragusea, but the Ottomans still held those two tiny strips of land. The Ottomans were not typically on the best of terms with Austria, and they held on to the two tiny bits of Adriatic coast up until the treaty of Berlin in 1879. By this point, Neum (the Bosnian one) had been part of Ottoman Bosnia for 179 years, so the borders were pretty damn entrenched, and they survived through the shifts to Austrian, Yugoslav, and eventually independent Bosnian-Herzegovinan political structures. So a petty but clever move of hiding behind a bigger empire in the 1600s created the tiny bit of Bosnian coastline today.

Ahh, the counterpart to casual racism: ranked competitive racism

Not quite. So far as I'm aware the actual leaker remains anonymous, and the journalist they originally gave the documents to is okay. However, two journalists who were involved in picking apart the actual content of the papers and reporting on it were murdered, Daphne Caruana Galizia and Ján Kuciak. Galizia was the one who was killed with a car bomb

My favourite ever Crusader Kings patch note was "Intelligent women no longer confront their pregnant lesbian lover to ask if they are the father of that child. Stupid women however, still have a chance to ask that question."

This feels like a very foolish move. I do not know the relevant law at all, but surely it's some kind of illegal to falsely use someone's face to claim their political endorsement? And it's not like Taylor Swift is somehow lacking in either the financial clout to sue over it or the PR clout to turn it around

If this fucking walloper wants to ruin his own campaign then that's more than fine by me. I'm just surprised by what seems like such an obviously poor move

On an interview with Piers Morgan no less, amazing. I don't think Morgan and Carlson get along that well, but they're positioned similarly enough in the general media landscape that there's probably a meaningfully non-zero audience shared between them