Formerly /u/Zagorath on the alien site.
It literally was though. Not a military intelligence tool, but a big business intelligence one.
Niantic was founded by Google and their first product, Field Trip, and their first game, Ingress (a much better-designed game than Pokémon Go, btw) were pretty obviously about gaining geolocation data for Google to improve their products like Maps and Shopping.
Honestly I’m a light hobbyist myself. My exposure to history is primarily via YouTube channels like the excellent Historia Civilis (their series on Julius Caesar and the downfall of the Roman Republic is stunning) and via games like Age of Empires.
I just don’t understand how someone interested in antiquity can possibly fall for Trumpism. The fall of the Roman Republic was presaged by a guy literally trying to get elected to office so that he could escape prosecution for illegal abuses of power, and the legal system standing aside and saying “yeah, we’ll let you do that in order to maintain the peace” and then falling into civil war anyway.
How much of that sounds familiar…?
They’ve got options.
And maybe others. It’s about making sure that a product you have paid for actually works as it was sold to you. It’s honestly a really basic consumer protection concept. You sell me a television and it stops working within a reasonable lifetime due to your own failure, and you’re obligated to repair or replace it. The same should be true of software.
CCTV produced an article asking “six shocking questions” about “US doping scandals.”
Hilarious, considering they had a known doper on their swimming team at the Olympics who was banned in 2014 and then banned again after destroying testing samples in 2018. Not sus at all…
To add to @sunbeam60@lemmy.one’s comment, the whole thing: from her becoming PM to resigning, lasted just 50 days. The shortest PM in British history by far, beating the previous record of George Canning of 119 days in 1827.
And her premiership would have been even shorter, except that the Queen died on her watch, which put a complete pause on British politics for a time.
Though I’m not British, I have an interest in your education system because I went to a school that taught, up until year 11, the British education system. Years 10 and 11 were IGCSE, which is an international variant of the GCSE.
But in years 12 and 13 I took the International Baccalaureate. Which I have a lot of praise for in general, but particularly in regards to this aspect. One of the core components of IB that everyone has to take is Theory of Knowledge. It’s essentially an introduction to epistemology, including learning about logical arguments…and logical fallacies. It’s one of the most broadly useful things you can learn, and I think it should be in every high school curriculum.
I think it’s pretty obvious how this is political. Far, far more than the other recent thread about lateness, anyway.
The amount of free time people have is a result of the economic situation we live in, where people are expected or required to work a certain amount of hours in order to be able to afford basic necessities, and some people end up needing to work even more than others because the kind of work they do is not valued enough. That’s politics.
You said exactly what I was thinking.
I came into this ready to agree with OP. In fact I wanted to add an additional point about how neurodiverse conditions can make it difficult for some people to keep track of things and arrive on time.
But the idea that other people should put their schedules on hold? Nah, sorry. You lost me there, OP.
On my desktop I’ve currently got 4 windows with 101, 103, 17, and 191 tabs. Think it’s about 60 on my phone, and currently only about 30 on my tablet.
Overshadowed? What was it overshadowed by?
Daniel Shaw was among them? That evil bastard deserves everything he got and more!
We don’t judge people’s personal kinks no matter what they are, but we do judge them for trying to force their kinks onto others.
I find the notion of “votes to unionise” kinda weird. Like, shouldn’t the nearly 50% of workers who want to unionise just be allowed to do it? Then half the workforce would be union, and that’s enough to get some bargaining power, even if not as much as if everyone was. It should be their right to freedom of assembly to create a union even if only like five workers want to be in it.
Earl Grey - for the Great Reform Act, which was a necessary precondition to Britain becoming a modern democracy
Also tea. His. Hot.
But MMP does that. I don’t understand how that description differs from regular MMP.
I have often wondered why MMP is always done using FPTP for the local component. Why not IRV + proportional top-ups?
I don’t really understand AMS as well as MMP, but I think the same question could be applied.
Aaaaaand this is why Labour will never countenance this within this parliament.
This is why it’s important to hammer home to them that this election is an anomaly. Look at all the elections since 2010. What would all those Parliaments have looked like in proportional elections?
FPTP helped Labour this week. It hurts them far more often.
I just had a brief look at AMS on Wikipedia but I’m struggling to understand it. They say it’s less proportional than MMP as used in New Zealand and Germany, but the brief description of how AMS works sounded very much like how MMP works. What’s the difference?
True, and that’s important context if you’re trying to get a deeper understanding of how Julius Caesar came to have the power he held before his assassination.
But there’s enough of a problem you can see even if you just start at Julius, which is what I was concentrating on in my previous comment. The parallels to Trump are terrifyingly on the nose.