Hardly the first time a ceasefire has collapsed in a conflict this year. In such tense situations I can imagine it’s very easy for either or both sides to push their luck with the terms, and then when the other sees them doing it they respond, and now the ceasefire is dead in the water

You’ve got the details a little wrong. The original two were the Whigs and the Tories, as you say. The Whigs became the Liberals who became the modern day Liberal Democrats, who still exist but haven’t been in power outside of being a junior member of a coalition for a century. Tories became the Conservatives, who are still one of the major two and are regularly still called the Tories. There was a faction that broke away from the Whigs called the Liberal Unionists, who merged into the Conservatives, but they’re separate from the Liberals. Labour is not a successor to either of them, though they did make some strategic agreements with the Liberals early on. In the early 1900s, Labour replaced the Liberals as one of the two major parties.

It is still consistently a two-party system. One of the historic parties got replaced and there is a stronger presence for minor parties than there is in the states (see especially the SNP in the past decade and the Tory-LibDem coalition in 2010), but still a two-party system

I doubt it. This is the third time that India and Pakistan have started shooting at each other over this same area and not gone to a full-scale war. They’ve got form

It’d have to be something silly given that it would necessitate the ships going via the Atlantic

Ahh fair enough

The movie has nothing to do with the tree being cut down. They’re saying that the tree was used in a movie, and the “moronic mission” was the two men deciding to cut it down

Paladin build

This one does at least have the writer and director team of Days back, which Weeks did not

It probably helped that he had a relatively minor role in it too. The face of his faction of characters in the film was Luv

The article body repeatedly says 1,300

Also, she should be able to remove herself from the conversation if she wants to. If she’s at work then she can’t do that, for example, but if you’re at a public park then she can just walk off. At least that’s how I think of it. Obviously I don’t ever want to make someone feel like they have to if I’m just trying to chat, but the point is if they have the option then it should be way less likely to wind up that way

I don’t know anything about what she talked about before or after the trip, but it actually is a well-established phenomenon that going to space causes a notable shift towards feeling more connected to humanity in general

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overview_effect

Half-Life: Noita

No, it isn’t.

Mixed member proportional has regional list candidates that compensate parties that are underrepresented in seats compared to their popular vote within that region. Regardless of how your preferred candidate does, your vote affects the regional results. New Zealand uses this at a national level, and Germany and the UK both have it in some sub-national elections

Party list proportional has you vote for a party rather than a candidate, and each party gets a number of seats proportional to the number of votes. If your preferred party doesn’t win, they still get some seats. If they do win, your vote still gets them more seats. Absolutely loads of countries do this method.

In a single transferable vote system, you rank the candidates. If candidates get enough first-choice votes to meet a given threshold, they’re elected. Any surplus votes go towards the voter’s next choice, potentially electing them. If your first choice is the least-popular, they’re eliminated and your vote goes to your next choice. Either way, the vote isn’t wasted. Ireland and Australia use this.

I think with this carton you can get a weight-balanced arrangement for any number of eggs except one and seventeen. So whatever you do at the start and end of the carton, it better involve at least two eggs

Is that sort of wrestling actually a sport? It seems like anything with scripted results is more of a stage play to me. Which is totally fine if that’s what someone wants to go see, it’s essentially just the theatre counterpart to an action movie

I think a lot of us rugby fans who see American football try to watch it like rugby too. The impression I get from talking to Americans is that going to the football is a day out (or in) wth friends and you’re only actively watching sometimes with regular breaks for food and the like

Well sometimes it’a fun to see people be really good at things, and sometimes it’s fun to get invested in something with other people

Doing your own sports is good, obviously, but the two aren’t mutually exclusive unless you’re completely out of free time

Alright @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] here we go. I picked up some of my cat Alaric’s favourite treats so we could get that authentic “give me food” sound as I kept them away from him.

I went with a virtual amp instead of the actual pedals so that I could show the exact same clips with and without amplification. I tried replicating something like the two pedals that are visible, but I couldn’t get it to work with the stuff that I already have so I just went ahead and dialed in a general death metal-ish tone of high drive distortion > Marshall JCM 900 with the mids scooped > a little tiny bit of reverb > a 4x12 cab. The clip has ten seconds of guitar recorded straight into the computer, the exact same guitar clip but with the amp turned on, then Alaric, and then the same clip of Alaric but amplified. Headphones warning, it is quite loud

https://vocaroo.com/13XyCW2raFOE

Also a picture of the star vocalist, of course

Battle Beast

Noora Vuorinen’s voice should be on the UNESCO world heritage list