Zompist Bboard Again

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?

A "no recall" result I would presume would result in staying with the status quo. About lists, note that in parliamentary governments recalls in their conventional sense do not really make sense in closed party-list systems, I should note; rather, one would have to recall entire parties, ...

Fundamentally the problem with recalls in representative systems is that they are typically not representative of the whole body of people who voted the representatives in, but rather of just the extreme portions thereof, actually making them undemocratic. Of course, this can be solved by counting ...

Fundamentally the problem with recalls in representative systems is that they are typically not representative of the whole body of people who voted the representatives in, but rather of just the extreme portions thereof, actually making them undemocratic. Of course, this can be solved by counting ...

https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questio ... y-how-many

Gives examples of other writers using "three parts" to mean "three quarters"

There seems to be yet another deal between the UK and the EU on how to handle Northern Ireland's status under Brexit. As someone on Twitter put it, Thousands and thousands of hours of Brexit, each more climactic than the last. Constant, dizzying, 24 hour, year long, endless Brexit. All here, all th...

The result of the constitutional reform referendum in Chile has been used over here in the UK in interviews with some people (I forget which MPs, but I'm sure one was a former Labour MP in Blair's cabinet) as a way to suggest that electoral reform might not be worth pursuing, which is more or less w...

Quickly searching for it in on Google, seems to stand for "unsure", seperating out the two version of "Q", "queer" and "questioning" into "QU" for "queer" and "unsure"

I've used all three, especially "I've not", and tend to a bit more often when talking with other people from round here (North Yorkshire). It does seem to be faitly common up here than, say, down south, but does seem to be less common among younger speakers than older ones, so I feel like ...

Given that the longest she can go is a little over two years, does it even matter if she calls an "early" election? Besides, who cares? It's not like British elections have multiple possible outcomes. EDIT: Sorry, that was unfair. There are two possible outcomes to British elections. Eith...

At the moment my circle of friends is just waiting to see if Truss continues the recent trend of calling for an early general election, following on from May and Johnson, remembering, of course, that a) it took those two nine and six months respectively to call for an early GE, and b) that calling f...

So, it's been a bit, but, talking to a friend recently about the weather in mid-July here in the UK and what they're looking at now in Canada, and climate change more broadly... Is there any general "leftist" (communist, socialist, anarchist, etc.) line of thinking in how to contend with c...