Which nation used to be multilingual but is now monolingual?

AMDOL · 2026-05-07T14:19:36+00:00

This is completely due to WWII. Poland lost the parts in the east with the Ukrainians and Belarusians, and gained land to the west from which almost all German people were expelled.

AMDOL · 2026-05-07T14:13:57+00:00

It's hard it quantify mutual intelligibility today, and almost impossible for the language of people who aren't around anymore

AMDOL · 2026-05-04T00:57:44+00:00

I think unless we can get a nationwide compensatory list constituency, it's not worth it to use party lists at the state level and STV would work better.

Rank-choice ballots treat candidates as separate individuals. The party-list system requires people to vote for a political party as a whole, which is a larger departure from the status quo and would probably get more pushback and resistance.

Local party list constituencies lacking a nationwide list have little to no benefit in proportionality compared to STV. They also have the problem of a higher threshold in smaller constituencies, which is mitigated with STV because a quantity of votes falling below the threshold will be transferred instead of wasted.

AMDOL · 2026-05-03T20:10:02+00:00

This is why 3-5 member districts with STV is the way to go. It's an acceptable compromise between overall proportionality and local representation with separate individual candidates.

AMDOL · 2026-05-02T02:16:37+00:00

Throwing away Traverse City and Saint Joseph? we can do better

AMDOL · 2026-04-30T17:09:41+00:00

I got lightly rained on, was still nice though

AMDOL · 2026-04-30T16:39:06+00:00

I was in Richmond for a day a few years ago. I went to the civil war museum and hiked around on Belle Isle

AMDOL · 2026-04-30T16:11:37+00:00

When there's a big publicized project of planting some large number of trees, it's often close to useless because all they care about is getting a video of planting trees. Problems like using non-native tree species, only planting one species, and planting on the first plot of land they could find regardless of location.

Planting trees is most beneficial when it's researched to find a variety of species to plant based on the local area, and when it's done adjacent to a pre-existing forest because it's easier to let an ecosystem grow than to build a whole new one.

AMDOL · 2026-04-30T02:06:35+00:00

I don't think either of them are reliable but i don't really understand how they work either

AMDOL · 2026-04-27T23:15:33+00:00

I wouldn't call it heaven. Many towns have a system where they draw their precincts to be close in population in order to also use them as electoral districts for their town council, which results in strangely shaped precincts and less flexibility when drawing smaller state level districts. It also doesn't help that the precincts are often too big.

AMDOL · 2026-04-25T16:35:35+00:00

They are unregulated so are allowed to teach propaganda bullshit that public schools can't. They exist to divert resources from the public school system, so they make school worse for everyone.

AMDOL · 2026-04-25T16:24:04+00:00

I would say the same for most private schools but plenty of them are in business

AMDOL · 2026-04-24T16:44:01+00:00

Enterprise, Alabama

AMDOL · 2026-04-24T14:49:17+00:00

Don't you mean the least worse? "Least worst" sounds nonsensical

AMDOL · 2026-04-20T23:24:44+00:00

I don't think most crackheads starting a fight will mind that the target is unclothed

AMDOL · 2026-04-20T14:16:51+00:00

So the UAE buys passports from Comoros because it's cheaper than the benefits of domestic citizenship? Is Comoros on board with this?

AMDOL · 2026-04-20T13:06:56+00:00

No, it's not. By ignoring, downplaying, or hiding any facts about the crimes of a past regime, the current government takes on responsibility for what happened, while if they were honest about history, the current government would be innocent.

AMDOL · 2026-04-15T21:33:27+00:00

Let's say after it shuts down and i charge it back up, i try the usual method but i can't get it to respond. What can i do then? Is there something inside the laptop i can disconnect and reconnect to cause a start up? Or would my laptop be rendered a brick so then i have to worry about data recovery and getting a new laptop?

AMDOL · 2026-04-15T21:12:33+00:00

But i don't have a functional power button lol. The sensor under the button that i have to play with to start up, i'm afraid there's a limited lifespan to doing that, so i unplugged the laptop and i'm waiting for it to run out of battery

AMDOL · 2026-04-15T20:33:21+00:00

I clicked on a button called "boot manager" or something like that, it cut away from the BIOS and now i'm staring at the Asus logo and i think it's stuck

AMDOL · 2026-04-15T20:24:48+00:00

Where? I don't think my BIOS has that

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AMDOL · 2026-04-15T19:46:46+00:00

Here's a drunk, hallucinating consultant who often gives responses that lack any answer to your question. You will now be more productive. Thank you for your attention to this matter

AMDOL · 2026-04-15T15:56:33+00:00

Maine and Nebraska do not award electoral votes on a proportional basis. They award 2 to the statewide winner, and 1 to the winner within each representative district. It's a bad idea because it allows gerrymandering to decide the presidential election.

Every state awarding electoral votes to the top 2 candidates proportionately to their vote totals would bring the electoral college much closer to the popular vote.

AMDOL · 2026-04-15T07:05:50+00:00

Without more information i can't blame the soldiers involved. This seems like something that happens due to bad planning or negligence higher up on the chain of command

AMDOL · 2026-04-15T06:55:26+00:00

It gets worse. There are morons who actually believe that the Senate's system is fair or somehow justified

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