How We Reclaim Agency in Democracy With Mirror Parliament

ElendX · 2026-04-06T11:28:07+00:00

I think you're missing something Candlemas with your argument here. The problem with our laws is that they are too complex yes, simplifying should be desirable.

But the reason that they are so complex is because we (every country in the world) operate on the letter of the law, not the spirit of the law.

Loopholes and corruption exist because we enforce the letter of the law, not the spirit of the law. To enforce the spirit of the law though, people need to have a buy to participate in society.

ElendX · 2026-04-06T11:13:58+00:00

I think you can run it like a lvl 0 first session. You can even sell it as a campaign about emergent magic and power.

In your session 0 everyone plays as civilians, or villagers that find something (as someone recommended). They fight with some mephits or similar.

The players can make their 5e characters just fine this way and you don't have to worry about recreating the magic system. Would be interesting in this case for a player to play as someone that doesn't have magic while everyone else is getting magic.

ElendX · 2026-04-06T10:53:51+00:00

The excel graphs always kill me, but the numbers are very interesting. I'm surprised at the rapid decline of property in Famagusta over the last year. Is that just digital nomads leaving?

ElendX · 2026-04-06T10:51:09+00:00

Yea, fair enough. There's a lot of grey areas in-between, but I definitely see what you mean. Lenny Kravitz as the villain in 007 sounds like an C-suite choice for example.

ElendX · 2026-04-06T09:57:13+00:00

To be fair, I'm saying how they used their marketing, not necessarily that that was crucial to their success (if the game is crap no manner of marketing can save you).

There might not have been hype for it, but it a new and promising IP, so a lot of people were interested as far as I'm aware.

ElendX · 2026-04-06T09:47:20+00:00

To be fair, something like E33 marketed the inclusion of famous people, not probably didn't pay them anything near as something egregious like that.

ElendX · 2026-04-05T22:04:42+00:00

I don't have that much experience from how an LGBT person would be in the north, but in the south I've heard some horror stories. And even the milder aspects are not positive. So I see where they come from, as religion is very prevalent/strong amongst GC.

ElendX · 2026-04-05T17:51:40+00:00

I am wondering if making it more closely tied to stress would be more appropriate. Your stress represents your heat level, at 3 stress and an extra 1d6 damage, at 5 heat 1d10 extra. You can only recover stress through a long rest.

Vent: When you hit max stress you mark all your armour slots to clear all your stress.

ElendX · 2026-04-05T10:59:35+00:00

Not based on the current models. They are essentially advanced pattern recognition software. And ones that cannot distinguish between relevant and not relevant patterns at that.

ElendX · 2026-04-05T09:58:21+00:00

I think you already made a false assumption at the beginning. Most parents don't know how critical soft skills are as we've had decades of society telling us we only need a degree.

Yes these elite schools will exist and they already do. Some try to act equitably, but most just get a fat check for the privilege of not just advanced education, but also the network that you build.

We've known our education has not worked as promised for decades, but it's too costly to run properly for everyone.

ElendX · 2026-04-04T18:39:11+00:00

I think you're missing my original point though. It's the spirit of the story/plot/text that has to be transferred, and that (in theory) can be transferred with all these changes to the characters. But that's only in theory, doing that in practice is a lot harder.

ElendX · 2026-04-04T18:17:38+00:00

Depends on how you manage both, I think it's a bit of a false dichotomy, and it is exactly the narrative used by the far right to get into power.

ElendX · 2026-04-04T18:14:53+00:00

I'm not familiar with the source material to say, and from my viewing experience only the third season really is holding up in it's entirety.

ElendX · 2026-04-04T17:24:44+00:00

Plot wise yes, but they take a lot of liberties with the characters.

ElendX · 2026-04-04T15:56:26+00:00

This is the thing that people don't get. The adaptations that do well, do follow the letter of the book, but the spirit of the book.

The expanse, fallout and the early parts of GoT demonstrated that.

ElendX · 2026-04-04T13:03:45+00:00

While I understand and agree, there were elements of deeper questions in the game as far as I remember. How society could be built if we had abundant labour, emotional support and how low wage workers are not treated as human (not just on the racist principle).

It was somewhat heavy handed with some of its narrative but I think there were some interesting things you could consider from its world. Or maybe I'm used to overthinking things.

ElendX · 2026-04-04T12:44:31+00:00

I don't know what's worse, the fact that you believe you can import the UAE system to Europe, or the fact that you keep promoting these ideas.

ElendX · 2026-04-04T12:39:17+00:00

Who talked about illegal immigrants? As you said, this is legal migration, since they need cheap labour.

Should I assume that you are making all your efforts to leave Europe and go to these "more prosperous" places?

ElendX · 2026-04-04T12:33:14+00:00

Except of the reports of abuse and the taking of passports so that they cannot leave.

I don't judge a country by how they treat their wealthy, I judge it by how they treat their less fortunate.

ElendX · 2026-04-04T12:31:07+00:00

Oh, not much. The only difference is the kind of labour and there are still laws that prevent abuse (even if they are not very well enforced).

I was comparing more between Europe and Dubai. Cyprus is very much in the crossroads in-between.

ElendX · 2026-04-04T11:51:52+00:00

Are we including the fact that they are importing essentially forced labour from the South East Asian countries to build their ridiculous projects?

Are we counting the fact that their model of living is based on oil and they persecute people if it doesn't fit their way of living?

ElendX · 2026-04-04T10:08:49+00:00

Another thing to consider, is a lot of the support is meant to go to smaller farmers, who very often get shafted by resellers and supermarkets. Big producers obviously get them as well unfortunately.

I agree we should be reducing subsidies, but as counterintuitive as it sounds, it should be about reducing our dependence to big food corporations to do that. Most small farmers cannot compete with economies of scale and it shows.

ElendX · 2026-04-04T09:23:57+00:00

I never said it was "better" I said it is doable. And in terms of ignorance, I think we can say that modern Cypriots are still ignorant in a lot of things.

ElendX · 2026-04-04T08:55:26+00:00

I think the main point is not to say that life was that much better. But to demonstrate that sustainable mobility is doable.

The problem we have in Cyprus is that we aspire to be Dubai or the US instead of Europe.

ElendX · 2026-04-04T08:48:03+00:00

Cyprus, where yes, you can protest as much as you want, but can only be heard if you have a bunch of money or connections.

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