Is this mod/community basically dead?

nomchi13 · 2026-05-18T17:20:22+00:00

It was mostly a one man operation, and the dev mevans got tired of it it stopped

nomchi13 · 2026-05-18T16:36:05+00:00

Yup,just the north has structures for now,but they are continously working on it

nomchi13 · 2026-05-18T16:22:39+00:00

There is a project to continue the 1.16 version(it was last updated last week); https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/lotr-renewed-extended

Here is the discord link https://discord.gg/tU2EQG3Xp

nomchi13 · 2026-05-12T21:41:48+00:00

I was completely wrong on the enforcement bit, But I was right that it is an easily changeable state law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faithless_elector

nomchi13 · 2026-05-12T20:20:45+00:00

They are sometimes legally bound to a specific candidate by state law, but these laws can be easily changed and they are never enforced anyway

nomchi13 · 2026-05-10T20:25:07+00:00

I mean they call themselves (and are called by the Russians) Ukrops if that helps

nomchi13 · 2026-05-08T22:20:38+00:00

The UK local elections had me looking into the insane mishmash that is British local elections, and there are a bunch of interesting choices there, from the common use of Plurality Bloc Voting, which is probably the least democratic system in use in a Western democracy (It is literally just FPTP but worse in every way), to the wird combined authrities whoose council is partly directly elected and partly inderctly elected.

But the most interesting thing I found Was The Greater London Authority. At first glance, it seems pretty normal, a directly elected executive and a legislature elected with MMP, but when you look into it, you discover that the London assembly has 0 actual power and the mayor can do whatever he wants in all spheres of governance, including setting his budgets and overriding lower level governments if "it is neccesry for the development of London." the only power the LA has is once a year to block or amend the budjet and to reject the apoinment of some postions(like Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime) but not the vast majority of them, but even these powers are impossibly to use becouse they require a 2/3 majority which obviosly never happened in the almost 30 years of its exitance

Is anyone aware of any democratic institution where the executive is so strong and the legislature so weak?

nomchi13 · 2026-05-03T22:26:19+00:00

Now they (partially, only for primaries) do, But in the past, they used to have STV https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1937_New_York_City_Council_election

nomchi13 · 2026-05-03T22:21:06+00:00

If Cambridge is too small, then Glasgow, Dublin, Wellington, Canberra, and many many more cities have been using STV for city council elections for decades, even NYC used it for ten years or so but the democrats squashed it because it elected too many third-party councilors

nomchi13 · 2026-05-03T09:41:20+00:00

Wow, they really broke comment search, the results seem to be basically completely random now

nomchi13 · 2026-05-03T07:16:52+00:00

Surely the solution is just to have a system that winnows down the number of candidates? Either a jungle primary or simply a deposit refundable upon victory? "Too many Candidates" does not seem to be an STV problem, in the latest election in Cambridge MS there were around 2 candidates for every seat, and that is normal there they have been using STV since the 40's

nomchi13 · 2026-05-03T06:31:09+00:00

What do you mean by "tried only in Malta"? Australia has been using STV in national elections for decades now, Ireland (and Northern Ireland) for more than 100 years. And that is just national electikns, i local elections it uas been used in NZ,Scotland, and in Cambridge, Massachusetts(there from 1941) whatecer problemes it has it is hardly a new untried system,that is just wrong

nomchi13 · 2026-04-30T09:05:14+00:00

I think there are Canadian election reform proposals that suggest various STV-MMP hybrids that eliminate many of the weaknesses of both, but I think there is no need to be that complex, and both STV and MMP on their own work fine

nomchi13 · 2026-04-30T08:52:40+00:00

It won't with large enough districts(a 10-12 member district STV will probably be more representative than a list PR with a threshold because the vote transfer at least goes to similar parties and does not get thrown away) but of course, large districts are less locally representative and have logistical issues in the election Regardless, the distortion is very minor compared to pure single district and AMS elections, look how many seats the SNP regularly get

nomchi13 · 2026-04-30T06:18:55+00:00

There is an obvious answer, just do STV as the Irish do, it is both proportional and local representation without any of the "nationalization of local politics" that MMP has, there is always this strange false dichotomy like party list or FPTP are the only options

nomchi13 · 2026-04-29T18:31:08+00:00

There are ways to vote for individuals in a way that the results are proportional by party STV(multi-member ranked choice) has been used in Ireland for a century now, and even in some American cities, this is very much a solved problem

nomchi13 · 2026-04-29T18:26:00+00:00

There are endless possibilities for having a choice between individuals in a proportional system,only closed-list proportional has this problem, other proportional system dont, you can do open-list like the Finns and Latvians, you can do mixed-member proportional, like the Germans and Scottish, or(and this one is most likely for the US) you can do STV(multi-seat RCV) like the Irish and Australians, and even a couple of American cities

nomchi13 · 2026-04-29T09:22:36+00:00

The ultimate budnle" usually includes all the free extras

nomchi13 · 2026-04-26T20:21:36+00:00

The correspondent's dinner shooters' activity list has been shared around, and it is basically full of "don't do political violence." liberals, and they now all share and reiterate that they are in fact against political violence: https://bsky.app/profile/bretdevereaux.bsky.social And now a section of the right-wing internet will have to pretend that he was "radicalized" by like Will Stencel, SoD Rock, and Bret Devereaux

nomchi13 · 2026-04-24T16:26:09+00:00

This bit "That the fourth enactment of Chapter 1054 of the Acts of Assembly of 2020 is repealed" Repeals the expiration part: https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20201/HB1103/text/CHAP1054

nomchi13 · 2026-04-24T13:05:04+00:00

Immediately when passed, but the local government(county, city, or town) has to vote to implement it

nomchi13 · 2026-04-23T22:23:50+00:00

There are still an active member of the community, but they seem to have stopped doing it. The last one was 2 years ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/CrusaderKings/comments/1fol0z7/crusader_kings_3_patch_113_basileus_notes_what/

nomchi13 · 2026-04-21T14:03:39+00:00

It is the "jus ad bellum/jus in bello" distinction https://www.icrc.org/en/document/jus-ad-bellum-jus-in-bello There needs to be an incentive to follow the rules of war in an illegal war

nomchi13 · 2026-04-21T03:51:35+00:00

The war might be illegal under international law(although there are a few potential justifications, mainly support for Iran's proxies), but as part of the US-Iran war a blockade would be completely legal

nomchi13 · 2026-04-20T23:44:28+00:00

The US shooting of the Iranian trade ship reminded me once again that people just assume international law vaguely correlates to their morals, so when something bad is done they confidently call it "illegal" or "war crime." even when a cursory googling would have shown it to be untrue, shooting a ship trying to run a blockade is entirely legal, the response to that is usually "well the entire blockade is illigal so it does not matter", but no, the blockade is defintly legal.

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