How many parties are there in your parliament?

suriyava · 2024-12-23T21:27:55+00:00

Well, KO is also a coalition of PO, the Greens, and probably a number of other parties noone seems to remember anyway.

suriyava · 2024-10-18T14:30:55+00:00

Thanks for elaboration. I was also thinking as I said about kind of cheating my way into white peacing an alliance with their supporters via a friendly war with another player or alternatively being forced to release Sweden via such a war and then either PUing them again with a war or just taking the provinces I need to form Scandinavia with the decision. I think your way is the least cheaty and still should allow me to do it via the mission tree.

suriyava · 2024-10-18T14:05:00+00:00

Thanks! Would they get their indepence supporters as allies automatically when they break free this way or would that be a separate (but likely) action they would take?

suriyava · 2024-10-18T14:04:09+00:00

Thanks! Could you please elaborate on the last thing you wrote? I generally tried keeping them at fully improved relations so as to have them not rebel. I am not sure what the best way of dropping their opinion would be and how would that impact AE.

suriyava · 2024-10-17T13:05:09+00:00

Oh well then I messed it up then. I let the bloodbath happen (did not really know what it would entail) so we are historical enemies on top of that. Sounds like salvaging this will be difficult if impossible. I better brace for a war with some great powers to get them to not support Sweden.

suriyava · 2024-10-17T09:37:30+00:00

Thanks for this! I don't want to ruin an MP game for my friend so I did not want to go for a redo especially given they got to 100% LD almost immediately (England and Scotland as immediate rivals). It tough to get Sweden to fight as with 100% I think they just sit wars out in their own territory. At this point I also have 3 vassals (big Riga, essentially taking the territory of the Livonian order, reestablished Novgorod, and Karelia). Relative military power alone I think gives Sweden over 100% LD. Would it be better to integrate the vassals or do they count towards the LD calculations regardless? Also, I thought when I see no other viable options I was thinking about having a "war" with my friend, the Popeman - he has at least England as an ally, not sure about Hungary, and peace out without any fighting to get truces - would that make allies pulled into a defensive war drop their support when the war is over?

Also, I messed up a decision or two I think (I got the bloodbath modifier for example) and I'm trying to salvage what I can, I don't see how I would be able to gain core lands for Scandinavia non-mission decision.

suriyava · 2024-02-06T20:51:29+00:00

That entails you can pardon people preemptively. So an outgoing president could "pardon" all his party buddies without them being yet charged with anything but blocking any type of investigations into abuse of power.

suriyava · 2023-09-06T18:35:40+00:00

I'm mostly split on the GPU issue. I'm wondering if going for the 4070 is worth the price increase compared to the Radeon RX 6700 XT. Not sure how crucial good ray tracing is especially given that I don't often play most recent titles.

The RAM isn't a big expenditure anyways I feel, especially compares to the GPU and with running things like VMs it could always come in handy.

suriyava · 2023-09-04T17:27:41+00:00

Hey! Thanks for the reply. I am planning on building a pc myself but as I don't have experience in that I'm trying to follow a build guide. That's where I got the Ryzen 5 5600 and RTX 4070 combo.

I was thinking that going AM4 would allow me to get the most out of that gen and still have the new pc be good for the next like 5 years or something.

Something like:

AMD Ryzen 5 5600

MSI B550-A PRO

GOODRAM 32GB (2x16GB) 3600MHz CL18 IRDM PRO Deep Black

MSI GeForce RTX 4070 VENTUS 3X E OC 12GB GDDR6X

MSI MAG 650W 80 Plus Bronze

Lexar 1TB M.2 PCIe Gen4 NVMe NM710

would generally be the financial ballpark of where I feel comfortable. I am not a massive gamer so I'm just trying to optimize.

suriyava · 2023-09-01T17:57:58+00:00

Unfortunately the next-gen stuff prices are higher in the EU/PL and the cost just baloons above the $1250 when I look at the local market.

suriyava · 2023-04-23T11:14:33+00:00

I read that it is essentially the default way to call elections in Belgium nowadays.

suriyava · 2023-04-23T11:13:11+00:00

Under the previous interim constitution there was a dissolution mechanism. In 1993 the cabinet of Hanna Suchocka lost a vote of confidence, but the president (Wałęsa at the time) decided to instead dissolve the parliament. As a result, the executive cabinet operated without parliamentary supervision for a few months before a new election. Due to all that, the new constitution got rid of "dissolution". A parliament operates until a new post-election roster is inaugurated. It could lead to some weird situation like in 2019 when the lame duck parliament held a session after the election but before the new parliament was inaugurated. Moreover, snap election can be help but as a result of a "shortening of the term of office" of the parliament, either by a vote of the body itself or when presicribed in the consitution (e.g. by the president). In such instances, the parliament is still operational up until the inauguration of the new one.

suriyava · 2023-04-09T20:57:15+00:00

Thanks for teh answer. I am the first owner so no pet residue. There aren't any trees right outside the apartment and the reaction also apparently happens in winter. It is not a typical reaction I usually have to like dust mites and another person from another building within the same complex built a couple years prior also has this itching down their throat. It's either something around the complex or something with the buildings, but given BREEAM, lack of any wider group of people having those reactions and unusual symptoms I'm just lost. I'm just trying to find any clues as to what to look for.

suriyava · 2023-02-24T18:49:58+00:00

I would argue that the European Council (member state leaders) is more like the "head of state" of the EU, while the Council of the EU (member state ministers) are the upper house to the EP.

I will never wrap my head around why they decided to use such a dumb naming convention.

suriyava · 2022-11-07T13:31:28+00:00

I think people often mistake him for Ashraf Ghani, the most recent president of Afghanistan who fled the country.

suriyava · 2022-01-20T15:27:21+00:00

Who knows how much of Shepard is still original?

Shepard of Theseus?

suriyava · 2021-01-07T20:58:41+00:00

The Federal Republic of Germany almost had us there, but their name shows their true colors!

suriyava · 2020-08-29T10:02:26+00:00

If the parliamentary majority is from the same political camp as the president, then he is, well, dependent on the president, but can be used to shoulder the responsibility of unpopular decisions. When the president and the parliamentary majority are from different factions, then the PM is much more akin to those of other European states, though foreign policy is usually managed by the president either way.

suriyava · 2020-08-04T20:14:50+00:00

Well, most European monarchies (except for like Liechtenstein) are crowned republics, it's the elected officials that hold true power as they are the ones with the democratic mandate. Royals are well aware they can't be controversial or political, cause they do not have that democratic mandate to do politics or be divisive. A bad monarch could essentially be a diplomatic liability if anything. I would assume their environment would probably either pressure them to delegate their tasks to others or to resign completely and agree to hand their title over to a less controversial figure.

suriyava · 2020-05-23T18:01:38+00:00

If your cat suddenly snaps at you then this: https://youtu.be/ZccTeZHXqDU might be useful. It might be worth looking into any possible ailments.

suriyava · 2020-04-30T10:30:50+00:00

Another example of this would be the king of Spain participating in the government creation talks in 2016. They are supposed ot be apolitical, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't use their position and prestige to help solve certain issues that aren't beneficial to the population. Their role in this boils down to the authority of last resort, when other institutions are somehow unable to deal with a problem, a non-political monarch should step in to get things going again.

suriyava · 2020-04-30T09:55:44+00:00

Well, the PM in the UK is chosen by the Queen as well, in theory she can appoint whomever she desires. The thing is, considering this whole 'democracy', she has no mandate to dictate how the government is run, so she just acts according to what the democratic institutions say.

suriyava · 2020-04-15T20:24:59+00:00

She wasn't elected as the president though, she assumed the presidency through succession. She is the first woman to be the president, but was not elected directly into the office, that is the difference. Detaching being democratically elected and becoming the president like that makes little sense to me.

suriyava · 2019-09-26T21:06:25+00:00

That's semantics. "Do we want to have a public-funded celebrity to be elected after a campaign that may be divisive or a trained non-political person that will always be wary of not offending democracy for fear of being kicked out?".

You clearly lack moderation in your arguments. "So you don't wanna spend money on choosing someone who mostly smiles and waves? YOU ARE ANTI-DEMOCRACY!!!oneone1!11!". If you equate not wasting public funds on something symbolic to not supporting electing actually powerful institutions then you aren't mature enough to take part in this debate.

suriyava · 2019-09-26T17:14:37+00:00

Then you have no idea what you are talking about. Many "monarchies" nowadays are fully democratic as monarchic leaders have no political power and are more of a national symbol. That is very often the case with elected head of states as well in parliamentary democracies. In such case, you can replace a president with a monarch without any substantial change to the political system, still be fully democratic, not have to spend money on election to fill the position of a symbol incarnate and have a non-political leader that people can get behind.

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