Sunshine

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[–] Sunshine 0 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

That doesn’t clean out the pus and the blood.

[–] Sunshine 6 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Yes, please. We share a terrestrial border with Denmark and a maritime border with France.

[–] Sunshine 0 points 6 hours ago

No, anyone can signup.

[–] Sunshine 4 points 6 hours ago

Couldn't resist the urge eh!

 
[–] Sunshine 4 points 6 hours ago

Switch to Friendica folks!

 

The BCNDP Really Love Their Cops Harassing the Students.

 

They just namecall, snub them and say they’re virtue signalling.

I of course encouraged the wise folks and thanked them for considering the alternatives. Hopefully they will ignore the noise and follow their morals.

[–] Sunshine 9 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

And unsurprisingly the Apple bootlickers are attacking and namecalling anyone who suggests we move away from Apple. The chuds really came out full force on that thread.

 

After Tim Cook donated $1 million to Donald Trump the one whose threatened tariffs and the territory sovereignty of Canada, the recent dealings with Starlink to improve satellite connectivity, the plans to bring back Apple ads to Twitter. All this behaviour from his company is unacceptable.

We need to contact our mps and call on them to table legislation that would force Apple to open up sideloading like how they have done in the European Union. You can find your mp's information here and remember letters to parliament do not require stamps. It's our hardware we bought, we have the right to do with it as we please. We need to open up the phones, tablets and watches.

So that we can have our canadian open-source app store alternative. Where we can support our local talented developers without Apple siphoning off the software sales.

 

Thanks Tim Crook

[–] Sunshine 2 points 9 hours ago

Just like the old adage don’t fly in or near Russia least one would end up in a similar situation to flight 17.

[–] Sunshine 1 points 13 hours ago

Another reason to boycott Apple.

[–] Sunshine 1 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

More people vote under pr thus increasing interest in democracy. People tend to vote more when their votes actually count for the smaller parties / independents.

To your point on Germany, there’s much more involved in having a robust democracy than simply an electoral system. The culture of the society is one.

But you’re from lemmy.ml, so you’re just trying to sabotage democracy any chance you can get.

[–] Sunshine 3 points 15 hours ago (5 children)

Advocates of proportional representation (PR) often cite its potential for increasing citizen involvement in politics as one of PR's fundamental advantages over plurality or first-past-the-post systems. The assumption is that plurality electoral systems distort the translation of votes into seats, discouraging and alienating small party supporters and other political minorities. In contrast, PR systems are believed to provide greater opportunities for representation which are assumed to instil greater efficacy and increase participation. We examine this theory linking institutions to electoral participation across a diverse set of countries using data from the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems. Using a multi-level approach we find evidence consistent with the expectations about the negative influence of disproportional systems on political minorities. Voters are also likely to have stronger partisan preferences in PR systems, which enhances political efficacy and increases voter participation. The effects of PR, however, are not all positive; broad coalitions, which are likely to be a feature of these systems, reduce political efficacy.

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[–] Sunshine 1 points 18 hours ago

It could be your client.

[–] Sunshine 9 points 18 hours ago (4 children)

All thanks to Elmo!

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