I think the last election in Britain shows us that FPTP now means most people are voting against something, rather than for something, and this has meant they've ended up with an absence of something… (View Post)

Sounds fine as a theory. Fails validation when confronted with real-world evidence given the manifest failings of Westminster and the better performance of other countries with decades of coalition g… (View Post)

What you describe in the first of these paragraphs is a feature of STV, not a bug. The voters control whether their vote transfers between candidates for the same party. This is better than closed-li… (View Post)

One reason why exclusion diets like Bart's carnivore diet can work is that by heavily restricting the choice of food available you make food less interesting and it becomes harder to eat too many cal… (View Post)

That's easy to say, but not as easy to do. We've rapidly moved from a state that existed for hundreds of thousands of years - relatively, or very, scarce food and intense physical activity to get it … (View Post)