So much better, thanks!

I don’t like musicals but this film is amazing, truly one of a kind. Absolutely worth watching!

“Append…before”, AKA “prepend”!

Yep, we have the same system in the UK. In fact, the envelope looks almost exactly the same so they might even be printed by the same company.

You get two envelopes (one big, one small), a postal voting statement, and a ballot paper.

The actual ballot paper just has a list of options for you to put your X against; there’s no personally identifiable information on it. Once you’ve filled it out you seal it in the small envelope.

You then fill in the voting statement (it has your name and address on it so they can cross your name off as voted, and you sign it so they can check your signature matches the one on file) and both that and the sealed ballot go in the big envelope. That way your vote is still private because they check the vote is valid in one step and then add your ballot to a pile to be counted with the others in a second step, at which point it’s anonymous.

https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/voting-and-elections/ways-vote/how-vote-post

People are mostly talking about what a bunch of idiots they are though.

This lot look like they were cast by the daily mail, they couldn’t be more of a caricature. It is absolutely not effective communication.

I get your point but hydrogen isn’t just sea water, you’ve got an awful lot more energy to put in after the “tank is full so wrap up the hose and drive off” stage to separate the hydrogen from oxygen to get the fuel. The difficult bit comes after “get water”.

On the one hand, this is embarrassing for Russia, but on the other hand the UK’s Trident nuclear deterrent failed a couple of times in a row over the last few years, so I’m not going to get too excited about it.

It could go that way, but on the other hand they could be more like MorningLightMountain in Peter Hamilton’s Pandora’s Star, i.e. fascists who exterminate every other organism that competes with them for resources.

Great book if you haven’t read it!

Are those things in the middle at the back soft pretzels? They look like conkers (horse chestnuts), confused the hell out of me!

I like it like this, looks very cosy!

Agree to some extent, but the meaning would only become clear if they continue to listen instead of assuming they know what you’re about to say and zoning out.

I have some of both with my SO and I’m not sure what’s more annoying, being interrupted or explaining exactly what you mean and having none of it be absorbed.

Everyone loves the D

“Drunk”

To be fair, she is relatively unknown.

Especially when you consider low information voters (which I expect have similar knowledge to high information voters from other countries).

Her honeymoon period will end as soon as she sits down and does a few serious and unscripted interviews about policy, which she has managed to avoid so far. At the moment it’s pure vibes, but at some point you need to get into the business of explaining what you would do and being challenged on it. That will generate lots of attack angles and media stories, both good and bad.

Sounds like what he actually said is that the market would crash if he got elected again…? Presumably he meant the opposite.

The man has never made much sense but this is absolute drivel.

Yeah we have that meaning too :D

Makes a great lightweight dutch oven as well (especially when hard anodised). Non stick, doesn’t rust, still distributes and holds heat really well, and about 1/3 of the weight.

This plane needs a “No couches are left unattended in this vehicle” sticker.

And people who have no time install gentoo? Pull the other one :D

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