kaanski

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by kaanski 3y ago
I agree and would add that it's a particularly good time to be a Linux gamer. I recently started downloading games in Fedora on my dual booted machine and so many games support Linux officially now, I think the success of steam deck ha
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by kaanski 3y ago
So the Queen read bills and gave her opinion on them, which is public record, before they were debated? And that constitutes political power? It also states that this is a purely formal part of the parliamentary process and she never refuse
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by kaanski 3y ago
> The King or Queen functionally has zero power over much of anything - their role is pretty much entirely ceremonial in purpose (they can theoretically choose to not sign laws, but this would just result in them getting sidestepped). Th
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by kaanski 3y ago
The monarch has not exercised direct political power since the English Civil War. Yes they’re wealthy and have exercised power that wealth gives you but they’d still be wealthy if they were not a monarch. If we want to talk about the power
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by kaanski 3y ago
Personally I like having a politically neutral head of state as a personification of the country. An elected head of state will be impossible to keep politically neutral and inevitably will polarise things. Maybe a system with an appointed
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by kaanski 3y ago
Yeah I do the same. It seems to permeate into everything, even positives. UK announcing research into x: comments will probably be negative and about how it’s a boondoggle. UK company doing exciting stuff like fusion or quantum: comments wi
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by kaanski 3y ago
In general there seems to be a weird zeitgeist of negative exceptionalism in the UK at the moment. Not sure why but generally journos seem to write about issues like they are only hitting the UK when a simple google search shows they aren’t
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by kaanski 4y ago
As we all know doing something new requires immediate success or it isn’t worth pursuing.
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by kaanski 4y ago
Same thing happened when I wrote to my MP. Thankfully after reading through the House of Lords draft of the bill ( https://committees.parliament.uk/publications/8206/documents... ) it looks like E2E encryption is a
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by kaanski 4y ago
OGL refers to the Open Game License. Essentially you are allowed to use the rules of DnD (and other games that use the license) to make derivative work as long as its also published with OGL. It allows homebrewed content to exist and is par
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by kaanski 4y ago
If I remember correctly the coup was rushed by its organisers because the authorities had caught wind of it and were beginning an investigation. Generally coups take place in the middle of the night when everyone is asleep. This was during
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by kaanski 4y ago
With the precedent for coups in Turkey I don’t think there’s that much planning involved for the strengthening of control afterwards. Erdogan purged the army ruthlessly and declared a state of emergency, pretty par for the course after an a
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by kaanski 4y ago
I would argue that the although the military like to paint themselves as guardians of democracy they don’t exactly have a great track record. The 1980 coup banned all political parties, all trade unions and the Kurdish language. They then “
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by kaanski 4y ago
Erdogan definitely took advantage of the aftermath of the coup to purge the military but the coup was not “made up”. This was mostly a theory thrown around by western journalists who first tried to claim that a coup against Erdogan would be
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by kaanski 4y ago
While impressive I don’t think StarCraft and Diplomacy can be compared to an actual war. Diplomacy especially has at most three actions that can be taken per turn (move, support, hold) maybe five if you include convoy and retreat. Generally
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by kaanski 4y ago
One of the problems is that it isn't just Brits. Face tracking is being implemented throughout Europe: https://www.wired.com/story/europe-police-facial-recognition... The rest of Europe has the same laws as the UK