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The Hungarian system is basically two separate elections at once where the results are just added together. There are single-member districts where the candidate that wins the plur…

The Netherland has pretty much the same system as Israel, there is slight geographic representation but nationwide party votes do dictate the composition of parliament. All the Nor…

Coming from a non-Anglosphere country with a long tradition of proportional voting, this idea of "my" representative has simply never made any sense to me. How can a member of a le…

I can understand fixed sites for natural resources. The coal mine is where the coal is. But historically, the sites chosen for manufacturing industry are determined by what is logi…

This is the norm in many places in Europe and elsewhere. 6 year olds walking to school by themselves and crossing multiple roads on the way. America is a bit different. It is also …

Domesticated farm animals are far enough removed from their wild cousins to be their own species. They have been selectively bred over millenia for traits that make them easy to ex…

Is the BTicino plug ( https://www.plugsocketmuseum.nl/Italian2.html ) used at all in Italy now? There was a serious attempt at adopting it in Iceland in the late 1970s to early 198…

I often wonder how large a portion of all crypto holders are just FOMO-ing into a speculative asset because the number keeps going up, with no loyalty to the concept of cryptocurre…

You did not need to break your contemplative silence to write this empty pretentious drivel. OP asked a question. I gave what seems to me to be the obvious answer.

"What you call a 'tyranny of the minority' is in fact an equal representation of classes..." Arbitrary geographical lines don't define classes. Every state has both rural and urban…

Inheriting constitutionally priveliged positions seems a bit hard to square with everyone being equal before the law.

It is simply an historical artifact and by no means a constitutional necessity. Sweden is an interesting case, a constitutional monarchy in theory but where the monarch has been ex…

Even just 24 hours would do a lot to disrupt the echo chamber.