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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 Lin…

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 f…

> 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, bu…

I think if you assembled a list of elected MPs who have changed laws to suit them or lead directly to their profit (the PPE scandal, the recent scandal with Rishi Sunaks wife ownin…

To be honest this is already largely the case. Most if not all of the castles and palaces in the UK are open to the public through the national trust. The Monarchy have multiple re…

A thousand years is bit much. A monarchy existed in the UK since the fall of Rome. The monarch since the signing of the Magna Carta has had relinquished political power in England.…

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 …

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 inevit…

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 comp…

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 …

As we all know doing something new requires immediate success or it isn’t worth pursuing.

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... )…

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 publishe…

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 m…

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 declare…

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 par…

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 w…

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, h…

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 E…