@sellathechemist or… it’s not worth bribing anyone on the left.

@devkate @tante understanding something is not the same as knowing it or of having an education in it. You can take a horse to water but you cant make it drink.

@tante I’m not convinced that’s a human right. It would be nice to understand the world, it would be nice to understand the universe. Education is important. But I’m not even sure we’re capable of understanding, let alone that it should be a human-right…

@deHaga @9point6 Unfortunately we do have the same lunatic first-past-the-post voting system which favours division and discourages cooperation and compromise. It polarises and distorts allowing minorities to dictate. The tories under Johnson with 42%, Starmers Labour with <34% of the vote... and yet in both cases they command a significant majority in the house. My guess is Reform could get a 3rd of the vote (as populist parties have in Europe recently) and with FPTP that may be enough.

@gleick they voted for Trump so I can only assume so… you get the politicians you deserve.

@rms the US has become a rogue state where the rule of law means nothing. One thing I have sadly come to acknowledge this past year is that the US is not an ally - they are only interested in themselves - and in the current case that means lining the pockets of dictators. The sooner everyone accepts this the better. With such weak legislative controls they cannot be trusted.