Notices by M. Grégoire (mpjgregoire@mastodon.club), page 11

@keithzg I have strong interest in #ElectoralReform myself -- I strongly oppose #ProportionalRepresentation. (We can discuss that at some point if you'd like, but preferably not today.) But in my experience it's not an issue that moves voters. Hence the low turnout and the status quo wins whenever there is a referendum on the issue.

#PMTrudeau will likely be happy that he the current vote will be under #FPTP. We seem to be heading towards 1972 redux.

@keithzg This is one of the most obvious broken promises of the Trudeau ministry, and so the Liberals will probably lose votes as a result. But the number of Canadians for whom #ElectoralReform is a top issue must surely be vanishingly small. There's probably more genuine interest in senate reform.

#canpol

The Complicated Chinese Family (#Cantonese version):

https://invidio.us/watch?v=A1HaZ4WLo50

@fitheach @espectalll
I imagined that Dominic Cummings was the source, but that's probably because there are only two people I can name at No. 10. ;)

Wait and see, PM May will be blamed for no-deal as well.

@denikombucha @Are0h I've seen the People's Republic of China described as a #fascist state, which seems more accurate than #communist at present.

@fitheach @espectalll
Do you have any idea whether British public sentiment is more strongly worried about a no-deal #Brexit or desires to get things over with? I see a recent poll giving Tories + Brexit party 47% support, so perhaps the latter.

Regarding the *Spectator* article, the source is clearly trying to lay blame on the Benn Act and Taoiseach Varadkar for failure of the latest British #Brexit proposal. That could be true, but it's obviously self-serving.

@espectalll Not sure exactly what you mean here. If you're saying that they're focusing on high stakes negotiations with foreign leaders — well of course they are. If you're saying that their desire to achieve #Brexit one way or another is out of step with public sentiment — that might be true, but personally I don't really know the present state of public opinion in the UK. (I know @fitheach opposes, but not how representative he is.) Do we have useful polling results?

Listened to #MalcolmGladwell's "The Tortoise and the Hare" yesterday ( https://www.thepodcastbrowser.com/the-tortoise-and-the-hare/ )

He made quite a convincing argument against the #LSAT, but why didn't he fire his broadside against a much more common and more important test for the US #meritocracy, the SAT?

#RevisionistHistory
#podcast

@espectalll You can't really trust any leaks from difficult negotiations, but the message at the following link, from a Downing Street source, is interesting:

https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2019/10/how-number-10-view-the-state-of-the-negotiations/

#Brexit

@tootbrute Here's a review: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/09/purisms-librem-5-phone-starts-shipping-a-fully-open-gnulinux-phone/

#Librem5
#ArsTechnica

A long time ago I wrote a Guide for GPG, Gmail and Gnus (for #Emacs).
Today I fixed the part about keyservers and recommended people switch to keys.openpgp.org.
I hope you agree?
https://github.com/kensanata/ggg/#keyservers

@thurloat Hypothetically, why not migrate to Mastodon 3.0, then someday add back any features that have disappeared?

We'll miss the "sociables" and so on, but they're nice to have, not essential to the enjoyment of Moosetodon.

@fitheach @FssOfDeath @keithzg

@gemlog Oh, of course there's the propellor. My thought was that turning jet fuel into thrust in a turbine might be more efficient than turning electricity into thrust otherwise.