The Australian Senate and Irish Parliament are the two national-level examples of STV that I know of

Oh, and a quick overview of the parties. All left-right descriptions are within the UK’s mainstream Overton window:

• LAB (red): Labour. Currently in power, centre-left to centre. Rooted in trade unions, though that relationship has grown increasingly strained.

• LD (orange): Liberal Democrats, colloquially Lib Dems. Usually found somewhere between the two major parties, like economic liberalism a lot.

• GRN (green): Greens. Specifically, Green Party of England and Wales, as the Scottish and Northern Irish Green parties are separate things. Progressive, pro-environmentalism, and anti-nuclear (power and weapons)

• SNP (yellow): Scottish National Party. A little left of Labour on most issues, but not hugely. The big distinction is that they are pro-Scottish-independence or, failing that, in favour of increased autonomy for Scotland within the UK. Not ethnonationalist, thankfully. Currently in power in the Scottish parliament and the most successful party in Scotland in UK general elections.

• PC (dark green): Plaid Cymru. Take the SNP description and replace “Scotland” with “Wales” and the policies are pretty much there. Less electorally successful than the SNP, but doing well recently.

• REF (light blue): Reform UK. Populist right / far right. Basically just the latest vehicle for the biggest anti-EU voice in British politics, Nigel Farage (the guy who recently got challenged by Count Binface). Currently positioned to, potentially, remove the Conservatives from their extremely long run as one of the UK’s two big parties.

• CON (dark blue): Conservatives, colloquially Tories. Traditionally on the rightward end of mainstream British politics, started drifting ever further right as their prior run in government stretched on. Sort of struggling to figure out exactly what their deal is and rebuild in the wake of that mess, particularly as heaps of their members and voters went to Reform.

FPTP: you get one vote, and each constituency elects one representative. Whoever has the most votes in each constituency wins, every other candidate in the constituency gets nothing.

AMS: Like FPTP, but with an extra layer of regional elections. The results of the regional are weighted towards parties that got a lower number of seats in the FPTP section than their share of the votes (so a party that comes second or third a lot but rarely wins in FPTP will do well). This isn’t completely proportional, but it does shift the results a bit towards proportionality and makes it so that votes for non-winning candidates still have some effect.

STV: Instead of voting for one person, you rank the available choices. The candidate with the fewest first-preference votes is eliminated, and that candidates votes are given to their second preference. This repeats until someone gets a majority. This reduces the pressure of tactical voting compared to FPTP, because you can pick a first preference even if you don’t expect them to win and a lower preference as your “well at least it’s not the other big party that I dislike more” as a backup

Party list PR: Each party is given a number of seats equal to their share of the national vote. The party’s most popular candidates in each constituency get seats first (so results will tend towards candidates that are popular in each area, though not strictly. This sacrifices local representation for maximum proportionality

The UK’s general elections are currently FPTP. The Scottish Parliament and Welsh Senedd use AMS, the Northern Irish Assembly uses STV, and the UK used Party List PR for EU elections prior to Brexit

They used YouGov polling to fill out the missing data (though they do acknowledge the limitations, including tactical voting) https://electoral-reform.org.uk/latest-news-and-research/publications/a-system-out-of-step-the-2024-general-election

@TheBlackLounge@lemmy.world since you asked about this in your comment

I think it’s an attempt to say “I’m annoyed/upset, but also I don’t want to fight, please leave me alone”

Catholicism (the majority denomination of Christianity in Poland by far) is actually pretty easy-going about what counts as idolatry. You can have a lot of depictions of important figures, which is apparent in basically every Catholic church having such statues

Cats are nature’s true masters of being comfy

The most prominent accusation, the one about his PhD thesis levelled at him by a “race realist”, has been investigated by the uni that granted his doctorate and it says he’s in the clear. There are a bunch of other things going on as well, though, like claiming to have a masters degree from a uni that says it has no record of him

Add Uruguay to that list and you’ve got every world cup finalist ever with no exceptions

There are 40 other members of CONCACAF, and there currently aren’t any Americans on the council

Spears plus medium/heavy armour suggests to me someone who would have been used to fighting in formation. Maybe you play it as an Imperial legionary who was kicked out in disgrace for something and is hoping to build a new life in Morrowind as somewhere with a weak Imperial presence? Once you’re back on your feet somewhat you can decide to either attempt to rejoin the Legion or you can commit to Morrowind by joining House Redoran

It’s really good about not pressuring players too. You get slightly bigger rewards for pmaying on higher difficulties / completing missions faster / doing extra objectives and so on but the rewards are only small power boosts and lots of fun cosmetics. You can do what you want at your own pace and not feel like you’re missing out

I presume CNN updated the headline after OP posted. It’s now

Poland blames Russia for firing missile into its territory as Moscow unleashes deadly attack on Ukraine

Things have got to be fucked up if you go bankrupt while your competition is being actively bombed

It doesn’t include the UK. It just sometimes also doesn’t include other areas, notably Sweden, Norway, and Finland. They’re not an island, but they are almost functionally an island in a European context because the land route to them (prior to the Denmark-Sweden bridge) is very long and has often included at least one hostile border

I don’t think it’s a firm enough concept that you’ll get one answer everyone agrees on. For me, personally, it’s a fuzzy-edged geographical concept that has a cultural basis. So it’s “that bit of Eurasia west of the Urals and Bosporus”, and we think of that as a meaningful category because a lot of the people here have a lot of shared identity and history

Russia is, in my mind, a part of that. Most of Russia’s landmass is east of the Urals, yes, but the origin of the country is within Europe and it was a major part of that shared history. Britain didn’t become less European when most of Britain’s landmass was in Africa, India, Australia etc. Belarus is just unambiguously European to me. It’s hardly the first time in history that European countries have been hostile with each other

The other ambiguously-European countries - Turkiye, the Caucasian countries, Greenland, I suppose arguably Kazakhstan as well since it does reach into the western side of the Urals a bit - are where the “fuzzy edges” come into play for me. These countries can be thought of as European in some contexts, not in others. Often it is going to be a matter of identity for those countries - as you say, they pick their sides. I can imagine futures in which Russia, Turkiye, Armenia, and so on pull away from Europe altogether and are thought of as entirely Asian. I can equally imagine futures in which they move the other way and become more solidly European. There’s little sense to me in trying to draw a strict and exact geographic line of where “Europe” starts and ends because the concept is too entrenched and useful to just abandon, but the lines that it became entrenched upon were never neat ones in the first place

They’ve got a quote from an Oxford uni professor of energy and climate policy in there who says it can store heat effectively for weeks. The manufacturer claims that it maintains about 80% of its “charge” if left for a month

One of the cool things about this design is that the bigger it is, the better it gets at storing heat. The square-cube law is in effect here, since heat can only be lost by leaving the silo at the outside whereas heat can be stored throughout the whole volume

It does do something important in the winter: smooth out the irregularities on renewables. It’s not like you charge it up in September and then just expect it to carry you through to March. It means that your renewables just have to cover the demand some time this week, not at the exact moment the town wants the power. If there’s a high-pressure front that means you’ve got minimal wind for Monday through to Thursday, it’s fine, you just extract power from the battery and then re-heat when the wind picks up at the weekend

Leaving the excavator underwater is going to make for some amazing unsettling photos in about twenty years

A diagram showing where the equivalent bones are in the three main ways that animals walk about from Wikipedia