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    A better 1987 election for Labour?

    Why not have the scandal occur in the Liberals? Figure out a way to have Cyril Smith and Clement Freud both come to the fore, have links be made to Jeremy Thorpe and his murky past, and have questions be asked about how David Steel behaved at that time. What did he know? When did he know it...
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    Alternate Namesakes

    You didn't even include my running gag about the Michael Collins of Irish Independence is the same person as the Michael Collins of Apollo 11! Deeply disappointed! I wrote this almost three years ago!
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    Lists of Heads of Government and Heads of State

    Marvellous! Just absolutely marvellous!
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    Westminster with Proportional Representation. Part 3.

    I suppose kind of like Helmut Schmidt in Germany, Bertie Ahern in Ireland, and Christian Kern in Austria, all three of whom were open about their desire to see their respective countries change to FPTP, but were nonetheless perfectly comfortable working within the system of coalition governments...
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    Westminster with Proportional Representation. Part 3.

    An interesting question to pose is, how would different politicians in OTL land, and how would they operate in a system of proportional representation? I had a look a few years back in a book that among other things considered a scenario in which Britain got STV in around 1918. The author...
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    AHC: Socialist-dominant USA

    I have absolutely no idea. Even assuming a perfect butterfly net making sure that everyone is born at the right time and to the right parents as per the schedule established by OTL, it might very well turn out to be people who in OTL just never went into politics. I agree with your broader...
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    AHC: Socialist-dominant USA

    I think this is one of my main complaints with Reds! in that, well, that entire community aren't really trying to come up with a particularly interesting story as much as they are trying to come up with their own version of a socialist utopia version of the United States. Racism? Well, there's a...
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    AHC: Socialist-dominant USA

    I honestly very much doubt this, truth be told. I don't think that it's inconceivable that an explicitly socialist party would be able to become the "Party of the Left" in the United States with a PoD in the late 19th/early 20th century, but I very much think that in ninety-nine cases out of...
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    An Alternate History of Horror XVIII: Onryō

    Since I properly got back into animé, I must admit that my own views on dubbing has softened. To a certain extent, it is a lot like translation itself, where a good translation can actually add something meaningful, without necessarily saying that it’s better than the original. Just good in a...
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    Poll: A more varied likes system

    I agree. The smaller the community, the less likely those who voice a contrary opinion to the majority view are to get anyone to socially signal that they agree with said person, leading said individuals to be less likely to comment in the first place, because it takes a certain kind of...
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    Poll: A more varied likes system

    Oh, I agree with you entirely. And I think you'll find a great many people do too. This sentiment has been voiced in the past, and if memory serves right, @Meadow back then informed us that the Forum simply isn't designed so that you can disable the like functions in certain parts of the Forum...
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    Poll: A more varied likes system

    Likes do serve a purpose in the creative parts of the forum. Sure, it would be nice if every last reader of a work made a comment on every last installment, and expressed themselves as such. But most people are not going to do that. A like-function thus serves a very useful function in that it...
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    Indicus's maps, wikiboxes, &c thread

    It's actually quite interesting in that in the late 16th century/early 17th century, it was speculated that there was some sort of connection between electricity and magnetism, but for unclear reasons it soon became a consensus that these were entirely unrelated phenomena, and it took until...
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    Indicus's maps, wikiboxes, &c thread

    That moment when I suddenly wonder why, during the many years in which I studied chemistry, I never wondered, "Seeing there are solutions where one of the ions is the proton, shouldn't there be solutions also where one of the ions is the electron"?
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    Indicus's maps, wikiboxes, &c thread

    I have yet to come up with something interesting to do with the periodic table for the Swedish Strangerverse. The one thing I do have at the back of my head is that because Scheele explicitly identifies electricity with phlogiston (which he only did implicitly in OTL), electricity continues to...
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