Re: The joy of FORTRAN

On 16/10/2024 08:36, Pancho wrote:

On 10/15/24 20:29, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

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Our new government has united the country in a most unexpected way. Everyone agrees they are total crap.
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 The failure of our democracy, and US democracy, is that we don't have reasonable candidates to vote for.
 Starmer, wasn't popular before the election, he actually got a much lower absolute number of votes than most winners, lower than Corbyn's both times.
 I went through my candidates, one by one, trying to find one I could vote for. I couldn't find one. I think PR would help.

So did I . There was one outstanding candidate. I voted for him

 Same in the USA, who wants to vote for Trump or Harris?

Well except out of sheer up yours-ness, not many
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