As an Irish person, we have ranked choice single transferrable voting, one big benefit I see is that people can vote for less popular candidates that they closely align with without throwing away their vote, since when the candidate is eliminated your vote is transferred to your next choice.

One other thing that I thinks is very important is proportional representation, which means that for a given constituency, instead of a single candidate being chosen multiple are, for example is my constituency we have 5 Teach Dáile (members of our Dáil/parliament) This means that less popular candidates will have a real chance of getting a seat. It also means that more of the population is represented, for example in my constituency each candidate would get on average about 15%+ of the vote, meaning that 75%+ of the voting population are represented, unlike the 40% or so that a two party system usually has

And it’s not confusing, we’re thought how it works in school and voting is the easy part, counting us more tricky, but is understandable when properly explained

Because each is worth $100

I think the point is that people’s routine isn’t tied to sunrise. For example, in the summertime I start work about 4 hours after sunrise, and in the winter I start work 20mins after sunrise. The difference would actually be more dramatic without daylight savings With timezones and modern internet you don’t need to look up the offset at all, you just look up the current time in that zone and decide if that’s an appropriate time to call. Speaking as someone who deals with timezones a fair bit, both in work and personal life. And as someone who understands the headache of dealing with them in international computer systems, the time zone system is a very nice compromise. Though daylight savings need to die

I would have agreed with you a couple of weeks ago, but this video explains it well. It wouldn’t be such a well known fallacy if it wasn’t so counterintuitive.

https://youtu.be/ytfCdqWhmdg?si=bNplB3ftYAfvnLYO

A local beach near me in Ireland has people parking exclusively on the beach, that said, it’s a massive breach with plenty of space.

I never have heard of anyone’s car getting overtaken by the tide, but perhaps the local farmer has pulled a few people out

Another local beach is as you described, no parking on the beach, walk on only. I think it depends on the kind of beach and the way things are set up

I’m not entirely sure that horse riding is more dangerous, I’m not that experienced with motorbikes, but I ride horses all the time, I reckon you might fall from a horse more often, but it’s usually a fairly simple thing, not going too fast or anything. Unless you’re talking about horse racing which is quite dangerous, but most riders do other, much safer thing on horseback.

That said, I live in rural Ireland where from what I understand, the roads are significantly more dangerous for motorbikes do that might be skewing my perspective.

Though random fools telling you that what you’re doing is dangerous are, to me, overstepping. As long as you’re not putting others in excess danger you should be left alone.

From what I understand they do have a system to reward to discoverer and the landowner, though whether it would match the material value I can’t say

Oh, I’ve several. Irish people love a good curse.

Go mbrise an diabhal do dhá chois May the devil break your legs

Go ndéana an diabhal dréimire do chnámh do dhroma May the devil make a ladder out of your spine

Go n-imí an droch aimsir leat That the bad weather leaves with you

Go n-ithe an cat thú is go n-ithe an diabhal an cat May the cat eat you and may the devil eat the cat

And my personal favourite: Lá breá ag do chairde, dod adhlacadh May your friends have a fine day, burying you