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  • Concerning your edit, not sure about other countries, but I can speak about the process in France.

    We get (normally) ballots with the programs in the mail before the elections, so we can also bring ballots from there. Then the way it works when voting is

    • there’s a table with ballots from all lists that provided them (so missing the ones we’re talking about here) and you can take any number of them
    • then you go isolate in a cabin where you put the ballot you want, or nothing, inside an envelope
    • finally your identity is verified, your vote is counted and you put your envelope in a transparent box

    So there’s not really a way to definitely know you’re voting for an unlisted candidate here.








  • Actually, the way it’s formulated is fairly negative.

    It’s written “the law determines the condition on which the guaranteed freedom to abortion is applied” (sorry for the unprecise translation, it’s written in law language, so hard to really translate).

    Which basically means three things.

    It’s considered a “freedom”, not a “right”. While it’s been said that freedom and right means the same, it could very well not be the case in the future. And a freedom can be restricted, while a right is guaranteed.

    “the law determines the condition” means that it can be restricted as wanted by the parliament, so it exists, but could be extremely restricted in the future.

    Finally “women” is not neutral as a term, and voluntarily excludes trans people wanting to perform an abortion.

    Not a lawyer, so my explanation is probably not that great, but yeah… It’s really not as great as it’s said to be.

    Here’s a source for what I explained (in French) : https://lesaf.org/constitutionnalisation-de-livg-un-leurre-grossier/







  • Well, all airlines certified by Nepal (it’s not the only country concerned by this, but it is concerned) are banned from flying in Europe for safety reasons.

    It’s not specified why, but reasons can be lack of oversight, lax regulations. All of that usually causes maintenance issues, lack of training, bad safety processes.

    I also read the report, which states that the main factors for the crash are

    • lack of training (including crew resource management)
    • non compliance with standard operating procedure
    • challenging visual approach causing high workload

    So basically the pilots were experimented (they were definitely not new pilots at all), but the approach was difficult, did not meet safety standards, documentation for it was not up to date, and pilots were not sufficiently trained, and did not respect standard procedure in the cockpit either.

    That’s a systemic error and it would have happened at one moment, regardless of the pilots.

    (my source for the report https://www.tourism.gov.np/files/1/9N-ANC FINAL Report.pdf )