"But I find it laughable to argue the federal government or any government is efficient."

Well, you're wrong. Medicare is more efficient than insurance companies, since it's not trying to make a profit for shareholders happy to profit from suffering.

"So next I would hope for traditional "safety nets" of family and community to kick in."

Why do you want the least efficient option? You hate things that make sense?

They're going to demystify the work with secret magic? GTFOH.

Processing secure data is simply not one of those cases.

It probably would, the current government is early in their term and doing the things that will be unpopular now in the hope that people will forget about them by the time of the next election. If they hold an election immediately it's quite likely that reform would win.

The UK is basically a two party system same as the US, and as you say they've just kept flipping between the two parties who are both doing largely the same thing.

Clearly people are waking up to this fact, because now there's a third party (reform) which is starting to see serious vote share. They are now pretty much the only alternative to the status quo, so a large number of people are going to vote for them.

A dictatorship is obvious so people get sick of it quickly.
A two party system can pretend to offer people a choice, so it takes a lot longer for people to get sick of it.
When they do get sick of it, the alternative that pops up and gains mindshare tends to be on the extreme side.

Abstention is a vote of "i dont care either way". Those who wanted to maintain the status quo voted to remain.

In addition to that, the main opposition party in Ukraine has also agreed not to hold an election until the war is over.

Holding an election during an active war when 20% of the country is occupied is extremely difficult, and dangerous.

Those stuck in occupied territory don't get to vote at all? Or how do they vote? How can you be sure their vote is not coerced by the enemy?
Do POWs held by the enemy not get to vote?
How do you arrange voting for serving soldiers - especially those on the front line?
People are expected to gather at polling stations, how do you prevent polling stations becoming the targets of missile/drone attacks?
How do you prevent the enemy from trying to influence or infiltrate the election?
Holding an election diverts important resources away from defense.

Holding an election during war is a bad idea. Zelenskyy has already agreed to an election when the war is over or there is a ceasefire, and he has stated he doesn't intend to stand.

It's a distinction without a difference in output.

Those people are often hired through a totally different pipeline with almost nobody moving up from L1 to L2. They are hiring very different kinds of people for those jobs. You don't need to know shit about shit to do L1, often even in very high end support scenarios. For example while I worked for IBM/Tivoli (just post acquisition) they implemented a level 1 support team because they had to handle the larger number of new customers being sold the product by IBM salesdroids instead of Tivoli salesdroids. They were spectacular fucking idiots. We saw shit show up in cases like "dragon drop" and "yowzij" (an attempt to spell "usage".)

They didn't, it's well documented, and you are a Russian troll.

"Yes it so terrible that a country's citizens decided what would be best for their people and country"

They were lied to, including a lot of propaganda from Russia. It is terrible that they are stupid enough to believe obvious lies.

Here's the thing about not redistributing income, it doesn't get multiplied by its velocity since that doesn't increase and your GDP takes a shit.

Pop quiz time Nazi, how much has the orange shit gibbon increased the national deficit?

Due diligence has always been the answer to how to avoid fraud.

Buyers can request literally any amount of up front information, and if insufficient information is not provided or cannot be verified, they can not make the purchase. You are in denial and delusional.