we agree more voting is better.

this scheme has no incentive to actually vote. It would likely help many people in voting, but a lot would just go fishing or stay home to play games. I’m not saying make it a crime to not vote.

tax incentives to vote sounds like a giveaway to tax-prep companies and tax-software companies, none of whom should exist at all.

and all of this when the whole voting structure is fucked – first-past-the-post is when one candidate gets more than another, even if they get a small minority of votes.

I used to agree that election day should be a bank holiday, but many many still have to work on bank holidays. Now I’m in a populous red state and in-person early voting has been available for years.

I voted early in 22 and in 20. Not sure how old the law is. I think I can vote early all the way up to Saturday, maybe Sunday. too lazy to check.

I think this is a better solution, mail voting notwithstanding. Voting doesn’t have to go on for a whole month, but a week or two early makes sense.

Anyways I’ll be voting sometime between now and Tuesday.

there’s no new big wall of information from the NY Times. ask them, what’s the scoop? my opinion, take a moment. wtf are you doing?

we all need to consider, it costs money to fund quality journalism. we have to be aware of the many forces working against basic silly journalism, like what’s happening at the school board.

Well if the horse could talk, then a vet definitely should ask it if it’s been mistreated. Don’t take it too seriously, I was just riffing.

Here I am, mister froggy, and my hat is slay, and I bought a subscription to a VPN controlled by an Israeli company

legality i don’t know, but guess who has an infinite supply of lawyers? Musk was able to secure loans for his Twitter misadventure based on all his other shit. Everything he does is entangled with his other stuff. The Hyperloop? lies.

programmers just not a uniform bunch. not all of them blockchain grifters. fancy that.

A talking, snitching horse would be so much more interesting than a super advanced car. Assuming this were a new development. Could the horse bridge the communication gap with the natural world and foster peace between humans and earth? Or would the horse be pretentious and look down on lesser beings? Would the horse get overwhelmed by celebrity influencer status and die alone in a field, drunk and poisoned by rotten oats?

I think the horse would be a hero of friendship and karate for everyone. And it would be an omniscient snitch.

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What happens when you bring a cat her toy?

She sighs, exasperated, and says, “I wanted you to open all the cabinet doors you fucking moron”

Your creds could be diminished based on which usenet forums you frequented. I had a little while in my 90s youth obsessed with researching marihuana, libertarian ideals, and discrediting Scientology in the alt.scientology groups. Not great, kind of normal for usenet, but there were much darker places to inhabit there. Worst of all was posting from my university account with my real name.

Idaho state Sen. Dan Foreman was according to his Bio in command of planes and such. But he’s not in control of his emotions, as the OP makes clear.

Also I guess he’s opposed to Rape and incest exceptions to abortion prohibitions, because he wants to just restrict abortion further

Sen. Melissa Wintrow (D), said the “rape exception” in Idaho code is not worth the paper it’s printed on because most victims don’t report to police, police reports are protected from release by lay, doctors don’t want to expose themselves to litigation, most women don’t know they are pregnant in the first trimester and it’s difficult to get emergency contraception in the state.

“If we really want to be compassionate to victims of sexual and domestic violence, the government wouldn’t make it harder to get an abortion after one of the most intimately violent experiences anyone could endure. The trauma and shock that victims experience is already hard to navigate and then adding this grocery list of procedures you have to figure out doesn’t help. The traumas that victims experience are not neatly sorted into boxes and to navigate a complex and hostile web of laws to find support is not easy. We need to trust women and trust their judgements instead of treating them like second class citizens that can’t manage their own lives without stringent and cruel laws,” Wintrow said.

Cycling, role playing games, hiking groups, theater, local, community, local community theater, fascism, beating up people I don’t like

Looks cool man but as an extreme introvert, I worry about the false dichotomy of intro/extro. I’m fucked up and isolated because that’s what I want. I’m also decent at interpersonal relations, but it hurts my brain to do sales. Because I don’t want you to buy the thing I am trying to sell you.

Even librarians love snacks

Just to bring it back to earth, thermobaric memetic munitions have been deployed since before the stone age. You set the opposing village on fire, and then steal their memes. Might have that backwards.

I worked with a super nice weird guy. He was always bringing in his 3d printed warhammer sets to the shop. Respect. One day he was talking about his sword. I was like, did you buy the sword in a mall? And he said yes, he bought it in a mall. I should have let it go. Anyways I am not friends with that guy.

Yeah for when the little plants and leaves and dandelion wisps fall near my deck I got some anti vermin shot rounds for the .38