LesserAbe @ LesserAbe @lemmy.world

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If you have a time machine can't you essentially take a vacation at any resort in any time period? Why limit yourself

Good for you to help someone, genuinely. It's a little weird you asked a question and then once people answer you try to debate them.

Some homeless people steal. Not saying as a group they all do, but I don't know which category this stranger falls in. Once inside my house they know the layout and perhaps see things that would be of interest to come back later to steal. Of more concern is I don't know the mental health of this individual, and I'm less concerned about theft than my family's safety.

Woah dude. I'm with everyone else saying they're not letting a stranger in their house. Calling them filth and talking about shooting them is psycho shit

What is Trump Pedo Files?

It was. I know my audience

Man, Tarrare is always worth reading about

I know it's just personal experience, but I'm surprised I didn't hear about this sooner than today.

"hey, how do you punish infanticide where you're from? Here we bury the woman in between two layers of thorns, then have the executioner jump on the ground on top."

Yes, and it's not just "I don't want to be buried alive", I also don't want to be standing there watching it either. No thanks

Fingers crossed I'll never be involved with any live burials

Of course you can downvote. Community rules are about whether a post or user will be removed. If you think OP's post is so bad try to get it downvoted like you are

'I never thought one guy would dictate MY religious truth,' sobs archbishop who serves in the One Guy Dictating People's Religious Truth Church

I'd never heard of this before. A fan with a little flat vent that shoots under your sheet. I don't have any interest in that, but learned something new.

Do you use an ad blocker or privacy extension? I'll just throw out there I don't think it's right, but I've had to disable adblock to get some banking site stuff to work

None of the events on the show are real, it's all the bridge crew fucking around in the holodeck pretending to be in Starfleet

I realize I just essentially said to tell people to vote while you were asking for something more. I wanted to share that because some people think that posting "vote" is the same as having a conversation about voting. Posting is not nearly as effective.

Another thing that might help is directly asking elected officials to intervene. Staffers for politicians keep a tally of calls and letters they receive for/against a given issue. So while your words may not move an elected, you and some friends can get them to act on an issue. If you have a group you can also request a meeting to discuss your issue which is even more effective. Politicians take notice of organized groups of constituents since that's a block of votes for/against them and possible a group knocking doors for/against them.

The trouble is I don't know what the ask is. There should be a specific action you're demanding: "introduce this bill" "cosponsor this bill" "vote for/against this bill". And it has to be something they're able to do. I don't know what that thing would be.

Pack the supreme court (but there's not time for that or majority in the house).

Long term I think building true power means growing communities, joining unions and cooperatives. Most of us aren't rich or powerful enough to be heard, which is why organizing is so important. None of this is fair or easy to do.

They say your time is much better spent guaranteeing people who already will vote blue show up to polls than trying to change the opinion of people who will vote red.

So that looks like asking people "do you have a plan to vote?" And perhaps in a less nosy phrasing: "When will you vote?" "How will you get there?"

People verbalizing a plan makes them more likely to follow through.

There are many places you can sign up to go canvassing, which is great. I would suggest in addition to and maybe before that, make a list of everyone you know and would feel comfortable talking to, and talk to them about voting. You will get much more mileage from existing relationships. (It's like how sales differentiates a warm lead and a cold lead)

Once you've exhausted that list then every little bit still helps. I do think high density events like farmers markets, community gatherings, concerts, games, etc have better rate of contact than door to door.

Yeah, I guess you could argue it needs more contributors, but sort of like Wikipedia, suppose it saw wide adoption. Is it just a learn to code type thing? I guess better that Wikimedia runs it than stack exchange or whoever.

Would love to hear an expert talk be about this more. It's an interesting idea, but seems like it would be limited in usefulness to small adjustments.

In Pennsylvania this last year a murderer escaped from prison by pressing himself again two opposite walls and climbing up. So I guess the answer is, no they don't take additional precautions.