Saik0 @ Saik0Shinigami @lemmy.saik0.com

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Citizenship is already required to vote in state [...] elections.

This is incorrect. The law you think you're referencing by this is only applicable to Federal positions. Several states explicitly allow non-citizen voting in local elections. Many have no laws on the books at all addressing it. Only 15 states explicitly prohibit non-citizen voting for local positions.

https://ballotpedia.org/Laws_permitting_noncitizens_to_vote_in_the_United_States

This fact alone should mandate that the federal level maintains their own registrations. The State and Federal levels have different applicable voter rolls because the state doesn't have the same requirements as the federal elections.

Edit: Wrong word.

I had no idea the numbers were that high.

They're definitely not. First hand experience tells me that when a soldier enlists during in processing they start the process for naturalization. I saw several recruits that came in with me go through the paperwork with a drill instructor. If this 38% is "real" then it must be "all time". But modern military for sure it is not.

Yeah, while I understand and agree with the sentiment... If you have 300 people and on average somebody gets sick once a year for 2 days... You're going to have to hit some lotto style stats that they all don't lineup together to get a clear day of 100% attendance. Now realize that normal is 2-4 times a year... not just once. It's hard to corral that many people and get them all in on the same day available without some sort of conflict, sick days alone. Forget all the other stuff, birthdays, births, funerals, etc...

The USA is also significantly bigger than every single one of those "comparable" countries. Actually bigger (population, size, really just about any size metric possible) than all of them combined. It's a bit disingenuous to clump all of the USA together. Which fuels and proves my point about outsiders not understanding the USA.

The range in "comparable" countries is also about 4 years... Why do you think that is? I mean the countries are basically right next to each other like states are here... yet for some reason despite sharing a border Switzerland and Germany have a 4.1 year difference in male life expectancy.

I'm willing to bet money that different parts of the US, possibly even on a state by state or even region by region location would have wildly varying life expectancy than is being insinuated with a single monolithic number for "the USA"... Just like the EU countries listed here...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_life_expectancy

Turns out that is wildly true... The top 30 states all compete with the numbers given and fall within the ranges between Germany and Switzerland given in the charts in your link.

Edit:

If you drill down to counties.... which is at the very bottom of the wiki article. You can see even more disparity. And the only reason I bring this up is that some counties in the USA are bigger than entire as countries in the EU. https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/largest-counties-in-the-united-states-by-total-area.html

There is issues with getting infrastructure EVERYWHERE when the country is just so damn big and sparse.

Edit2: I should clarify that I don't doubt that the EU overall is better off... Mostly because being fat is a huge problem in the USA that is much less prevalent than the EU overall. But just clumping shit willy nilly is exactly what I was referencing... Mississippi vs California is a world of difference.

Most Europeans have a poor understanding of what the USA looks like as well... Turns out that most people have no idea what most of the rest of the world looks like! This could even mean inside of their own country! The USA is quite large and very much varied.

Okay? And that is equally bad. What's the point? We should be striving for less IMO.

Now realize those things are internet connected... and that video was definitely uploaded.

I rather not need mass surveillance to buy a fucking snickers.

Eh... "Fuck" is just a filler word for most New York Natives in general.

and former army member himself.

Marine Corp

These checkpoints are illegal in all of the US.

No they're not.

https://rdslaw.com/are-police-checkpoints-legal-what-about-my-miranda-rights/

A checkpoint is legal if it is for a valid, specified purpose such as checking compliance with motor vehicle laws, checking for possession of a valid license and registration, or checking the driver’s sobriety.

As long as they check ALL vehicles (not targeting) for licenses as an example... They can carry out additional actions as they find them. So in your little town they can setup a checkpoint, check that everyone has a valid drivers license... And if they find an "illegal" or believe that you may be transporting "illegals" that can evolve into a terry stop, especially in stop and identify states.

Now, I think there are a few states that are more strict on the matter... but certainly not illegal in "all" of the US.

Additional sources:
https://legal-info.lawyers.com/criminal/traffic-violations/law-enforcement-checkpoints-and-roadblocks-are-they-legal.html

when the doors should always be manual in the first place

Eh... I like the way Ford (I think? I could be misremembering) is doing it. Pull on the handle a little bit to do electronic. Yank it all the way to override and do it manually. One handle... And in the case of "emergency" your instinct is literally what is expected... Yank the shit out of the handle... door will open.

I think it depends. If Iran can be tenuously linked to AlQuaeda, then it’s legal.

Eh... We know that Iran was harbored AlQaeda, wouldn't be hard to claim that they're still doing it. I bring this up from time to time... While I was deployed to Jalalabad, we never had issues with the locals. Everyone that ever bombed that FOB while I was there was coming over the Iranian border and mortaring us from the mountains, then retreating back to Iran.

Sometimes we could get air assets up quickly enough to handle them before they got back to the Iranian border. But we couldn't follow them into Iran. Many... many requests were made to Iran to stop this. Didn't stop until the base was closed down due to the pull out.

proveb

I hope you didn't pay that tattooist.

H-2A Visa... Is literally that. This program wouldn't be "new".

Yes... Anthem is a subsidiary of BCBS that operates geographically and doesn't compete with other BCBS subsidiary...

So literally yes. If they were blocked in their few geo locations... Literally yes.

Edit: They service 8 states. When your biggest state says "fuck no" to your new policy... you reevaluate or roll-back (or go to lawsuit).

Y'all

Speak for yourself please.

Apart from all the claims that were suddenly approved

Source this please... To date, I still see United Healthcare at dead bottom. And rate fluctuating only nominally over the past 12 months.

execs of other companies suddenly removing all personal info from websites?

If you're counting this as a meaningful change to healthcare... Then I guess you found one that I can't contest. Congrats!

Fear. Nothing meaningful will change until the rich fear for their lives, and we saw just how much they’re scrambling after 1 CEO.

No, this is my point. Even with "fear" nothing changed.

Like the one that would put a time limit in the anesthesia they’d pay for.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mollybohannon/2024/12/06/anthem-blue-cross-blue-shield-reverses-planned-anesthesia-time-limits-after-intense-pushback/

Elected officials in Connecticut and New York both said they stepped in Thursday to intervene with Anthem’s new plan before the company announced the reversal. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said on X, formerly known as Twitter, the change was "outrageous" and she would “make sure New Yorkers are protected.” Connecticut’s comptroller Sean Scanlon said his office had already reached out to Anthem and the policy would “no longer be going into effect here in Connecticut.” Scanlon shared that update hours before Anthem announced the reversal.

But nothing changed... Can you show a change in healthcare since? have acceptance rates gone up? premiums gone down?

Nothing changed.

Edit: Bunch of downvotes... but nobody can tell me anything that's changed... interesting isn't it?

Instead of teaching the subject in class and then assign practice for home, we should be learn the subject at home and so the practice in class.

Then you get students who get mad because they're "teaching themselves". Not realizing at all that the teacher curated what they're reading/doing and is an SME that's available to them when they're completely lost.