Schadrach @ Schadrach @lemmy.sdf.org

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...and yet they've had power before - several times, including once with it being literally this dipshit - and haven't burned it all down to gain power yet.

But then this election is different, it's the most important election of our lifetimes, just like the Democrats have said about every other election since at least 2004. Down to the literal phrase "the most important election of our lifetimes."

The reality is both major parties benefit from the system, and both market based on fear because they don't have anything positive to offer voters that isn't an outright lie that the voters know is an outright lie. The big difference is the the GOP markets on fear of the other and the Dems market on fear of the GOP.

Tusday was maybe the best a thousand years ago but who cares?

Closer to two hundred years ago, since the law in question was passed in 1854. But the point was it's that way for a reason, and that reason was a good reason at the time it was done. It seems so weird now because of social change that has since made it inconvenient.

It can also be changed if Congress wanted to, as it's just a regular law and not part of the Constitution or something else that would be harder to change.

On my instance you just click "Communities" at the top and it gives you a list of communities with three options at the top Subscribed/Local/All just like the main feed. Click all and you can browse or search the list of all communities, though the search is not great.

It's on Tuesday because that was actually convenient with the flow of business at the time. Most were Christian and wouldn't work or travel on Sunday if possible, it often took a day's travel to get to the nearest town with a polling place, and Wednesday was market day.

If Sunday and Wednesday are right out and you need a day's travel time (which also can't be Sunday or Wednesday) you're basically left with Tuesday or Friday. And if you're going to be in town for the market anyways then Tuesday makes more sense.

It is in November because that's after the biggest harvests, but not so far after that the weather is likely to be rough. And it's the Tuesday after the first Monday so that it can't overlap with All Saints Day.

On the upside it could be changed with a regular old law, it doesn't require an amendment or anything.

And sometimes that goes the exact opposite way. For example, Lorena Bobbitt was acquitted on an insanity defense and spent less than two months in counseling.

Puerto Rico periodically votes on whether or not to pursue becoming a state, becoming a state doesn't win except in one vote that was specifically a non-binding vote on the topic and that had much lower turnout than other votes on the idea.

DC was literally created specifically to not be a state, so that no state held the seat of the federal government.

Do you or have you ever worked in science? I did for a bit and that was not my impression.

I imagine it depends heavily on the field. In some fields there are ideas that one can't seriously study because they're considered settled or can't be studied without doing more harm than any believed good that could be achieved. There are others subject to essentially ideological capture where the barrier to publish is largely determined by how ideologically aligned you are (fields linked to an identity group have a bad habit of being about activism first and accurate observation of reality second).

Because a carrier's data on you is not your person or belongings. The companies holding this data are selling access to it, so it's not being searched, it's being offered.

In other words, the same reason as why they don't need a search warrant if there's a breaking and the business across the street volunteers their security camera footage, even if you're on that footage.

instead of blocking advertising data, we should embrace it IMO.

imagine a world where users shove so much information at these tools that they can't even tell what's real or not. camouflage works better when everyone participates.

There's an ad blocker that does exactly this. Called Ad Nauseam. Chrome blocked it from their store super fast, then blocked it from being installed in Chrome from 3rd party sites, then blocked known versions of it from being manually installed in developer mode. I used to run it set to a low percentage - if I "clicked" every ad they'd know to throw my data out, but if I click say 3% of them...

No, you can't get fined for saying the N-word in the US. But, repeatedly shouting it while committing an assault pretty conclusively demonstrates it was a racially motivated assault, and lots of jurisdictions in the US have laws that aggravate a crime or add an additional charge if the crime was motivated by hatred of a protected class.

Those laws can (but almost never are) applied even if the member of the protected class is male, white, etc. I think the last time I heard of someone being given hate crime charges for doing something to a white victim was the 2017 Chicago torture case where the crime was streamed on Facebook. Two black men and two black women were involved, the men received bail of $800k and $900k, the women bail of $500k and $200k - in the end all did plea deals with the men getting 7 and 8 years in prison and the women 4 years of probation and 3 years of prison. Which demonstrates neatly how much sex plays into punishment in the US, since they were all part of the same case doing the same crimes.

It's both. The criminal justice system treats white folks better than black folks, and women better than men. Depending on what exactly you're measuring which one is the larger gap can go either way. For sentencing, sex means more than race - so she'd get a longer sentence if she were a black woman, but an even longer one if she were a white man, and a still longer one if she were a black man.

I'm actually surprised a white girl got a whole year for an assault. And not even a suspended sentence!

I've seen cases where it's like "white woman stabs boyfriend in heart, boyfriend narrowly survives due to prompt medical attention, 30 day suspended sentence" or "woman sexually assaults minor boy, gets herself pregnant from the assault, no punishment for her and boy owes woman child support for being her victim."

To be fair, we achieved flight by copying nature. Once we realized the important part was the shape of a wing more than the flapping.

Whereas I miss the old Aldi "single use" plastic bags because I'd use them a few dozen times (not necessarily at Aldi) before they either got holes or a strap broke or something. I've still some stashed in places for when I need a decent plastic bag to hold something.

This wasn't about coke zero but about two batch numbers of the zero sugar version of minute maid lemon aid, in cans.

I think the difference in geography makes a, well, difference. It's just a lot of people stuck in tiny towns that are several miles long in one direction and around 150 yards in the other, most of them up different hollows or branches of hollows. Mass transit that's actually workable would be difficult. Hell, I used to date a woman who was a social worker who did in home adult education and more than a few of her clients had directions to get to them that involved things like turning off the road to drive several miles up a creek bed, because neither federal, state, nor county considered it a place worth running a road to.

I kinda think running a ferry line that went up and down river and across, with each line going from one set of locks to the next with a shuttle to take you from one side of the locks to the other and local busing could work, but only for the places on the Kanawha. But even then going from where I used to live to Charleston would look something like bus->ferry->shuttle->ferry->bus. Going to be hard to make that look attractive compared to a 20 min drive.

And mind you I actually like mass transit. The times I've been to Boston I literally just grab a 7-day pass for the T and take it everywhere, but something like it just doesn't seem practical given the geography and population distribution here.

I have a dog door, they let themselves out when they feel like it, for the most part when and for how long they'd like (it's a fenced yard). The cat learned the dog door by watching them, she also lets herself out.

Sure. Let them out so they can fight stray cats, get preggo, get flees and ticks, and all of that fun stuff…

Mine's spayed and wears a seresto collar (which is easily the most effective flea/tick control I've seen - they're pricey for flea collars but being good for 8 months helps mitigate that. Both dogs and the cat wear them.). Now, she does occasionally get into fights with other cats in the neighborhood but that's largely unavoidable. If it's not going well she runs inside to her dog for comfort.

She was supposed to be an inside cat, but we put in a dog door for the dogs and she figured it out from them. It's a pretty basic one without the bells and whistles and electronic lock controls and triple the price. If it were it wouldn't slow her down much, she'd just come and go under the taller dog.

...and doing it with requirements that funnel state education funds to a political candidate is just...chef's kiss

Because the parties with the power don't want to, because it might cost them power.

K. I want you to look at somewhere like rural WV and imagine what public transit infrastructure or bike infrastructure that would actually be useful would look like. Preferably that wouldn't cost more than the entire state budget to run and would be useful for people to use to get to work and to at least one major grocery store and one place to get appliances or furniture.

Say, Powelton, WV. Or Dry Branch, WV. Or Webster Springs, WV. Or Amma, WV. And these aren't even the hardest examples in the state, but they're ones I know well enough to likely be able to comment on your answers.