Dharma Curious (he/him) @ dharmacurious @slrpnk.net

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Yeah, you nailed it. Obvious in hindsight, but until this I had just assumed it was accurate, like, even if everyone wasn't counted, I guess had I been pressed, I would have assumed there was some formula or something to account for the uncounted or some shit. Kinda wild

Also, village isn't a word we really use in the US, but now that you say it, I guess that's kind or exactly what it is. A little village of insane, isolated, meth makin' hillbillies up in the woods that aren't accessible by road.

Obligatory it's bullshit, will never happen, et cetera preface...

The problem with splitting it into multiple states is that each new state would get 2 senators. Our house is capped, the amount of reps we have is how many have, which means they can fuck around with the numbers a bit and potentially take democratic seats away to give to state of Canada, but with the Senate, if it were to split it into 10 new states, we'd have to add 20 additional senators, all of whom would be Democrats (or, at least, most of them). Some of the Canadian parties might last for a bit, but eventually the two party would take over, and they'd all become Democrats, and it would fuck the Republicans. Better to keep it as a single state, do some fuckery on who loses seats to add Canadian reps to the house, and only add 2 senators. Much easier to buy 2 senators than 20.

But honestly, the smartest route would be to make Canada a territory. No senators, no reps, no voting for president. But still citizens. Give it the Puerto Rico treatment.

Depends on what I'm doing with it. If it's something I'm going to be draining anyway, like making a cheese or a thick sauce, or in going to be drying it out, like with a baked yogurt chicken, then I'm gonna pour it out (probably into a jar to save for cooking with), if I'm just having, like, some fruit and yogurt, or making a smoothie, then I'm mixing it back in

Ravenous Omega Warrior

I'm okay with this. I may be changing my username...

I personally know of ~400 people who are absolutely not counted on any census and I'd be willing to bet not included in any population stats. Whole town up in the mountains. I'd imagine if that can happen in the us, it's not unlikely to happen elsewhere, so sure... But when they do the whole earth population calculations, I always assumed they just checked in a few extra people to account for, like, uncounted towns and shit

I've got a good friend who played D&D with us a couple times and found out real quick that not all friend groups are okay with overlapping. It was awful

I feel ya. Same way

Hey, I didn't realize! That reminds me, I need to go see my original Lemmy account and see what my real reddexit date is

Years and years ago, I was really active on a forum, and one of the members did this world trip, couch surfing with different members of the forum and seeing the world. She and I weren't good friends. In fact, she irritated me a bit, nothing in particular, just... Didn't vibe. At all. But a leg of her trip was taking through my state, and she needed a place to crash, so I said fuck it, sure.

She stayed with her best friend from the forum in Boston, and it was a complete bust. They didn't get along, Boston friend found her irritating, grating, and overwhelmingly boring.

Then she got to my place, and I made a new best friend. We got along so well she stayed an extra 2 days, and we had a fucking blast.

Irl/online can be a major difference, one from the other

Every day we move further from God

My family has always used "shit in one hand and wish in the other, see which one's ready first"

Could also be a business you owned for a year after getting a business license. Owned my own for a while from 2012 to 2014, and it's been my employer on all my resumes since. I never include any shit I did after, just keep that one as if I worked there as a supervisor from 2012 to present day. Works wonders.

It's the best thing ever!

I meant the phrase, not the font, but yes, you'd need embroidery for cursive to my knowledge. But my cross stitch is often a mix of the two, I use dissolvable lattice so you can stitch directly onto fabric like a pillowcase or a T-shirt, instead of being stuck with just Aida cloth, so a lot of the time it's both traditional cross stitch and free hand embroidery

Ive been trying to find a new cross stitch to work on at night to help with the insomnia. I think this might be it.

10/10 reference

Wasn't aware of the term, but that's my mom. She learned to read before she was 3, and was reading books meant for middle school children by the the age of 4. Moved on to grown up/high school and beyond books by the time she was like 7 or 8. She's also been a life long lover of word and number games, and taught me how to count cards when I was kid. She can count cards in games with 2 and 3 decks. Got kicked out of a casino for it when she was in her 20s. Lol.

Eta:

Her sisters (closest in age is 11 years older than her) taught her to read, and all of her siblings were also young readers, but none quite as young as her.

Probably not in the US, but hopefully it'll at least be accessible for the insured...

Doesn't come across as rude! Always happy to be educated.

Okay, so, it was my understanding that the ultimate end goal, say, 200 years after the revolution, the society would be practically the same between anarchists or communist. That just the means and transitonary state would be different. Once the state has withered away, once we have achieved classless, stateless, moneyless, it would be virtually or actually, and definitely practically, the same.

I'd love to know to more if that's not the case, and how they would differ. To be honest, I knew more 5 years ago, but I've forgotten a lot of theory and checked out pretty substantially for a while.

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