Fair, I'm more pointing out that I lack a side of me that that would understand that appeal, both in terms of sexual orientation and dom/sub. But yeah, I'm not sure how consensual this can be.
It's just math. There are only 366 possible days in a year. You're going to wind up with plenty of coincidences according to the pigeonhole principle. George Takei and Mike the headless chicken are both April 20 births. If they had passed this bill in a few days on the birth of Karl Marx (May 5), would that have been an endorsement of communism? No. The US Congress has business to do, and it isn't going to halt everything because Hitler got born. Let the neo-Nazis care about Hitler's birthday.
I remember when my aunt and uncle were going through a divorce, the government forced them through years of legal hoops. This seemed to be in the mistaken belief that couples should be forced back together. This is Switzerland. It might not be FGM or lack of marital rape laws, but sometimes it can be surprising where backwards laws and beliefs still hold sway.
I see these sometimes in anime and they always seem creepy as hell. I just don't get it. Then again, I'm gay and dom/sub never has appealed to me, even in role play.
A day over a hundred years in the past that has no modern relevance. This is just the pigeonhole principle in action. If we avoided doing anything on a day where a villainous person did something vaguely of note, there would be no days left to do anything.
Russia's GDP is dwarfed by the West. If Russian investors weren't put off by having assets frozen when Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, they're unlikely to care about some more weapons. After all, the Russian people have seen many years of conflict. The rich are going to care about their hoards, not about the "special military operation."
AI is being used to create kill lists. A human must still approve strikes, but it's unclear how much vetting is really going on.
A civilian casualty rate of 15-20 for a rank-and-file Hamas fighter is considered acceptable. 100 is considered acceptable for a battalion or brigade commander. Contrast this with the US's rate for Saddam Hussein, 30. He was of course found hiding in a hole.
It's not clear that military commanders understand AI's weaknesses in depth.
Israeli soldiers have reported that some commanders have set a policy of considering any adult male in their sector to be a "terrorist" and to be shot on sight, completely outside the use of AI. This is a violation of the laws of war.
During the US occupation of Afghanistan, it used AI on phone calls. The problem is this could conceivably pick up on someone like an innocent bike courier.
The US used computers to detect troop movements along the Ho Chi Min Trail during the Vietnam War. That allowed for extremely fast bombing, racking up a huge body count. Israel should take note of the disconnect between body count and winning.
I think your misreading the US electorate as being much further to the left than it actually is. What we have now is a fairly delicate dance between the two major parties, attempting to suck up various constituencies. It's resulted in an almost perfect equilibrium nationally. What you're suggesting leaves an enormous group of ex-Republican voters without a political home. In that scenario, the Democrats would move right to appeal to ex-Republicans for political advantage and the Progressive Party would move to the center to appeal to center-left voters. You would land more or less where we are now in the end.
Speaking of state and local, that is where change is going to happen with ranked choice voting. State and local governments can move much faster than the federal government to institute ranked choice voting. Because states have a high degree of autonomy on holding their own elections, they can prove that ranked choice is a viable option for local, state, and maybe even federal offices.
Everything is true except this. It's good to have at least two healthy parties competing for voters. So often, single party states allow the dominate party to get lazy because it no longer has to work hard to get votes.
At least ideally, the end result would be an electorate that is further to the left and Republican party that is not as crazy conservative. Overton window shifting and all that.
I have a few different types of checklists in Google Keep based mostly on length of trip, type of trip, and mode of transportation. They are detailed, down to checking items in my pockets and removing my pocketknife where relevant. For each trip, I make a copy of the relevant list and get packing. I suppose it has taken some time to organize, but now I can pack pretty quickly the night before.
I just have a toiletry bag with a collapsible toothbrush and toothpaste tablets. I pretty much always bring the same toiletries on any trip to keep it easy.
There is, unfortunately, no law against saying you're going to be a power abusing jackass. And the Republicans have decided that if he gets into office, they'll protect him from impeachment and removal no matter what. His lawyers have literally argued that the president can order assassinations of their political rivals.
Bragging rights, in the form of a blog.