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Many eligble voters don't vote

People who don't vote either cannot vote due to discrimination or don't vote because they are neutral towards the winner:

Overall, 10% of Americans are what we call Bystanders, or the politically disengaged, according to Pew Research Center’s Political Typology report. None of this cohort say they’re registered to vote, and none say they follow government and public affairs most of the time.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2014/07/07/1-in-10-americans-dont-give-a-hoot-about-politics/

If you don't care about politics, you are not opposed to Trump.

Gerrymandering doesn't exist in your presidential election.

The majority of Americans supports - or at the very least is neutral towards - Trump. You can blame this on a lot of factors such as misinformation and lack of education but this doesn't change the general attitude.

The reason the Wii U failed wasn't because of its name. Sure, it didn't help the slightest but Nintendo's console iterations have struggled in the past because they hardly bring anything new. The Wii U brought literally just a gamepad (and stronger hardware, though marketing focused on the gamepad). Why pay so much for an incremental upgrade? The same fate nearly occured to the 3DS:

The Nintendo 3DS was released in Japan on February 26, 2011, and worldwide beginning the next month.[10][11] Less than six months after launch, Nintendo announced a significant price reduction from US$249.99 to US$169.99 amid disappointing launch sales.

After all, why pay money just for a 3D effect? Without continued support and selling at a loss, the 3DS would have bombed.

By the way, the Xbox One - despite its similarly stupid name - never faced the same issues as the Wii U because people actually wanted it.

I was thinking the drones would use Bluetooth to send the modified json to each other which negates the need for a NAS.

Of course, two different drones may have modified the json nearly simultaneously so the json would need to be timestamped and the earlier timestamp overrules the later one in case of merge conflicts.

The good guy in a war is the guy who is better than the bad guy. That's usually it.

Keep in mind, at least in Germany the only people "remembering" the Dresden bombing are Nazis. They seek something that relativizes their crimes - and other nation's war crimes against them that pale in comparison are the way to go. I presume Japanese fascists are similar in that regard.

The functions just store all variables in a globally accessible JSON file. Compartmentalization is for programmers that aren't capable of writing bug-free code.

This article is nowhere to be found under this topic though, I've scrolled for two minutes now.

Which implies that "aggravated sexual assault" does not fall under the term "rape" - at least in this case.

https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/rape

Why have this topic then?

Grab all the freeleech 2112's and enjoy a steady stream of upload.

There's also freeleech for the album of the month and neutral leech for all album of the month candidates in the voting phase.

Not for everything and not good enough though.

Especially for something as complex as mental illnesses/trauma your body has hardly any ability to heal by itself.

Though then we can get pedantic: How long should you feel down when someone you love died? Because I don't consider it a bad thing for something like this to take a while before healing. It'd suck to attend their funeral having completely healed already.

(Btw I was somewhat alluding to this meme in case you haven't realized bc you responded seriously):

BUT I will say that to me the right image looks significantly more comfy than the left one because that dragon is far more fluffy and cute and snugglable.

I see these being abused by pranksters

That can happen occasionally. But if you explain to the children why it's important to not abuse this one button, it will hopefully reduce the number.

That requires you to go outside of the classroom in a crisis where the gunman is typically roaming the halls

You'd only really know there is a crisis when you hear shots being fired regardless. People in the hallways already - be it teachers or students - would also be able to hear the shots and press the button. And in case nobody is in the hallways, teachers inside class rooms can call 911 anyways since a phone ban doesn't extend to them.

You could install a button in each classroom if you want to 100% avoid your scenario.

So you don't think the right image displays a magical cool world where interesting stuff happens??

wow

i can't believe you despise femboy dragon maids

Is LGBTQ+ content not restricted/shadow banned there? 31 hearts and 1 comment isn't really a lot.

If Twitter took away the restricted flag, would anyone have known typing "cisgender" is blacklisted? Most corporate social media don't publish what is or isn't restricted.

Plus China officially encourages """"traditional"""" gender roles since their demographic crisis will come crashing down soon, with LGBTQ+ centers and clubs being shut down by the government.

Oh, I thought you meant physically unable (for some time) - meaning they'd have to upgrade their router hardware or something which would take a couple of weeks/months.

But yes, right now the US is unable to implement a firewall. Though with the current Supreme Court it might as well decide tomorrow that free speech doesn't extend to communication via electrons or something.

Are you sure? You might have left-right confusion

There is like 1 school shooting per decade in Germany.

Every single school has these buttons scattered around hallways:

Couldn't US schools just put those alarms next to fire alarms? It's faster to hit a button anyways + teachers will be automatically notified with an announcement to lock the doors until further notice. No phones required.

(a <=> b) <=/=> [(b => TRUE) <=> a]

This is a critique of honor societies which do not serve a point in proving someone's "honor". The college requirement is essentially: Join this club to prove you have joined this club. Anyone can join an "honor" society without demonstrating anything related to honor, meaning:

([Joining an honor society] => TRUE) <=> [Being allowed to join college]

Being allowed to drive a car implies having a license and having a license implies being allowed to drive a car. Neither of these implies TRUE - in an ideal world at least.

By the way, TRUE is a tautology because it is always true, which is the definition of a tautology. Unnecessary repetition is not a requirement of a tautology.

I wasn't talking about the technology behind VPNs. Every single country that "bans VPNs" still uses them commercially to some extent.

What I consider a ban on VPNs is a ban on commercial B2C VPN providers that do not comply with US legislation - meaning they'd allow customers to access banned sites.

Add the fact that pretty much all major payment providers happen to be US companies and I'd wager 99% of "normal" access could be blocked.

Yes it does? All it would take is a single piece of legislation and a couple of hours for all ISPs to block all traffic to certain IP ranges.

Sure, it doesn't prevent VPNs but it would block 95% of access. The remaining 5% can be blocked through banning VPNs and deep packet inspection, the latter of which doesn't require that much new infrastructure.