Hiker, software engineer (primarily C++, Java, and Python), Minecraft modder, hunter (of the Hunt Showdown variety), biker, adoptive Akronite, and general doer of assorted things.
Maybe, but also maybe not. A test that’s targeted specifically at “do you understand how the government functions” is actually quite different from a lot of other tests and less likely to be subjective.
Like, if there was a question, what part of the government writes laws:
if you get that wrong, you probably shouldn’t be voting.
The bigger issue is monetization. YouTube is popular in no small part because creators are trying to make money.
Yeah… Even as a third party, I definitely have not been enjoying the smell when I’ve bumped into it. I don’t think it should be a criminal offense, but I hope we can move past “I need to light a thing on fire and just screw up the air for everyone in my vicinity.”
That’s really not even close to the optimistic scenario. It’s arguably not even in the pessimistic scenario if you’re not just in the “make stuff up club.”
We’re talking at most half a meter of rise by 2050, at most 2 meters by 2100, at most 4 meters by 2150. The intermediate projection is a third of a meter by 2050. The optimistic projection (which we’re not going to hit) is 3/20th of a meter.
Climate change is real. The risk of famine is real. The risk of global conflict is real. The risk of trying storms is real. However, “doomsday everybody dies” is not really on any serious projections. The worst case is “a lot of people in a lot of poor nations die and rich nations have more wars and more immigration.”
It’s a shame, back when they were wikia and just hosted mediawikis with light ads, it was actually a really nice service.
For my grandfather… The issue wasn’t the shows, but he specifically wants a few news programs and will not under any circumstances go without them.
This was a problem for even going to Internet based streaming options because he just will not accept anything without those shows for more than a few months.
Meanwhile he also complains he doesn’t have enough to watch and says he can’t afford it (he can, he just doesn’t like what it cost)… But those dang news channels… and just his outlook on TV in general.
I’d give up any and every gun point in favor of police reform, proper election and transition of power legislation, and climate change.
Actually, I think they have it exactly right. The problem is Republican voters views and priorities have been misaligned with their respective party representatives for at least a decade.
This is no more evident than in evangelical voters jumping through hoops to justify a detestable candidate of poor morals.
What Trump, the tea party before him, etc represents to folks that adore them is quite different than what those things are.
I got banned from signal’s subreddit for talking about how telegram works and the case for it.
I mean there’s quite clearly a victim here, the child.
I’ve been reading her book, the truancy thing is interesting. She had data that showed that kids that weren’t showing up at school, particularly young ones, didn’t learn how to read sufficiently well, and then fell behind in school and struggled to catch up, they then ended up struggling later in life, and often ending up either as victims or perpetrators of crime.
So, she used the California DA’s office to enforce truancy laws across California, encouraged reaching out to fix the problems at home if at all possible, and also encouraged reaching out to folks that had been written off as “not caring” (she cites an example of a father that hadn’t been paying child support but upon learning that his daughter wasn’t going to school, started taking his daughter to school every morning, and volunteering in her classroom).
Of course this is all by her account, but that sounds overall quite positive to me.
I think … this is going to be an uphill battle. If you’re in NYC, maybe you’ve got a shot (simply because there are so many folks around).
However, you’re looking at a minority of a minority probably within a minority of folks that you’d find attractive that are in your age group (unless liking Linux is literally the only thing that makes someone attractive to you).
I’ve been off and on dating sites myself for years in the Northeast Ohio area. I’ve used them since my early twenties and I’m now 29 really only having had one relationship come from them that actually went past a few dates; that unfortunately ended last year … and she was in the medical field and almost completely uninterested in computers (the outdoors is what we bonded over mostly).
My advice (speaking openly as someone that … doesn’t love where he ended up): keep an open mind, try and find hobbies that you genuinely like that are more likely to involve women, and just … focus on meeting people.
Unfortunately for me, I’ve found most of my hobbies outside of computers to be pretty unhelpful in meeting women (e.g., one of them is hiking, while plenty of women do it at least occasionally, starting a conversation with a girl who’s all alone in the middle of woods or in a group with her friends … well I’ve yet to do it, despite being a fairly social person elsewhere these days).
If you’re in college, definitely take advantage of the first few years when you’re doing gen-ed classes to meet people outside of any computer science related major … and maybe consider taking some classes that just are more likely to have women in them as electives. If someone you meet is not interested, take it at face value, maybe keep them around as a friend but move on, leave the “win over the girl that wasn’t interested” stuff for the movies (I’ve never seen it work).
Votes already are public to all server admins (I can see exactly what you voted for in communities my instance knows about).
Go for it, use a personal anecdote if you have one about how you or someone you know was bit by not putting blocks in front of the wheels.
If you don’t have one… make up a white lie about how your now deceased great uncle Johnny told you he left a trailer out without blocks on a little slope like that and it rolled into the street.
The anecdotes / a story can be a … easier path to selling the truth that can feel a bit more humbled vs “I know better than you, so do what I say.”
Exotic, extravagant, unconventional, unique come to mind
I sincerely doubt they’d be asking that. Many of them would probably be happy we’d moved past that point.
https://www.history.com/news/declaration-of-independence-deleted-anti-slavery-clause-jefferson
My understanding is that many of them saw it as more of a necessary evil vaguely justified on racial grounds. We need to be willing to talk about and acknowledge America’s racist history with the slave trade, but we also need to understand the era and the fact that it was never broadly accepted as the right way to do things.
This might make folks uncomfortable, but it’s not all that dissimilar to folks buying cheap imported stuff today built primarily for the US consumer in sweatshop conditions, via outright slavery, and/or with various child labor schemes often at an extreme cost to the health of the environment. We’ve made things better but we’ve also recreated some of the problems that we’d destroyed in the WW II era with the justification of indirection (“well I didn’t do it, the big company I bought from did it”) instead of racism.
I fully expect a future generation to hold us to the pitchforks for buying cheap junk on Amazon or at Walmart and not ever asking “what behavior am I supporting? How did they make this at this price?”
You let the supreme court say that the president is above the law!?!
My parents are that way, dad is an atheists and mom is a christian that doesn’t actively attend any church (and hasn’t in decades).
People say time and distractions and whatever else … but the only advice that ever really helped me was a line from some character on a TV show I don’t even remember:
“In my experience, to move on, you’ve actually got to move on.”
In other words… Go meet new people, get a new crush, find the greener pasture.
Just did a refresher per your request… We did not ever to my knowledge use civics tests. We used literacy tests and what made them particularly offensive was they had various exemptions for white people or simplified variants for white people.
I am very icy to the idea of tests in general due to the effects having a “test” to vote could have. However, having a very low bar test of some sort administered without exceptions … it might make sense.
We don’t let people drive whose eyes fail a safety test. Maybe we shouldn’t let people vote if they don’t even have a surface level understanding of what they’re voting for.
I’m not saying do it, but maybe we shouldn’t totally write it off because of some bad behavior without any safeguards to prevent bad behavior.