Proportional representation. Combating misinformation by making it more clear who’s behind what media. Greater media literacy. Attack ads should be illegal.
In an ideal world? More restrictions on the private holdings of public servants and people should be able to vote on individual bills through an app.
How dare you flaunt this in a world where we have to be places at times and those times change twice a year because some guy thought it might be easier on the candles and then he died.
Are you crazy and/or blind? We can’t cure cancer until we end all wars.
I’m going to follow my own clock to protest this absurd tango of time.
A lot of the time, asking local businesses what they can do/order for you helps a lot. Just because they don’t have it doesn’t mean they can’t get it. Some local grocers offer delivery services. If you have the time, seed money and patience, you can grow a lot of food in a small amount of space.
My cat has a special diet, too. I asked if I could use pet food from an independent brand - since it was a food allergy, just a matter of excluding chicken and grain - and the vet said it was fine.
AWS is harder to avoid, but if you have to use a service, there are other companies who will put the effort in to take part of the pie from amazon.
I’ve tried and failed. No matter what, it keeps seeping in. Filters, only following certain communities and people, avoiding some platforms, it doesn’t matter. I’m considering getting a dumb phone and running off to the woods.
I don’t know where you are, but at least a few places I’ve lived have had produce boxes you can sign up to receive. Some are fruits and vegetables too ugly to sell, others are mixed seasonal goods from a local farms. They range in price but all of them have been cheaper (for me) than the grocery store and are usually delivered.
The downside is the planning and work to make the most of whatever you get.
In that case let’s bury ourselves in the earth and learn to thrive on decay.
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This isn’t nonsense. I literally tested and ran one of those machines. You can look up voting tabulators and their use in Canadian elections. They are safe and secure - they’re tested before and after the election, and the paper votes from that machine are sealed away to be counted in case of any descrepancies.
Not that it matters but a lot of places use sharpie to mark the X.
I ran a voting machine, they can’t connect to a network. Stop worrying about the voting machines and start worrying about the cuts to whatever education system produced you.
Libraries can bring books in for you, too. Just ask, they want to help. They want you to get a card even if you never use it because it helps their numbers and their funding. Hell, take out books just in case you feel like reading over the next month, no one cares if you never touch them. Plus, you can renew and reserve books online and download ebooks for free.
Last month my library did a “Blind date with a book” thing where they gift-wrapped books and wrote the first sentence on the outside. I got a fun book I would have never picked up otherwise.
Wanna support local? Using your library helps you and your community.
If I could push a button that removed me from the timeline, I would.
Just feel what you feel without putting a label on it. Honestly, the labeling is annoying. I tell folks I’m a person who’s into the people I like. As long as everyone is happy and consenting it shouldn’t matter what you call it.
It might be the worst voter turnout in Ontario history, and the first winter election held in forty years - because snow and ice make it much harder to get to polling locations. Plus only four weeks to campaign.
The snap election made it harder for citizens abroad and in rural areas to vote by mail and a lot of people didn’t get their voter registration cards in time - and falsely thought that meant they couldn’t vote. I can, but don’t want to believe, he’s getting away with this.
We really need to broaden our definitions for election interference.
You’re why I need to meditate.
And now I need to get a pinball machine. Thanks, I was trying not to spend money.
Probably for his media around the subjects of islam, race and gender.
This is one of the more balanced pieces I can find on the issue since it cites sources - and though this editor and Harris are in a feud, Klein links to Harris’s rebuttal on his own website. https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/3/27/15695060/sam-harris-charles-murray-race-iq-forbidden-knowledge-podcast-bell-curve
Calls and texts - and only through icons. Otherwise it’s do not disturb 24/7.