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American here: in this case “table” means “submit for a vote”?
Ex-tanker turned programmer
もと戦車乗り員;現在プログラマー
English is good, Japanese is okay
英語は普通、日本語はそこそこ
I love puns!
ダジャレ大好き!
American here: in this case “table” means “submit for a vote”?
*tract, apparently.
Okay, this is like the third time The Frighteners has come up this week; the universe is telling me to rewatch that movie!
“We’ve secretly replaced Chet’s coffee with a Pershing missile, let’s see if he notices…”
A blatant lie. In 2020, 66% of the voting population actually voted - and this was a record high! Of those, 46.48% voted for Biden/Harris. So that’s just under 1/3rd, or 30.68% of the voting population of Texas.
Now, do I feel for these folks? Yes. Is it terrible that they’re being disenfranchised by their state and local governments at every turn? Also yes. Is this going to make me feel at all bad if the state whose main claim to fame is keeping slavery going an extra 2 years splits off, only to get gobbled up by Mexico?
Not in the slightest.
Good… and also “bye”.
It doesn’t help that the news focuses on murders and gun crime over anything else, and provides a megaphone for copaganda with zero analysis. If it bleeds, it leads, even if it’s a lie.
I put my first model up on Cults, Thingiverse, and I think one other site… so far only the Cults one seems to have gotten any traction, so I’m focusing on that.
Being able to act hypocritically, flout the rules and regs, and get away with it is political Viagra to these assholes. It’s what they live for. It’s impossible to “catch them” in flagrant acts of hypocrisy because the act of you noticing them being douchebags but not being able to stop them gives them massive power boners.
We were almost at the “Praetorian Guards Decide Who Rules” stage of the Fall of the American Empire; they just didn’t have the numbers this time.
I’m a big fan of C. J. Cherryh’s Chanur series, where humans are on an at least equal footing but mainly incidental (except for a few parts). The nice part is you can then read her Cyteen and Foreigner series to find out how being technologically advanced doesn’t necessarily always work out well for the humans.
Thanks very much!