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wolfpack86@lemmy.worldto
You Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK a US passport card costs $30 and is definitive proof of citizenship. It fits in your wallet like a credit card.
20·2 months agoAlternate title:
Give the government $30 to stop violating your civil liberties
wolfpack86@lemmy.worldto
World News@lemmy.world•Denmark becomes first country in world to end letter deliveryEnglish
2·2 months agoAside from having digital post for public services and official mail from things like financial institutions, nobody’s stopping you from putting paper into a parcel envelope or using DAO who is taking over letter delivery.
wolfpack86@lemmy.worldto
LinkedinLunatics@sh.itjust.works•You must answer my random call to be considered!English
5·3 months agoStupid sexy Landers
wolfpack86@lemmy.worldto
pics@lemmy.world•SS style lightning bolt "N⚡S" on an ICE agents helmet
1·5 months agoThey couldn’t get solid olive drab with fantastic red arm flair
wolfpack86@lemmy.worldto
News@lemmy.world•US drops out of world’s most powerful passport top 10 list for the first time
3·5 months agoIt can literally be done by a single person. All it does is count the number of countries with visa free or visa on arrival.
But makes no stipulations to the quality of the country. Visa free access to UK, Canada, EU, Japan, China etc is not the same as visa free access to Syria, Sudan or the likes
The thing is it can be quite profitable for the biggest possible VC firm out there. The government.
The Interstate System spurned so much economic growth and thereby new tax revenue. Weve just pissed it away on stupid shit and have failed to maintain critical bridges and things like that.
wolfpack86@lemmy.worldto
World News@lemmy.world•Donald Trump responds to idea of tunnel connecting Russia and USEnglish
5·5 months agoAnd then everyone clapped
wolfpack86@lemmy.worldto
News@lemmy.world•Live Nation’s CEO thinks concert tickets are “underpriced”
51·6 months agoFrom a purely economics standpoint, when scalpers are able to sell at a higher price, yes they are underpriced.
But doing so limits access to cultural events to only those that can afford them.
wolfpack86@lemmy.worldto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•I learnt to swim! Efficient swimming techniques ?
1·7 months agoYeah front crawl is not the most energy intense. Do Butterfly and report back.
wolfpack86@lemmy.worldto
LinkedinLunatics@sh.itjust.works•When the bullet dodges youEnglish
32·7 months agoDepends how much equity they give their employees
wolfpack86@lemmy.worldto
You Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to determine election outcomes by changing electoral maps. In most western countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States
62·7 months agoThis will lead to the majority of the state getting full say and suppressing minority views. This can be political, racial, etc.
California has a large Republican population. If it goes state wide they get zero voice as the full state will go blue.
These days I’m kinda fine with that, but in principle this is wrong. The same suppression logic can be spread to ethnic groups, etc.
wolfpack86@lemmy.worldto
You Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to determine election outcomes by changing electoral maps. In most western countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States
61·7 months agoOne of the main complications in the US is the racial mix. Looking at party lines and geographic boundaries is an over simplification
Say 20% of the population is black, and the state has five reps. Two neighboring cities each have 30% black population, and enough population to have two of the five reps. The rest are dispersed in rural areas. Do you draw that each city gets one rep? Or do you draw such that a district has a majority of black residents, with funny boundaries to accommodate the geography?
The former means that you will more likely end up with a white representative for both cities and the voice of the black community are not heard in the legislative body. The latter means that you have now gerrymandered to ensure a group gets a voice they deserve.
This is the real pain in the ass about the whole thing. Some level of drawing stupid districts is needed to create good. Pure geographically created boundaries will only cause segregation if we want minority groups to have an equal voice in the legislature.
But, people in power tend to fuck everything up.
Zookeenee 🤌🏻
Yes it is. ETRTO size
wolfpack86@lemmy.worldto
LinkedinLunatics@sh.itjust.works•So grounded. So humble.English
5·7 months agoI especially like that they claim electronics burst into flames if they’re not grounded, because the electrons have nowhere to go.
Which, let’s ignore the complete misunderstanding of how electricity works for a moment, but if they truly believe the ground pin does something functionally, how do they ignore all the shit that only has a two prong plug?
wolfpack86@lemmy.worldto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•We all know grammar Nazis. What incorrect grammar are you completely in defence of?
15·8 months agoThe right to gleefully split infinitives.
wolfpack86@lemmy.worldto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•We all know grammar Nazis. What incorrect grammar are you completely in defence of?
11·8 months agoEspecially also when you’re using them to be facetious.
He’s “talented”.
He’s “talented.”



So long as you can get past the absolutely horrific acting