Some of those are absurdly strong. I have wild grapes in my yard that got ahold of an old clothesline with 6 lines across it. Now I didn’t use said line so figured just let it be to feed the birds and such. Turns out it got thick enough that one winter when a particularly heavy snow came through the weight of the snow on the vine mat was enough to bend in the poles that are a good 3 inches thick.

For those willing to do a bit of CLI work there are even tools to pull your whole library automagically. Just make sure you got the space for it. Sitting at just over 1.5 TB here.

https://github.com/Sude-/lgogdownloader

I wonder just how far down the road they think they’ll get. The ‘little free libraries’ and ebooks, legal or less than, would be near impossible for them to push this show onto.

Information will be free, like it or not the stories will be told and you can’t do a damn thing about it.

It’s tough to fathom the people who bite at his bullshit. So much of it is plainly made up on the spot with no connection to reality, how does that not bother someone to the point where you might question giving this person executive authority…

You get a full podium sweep, gotta do some acrobatics to be on all the spots for the pics though.

I’m going to try one more time here…

Nobody said ‘deny’ at any point in this exchange. The OP said mandatory/compulsory, aka force them to do so.

Deny and compel are NOT the same thing, they are in fact functionally the opposite each other.

What point is there to compel someone who self-selects as lacking in knowledge/interest in the process. You waste time and resources for the voter, the process administrators, enforcement personnel, everyone any anyone involved including the willing and eager participants by creating longer lines and a wasting their tax funds just to satisfy a mandate by having Cleatus write ‘fuck you’ on a ballot.

If that is too complicated to understand I can’t help you.

No, it’s not. Forcing someone who is not knowledgeable or interested to vote is in no way the same as testing whether someone is educated to determine if they should be allowed to.

You’re mixing two opposite issues there, the literacy tests you mention where in an effort to exclude people from voting.

In this this topic your asking if we should FORCE the uninformed and disinterested to vote.

These are anything but the same.

Do you really want to force cousin cleatus to be involved in the leadership decisions for the country? There are entirely too many people out there with zero clue what the issues of the day even are much less to have an informed opinion on them outside what the nice person in the interwebs/TV told them is the answer.

Per household or purchasing body (as in a store or restaurant) I have my doubts. Never in my life have I dumped 3 dozen perfectly edible sandwiches in the trash on any given day.

There are a lot more households than there are stores or restaurants so in aggregate total homes may make for a greater sum, but that’s the same kind of logic they use to say people need to all switch to paper straws and forgo the AC in summer while the rich fly about in personal jets and rockets for a joyride.

Probably the biggest factor compared to something like Tile chips is that it’s embedded into the OS rather than an app. You can turn it off, but you can bet that a letter from the right person can compel Google to turn it back on.

Oh come on, you think some would do that? Go in the internet and tell lies?

I mean it is or at least should be a policy on most sites already, it’ll be nice to have some teeth beyond banning their accounts though.

It looks like a whole mastodon instance full of such people. Front page trending tag is ‘fakenews’.

FFS, 7 month old account with 0 comments or posts as it shows to me and a meme about how the parasite class need to be taxed/removed sends you off in a tizzy. You have to build some history before jumping in whole hog to be a believable troll you know?

Remote controlled rather than radio controlled. If one wanted to get particular a lot of cheap RC where/are done by IR control, which makes them pretty well useless outdoors, same with TV remotes, but it’s still remote controlled.

And when it was written militaries where standing in lines firing round shot out of inaccurate tubes en-masse hoping that they might hit something. A single person with a modern SAW could have taken out an entire company unaided. You’re suggesting that there should be no adjustment based on changes to society and technology because it’s written on a specific piece of paper.

Explicit isn’t so much a problem, but nuance.

Example: the right to free speech is explicit a good and pretty well irrevocable thing, however some constraints such as using a public space to promote hate, speech meant to cause mass panic or harm or similar abuses are not protected as an exception to the broad basic right.

A part of the issue with the second is the population is so fiercely militaristic (we make such a monument of our military as being the greatest of heros) and individualistic that people will twist the wording any way they like to claim they should have the right to a tank rather than to thin what is reasonable for the general population.

Then there are the folks thinking they can revolt against a tyrannical government armed with globe covering drones because they have 100 rifles in their basement, but those are more especially deluded exceptions.

It’s marked on the poster as a happy hour event. The old ‘lampshade on head drunk’ character is what I’d guess the intention was, nothing more. It’s a bit at odds with a formal dress since it’s normally associated with a more raucous frat party type image, so not the best thought out particularly in a business presentation, but I doubt it was anything more sinister than that.

What the centrist so reviled here dislikes is being told we’re no better than fascists for taking a small or piecemeal win rather than stomping our feet and going home if we don’t get a full Marxist revolution today.

Dammit, I was stuck thinking of the stuff in a petri dish.