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[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Same. And in the past decade plus of using smartphones, I've never had to open the slot except to install the SIM card for the first time. Why do I even keep it around?

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months ago

But then I have to work an extra 10 hours of my minimum wage job just to eat for 10 minutes. The ratio is even worse!

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

They're also highly incentivized to make you eat it when it's freshest so you have a good experience with their food and become a repeat customer.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

Is there actually a need to? Does ingested fluoride do anything that toothpaste fluoride doesn't do?

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 16 points 3 months ago (7 children)

Language is funny like that, isn't it.

A single vote shouldn't "matter" in the sense that no single person's vote should have a huge effect on the outcome of the election. But every vote should matter in the sense that every vote should have a small effect on the outcome and that effect should be guaranteed for every vote that was cast.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 months ago

One of the biggest challenges when creating something new is in not knowing whether or not it's possible. Once you know, you can just keep pouring resources into it and know with near certainty that you'll eventually hit your goal. Since the US already has so many other tools for avoiding a nuclear strike, there's no reason to publicise a new one. Keep it for when the other tools fail, or else everyone else will also have it and you lose your advantage before you could use it.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 27 points 3 months ago

[Leo XIV] is the first pope named Leo since Leo XIII

Thanks

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 0 points 3 months ago

It would be exceedingly rare for one party to get enough votes to form a majority under PR.

The current system would encourage the formation of coalition governments. Those coalitions would probably not look too different from the big parties we currently have since parties would only group together if they have sufficiently similar goals. This does make it very likely that the majority coalition maintains a fairly stable high level agenda over time.

Barring a trump-style lunatic jacking up the executive branch

It could happen, but that's not what I'm worried about. I don't believe that any single law we pass would be deemed unjust in isolation, but the totality of laws can be. If everything is set up to benefit the majority, then everyone else gets left behind. It's not a matter of malice. They're just not considered in the calculus.

An example that comes to mind is the treatment of native Americans. They keep getting the short end of the stick, and while some concessions are made, it's never because someone looked at the numbers and decided their situation was unfair. It happens because of some combination of public pressure and the benevolence of the people in charge. How many other such groups are there that are still getting completely ignored because the public don't know about them?

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 months ago

On lead-acid, yeah. It was a fun time for all.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

If you are a dollar multi-millionaire, you should be able to afford maybe 10-20 small flats

Hahahaha~hahaha sendhelp~

Edit: I kept reading. It's 25mil, so that's actually a reasonable estimate.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Where do you source the ingredients?

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They list party affiliation on the ballot under the names.

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