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voting should be frictionless and not have to go anywhere

it's a constitutional right, not something you should have to jump through hoops

people don't have the time to take off work and not get paid and wait in line for hours which is exactly what many places do now by reducing voting location radically

many people can't even afford a car these days or to fill it with gas

if you insist on in person voting, make it a paid day off

the ID thing is a false narrative, it's not ID that's the problem, it's that it costs money to get the ID and now they want your birth certificate saying the ID doesn't even prove you are a citizen with "realID"

instead of wasting time with tools like this

why not create tools that help people auto-crosspost from Threads to Bluesky, etc.

this is an anchor link to their zip-code check near middle of page:

* https://www.propublica.org/article/mail-ballot-delays-postal...

here's hoping no country is stupid enough to have an ICBM on the internet

but you just know someone will eventually if not already

because some vendor thought it would be easier for monitoring or firmware update

everyone: Democrats need to fight as low as Republicans have done for decades!

political hacks: let's do it!

everyone: omg Democrats did something as devious as Republicans! stop them!

this was really stupid though because with Ranked Choice Voting you could have a DOZEN candidates with the same name and it wouldn't matter

literally doesn't help either party with ranked choice, not in the slightest

so stupid

but this is funnier

* https://bsky.app/profile/xkcd.com/post/3mz4jnkzrik2s

there's a serious group of astrophysicists that actually disagree the photo was assembled properly at all

long paper made short I think their carefully demonstrated argument is it's a machine-learning hallucination to see what we want

Dr. Becky has excellent coverage of it, will link it in a moment when I find it

here it is, well worth watching:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9U6bvR6SzMo

Miyoshi, Kito & Makino (2024; claim the Sag A* image is wrong)

* https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/534/4/3237/7660988

non-nuclear war next decade is going to have some freaky battlefields

hell on earth for innocent civilians though

robotic dogs and giants and drones

makes me think of the Ani-Matrix shorts, a must watch if you've never seen them

Florida too

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/environment/climate-c...

someday Miami is going to be a new part of the Florida Keys

DoD network access for two months

imagine what was copied off and to where eventually

hey you know how the DoD has never passed an audit

I bet "AI" could find the financial problems but they won't ever use it like that

Kessler Cascade Syndrome inevitable

* https://satellitemap.space

* https://platform.leolabs.space/visualization

Senate has no mechanism to prosecute contempt charges

That goes to the DOJ, which of course means nothing happens, at least for next 800 days

I am not so sure people started saying "this is fine"

more like he started 1000 other fires, several each week if not a new one each day to make far worse problems

It's not just the most corrupt administration, it's the most chaos and definitely by design

btw all investigations dropped for the execution of two citizens, I mean that's definitely not fine with anyone, just way too many other problems going on now at the same time

well there's no statute of limitations on murder at least, so 800 more days

Not sure how I feel about this but I am sure about one thing

There should never ever be a masked police force in this country, it's disgusting

Think about all the things we've written off in the past two years and faded from the news

Like military helicopters landing on a city building and them blowing the doors off all the apartments dragging everyone from their apartments

And all bets are off for the next two years, looks like Dems will get the Senate but even then they can't stop the scorched-earth that is coming

like all the other insanity, just for the next 800 days

but seriously, we have to do something to enlighten people who constantly give power to this kind of garbage or it's just going to keep happening

if just half the stuff about what Jared has been doing it's going to take decades to undo this

and Russell Vought singlehandedly has set back science in this country 50 years

just a reminder that tons and tons of food and medication that was ALREADY PAID FOR

was purposely left to rot in warehouses instead of being distributed

six months ago the NY Times documented half a million deaths attributable to the destruction of USAID

by now it's easily a million, slow-motion murdered

may you never suffer to death like those million that could have been spared

sorry about that

I saw it seconds after I posted but there doesn't seem to be a way to self-delete

60,000 employees would be ONE-FOURTH of the entire Microsoft workforce

How long until China has its own chips?

It's a shame "AI" cannot be made to run on bitcoin mining dedicated hardware because they mastered that in only a few years

just a hop step and jump to being used on (completely legal) protestors

there are already several recorded incidents of LRADs being used on crowds which do permanent damage but invisible so very handy for authoritarian governments

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmK-KZOiT-c

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-range_acoustic_device

for those not aware, RFKjr has stated several times be believes animals affected by Bird Flu should be just left to suffer and die in the millions and the few that survive should be the ones bred as they are most resistant

just a tiny bit insane considering that every time a virus survives a host it mutates to try again a different way and that's how you get species "zoonotic jump"

also see from yesterday:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50201259

it's going to take decades to unravel all the corruption by this administration

it is staggering

and they are destroying records in violation of law

because "pardons for everyone" on the way out