Kepabar

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The legislature can and will find ways to neuter the amendment.

They did it here in Florida when we voted to restore the rights of felons after their punishment was complete.

The legislature ruled that the felons had to pay back all outstanding fees before they could get their rights back. Felons get changed by the jail for their stay, so most leave with 100s of thousands in debt on the books.

Then the state purposely makes it impossible for felons to even find out how much they owe, meaning even if they were to somehow get the money paying is very difficult.

It has effectively prevented any felons from getting their voting rights back. I think the actual number who have is less than 10 and we passed that amendment in 2020.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Headline is still accurate.

Target practice a battle does not make.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've gone to playing Project 1999, an OG EverQuest emulator server.

It's only up to velious and it's as close to how the game was back then as you can get.

I don't recommend it to people who never played EQ back in the day - games have changed far too much for this ancient game to be fun for most people who don't have nostalgia for that era of gaming.

But sounds like you might, so I thought I'd suggest it to you.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

My gas hot water heater does not have an electric start.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just don't see the value versus the effort I guess.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I don't currently have a valid passport; I haven't felt a need for one.

America itself is so big that I can spend my life visiting different parts of it and never run out.

Having a passport and traveling intentionally just feels like an unwanted hassle.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's normal for young children to have a music class, usually this is primarily a 'fun' class and includes a lot of chorus singing.

This was one of the songs sung in the class when I was a kid.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

That's not how it works were I live.

There are no pumps involved. Fresh water pipes are under pressure from the city water distribution system. Sewage pipes drain via gravity.

There is never a reason to 'pump' sewage because the city sewage lines are below any sewage lines in my house.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

I don't have a basement.

I have a crawlspace, the plumbing is all in the crawlspace.

Water doesn't need to be pumped up from the crawlspace because the lines are under pressure from the city main.

Now, if the city water distribution system was down I wouldn't have fresh water, but there are zero water pumps in my home.

As for sewage, the sewer lines are below all my plumbing, so gravity is enough to drain them.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (20 children)

That's... what?

In my home there aren't any pumps.

Water comes in, under pressure, from the city to my water outlets around the house.

Waste water goes down a drain and out into the cities sewage system completely by gravity.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

White supremacist settler-colonialist states has no legitimate concerns whatsoever.

So lets address this.

I'm guessing you are referring to the fact that Israel as a nation is less than a century old and has, as policy, granted citizenship to anyone of Jewish ancestry?

I do believe that the creation of Israel should have never happened. The creation of an ethnostate - especially an ethnostate tied so closely to a religion, was a mistake.

With that said, I don't think that has much bearing on the current situation. 80+ percent of Israeli citizens were born in Israel. They aren't new comers, for most this is their home and the only home they've ever known.

If your proposed solution is the forced dismantling of Israel and the forced relocation of it's people, then you are simply trading one genocide for another.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (5 children)

And if you were German in the 1940s, you'd see everybody to the east of Germany as dangerous "Jewish Bolshevists" that must be exterminated at every cost.

False equivalency. Eastern European Jews never stated their intention was to exterminate the German people and they never carried out acts of violence in furtherance of that goal.

This statement reads like you don't believe Israel has any kind of legitimate security concern in Hamas, which we both know is insane.

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