You seem to be doing fine ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

TempleOS and Miley Cyrus Linux

What specifically is not user friendly? Not trying to antagonize, but specifics are good.

War = Peace

There are a few more layers of abstraction to that, but it’s pretty much the case

Yeah, you raise multiple very good points. I wooshed what you were saying pretty hard

Not saying you’re off base, but take a look at New Hampshire. We love to split. We currently have a Republican governor, entirely Dem congressional delegation, and did NOT go for Trump last November.

I’m a social anarchist and I’m loath to admit it, but I voted for our R governor in 2020 during COVID because he was doing a good job managing the crisis. Guy was a total cheeseball otherwise, but he was holding daily press conferences and pushing reasonable policy that kept case counts low during the worst of it.

It’s my first time and hopefully only time voting R. I just didn’t think we needed to change things up during such a crisis when it was being managed well, and we’ve had totally ineffective D governors in the past who could have really screwed things up. It also helps that our gubernatorial terms are only 2 years rather than 4 and, yeah, I was pretty sick of him by the end of the 2 years.

The 2 party split has always been a bit different in New England, especially VT, NH and ME. Our Republicans have tended to be somewhat reasonable people you disagree with, but could still hang out with and they could be trusted to get things done in their own way. (It’s probably due to our education actually being somewhat high-quality lol). National identities are starting to creep their way in as the old guard dies out, however.

So there, now you have met a split ticket voter.

Not even strictly policy, but the way he conducted the campaign. He actually addressed the people standing in front of him in their language.

Difficulty: impossible

“Hey! I’m walkin’ here!”

You joke, but this is a real thing called non-24-hour sleepwake disorder. 32 hrs would be a bit extreme though, mine is more like 26-28 hrs.

Like what, funny? What happened?

The idea is to place an upper limit on corps for the definition of a full time work week. If you want to work more, go ahead, but your employer shouldn’t be able to compel you to work past that max number of hours in return for benefits. It’s tricky because there’s a legal component and a cultural component to it. Also some businesses will push back (especially service industry) because they will need to change their whole hiring and scheduling.

Yes

Computer think, therefore… Computer

Do you think the people who will end up owning all this arable land will be smart enough to avoid fucking it up? Mono cropping, climate change, pollution, pesticide runoff: these can turn your once arable land into useless acreage nobody wants right quick. I understand we have a lot of it, but look what happened in Brazil.

At least then they couldn’t pass chat control 😎

Holy shit! It’s exactly 1^ヿ:L7 in my time zone just now!

That is almost the opposite of what I said.

As someone else said, they are getting denied. There are many many more disgusting examples of those American exceptionalist attitudes that make more sense to get your jimmies rustled about, just look in any direction.

I would guess that most of the people applying are representative of populations that do legitimately feel unsafe in the US right now (or at least less safe than, say, a year ago). It just doesn’t rise to the established standards in Canada, which, admittedly, exist for obvious reasons. Someday they might. I hope I’m wrong, but these couple hundred applicants are probably a bellwether and this conversation about people fleeing the US for greener pastures seems likely to continue.

And hey, it doesn’t cost them anything and I’m pretty sure there’s no penalty from Canada for claiming asylum and not getting it, beyond just not getting it and some human having to waste their time processing these. It’s better that the process is there than for it to not be.

Lastly, we shouldn’t get to decide whether people feel safe or not, it’s not your choice to make and we kind of just have to believe them unless they’re clearly just trolls doing it as some kind of weird stunt for Internet likes. I’m not saying that’s what you’re doing here, but I’ve seen a lot more of it about, it’s a feature of this cruel time we find ourselves in. It actually wouldn’t surprise me if there are a handful of people who applied just to troll or “pErSeCuTeD fOr BeInG ChRiStIaN” types in the mix also though.