Is your ballot tied to you though? I guess that’s the confusing part to me because when we go to vote, we just show our voting card (or ID, or mail with address and name, or have someone vouching for you) and get given a generic slip of paper we put an X on and fold up before putting into a box. Nobody looks at it until the box is emptied and counted when polls close. Even with voter registration data I can’t see how it’s possible to trace a vote back to you without there being a really conveniently placed security camera

Do American voters have their name tied to their vote? It’s completely anonymous in Canada

Hm yeah, responding from my Piefed.ca account now and I see the actual link on here. I know the filter is built into Lemmy but I definitely remember Lemmy.ca having it disabled in the past :/

I’d argue we’re still just throwing (highly processed) rocks but much much faster using gunpowder to accelerate them through the tube of handheld devices

It’s definitely easier to find a random spot to stick a can than it is a full sandwich lol. I can shove a beer (or hard seltzer these days) in with my shampoos if I need to but a whole sandwich ain’t fitting in there

some good faid

In Canada I believe you just get given cash but nearly all of our gun violence is done with illegally smuggled guns from the USA (maybe we need a border wall? 🙂) so it doesn’t have a huge effect on it. We generally have sane laws regarding firearms so gun violence is relatively low already though.

Yeah, I hate when that happens too

Plenty of unemployed people out there enjoying life on levels you’ll never get to ibecause of “nice to haves” being classified as “necessities”.

Are you talking about working class people here or billionaires? If working class then I’d like to know what country since I was laid off a few months ago and unemployment doesn’t cover my rent even if I were to save it all and forgo eating

My city has a guy who walks around playing a trombone on Friday evenings around the bars lol

I think I’d be okay with that. I’ve setup my keyboard so that FN+wasd act as arrow keys and I will occasionally use them that way in my editor even if I primarily use vim style movement

I think he’s more saying you should stop existing à la Charlie Kirk

I mean, you can get pharmaceutical heroin and pharmaceutical meth and while you’re not going to experience quite the same levels of harm since it’d be pure and clean, the addiction will still deal the same damage as the street stuff

No Flash, No Java, No Websockets, No Bullsh*t

Wait, what’s wrong with websockets?

The US is such a backwards place

Polysubstance use disorder yay! It’s legitimately harder to break free than a single substance addiction IME

Could they not have just put a lazy garden or something in instead…

That seems like a lot more work and expense

I get the feeling Nik doesn’t know that women might enjoy having sex as much as I’m sure he wishes he could

I enjoyed it so it was a good use of my screen space which zeroes out your criticism :)

We hage designated parking spots for these in Ottawa (Canada) that’s not limited to any one company and it works pretty well. I own an e-scooter but I’ll still often rent one if I dont want to park mine somewhere