xiaoping_showdown [he/him]

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Cake day: July 25th, 2020

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  • They're asking both. The headline is addressing the "should" question, but the article goes a little deeper.

    The survey ... also finds a rare point of partisan agreement when it comes to the importance of all qualified citizens being allowed to vote. However, there are sizable differences in confidence about whether this is happening – and even wider differences in confidence in whether people not legally qualified to vote are prevented from voting.

    Nearly all Americans (94%) – including 95% of both Republicans and Democrats – say it is important that people who are legally qualified to vote are able to cast a ballot, with 82% saying it is very important.

    A large majority of Republicans (87%) are at least somewhat confident that legally qualified people are able to vote if they want to, including 54% who are very confident this is the case. Democrats express less confidence: 69% say they are at least somewhat confident that legally qualified people are able to cast a ballot, and just 28% say they are very confident in this.



  • As much as I hate many aspects of English—especially the fact that it's not phonetic—the fact that most of our words have neutral gender is a very strong plus. There is absolutely no reason that I should have to remember that "agua" has masculine gender, despite ending with "a", but inexplicably uses a feminine definite article.







  • xiaoping_showdown [he/him]toMain*Permanently Deleted*
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    4 years ago

    I had a landlord that had to be harassed to get things fixed. By the end of my lease they wanted to raise my rent by $300. I said "nope". But the sad thing is that was one of the cheapest places to live I could find without subleasing.

    Meanwhile, the college and its (often wealthy) students are clearly the main sources of revenue for the surrounding area, so naturally the city as a whole looks poorly maintained.









  • xiaoping_showdown [he/him]tonewsGood News (I think)
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    4 years ago

    Trick the professional class into supporting revolution.

    No we're not trying to establish socialism, we just want everybody to use metric, and this is much cheaper than trying to get it through congress.