Hildegarde

joined 1 year ago
[–] Hildegarde@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

republicans do voter suppression and purge voter roles. victims of either of these practices would be punished with a larger tax burden. not ideal.

voting should be compulsory

[–] Hildegarde@lemmy.world -1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If the voters are the problem every time, the problem probably isn't the voters, it's probably the system. The US always has bad turnout.

[–] Hildegarde@lemmy.world 58 points 3 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (22 children)

71 million in a country of 262 million adults. 27% voted for fascism. 74 million voted for trump in 2020. This wasn't a shift towards fascism, but the opposition party utterly failing to win voters.

The country has never been majority rule. Every modern election has split the country in thirds, about a third votes one way, a third votes the other and a third choses not to vote.

Over 70% of voting aged americans did not vote for trump.

edit: spelling correction.

[–] Hildegarde@lemmy.world 17 points 2 weeks ago

Lawyers will also usually advice the safer option. Even if your actions are legal, if its boarderline enough you have to defend your actions in court, its expensive and risky.

[–] Hildegarde@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

it also said the lug nuts should be tightened more if my car had the option of a larger engine.

[–] Hildegarde@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

negligence is a good word

[–] Hildegarde@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

if you think ground apples isn't an apt description, you've never eaten potatoes raw.

[–] Hildegarde@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

google's search llm told me to tighten my car's lugnuts to 400 ft•lbs at 4400 rpm.

they do fine coming up with nonsense all on their own.

[–] Hildegarde@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Australia and NZ have some of the strictest biosecurity laws in the world. Its important to look up the laws about transporting animals, but something like that is unlikely to happen for an atlantic crossing.

[–] Hildegarde@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I've not used windows regularly since XP but I recall being very confused that the keyboard layout setting defaults to being per-application rather than syatemwide. Don't know if that's how its still done and I have no reason to care.

[–] Hildegarde@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month ago

HR exists to protect the company. The people who protect you is your union. If your workplace does not have a union, be aware that is a solvable problem.

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