Because for non public figures we keep thinking we have dead to rights evidence of crimes and executing people who turn out innocent

Even the government is bigger in Texas

People have been retreating inwards for a while. The rise of smartphones and the pandemic were major leaps in it but it’s kept increasing.

It hasn’t been good for me as an extrovert and I think it’s gone terribly for everyone. You may not like small talk with people you see around but it makes you feel not alone

If all these things are replaced so people can spend more time with each other instead of working then I’ll gladly take it, but if it’s just for profit throw it out.

Though driverless trains I’ll take on purely financial grounds, should save up money for trains to keep coming after last call so the drunks can ride home safe

You tell them it’ll take a miracle to pull off so they see you as a miracle worker when you do it

Ah yes one of the rants from the design of everyday things

Yeah I don’t really post but I have a lot of takes on stuff and this has become my primary boredom/mental hole app

Frequent commenting i assume

Yesterday, and only because I didn’t feel so good today

You should go outside for a walk or something

I’ve been doing cheese and crackers a lot lately. Idk why, but if it’s good enough for Romans…

Popcorn is great for when i want light but filling.

Leftovers are a perennial favorite.

Ope, demonyms can be difficult sometimes lol

Idk why they think that the Czech Republic has power over the Tongolese government. .to is the internet version of tongolese soil. Czech courts don’t have power over foreign flags of convenience

Also love the complaint that tongo isn’t following European privacy laws

Yes, I believe it’s nearly always immoral, and the exception is public figures directly involved in crimes against humanity.

If you have to have a trial to figure out if you got the right person, that’s too much doubt. It’s just Nuremberg, Saddam, the radio guy from Rwanda, and folks like them. Everything else regardless of how monstrous the state should only kill if they are absolutely incapable of keeping that person from taking more lives.

Also governments should be held accountable when one prisoner kills another in a situation that could have been predicted. And yes this includes pedos being stabbed in prison.

Yeah this question really was “have you traveled to a different hemisphere”. Ok ok, there’s also central America and the Caribbean, but most American trips to either of those places are to resorts in impoverished nations unless it’s to Costa Rica, which i hear is gorgeous, but is also the equivalent of Aussies going to southeast Asia, but more culturally similar.

Why don’t we go to other hemispheres? Because they’re very far away. I’d be shocked if Canadians were significantly more likely to go to other countries (us excluded), and they’re quite a bit closer being further north. And a lot of Americans live between two mountain ranges in the middle of north America, where it’s a flight to either coast before flying to a different continent.

Yeah I went to Japan for work.

I was supposed to go to Europe when I graduated high school, but my mom got cancer instead. And by the time my sister graduated I was disowned so our father and her went without me.

I still want to go to Europe, but unfortunately it’s very far away. And I’d love to go back to Japan and see more than just factories in small cities. Tokyo was gorgeous but I only saw the airports and trains.

If the middle east were to stabilize and get really cool about a lot of things really fast I really want to see Iraq and Iran. I’d love to see Babylon and other early cities.

New Zealand style pizza: kiwi, chicken, and mutton as toppings. Guaranteed to make the new Zealander in your life very angry you attributed this to them

That one pisses me off so much. We could have had a high speed rail with actual throughput instead of claims of something better before nothing

Hell even as an American I think they look weird.

So I’ve since gotten rid of the whole dick, but no never. I got picked on for it a bit as a teenager but teenagers will pick on any differences. Nobody I’ve dated has minded foreskin (though they’ve all been the sort of women who date trans women) and in fact one bi ex of mine confided that she finds uncircumcised penises very attractive before she knew about me being uncut. Another ex of mine wasn’t into it per se, but she was an anti circumcision activist.

A big thing is when I was young and getting the talks with my mom she explained why she made the choice. Knowing that it was a decision made out of respect for my future autonomy, fear of complications, and respect for my right to have all my nerves, it made it so any teasing was irrelevant and just made me feel bad for the people teasing me.

Oh I should mention I had a friend in college who was undergoing some procedures or something in an attempt to regrow her foreskin because of how unhappy she was with having been circumcised, so take that possibility as well

I won’t get a second term, but that’s because I’m trans.

I’m going to start by putting forward several amendment proposals including one that removes presidential immunity, one that prohibits partisan gerrymandering, and one that mandates the right to bodily autonomy, as well as reintroducing the ERA, with full assertions of gender presentation and sexual orientation as well. I’d also push one for medical care. None of these amendments will have a deadline as I wouldn’t expect them to make it through the states.

I’d give Puerto Rico and DC the right to become a state, as well as offering Puerto Rico independence if they’d prefer, which would not be popular.

I’d push through a full blown single payer healthcare bill.

From there I’d start talking to experts in Keynesianism. I don’t like capitalism, but I’m not making America socialist in 3 years without a complete destruction of social order. But we’re in a precarious position and the economy is torn between inflation and recession which demand opposite policies. My suspicion is that it will demand taxing the wealthy and spending on the struggling. Also I’d of course instill Lena Kahn to do her thing

This is where I can do a real green new deal. If people can’t afford rent and can’t find work then they can build Council housing owned by municipalities, built around public transit lines or places to put them. They can install publicly owned fiber internet lines and publicly owned renewable energy generation. I’d also want to build a high speed rail line from Chicago to Pittsburgh with plans to extend it to NYC, as well as Seattle to the bay area and the 3CD line in ohio (Cleveland-Columbus-Dayton-Cincinnati). With all of this of course I’d be offering a better deal to American manufacturers to provide the materials with a bonus for cooperatively owned suppliers. I’d also put forward a request that every state government look into how to implement an intrastate rail network.

Furthermore I’d be doing fireside chats like FDR to explain what I’m doing and why as well as demonstrating austerity within the presidency. I’d also travel the country speaking to unions and asking everyday people about their current struggles. Making ordinary folks feel heard goes incredibly far

For foreign policy, I’d be really speaking about how my aims are to make America as stable as we once were rather than demanding other countries submit to us or trust us again. Trust is earned and an unstable country can’t be trusted.

The hope is that my directly targeting material conditions and talking my way through it I can cut the right wing support out from under it.