What’s even scarier is that it’s got support from both dems and reps: introduced by a Democrat, co-sponsored by 22 Republicans and 21 Democrats. www.congress.gov/bill/…/cosponsors
The only reason I could see is if the group providing the rides were pushing the people to vote a certain way. From the looks of it though it’s just an outright ban which is ridiculous. I’m privileged to be able to walk to my polling place, but I know that’s not an option for a lot of people.
I’m priviledged to just be able to ask for a ballot in the mail, to be able to sit at a computer while going through it and, you know. doing the research while staring at the names.
Okay so I also do research before hand, but like, naw. my memory isn’t that good. it needs a refresher. then all I have to do is pop it back into a mailbox somewheres.
Do tell us how that other option of not even going to grade school is going to work out for them in the future when they want to do things like move out of their parents’ house.
I’m not talking about college, just normal grade school. Because without a HS diploma, good luck getting much more than a minimum wage job.
Allowing the government to control online speech will create a world no kid should have to grow up into. At some point you have to ask yourself if you're protecting anyone.
Were I work the thing I noticed was the only people comfortable to voice their opinion were the extroverts who would talk about how much they get from in office.
Not knocking them. I love talkative people who are great to talk to during the day. But they’re at a natural advantage when you’re in a public meeting and the management is asking where the employees land on back to work policies. Its easier to voice the opinion that aligns with higher but also its easier for the friendly guy every one likes to talk about how they can’t do remote work alone a day in their room. Meanwhile the people who don’t have issues could get unspoken negative pressure to not voice their opinion.
The company where I work did a bunch of surveys and shared the data with everyone throughout 2020 and 2021. They were completely anonymous and done in a browser in about 5 minutes. Opinion shifted back and forth over time, but the general consensus is that some kind of mix was preferred. We now have that mix and most people are still happily employed.
I still end up spending most of my in-office days on Zoom, but that’s OK. I am also part of a small team in a 200 person company and really appreciate being around other people outside my team occasionally.
Pretending there is universal agreement in either direction is silly.
This is why you need anonymous surveys and not anecdotes. But when someone asks “what do you think” extroverts are going to answer. If you don’t agree then you have to speak up either there or in private afterwards otherwise no one will know.
It’s not just an extravert/introvert thing. Some people will say whatever they want their bosses to think about them rather than speak their own mind because they think it will be better for their job if they do. So if they think their bosses want to end WFH, they will agree even if they don’t want to come back to the office because they think they could be on the chopping block if they don’t.
I rarely give my bosses my opinions unless I realize they are directly asking me because I know it won’t actually make a difference except that it will look like I’m rocking the boat. It’s not because I’m introverted, it’s because I’m pragmatic.
Not for the thumbnail, but I tried accessing the article to read it and it's just a continuous loop of asking me to prove I'm not a robot. What's up with that? I swear I'm not a robot, but it never accepts my answer and just asks over and over instead.
I just don't understand the motivation to bootstrap such a ridiculous farce. This drunk driving Karen obviously doesn't have the power to move a magistrate, ag, and an entire police force for bullshit claims of identity theft. There has to be very very serious levels of incompetence here. Magistrate signing without looking at warrants. AG drafting illegal searches. Officers following nonsense orders. Both the sheriff and the head of the police department authorizing illegal seizures?
Edit: NOW I know the motivation. It's because the paper said the police KNEW she didn't have a license but gave her a pass. The paper made the police look like corrupt idiots, so the chief of police go the attorney general's office to write an warrant and the judge blindly signs whatever the AG sends their way. That police chief should go to jail.
a sitting US representative does have that clout… Marion County, Kansas, has a little more than 10 thousand people. For comparison, the suburb I live in has just under 70 thousand.
it doesn’t take a lot of clout to get a county magistrate to do something in a podunk county like Marion. LaTurner did a favor for one of his supporters.
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