This is the truth of it. A lot of people simply don't vote, especially young people. So the old conservative times have more power, because they do vote.
I'm in my 30s but half the people I know love to complain, but won't ever vote. Because it's inconvenient for them.
The general public doesn’t vote in the supreme justices, who were the ones that decided to abolish roe v wade. Trump put in 3 justices to the Supreme Court. What we fail to recognize is the long game the extreme conservatives have been playing for decades now to have these policies removed or passed. When it comes to people voting for Trump, numerous reports have stated how during the 2016 election Trump lost the popular vote and became President due to the electoral college voting him in. This also doesn’t consider the very real issue of voter suppression and Gerrymandering in the US.
Data recently released shows thousands more abortions in Illinoos and New Mexico, compared to previous years.
Notably, when data were stratified by state of residence, there was a 37.5 percent increase in the number of out-of-state residents, which is about 45 additional abortions.
Considering the costs of distributing either N95s or KN95s to schools, which would have to be renewed every day, I think they’re pretty scared. Not a good sign.
“on streets”, why there? “in schools? Really?”, yes, because, as you may know, schools have a lot of people in them for extended periods of time.
“why no masks last two years”, if you are from the US, they were pretty common, but, because of variants which were not so bad or being passed around so easily. Due to current variants, and vaccinations wearing off, we’re seeing a resurgence everywhere. A lot of people I know are currently sick, however the same policies are not being implemented and they’re being told to go to work, passing it on more.
I don’t know about your road, and I’m no fan of generalization. It’s hard to talk with people online if you expect the worst from others. I would say the chance people arent shit is better than 50/50 and i would always gamble on it. Obvious trolls are obvious, the rest is more how you feel about it.
Um… what’s the difference between assuming something and ‘knowing’ it exactly?
And I literally said “let me guess” about what you would say about boosters, meaning I neither assumed nor knew. I guessed.
But go ahead and pretend you don’t understand the difference between a guess and a declaration. That would go well with your trolling and gaslighting. A hat trick, one might say.
When I am wrong, I admit I am wrong. If I guessed wrong, I guessed wrong. But I did not assume anything or declare it as if it were a fact. That is what you did.
I’m sorry i said i triggered you. I said my opinion in a slightly trollish fashion because i wasn’t agreeing with your conclusion about masks, but i probably could have done it better.
As far as I know they are not requiring masking, they’re just making the masks available if anyone wants them, so the volume used is going to be a lot lower than 1/student/day.
I wore a mask to take my cat to the vet last week. First time putting one on in a bit (and I kept them on a while after most took them off). I’ll for sure be masking when the weather gets colder and people have to be indoors most of the time.
Remember, only the people wealthy enough to take the time and spend the money traveling can do this. Abortion is next to impossible in some states now if you’re below a certain wealth line.
I’m sure all the rightoids and “centrists” that were mad about Biden “bribing” the electorate with student loans cancellation will be just as mad about this, right?
I wonder if raquette balls (non-fuzzy ….uhm… blue…. Er… balls…) are bad for the teeth- or for small dogs, squash balls (they’re smaller.) both are just hollow shells of rubber.
They don’t really break up. At least, I’ve not seen a dog do that to them in the same way they destroy the fuzzy ones. Also they keep the bounce longer
I have a golden doodle and he will destroy almost any toy in a few minutes. The only exception is those solid rubbery dog toys, which take him several hours to start chipping away at.
They’re probably fine but if you are really concerned, call a local veterinarian office and ask.
Annecdotally, my old dog loved racquet balls, and despite being a prodigious toy destroyer, never managed to destroy one. My current dog has a ball that’s similar to a racquet ball in construction and feels like the same kind of rubber, and it’s also holding up fine, although it’s not exactly her favorite ball.
They are a bit smaller than a tennis ball, so depending on the size of your dog and how they play with them they could be a choking/swallowing hazard in that respect, but thats not something that’s ever been a major concern with my dogs.
I bought 400 used tennis balls on eBay a few years ago for about $75. My dogs don’t chew on them, just to fetch. And after a couple throws theres not much fluff left. It’s slobber and dirt. Vet never complains about the state of their teeth. Great investment vs buying them new.
Imagine Mexico having a female president in a timeline where America elects Trump again. Then imagine the overwhelming amount of cringe coming out of the White House that’ll make American people look like backward hillbillies, reinforcing all the already existing stereotypes.
Mexico also just legalized abortion nationwide and they already have a form of universal healthcare. Soon people will be crossing the Rio Grande in the other direction.
Canada too. We were going on vacation to Niagara Falls and I had some signs I was developing another kidney stone (false alarm, thankfully) and my wife said maybe we shouldn’t go. I told her we’d be in a country with national healthcare and a terrific medical system. Why would I be worried about it?
Unfortunately they (legally) can’t because Texas is adding / already has laws which makes it illegal to even drive through areas if you are planning on getting and abortion at your destination.
Italy elected Meloni(a woman who is a fascist) and France might elect Le Pen(a woman who is also fascist). The UK elected Thatcher and Turkey elected Ciller. Electing women is a meaningless metric. I bet all these countries are more sexist on average than the US. Trump is just a grifter, he has no ideology, other than narcissism.
Dont you understand that identity politics are being promoted as a distraction?
While I totally agree, don’t tell that to the feminists out there.
And just as sex is a meaningless metric so are other similar characteristics, and yet there are far too many who continue to push for affirmative action bullshit. Go for the best candidate - whether it is for political office or for a job as a waiter, doctor or engineer. So many are hung up on pushing less qualified candidates through simply because of their sex or the color of their skin.
The head of the german extremist right-wing party is a lesbian with a Sri Lankan immigrant partner who lives part-time with their adopted children in Switzerland. Identity will always be secondary to wealth in a system like this, it’s a one-way street.
Lawns aren’t really the issue for utah. Agriculture uses something like 70+% of the water, and a lot of that is flood irrigation or other inefficient irrigation. The water is mostly used for crops like alfalfa that get exported to places like China.
The governor, unsurprisingly, is heavily invested in alfalfa farming, so do the math.
Utah uses an astronomical amount of water when compared to other states. Residential water use is the single greatest non agricultural use of water in the state. I’m going to go out on a limb and say the green lawns might be a contributing factor.
Agricultural water use is a problem, sure. In a state that has very little water maybe growing plants that need a lot of it is a bad idea. Why wouldn’t this apply to grass as well?
In Utah, it absolutely does not. It takes a massive amount of water to keep lawns, parks, and golf courses green. The amount of ‘green’ space that you’d get from adding up everyone’s lawns isn’t insignificant.
70% of the non agricultural water use is residential. Which means residential water use is a little more than 20% of the state’s water usage. Let’s be generous and say that watering yards is only 15% of the state’s total per capita consumption.
15% of an already massively over taxed water system isn’t anything to shake a fist at. It’s even more important when you consider how much more water Utah is using than it’s neighbors, which while difficult to precisely calculate, isn’t a small amount by any measure.
Ruminants are much more efficient processors of plant fiber than humans are. They also eat a lot of agricultural waste that humans can’t.
To replace the calories lost from meat, we’d actually need *more."
Not to mention that we’d be creating a lot of agricultural waste we can no longer deal with.
No offense if you’re on a vegan diet, but vegan diets are ridiculous. They aren’t the solution they’re purported to be, and most people can’t stay on them longer than a few years before health issues creep in.
Not to mention the swathes of the population that are diabetic or prone to diabetes that require a low carb, high fat diet that can’t be easily done vegan, and can’t be done in a healthy way without animal fat and protein. Not without a lot more nuts and avocados which are, as it happens, huge problems for the environment on their own.
Ruminants might be more efficient processors of plant fiber, but the transformation of plant fiber into meat for consumption is a hugely inefficient process.
Meh. Most of it isn’t traveling very far. You’re tilting at windmills now. None of it travels half as far as the bananas you put on your oatmeal, which has also traveled farther to most Americans than cattle feed to most cattle.
There are a lot of processes we could be doing now efficiently. It would be better to eat exclusively locally grown meat and produce and pasture raise every farm animal. It wouldn’t be affordable but it would be environmentally better.
I’m not going to sit here and spell it out for you, because it’s a fruitless effort. But know that you’re wrong and the vast majority of the world’s scientists agree.
And that use is spread across millions of people. Even if you cut lawn use by 75%, you’re cutting at most 6% of the states use. Or can cut agriculture use by 10% and get a larger reduction in overall water use.
We don’t need alfalfa. We don’t need flood irrigation. We also don’t need Lawns, but that is such a small percentage you might as well tell people to stop flushing their toilet when they shit.
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