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Voter turnout was roughly 64.1% and out of those, 49.8% voted for Trump, bringing the total to about 32% of eligible voters. While one can absolutely make the argument that abstaining from voting implicitly supported Trump as Republicans typically fare better in low-turnout elections, it's not exactly factual to say that the majority of citizens voted for him

Non-joke answer: Indian Pale Ale, a style of beer popular with a lot of homebrewers and beer enthusiasts.

Sweden, long known for being neutral (up until joining NATO last year) and peaceful, can by law compel every single swedish citizen between the ages of 16 and 70 to serve during wartime.

Exactly as you state, almost every sovereign country on the planet likely has some version of this.

Here is some data supporting that Canada is second in per-capita CO2 emissions after the US.

When looking at consumption-based emissions the picture is not quite as dire but it's still not great.

Per capita means it's adjusted for the population. Both China and India are large polluters but they are the two most populated countries in the world.

Again?

Starts with green card holders, then it progresses to those who weren't born in the US via denaturalization (as the administration has already started with), and finally it gets to all citizens. The people cheering for this are the ones who don't realize that the leopards will eat their faces sooner or later as well.

I don't know if it's related to the culture of American exceptionalism, that people are so used to the idea that they're special and that they won't be affected, that they never even stop to consider the possibility.

Someone somewhere just started rifling through their shadman archive.

The people who will suffer from this are Ukrainians and Palestinians, the rich Americans who have spent decades benefiting from the US' hegemony will continue being rich without feeling the repercussions of the current administration's actions. The only Americans who will noticeably suffer from this are the ones who have already been suffering for a long time: Minorities, women, the poor, etc.

I once read a quote by someone that went roughly like "Voting with your wallet means the ones with the biggest wallets get the most votes" and it has stuck with me ever since.

What would it look like to start from scratch with a massively simplified standard for specifying UIs, based on all we've learned since html/css was invented?

Probably a lot better. The difficult, and expensive, part is getting everyone to migrate over to this new standard, not because it'd be unfeasible but because companies don't want to spend any time or money on things that they don't think will make them profit.

What we'd need is, for example, the EU realizing that Google's attempted monopoly on the internet is dangerous and requiring a certain standard for private consumer-facing websites to get the ball rolling.

The point is to cause obstruction and attention. Force them to show that they don't respect the rule of law so everyone can see it, people like the idea of "mavericks who don't bend a knee to bureaucracy" but when it's obvious that they can (and will) take your livelihood without leaving you with any legal recourse, a lot of people are less enthusiastic. And if the courts actually put a stop to their efforts every now and then, it undermines their position of authority and shows that the power they claim to wield isn't as far-reaching as they'd like to pretend.

They want people to give in without a fight, they want people to silently just accept their authority. Don't give it to them for free.

I was hoping it was gonna be that video! One of the few times I will agree that size matters.

According to Einstein, you can sit on a hot stove.

Anything that makes it even a little bit harder for Russia to torture and rape another country's population is money well spent.

Anyone who ever says "I don't make mistakes" should immediately be distrusted.

Wouldn't it be "Nåo trit"?

The dude who owns AWS stood behind Trump at the inauguration. The owner of the third biggest cloud service was in the same row.

Republicans.

That is A: debatable and B: something that happened thanks to the lend-lease program. A lot of brave soviets put their lives on the line, but so did soldiers of many other countries.