No, that can’t be right, because half the comments here say it’s due to racism.

Both those things are true, racists prevent it from becoming a state to prevent it from voting dem.

So if a Puerto Rican moves to a US state, they still can’t vote, right?

They can’t do this directly anymore, so they are just disenfranchised on Puerto Rico.

There is “not financially viable” and than there is spending 12 times the gdp of earth each year.

We should just set fire to cars parked illegally instead.

As a climber I have to disagree, figure 8 knots are the best, especially when double back.
It’s the one knot I trust my life to on a weekly basis and I have rarely encountered a situation where they weren’t part of the solution.

How?

Good question. I said should, not could… it would take a constitutional change, […]

I mean: if you had the power, how would you ban parties? At what point do political organizations become parties? How about individual representatives working together?

Bring back the old literacy tests while you’re at it

Pfft. The two are not the same. You could be perfectly illiterate and still find out what the supposed values of the politicians were by simply listening to them, or just talking to others about policy and politicians ties to them, like we used to.

Yes literacy is not the deciding factor, but it was always a pretense to keep certain people from voting.

Imagine how much more attention you would have yo pay if you had to understand who to vote for.

How much time should a person spend following politics to get enough of an understanding? What about poor people working long hours with little free time?
Guess I should have gone with the landowning requirement instead.

The Hatch Act applies to all career federal civil servants and prevents anyone under that designation from running from office in any partisan race. Meaning if your local government doesn’t allow political affiliations to be listed, then you

Sound like a problem with the Hatch Act, not with political parties. Over here civil servant can run in political races as long they separate their work and political live, they are not allowed to wear uniforms at political events for example.

Political parties should be abolished.

How?

Imagine how much more attention you would have yo pay if you had to understand who to vote for.

Bring back the old literacy tests while you’re at it.

Plus then it would allow people like your local mail carrier to run for things like school committee.

They aren’t? If yes how would that change?

We can barely afford to send our troops to the Russian border where they serve a purpose, showing cohesion and solidarity and commitment in NATO. I doubt N. Korea will consider Germany, a nation across the globe with low power projection capability, a threat.

That money is better spent on modern equipment, ammunition and aid.

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I don’t know how to escape triple back tics inside a code block, just ignore the spaces

The other atomic clocks that are averaged to give us our ground truth for time.

… or one second back, that’s the problem.

He can never catch up to you.

Well, apart from the free movement of people and goods, the common currency, the gdpr, the international students and the consumer protection what has the EU ever done for us?

Brought peace.

Uh peace, shut up.

I had quite the opposite experience in the alps, we have hiked within meters cows because the heard was laying and standing on the path. I have never seen very young calves or bulls on the mountains.

While that works for “news agencies” it’s a free money glitch when used in a customer support role for the consumer.

Edit: clarification

While the president can’t dissolve the court, according to the majority, the president can order them assassinated and be covered by presidential immunity.

Many governments have systematically and maliciously conflated Hamas and Palestine, it’s no stretch of the imagination that limiting hamas will be used to limit pro Palestinian voices

Training cops to be bad at catching the crime you are commiting is certainly a nice trick.

The system works great all year round but what it delivers is not electricity…

The absence of coincidence

Look up the strong law of small numbers.

Also, one of their examples of AI was an exhaustive search.

The spec is open source, particular implementation are typically under patent/copyright protection.
Not that they can be enforced effectively, unless the chips are exported into the US.