Now we are extremely fragmented, with tons of niche groups. Yet we seem more influenced than ever by the news feed of current events.

You make an interesting point. If I flip it around. WWI and II both began in a mostly pre-television world. I guess you could say televison has brought safety?

The one thing I’ll say in their defense is that a water district board seat, in a special election, is not typically something that generates votes. Perhaps they did that on purpose, thinking the low turnout would help one candidate. We’re talking about school board election numbers. The kind of thing where a bus full of people could swing the whole election.

You’ll know if it was on purpose or not immediately when we see who won and if they try to stick with the result. If they were out of ballots at 9 am, then they shouldn’t even try to count the votes or declare a winner. With the need for a redo being so obvious.

I’m willing to agree with malicious intent if they try keep the result. There should be no need to count the ballots, with the need to redo being so obvious.

The election is unique in that it is organized and managed by the district itself, not the Louisiana Secretary of State’s office, and seats on the board are rarely contested. The race for this particular seat is reported to be the first ever.

So perhaps some degree of incompetence/not having any clue how many people would show up. Not necessarily malicious intent. Seems like it was such a shitshow it’ll force a redo. Clearly it should.

It was also known for people buying cheap IPHONE _boxes

HE’S their EMPLOYER! If there were any justice he’d be in jail for employing them.

He just says “brah” or “bro” with different inflection. No other words.

Sounds like your basing this on a new tech vs. old tech? Not looking at safety rates?

You can achieve airspeed at 35 mph in a small enough craft. A propeller plane is simply slower. Airplanes as a whole are extremely safe. Turbulance is normal and not a sign of the aircraft failing.

It’s infuriating that medical care costs so much and yet the employees are broke.

TBF, big loose clothing is actually the best for that weather. That’s why they wear it (men and women both). The only difference is the face covering and the color.

Foreign aid isn’t given in the form of direct cash payments. Trump also seems to think foreign aid works that way.

Firefox (long term user) and my backup is Brave (in case something isn’t displaying right) and my extra backup is Chrome which I hope to never use. And then there’s IE that I used to download those.

These bills are sometimes gigantic and no congressperson could possibly read the entire bill for everything they vote on. They are supposed to have people who read the bills and give them a summary.

Affordable Care Act is 1,100 pages. And then you have to remember that other healthcare proposals that got voted down were also similar lengths.

So this just gets them out of prison right? They still can be sued for money right?

TBF at least two dudes with guns have tried to assassinate Trump.

I should be able to run over as many kids as I want!

That doesn’t really address my concern about gluing yourself to things being a dumb way to protest. It relies on people stopping whatever they’re doing because they care about not killing you.

According to the intro, it works by making the moderate viewpoint seem more moderate. So basically the idea is being as extreme as possible so that people will say, “I agree with your point but not your methods.”

While that seems like a stiff punishment for a public nuisance. I strongly question the logic of gluing yourself to a road and assuming other people will stop using it because you glued yourself. That just doesn’t strike me as an intelligent way to protest things.