Asklemmy

Thankyou! Was excited about if someone would get the irony :D

I told myself the same lie, week after week, until some day I realised it wasn't a lie anymore.

Hang in there, three unicorns

We probably won't solve climate change. We might be able to make huge air conditioned complexes with just a single basic bed for everybody with insect farms underground for us to eat?

There are some ideas to terraform the Earth to keep it habitable. It's just very expensive and challenging and if we screw it up, we'll be worse off than when we started. We likely won't get a 2nd chance and as a species we don't typically nail it on the 1st try.

too real

No one knows what happens in the future. We can make assumptions and calculation based on statistics and probability. But ultimately we don't know.

They didn't say where though. I bet in some country you can buy a house for less than 10k

Oof. Yeah man.

Correction: That I’ll be able to buy a house.

Congratulations. You now understand politics.

It's just like every other political or economic system that we tried so far. Sounds great in theory, in practice not so much.

I hope things happen in your life that make you able to believe, that, what you said was a lie isn't one.

She does, you're just not there to see it ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Get a bidet

Just dispose of them in the trash

It really is bad to flush them

at least pass a reading and comprehension test

That's banned in the US under the Civil Rights Act of 1965 because it was used to cut racial minorities out of the voting process. I can also think of a bunch of other ways this could be abused.

You're probably already aware that there have been literacy requirements to vote in the past in some places in the US, but those were actually an excuse to disenfranchise black people. https://history.iowa.gov/history/education/educator-resources/primary-source-sets/right-to-vote-suffrage-women-african/voter-registration-literacy

Literacy tests were banned by the Voting Rights Act in 1965. There have been recent attacks on that law including the 2013 Supreme Court case Shelby County v Holder which overturned election oversight in jurisdictions with a history of racist disenfranchisement; and Allen v Milligan from a couple months ago was an attempt to overturn gerrymandering restrictions, but thankfully it failed. Combine that with continuing voter disenfranchisement (for example far too few polling places in Atlanta leading to black voters waiting in line many hours to vote), and there is no doubt in my mind that if literacy tests were legal again they would be used the same way they were in the 60's.

Personally I think history has shown that we get better leaders when more votes are counted.

The hard part about this is who gets to decide what the criteria is needed to be allowed to vote? It can easily be taken advantage.

I’ve worked for companies that are good and honest

I still listen to Cake, they're good.

In a certain way of thinking the past still exists as light waves traveling away from earth. You just need an impossibly large telescope to see anything of detail.