While I understand the reasoning, having citizens either younger than 18 or otherwise vote themselves without their parebts voting for them would increase the voter base yes but that would help counter other issues. For example in states like Florida, Alabama, Texas etc. they spent decades making sure voters were disenfranchised and removed from voter rolls meaning fewer registered voters in that state, so either those states make it easier to register and to vote increasing the voter turnout and potentially the vote for policies they would want, or they decrease the voter turnout and have less of a say in who becomes president. I.e. if you were a Republican in Iowa or something and wanted to pass a national abortion ban but it was a presidential election year and it was close to the line without the electoral college you could increase the vote, potentially, for the Republican candidate, by passing a law saying highschool juniors and seniors (16-17) can vote in presidential elections, this would increase the popular vote margins for Iowa, not knowing how they would vote overall for certain, assuming the highschool students now able to vote vote the same as the average of the state that means it would be an average distribution, but let’s say that Iowa is pro republican (not this current election cycle but another) but also pro choice especially among the youth would be most affected by it increasing the vote share of the state to those who would be disproportionately troubled by that policy could backfire, the same works the other way with guns and lets go with Texas, if Dems keep Texas but then try passing very unpopular gun legislation in Texas that could make Texas red again for a presidential bid. Having more voices decide who runs the government, how they run it, and what policiers to go after thé better.

it isn’t perfect but it corrects itself somewhat.

Nuclear is greener and less polluting per Watt generated than all other forms of energy production we can currently do, including solar and wind, and skyscrapers aren’t too bad either, and planes are so much better than they were. There is nuance in these things but yeah plastic packaging and too many cars are issues, so is unnecessary flying, not having proper recycling standards set up for most plastics produced actually being used on any large scale. But if we had been less afraid of Nuclear energy and gone that route today we would be a lot better prepared for global warming which wouldn’t be as far along, no oil shocks would be as bad, and hell with less of a demand for fossil fuels there would probably be less plastic waste as well.

Why is this in the shitpost sub it should be in a Bosnia post sub

Fun history fact the Cesar salad was named for a 1950’s Mexican chef in I believe Tijuana named Cesar and not for the dictator of Rome, although in a round about way it probably was on several levels, be it the date or the fact that he was named Cesar for the Julius in question or for someone who was named after the guy (with however many steps on between).

Another leopard eating faces of those voting for the leopard eating faces party.

Ah people thought JFK fucked a lot but RFK kept managed to fuck the whole country plus with his “health tips” in the same amount of time his uncle was in office.

The only international organization the could manage something like that that would have a possibility of keeping a free and open internet would be something like the UN for world wide usage where a sub organization, with open books would need to be audited by anyone, see my other response in this comment chain for more details.

The way Starlink or any other satellite constellation works would be either destroyed in functionality by being removed from said constellation, they can only connect to a larger network or satellites for their functions to be useful, or the country’s control over a few of the total would be functionally useless. The best option in that veign would be for SpaceX or whatever company runs the constellation to be owned by all governments proportional to their population but that would have issues where countries like Russia, China, the US, NK, and Israel would then have more access to the constellations to spy on all people and censor everyone world wide more directly. I don’t think that would work it would make things worse most likely and would be completely unfeasible. I think a non profit something along the lines of the ACLU but world wide running it for the benefit of humanity with privacy, freedom of speech, and that sort of thing in their charter while being functionally immune from state/government interference while operating under those parameters would be the most feasible solution which would be ugly but maybe better, maybe with the UN as the overall backer of the constellation management, making it a more powerful entity but stopping the US, China, Russia, France, or the UK from individually controlling the way the constellation is used, and forcing all countries in the UN to allow access to the free and open internet.

There are a few problems with that, would it be owned by the UN with US, Russian, British, French and Chinese veto powers over its use? Would it just be one country, and then the US would be able to help let’s say Russia by turning down physical speed limits of internet connections for drones cutting out musk from the equation? Would it be based on whose airspace they are in at the time to rent out the data as required, thus stopping Ukraine from doing deep strikes into Russia? Also and most importantly figuring this out would be hard work and politicians are historically lazy on things that don’t affect them personally and why would they fight Elon musk to nationalize SpaceX or the satellites they own for Starlink when they can just sit back and be bribed much more easily?

Thinking is energy intensive and a hard thing to do, it is much easier to forget and not think about it, be it the richest person or the poorest person who make short term decisions that fuck everyone around them over, it’s just a matter of scale.

Yeah too little too late, it was a move someone who knows they’re losing pulls and instead of being classy he did a low thing that made his opponent look way more sympathetic and her mom look so much worse with the slightest investigation, and ties the Republican party more and more with defending rapist pedophiles.