BottleOfAlkahest

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[–] BottleOfAlkahest 104 points 2 weeks ago

My father use to send me into the voting booth with my mother to make sure she "remembered" who to vote for....no election officials ever stopped me from going in there and I was too young to understand that I was a spy. My father's not violent but I'm sure I wasn't the only child spy being used by men who were.

[–] BottleOfAlkahest 22 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

How the hell do you explain this to a new job or your parole officer? "Someone drugged me with weed and I didn't know! I swear!"

This could mess up some people's lives

[–] BottleOfAlkahest 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

There are some countries in Europe that provide out free employment skill classes. Maybe look in you're local area, many of them can teach you basic computer skills.

Edit: You've made multiple posts on Lemmy where there are some minor tech barriers to entry so you certainly aren't unteachable.

[–] BottleOfAlkahest 21 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Puerto Rico doesn't pay federal taxes

[–] BottleOfAlkahest 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You said 1 year of unemployment, what were you doing while last employed? Those things count as skills too.

[–] BottleOfAlkahest 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Quinoa and then each individual escaped piece sticks to everything like glue.

[–] BottleOfAlkahest 8 points 3 weeks ago

So people who live in Washington DC can vote for President. D.C. has 3 electoral college votes. Puerto Rico does not have any electoral votes. (They do hold primaries that also don't seem to really count).

DC does lack full voting representation in Congress just like US territories (e.x. Puerto Rico, Samoa, Guam). I do think their delegate can vote on some things in congress, I don't remember the details of what, but it's definitely not a full congressional vote.

[–] BottleOfAlkahest 2 points 3 weeks ago

Not who you were talking to but most people who have a PC at home aren't installing an OS on it. They're using windows cause that's what came out of the box. Most of us windows users wouldn't go out of our way to install windows if Linux came preprogrammed. It's more convenient to not install any damn thing.

[–] BottleOfAlkahest 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

That sounds like a user error issue. I use windows at home and work and I also haven't seen a blue screen in years.

[–] BottleOfAlkahest 3 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

Sherlock sorta did it. I don't think those two ever got together?

Edit: I did very much mean Elementary

[–] BottleOfAlkahest 1 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

Nobody is arguing that all movies need to remove violence or sexy? Where are you even getting that from?

But no one here is arguing the problem is inherently with sex or romance....you pulled that assumption out of your ass. The entire point of this thread is that unnecessary sex or violence is a crutch of bad film making...

[–] BottleOfAlkahest 1 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

There are a lot of people who believe in an afterlife and they don't shoot themselves in the head. You need to have a certain level of mental illness/suicidal ideation going on for that to make sense. It's pretty insane that you're trying to make this a "youth are too dumb to understand suicide" thing.

Also a bunch of the people in Jonestown were directly murdered.

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