Well, perhaps you should do it in a way that doesn't appear exactly like you actually can't be bothered to do anything.
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Not exactly the same, but my wife and I are babysitting our daughter's guinea pig, and she needed to clean his pen last night so asked me to hold him.
He was so gloriously chill. He just sat with me eating a carrot and watching TV.
For protected speech, I'd prefer if people would go in, take a ballot, and submit it blank. Essentially, making a statement that there is no one on the ballot who would represent them. It would be more meaningful than not going to the polling place at all. It sends a more significant message than just staying home.
I do agree that we need to make it easier, not harder, to vote.
Automatic registration, election day holiday, laws forcing employers to facilitate voting by their employees.
I hate to even allow for the possibility that I might agree with worm-brain, but he might have a point.
Revisionist History did an episode about this.
There was a researcher who wanted to prove that animal fats led to increased cardiac disease and earlier death. He set up in an institution (I think an old folks home) and split the population in two. One half got their meals made with animal fats, and the other half got all their meals made with vegetable fats.
He was partly right. People who got animal fats had an increase in cardiac disease. However, the people who got vegetable fats were dying earlier.
The researcher didn't like the result so he didn't publish. His son found the data after his death and released it.
https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/revisionist-history/the-basement-tapes
"No, you're looking for St John's Church on Peter Street. This is St. Peter's Church on John Street."
Make not voting cause you to be chosen first for jury duty.
Personally, I've never minded jury duty, but people seem to lose their minds over it.
...remove all tape. Its annoying, but better than picking it out of the garden later.
Like removing the teeth from a body before feeding it to your hogs. Easier to do it before than to pick them out after.
My first computer didn't have hard drive at all. 5.25" floppy drives.
My first PC with a hard drive used an ST-506 interface w/molex and data and control cables. 40MB. I couldn't imagine ever filling the whole thing.
It's all so much easier now.
Damn, I'm old.
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I told Daisy that it's rude to breathe in people's faces while you're eating your own poop. She says she's never heard of such a rule.
Thoughts?
I checked the link to the study (which I didn't realize was shared from the Revisionist History site), and I was incorrect about the scale:
Setting
One nursing home and six state mental hospitals in Minnesota, United States.
Participants
Unpublished documents with completed analyses for the randomized cohort of 9423 women and men aged 20-97; longitudinal data on serum cholesterol for the 2355 participants exposed to the study diets for a year or more; 149 completed autopsy files.
It's certainly worth a closer look.