silly goose meekah

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Cake day: June 22nd, 2023

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  • IMO the worst that could happen with hard alcohol is much worse than public intox. Of course it depends on the kid but I’m thinking of hanging with the wrong crowd or street fights and such.

    Yes, becoming a parent is a huge deal. But nobody forces you to be one. There are contraceptives for after having sex, there is abortion and there is adoption.

    I agree you shouldn’t provide the drugs for your child. However, if my 17yo child were to ask me for a drug test kit (eg. to check that there’s no weird shit in the weed) I’d happily provide. Same with condoms. I won’t encourage them having sex, but providing a space safe to do so is not facilitating. It’s keeping your kid safe while they are doing something that you can’t stop them from doing.









  • Elections in the US aren’t really all that fair TBH.

    Researchers at the Brookings Institution agree that the strategic manipulation of our electoral process is largely to blame for the erosion of US democracy in recent years. Brookings says this manipulation takes various forms: the intentional addition of administrative barriers to voting, unfairly drawing electoral maps, the subversion of the election certification and counting process, and the violent coup attempt on January 6, 2021.

    https://blog.ucs.org/liza-gordon-rogers/us-elections-arent-as-free-and-fair-as-they-should-be-heres-how-science-can-help/

    The United States is experiencing two major forms of democratic erosion in its governing institutions:

    • Strategic manipulation of elections. Distinct from “voter fraud,” which is almost non-existent in the United States, election manipulation has become increasingly common and increasingly extreme. Examples include election procedures that make it harder to vote (like inadequate polling facilities) or that reduce the opposing party’s representation (like gerrymandering).
    • Executive aggrandizement. Even a legitimately elected leader can undermine democracy if they eliminate governmental “checks and balances” or consolidate power in unaccountable institutions. The United States has seen substantial expansions of executive power and serious efforts to erode the independence of the civil service. In addition, there are serious questions about the impartiality of the judiciary.

    https://www.brookings.edu/articles/understanding-democratic-decline-in-the-united-states/








  • Having more beautiful and structured URLs. I suppose for those cases it’s more of a preference, and with the tooling I use (.NET) it’s not too difficult to achieve.

    I guess my gripe with your original statement was that I was thinking mostly of state like user login etc. I have to concede it’s not totally garbage for the cases you mentioned.