For some reason getting a passport is like $200, plus whatever it takes to get the required supporting documents (eg: birth certificate, the photo). That’s not much by many metrics, but a lot of people in the US just don’t have $200 to spend.
That seems high, because I think the literacy rate today is lower. I guess it depends on how you define literacy, though.
Four in five U.S. adults (79 percent) have English literacy skills sufficient to complete tasks that require comparing and contrasting information, paraphrasing, or making low-level inferences—literacy skills at level 2 or above in PIAAC (OECD 2013). In contrast, one in five U.S. adults (21 percent) has difficulty completing these tasks (figure 1)
Fine needs to be much bigger. All the decision makers that approved it need to be removed and barred from working in the industry
It’s another manifestation of separate rules for the rich and everyone else.
And agian, what are government moderators?
Oh, sorry. I meant the moderators of lemmy.world. If you say anything too spicy, your comment gets removed
I meant more generally, so democrats can win elections and then win votes. It’s something they should have been doing for the past decade. Look at how the democratic party is treating Zohran for an example of how not to do it.
In my imagination there are increasingly desperate actions they could do to stop the bill from proceeding. Pull the fire alarm. Start a fire. Cover all the chairs with honey. I don’t know. I feel like if it looked like a portal to hell was about to open I would break a lot of norms and rules to stop it
I’ve looked online but I guess I failed my search checks, because I didn’t find anything big in NYC.
But also like others have said, we need to do more than just march. We need to be disruptive. No more labor until every Republican resigns. That kind of thing.
I think that’s the “only Democrats have agency” thing that comes up. When Republicans are horrible shits people are just like yeah they’re horrible but like you don’t blame the bear for doing bear stuff. But everyone else is held to normal human standards
Usually when you make a deal with the devil you get something.
Remove some Republicans from office via the 14th amendment.
Lead protests. Not just parades but actual disruptive protests
Back left wing candidates
Use any and all procedural tricks to delay things.
other stuff that moderators don’t like
You have to remember it’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. As I always say, we’re all susceptible to that to some extent, but the republicans have it bad.
I have a hypothesis that many conservatives are reflexively opposed to change. So if you suggest putting in a bus lane, they’ll fight you tooth and claw. But once you get it in, a couple years later, if someone suggests removing it those same people will fight tooth and claw to keep it.
In other words, sometimes they’re stupid and don’t have good reasons.
The video games in my house were downstairs, and one time I did a “Can I go downstairs?” instead of “Can I play video games?” when I knew they didn’t want me playing more games. Thought it was a clever loophole. Only worked the one time, but got jokingly referenced for the next ten years.
From what I read, at the time of the Kent State Massacre, something like 60% of americans blamed the students.
As the other person said, it really depends on what people mean by “strict”.
My parents were “strict” in that they enforced a bed time. Now I have better than average sleeping habits. So that worked out.
But I’ve also read about “strict” parents that, like, take doors off their kids rooms, or read the kids private messages, or other nightmares
There are too many headlines where the first half is exciting.
Trump hit by bombshell
Iranian leader slaps trump
I get the vague impression that this is meant to subtly influence western society into believing that the masses aren’t truly people
Tinfoil hat theory would be that the evil leaders of real life (the ceos, the billionaires, etc) are planting the seeds so that if their plans fail and a revolution comes, they won’t be summarily executed
I feel like some of this is fundamentally wrong. Like it says such and such saves money, but cutting that program costs untold amounts as a consequence.
Like you can save money by not paying your phone bill, but then you don’t have a working phone.
So the nyt probably sucks by not making that clear to readers.
Perhaps a universal icon for “pick language” would be helpful, like we have a icons for volume control and share. Good luck getting it adopted though.