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Cake day: July 17th, 2023

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  • I’m a different person than you replied to. You are both correct.

    When we, Americans, vote for president we vote for an individual by their name on the ballot. Technically, we’re voting for electors who have been chosen by our candidate. Those electors get to vote for the actual presidency and can technically change their vote (relative to the popular vote), but in many places they would be penalized for doing so. To my knowledge there have been few, possibly no, legal cases which have tested these laws or systems. So in practicality it doesn’t matter.








  • All government spending uses public money. Either through taxes or borrowing (creating money).

    What do you think the purpose of a government is? Anyone who supports democracy will tell you it is for the benefit of the public.

    The icky thing about the relief checks is that Trump was taking credit for something he didn’t do. Even kindergarteners don’t like that.

    This was something Biden accomplished by directing the efforts of the executive branch. This was a campaign promise, and a long time career goal of his. He’s a politician, he’s allowed to explain how he used the lawful actions of the government to benefit the public. In fact, that’s what politicians in the executive branch are supposed to do, it’s their job.




  • The original point wasnt that they should magically be granted citizen ship for slipping through the cracks, but rather but rather that there should be a legal process or criteria for granting citizen ship in these situations. Maybe some basic criteria could be living, working (if able), and paying taxes for 10 years and no felonies. I’m sure there are reasons to grant exceptions and there probably need to be some additional limitations, but that could be the basic idea.


  • I used to use chrome’s tab groups, they were definitely helpful. Until I wanted to organize things. Tab Groups lacks a lot of the features of the extensions I’m suggesting. I spent lots of time looking for feature rich options in Chrome before ultimately switching to Firefox because it was simply better.

    Chrome’s session/history manager also isn’t great, so if I had multiple windows open I had to be careful about how I closed them, otherwise I could easily lose a lot of my tabs. This also wasn’t possible with forced shutdowns.