Brave to post this on Lemmy lol.
I get the point and there is validity to it. But on the other hand I get very grumpy at people who look at the state of the world and think “yeah, this is as good as it can ever be”.
It’s good to discuss, explore, and test alternatives, even if they are unproven. That’s how we keep moving forward.
Public sunscreen stations? Do those exist?
Car drivers in the last two years killed about 80,000 people in the US. That is of a similar scale to the murders in Gaza. So your point that this is unimportant is off base.
Most people don’t pay much or any attention to local politics which makes advertising and incumbency very powerful. Most people literally just vote for the name they recognize from TV or mailers.
It would take a large increase in political consciousness to fix this.
I feel like no one even asked for this and they only suggested it because they knew it would be denied.
On the one hand this is admirable but on the other hand I just don’t see how they get those territories back.
Like they mentioned, slowly blowing air out of your nose can prevent this. Or, if this isn’t working for you, you can get clips to close your nostrils, but they might not be comfortable with a longer swim.
Personally I like to swim with a mask and snorkel, as it’s much easier and more relaxing.
Started to become common during the moral panic around drugs in the 80s and 90s here in the US. I don’t know how it’s legal but this country is very backwards.
The solution to all of these shenanigans is so obvious but no one discusses it.
We need a system where a rep’s voting power is exactly proportional to the number of votes they receive. No more, no less. Combined with multi-member districts, this would allow every vote to have a say.
Also, they chose a very weird comparison here by comparing the congressional makeup to presidential vote returns… why not use votes for congress instead???
I’m definitely anti-golf course but the reality is that California grows a huge proportion of the food people in the US actually eat. Most of the Midwest is growing corn and soy for industrial purposes, not food.
If you want us to stop irrigating it won’t be the fat cats who suffer the worst when food prices double. I agree we need change and it needs to come quickly but it’s not going to happen overnight.
Most of the desert is not under cultivation, excepting the imperial valley. I should have said the vast majority of cultivated and inhabited land. Semi-arid is not the same as desert. Much of California gets multiple times the precipitation of a true desert like Phoenix. We have water to work with and we don’t need to adopt the same strategies as desert cities.
There is a lot of work to be done, no doubt, but the law passed in 2014 requires each water district to come up with a plan to stop depleting ground water in the next few years.
There are solutions but I think we should focus on better infrastructure, higher efficiency, more desalination, groundwater recharge, etc. over water austerity. Water is a requirement of all life and pretending we aren’t going to need any is a fantasy.
I’m not sure how many people can access contraception at this point, given the blockade and constant bombings.
The vast majority of California is not a desert and there are ways to irrigate without significant environmental harms. I think we’re moving towards such a system, but the highly seasonal climate here makes agriculture without irrigation fairly difficult, and we are an agricultural society so…
Almond and walnut orchards produce food though. Alfalfa does not. To me they are in different categories.
I don’t really agree with the premise that we shouldn’t grow food in California because it requires irrigation.
Lemmy is full of boring old farts.
A lot of ways it can happen but rape is much more common in war zones for one.
I expect you won’t like my solutions but they’re the best they can be, given the circumstances. No election in the world is ever perfect. But It’s better to make a good effort towards democratic governance than to give up. The powerful can always come up with a reason democracy isn’t practical, but it’s up to the people to demand practical solutions to these obstacles, or suggest our own.
First, the fact that a large portion of Ukraine has been conquered is very unfortunate, but the obvious solution is to exclude these areas from the election. Of course it would be preferable to include them, but I don’t see how this would be practical. Still, it’s better to disenfranchise only some of Ukraine than all of the country.
Absentee ballot systems have existed for soldiers for literal centuries so this one is a known and solved issue.
The drone strikes are certainly an issue and consideration must be given to defense. With appropriate planning, a larger number of polling stations could be developed to minimize large gatherings. In dense areas, stations could be located in bunkers or other similarly well-defended areas. Enabling universal vote-by-mail could also help avoid the need to gather in person.
I don’t think it’s true that every resource is going towards the war effort. The economy must continue, governance must continue, and most people in Ukraine are not directly involved in combat. I am sure some spare labor can be made available for such an important purpose. If the efforts need to be done with a smaller than normal workforce, preparations could seek volunteers and take place over an extended period to minimize the load.
For the last point see above with respect to security. I think an early voting model will be best as well, to enable people to vote over an extended period rather than all at once, in case it becomes unsafe to vote at a particular time or place.
Overall, some of these are certainly significant challenges that will require large changes to the way elections are conducted. However, with no end in sight for this war, Ukrainians need to start planning for how democratic governance can continue on the face of what may be an extended occupation of parts of their territory. Given that elections are already postponed, this will give ample time to improve on and implement these ideas. I could even see trial runs of local elections first to see how things go before doing national elections since those will have lower stakes for the war effort.
I like my instance, which I understand is working on a migration to PieFed eventually.
No, but your misrepresentation of these articles will.
Rewilding is not the same as shelterbelt planting. And the program was a failure, as most poorly planned massive imperial initiatives are.
By 1951, it appeared that nearly 50 percent of all trees planted in 1949 had died. As the peasants became overworked, the rate of planting started to decline. Trees were left untended. Inadequate watering practices and inappropriate planting stock contributed to the collapse of Stalin’s plan. The semiarid climate caused the failure of many shelterbelts.
After Stalin’s death in 1953, the shelterbelt program was discontinued. The state committee in charge of tree-planting was dismissed, and statistics regarding the program were unavailable after 1958. Many shelterbelts were left unattended or incomplete. It has been estimated that 10 percent of the trees planted during Stalin’s Great Plan for the Transformation of Nature survived.
Overall, this is an excellent example of the failures of the USSR’s overall economic strategy.
I guess you didn’t realize that your place in the afterlife is determined by how Lemmy votes on your memes.