[-] VoxAdActa@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

This is Ohio. The Republicans will just keep calling referendums on the same thing over and over again until they get the results they want. They don't care. They literally use dirty tricks to circumvent what the citizens want every year. Just look at how medical marijuana played out.

First try: The governor gets the bank to cancel the account of the pro-weed side, because the organization had the word "marijuana" in its name. No bank account, can't be a real group, can't put something on the ballot. Sucks to be you.

Second try: The legislature tried and failed to keep the legal weed issue off the ballot. So instead, they put their own weed issue on the ballot that would forever prevent legal weed in Ohio (even if the first issue passed), and then gave it a name that was almost identical to the pro-weed issue. I seem to remember that neither ended up passing because voters were, as intended, confused, and just having the second issue on the ballot split the vote.

Third try: The issue got on the ballot, the polls were high, everyone in the state basically was ready to stand out in the rain and vote in favor of medical marijuana. So the legislature called a special session and passed their own legal medical marijuana law, and then convinced the courts that their law made the ballot issue obsolete, so it was thrown out.

BUT, the legislature's version was a clusterfuck in that the legislature had to personally approve applications for grow ops and dispensaries. A few hundred businesses applied for the permit, and, last I checked, 0 were approved. This led to a situation where it was legal to have medical marijuana, but not legal to buy or grow it, or bring it in from out of state. Which means if you get caught with weed, the cops couldn't cite you for having weed (if you had your med card), but they could site you for buying or transporting that weed, because there's no way to legally get it in the state.

That was like six or seven years ago, and I haven't kept up with it, but if there's a single legal dispensary in Ohio, I will be incredibly surprised. The whole point was to not approve any.

[-] VoxAdActa@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Oh, ok.

So, see, in that case, the difference is, all that happened over 50 years or so for you.

For a lot of women, all that happens before lunch.

[-] VoxAdActa@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

"WhY dO pEoPlE sAy RePuBliCaNs ArE fAciSts????"

What do you think, @Kantiberl ? Do we have a clue towards that enduring, eternal American mystery? Or nah?

[-] VoxAdActa@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Why does this headline read like some kind of clickbait advertisement?

[-] VoxAdActa@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

yeah I'm not a climate change denier but neither was Crichton.

That dirty motherfucker wrote a whole-ass book denying climate change.

[-] VoxAdActa@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago
[-] VoxAdActa@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I still think we'll see TES6 around the same time we see Half-Life 3 and the next Game of Thrones book.

[-] VoxAdActa@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Ahh. Fresh meat!

[-] VoxAdActa@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Reddit is going to come up with an excuse to shut this down too, because any app that remains is still going to be lightyears ahead of the official app, and everyone will go there, and the devs have neither the means nor the obligation to force people to mail them proof that they're blind.

If Reddit is savvy, they'll give it six months for this furor to die down before they start to move in. A bunch of little fires separated by a span of time are easier to deal with than a giant fire happening all at once. But since this is spez, the second the API calls from RedReader get above whatever arbitrary dipshit threshold he's set in his mind, he's going to throw another fit. Which will be probably less than two weeks into July.

[-] VoxAdActa@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, this is a pile of bullshit. I don't believe for one single second that there was ever an "accessibility audit" or that anyone in that building has any accessibility certifications whatsoever. They couldn't talk about them because they don't fucking exist, never existed, and there are no plans to bring any of them into existence.

[-] VoxAdActa@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I'll happily take your word for it; it's been close to 20 years since my Mandarin classes in college. XD

view more: ‹ prev next ›

VoxAdActa

joined 1 year ago