[-] ltxrtquq@lemmy.ml 17 points 2 months ago

Before Oregon became a state, it fashioned itself as a whites-only utopia. When it joined the union in 1859, it was then the only state with laws specifically prohibiting certain races from legally living, working, or owning property within its borders.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/oregon-once-legally-barred-black-people-has-the-state-reconciled-its-racist-past

It was started as a white ethnostate. Some people never really got past that.

[-] ltxrtquq@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 months ago

Yes. For example, 60 million people in the US (less than 20% of our total population) is a significant amount of people.

[-] ltxrtquq@lemmy.ml 18 points 3 months ago

They're paying people to apologize for not voting in 2020, which does not include them voting in the next election.

[-] ltxrtquq@lemmy.ml 14 points 5 months ago

If you plan on moving out anyways, why not just sell the house? It'd give you a large up front sum of money, and you would never have to worry about maintenance or bad tenants again.

[-] ltxrtquq@lemmy.ml 13 points 5 months ago

Felix Felicis is a potion sometimes called “Liquid Luck.” Until the effects wear off, all the drinker’s endeavours will tend to succeed

https://www.hp-lexicon.org/magic/felix-felicis/

Harry Potter has an in-universe luck potion. Based on that wiki page, it looks like it was only relevant in the sixth book/movie

[-] ltxrtquq@lemmy.ml 14 points 5 months ago

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Street-level_imagery_services#With_photosphere_support

I was also looking into this recently, and I think one of the limiting factors would be the storage and processing power you'd need to blur faces and license plates and then let everyone have access to millions of photos on demand.

[-] ltxrtquq@lemmy.ml 14 points 6 months ago

But he said any further comments could be damaging for NATO.

"One of the reasons why NATO is successful is that we have always stayed out of domestic political issues," he said.

"If I start to say anything that makes it possible to connect me to ongoing political debates in any allied country, I will actually weaken the alliance."

He wouldn't, and he knows it. He was asked about Biden's health and did his job by not really answering.

[-] ltxrtquq@lemmy.ml 17 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

What? But they're flushable*, it says so right on the package.

* if your municipality allows it. No municipality does.

[-] ltxrtquq@lemmy.ml 14 points 10 months ago

As many people die from covid as do from influenza or RSV at this point.

I understand you don't feel affected by covid anymore, but you're incredibly wrong.

CDC estimates for influenza deaths in the 2022-2023 flu season: 21,000

CDC cumulative covid deaths from Sep 9, 2023 minus Oct 1, 2022: 84,560

Honestly, I'm not seeing a death count for RSV, but based on this RSV Burden Estimates, it's at most: 10,300 per year.

And this is all shown pretty well in the Trends in Viral Respiratory Deaths in the United States graph.

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