HobbitFoot

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  • There are two types of early voting.

    For in person voting, the local election board opens up fewer voting locations before the election. If approved, you can vote there and then instead. A lot of states eliminated any requirements to early voting after Covid.

    For mail-in voting, the ballot gets mailed through USPS to voters. The ballots are usually supplied with an envelope with a way to verify identity, usually with signature. From there, the voter has the option to either mail the ballot back or directly deliver it to specific drop boxes.


  • Ariel in Disney’s A Little Mermaid doesn’t drop everything for “a man”.

    She is clearly interested in land culture from the opening of the film, spending her time collecting shipwreck items and trying to learn what they are. She also isn’t interested in the hobby her father wants her to do, singing.

    King Triton is abusive when destroying Ariel’s collection of artifacts, which makes you think of what else is going on with how he parents her.

    So, Eric shows up and seems like a way out. It isn’t a lot of information to go off of for adults, but it is something solid for a teenager.

    And what did she give up to gain her legs? Her voice. People interpret it as her giving up being able to speak for herself, but it is her giving up the thing that her father cares about.






  • HobbitFoot toMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldWhat are they going to do?
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    Or they would manage us to their own desires. I wouldn’t say imperialism of conquered peoples went well for people on Earth.

    Hell, there are several noted cases of deindustrialization, like the British Raj in India, where the imperial power pushed a civilization back into resource extraction. Why would an alien civilization colonize us for anything other than natural resources?

    And there are several examples where humans weren’t treated well in a resource extraction economy. Sugarcane plantations in the Caribbean were where slaves went to die.