So the difference in the US is if you move to a different voting area, there’s nothing requiring you to report your location to the government, so they would have no way of knowing that you live there.

The fact that electors physically exist as real people is still insane to me. If a state has winner takes all for their electoral votes, why does a group of random people have to then travel to DC to cast a vote. It’s not 1800 when the outcome of a state’s election needed to travel via horseback to the capitol.

So if I moved to your town, how would the people at the polls know I was a legal resident?

I prune my tomato and pepper plants, but then I re-root the parts I’ve pruned off, so I might end up with 3 plants for every seed.

I’ve heard the really spicy peppers are hard to get going. I just finally spent money on a heating pad and humidity domes, and that has really helped my success rates.

I’m expecting not every transplant to take.

This is how I end up with 2 times the amount of seedlings as I have space for. Not a bad reason to get to know your neighbors, though.

I’m jealous of your variety!

This is the real best answer, I think. If they can put a check box in the driver’s license application, they can spam it in a whole bunch of other spots.

Not everyone does taxes, either, but there are certainly way more automatic spots you could try to catch people. Between that and automatic mailed ballots, we could really increase voting.

I do also wish all states had open primaries. It seems really dumb that I have to link myself to a party that I dont like to try to select the least bad candidate.

In the US, at least, there are no standard, state-issued IDs. Driver’s licenses largely fill that role, but as others have noted, not everyone drives (and not everyone who drives has an up-to-date license).

When you cast a vote, how do they know you are eligible to vote there? The answer is that you registered at some point, though they may not have called it that

That’s not a separate thing in a lot of states like I noted. Part of getting a driver’s license is just proving to the government where you live, and thats what registering to vote is.

Requiring a license to operate a motor vehicle is what’s suppressing the vote, not the idea that at some point before you cast a vote, you have to tell the government where you live.

I’m not saying it’s necessarily a bad thing, just that it’s literally the same thing as registering to vote.

I’m pretty new to hydro, though I’ve previously done a bit of aquaponics.

My tl;dr is that different plants take to different hydroponic growing methods, and they have different requirements for pH and nutrient content (usually referred to by electrical conductance or EC). Nutrient content is obviously a super advanced topic if you want to get into it, but the majority of people just use off the shelf mixes, and occasionally dump a bunch of the solution (can be used to water plants in soil) and top it back off.

You can get books from the library or find charts online that have like (plant, growing methods, pH, EC).

The simplest method is kratky, which you see in that picture, where it’s just a plant growing in a bottle of solution. Some plants work well that way, others dont.

You can buy a bottle of 1 single nutrient mix that you just have to dilute, but it’s a bit pricier than if you get a 2 part mix. There are nutrients that will react with each other and be unusable to the plants if you mix them in a concentrated form, so the 1 part mixes are more dilute despite costing about the same. The nutrients can be a little pricey for a bottle, but you only use a tiny bit of it.

The process is basically:

• dilute nutrient concentrate with water till it matches the target for whatever plant you are using
• increase or decrease pH as needed (they sell products for this, but you can use some household stuff for cheaper)
• add to whatever type of system you are using
• periodically top off with more water as it evaporates and/or dump/refresh with new solution

You can start with seedlings you started in soil by just rinsing the soil off, or you can sprout seeds yourself in something soil-less with some dilute nutrient solution. I’ve been using cotton balls since I want something biodegradable.

Yeah, there’s also a bit of a difference in that voting is connected to where you live, while selective service registration doesnt really matter where you live, just that you exist (and are male). They can find you if they need to.

Also, I’ve lived in multiple states with “automatic voter registration”, and it’s really a misnomer. All it is is an extra check box when you get a driver’s license, so registration is: 1) not happening if you dont have a driver’s license, 2) not happening if you choose not to check the box.

I’ve made this rant before, but every country has voter registration somehow. Even Australia where you are required to vote, it’s still on the individual to enroll and update their enrollment whenever they move. Similarly, I’ve had Dutch people tell me they dont have to register to vote, and this is also not true because they have to register to exist at whatever address they live at, and voting registration is conferred along with that.

Some places let you prove you can vote when you go to the polling location, but that’s still effectively the same thing.

The only way for it to be truly automatic is if you live in a microstate that doesnt have multiple voting districts, or the government surveils you to keep track of where you live.

I’m assuming that changes what it actually displays, but is there confirmation that those data dont enter the notification system on the back end?

I really need to try actually doing that one of these days.

Taste is subjective, and it’s all about expectations.

If wine is oxidized, thats a fault, and “it tastes like cardboard”. If that wine happens to be oloroso sherry, it’s nutty and delicious.

Judging by the popularity of drinks like aged negronis and manhattans, you aren’t alone.

It’s literally Mali. Having alternate country codes is just a way to take advantage of countries with less of a presence on the internet to be able to get better domain names and at a lower price. .ml specifically was given away for free.

The worst, I think, is .io since the profits of those domains should go to the chagossians, but it just goes to the British government.

This is the right answer. “Opposition leader” or a “shadow cabinet” are not meaningful terms in American politics. It’s like asking who the President of the UK is.

You could go for somewhat equivalent congressional roles like House/Senate minority leaders, or you could try to point to specific political figures that seem to be trying harder to oppose the regime who may or may not be in the federal government like governors, or people like the chair of the DNC.

Yellow jackets are generalist predators. As long as they aren’t making a nest somewhere real close to where you want to be, they are good at killing a whole lot of pests.

HOAs have a lot of applications that aren’t horrible, you just probably dont hear about them. Neighborhoods with HOAs are often centrally planned, so there will be common areas that require upkeep like pools, clubhouses, parks, etc. They essentially take on a form of government role. In a lot of neighborhoods that are not part of an incorporated city, they do things like trash collection, road upkeep, snow plowing, etc.

I’ve lived in 2 places with an HOA, and in the one, all they did was the landscaping, even around all the yards of the houses. In the other, they handled the park/pool/clubhouse, and they did trash collection.

The down sides are often because the people in charge are just retirees who hunger for power, and there isnt much oversight from real government. Most people dont care enough to try to oust the bad leaders, so they stay in control, and they often do things that are illegal, but no one calls them out on it.

It’s more about saving width close to the ground. It doesnt matter on all trails, obviously, but a single-track through a shrubby/grassy area or a trail that’s deeply rutted will be a big pain if you have wide panniers.

I’m not exactly sure what you gain with a seat post bag vs just a bag on the top of a rear rack, though. I guess it is lighter.