I always forget you can get just the card without the passport.

In my state you can apply to get your ballot by mail, but you have to do that for every election (which reminds me, I need to send my application in for the next election). If you don’t do that you can go in person to the voting location that is predetermined for you based on your address. They have a list of everyone who is registered as eligible to vote in person at that location. When you register to vote you get a voter ID card in the mail which is basically a little paper card with your name, county, and the location that you vote at. You just take your voter card with you to vote and they cross you off the list and give you your ballot to vote in person. If you already registered to vote by mail but you forgot to send your ballot in you can take your mail-in ballot to your in person location and they’ll tear it up and let you vote in person.

For people who might not be in the US and don’t understand why this is a bad idea in the US and proportionately hurts poor people, proof of citizenship is usually a passport. A passport costs $130. You need supporting documents like your birth certificate, SSN, and a drivers license/state ID to get it. For your first passport you usually have to make an appointment to go somewhere authorized like a library, post office, or courthouse to apply, and then they send the application off and it can take weeks to months to get back, depending how backed up the processing agency is (and I’m sure there will be artificial delays during voting years if this passes). Also, they are passing laws limiting where you can go to apply, so now libraries and the post office are losing the ability to process passport applications, so people will have to go to the county courthouse, which could be a long drive from where they live, especially if you live in a rural area. For people who don’t drive, or only have one car that is shared with another working adult, or use public transportation that has a limited range (or just doesn’t exist in most of the US), or are disabled and can’t travel far, this can be a huge problem.

Also, all these places are only open during normal business hours, so you probably have to take time off work to go apply. Federal minimum wage is only $7.25/hr while the living wage is actually much higher (living wage for 1 adult living alone in a 1 bedroom apartment where I live was considered almost $23/hr in 2024), and if someone is making minimum wage or close to it they almost certainly aren’t getting paid time off, so now they have to come up with $130 for the fee and lose time off work.

I don’t think there’s a lot of doubt anymore that they interfered with the last few elections in some way, the only real argument is whether it actually mattered. But they’re testing the bounds of what they can get away with and building their own army of hired thugs and I definitely believe they plan to use it to interfere with voting, opposing politicians, and anyone else they don’t like or who stands in their way. If this isn’t put to a hard stop very soon Minneapolis is going to be written about in history books as the very beginning of a period of violence and evil, instead of the middle of it.

They’re putting far too much money into all of this to stop with immigrants. If anyone thinks they’re going to deport the immigrants and go “well that’s it boys, good job, close 'er up and you’re all unemployed now, thanks for your hard work” they’re deluded, but then again it feels like a lot of people have happily been deluded for years anyway.

Ironically, if Greenland ever did become part of the US all those people that Trump is pretending to care about will instantly lose free or even affordable healthcare.

Why is Trump sending free healthcare to other countries while US citizens are dying of easily preventable illnesses because they can’t afford medical care? I thought he was all about America first?/s

I haven’t had Pizza Hut since I was a kid. It’s not great pizza, but you used to be able to sign up for the summer book club at the library and get prizes for reading so many books. I was a pathetic kid with no friends who read nonstop to cope with the loneliness and boredom and one of the prizes was free coupons for personal pan pizzas. We were the kind of barely middle class that thought burger king was a huge treat we only got once a year, so earning a pan pizza was the absolute shit as an elementary school aged kid. My mom always took me there for my end of summer reward lunch and it always felt incredibly special.

Interesting! I also agree the second option sounds far more likely. I was raised super Christian (am not anymore) and I never understood or agreed with the belief that the Bible can’t be mistranslated, deliberately or accidentally. It’s been hundreds of years that humans have had their hands on it and humans suck. Of course it’s been twisted and misconstrued.

From my understanding, it’s not referring to the eye of a physical needle, but the city he was in when he made that analogy had a small gate known as “The Eye of the Needle” that was meant for human passage and not carts/large animals, which would go through the main gates. You could theoretically force a camel through it, but it would be nearly impossible. I heard that long long ago from some video that analyzed the meaning and context behind biblical stories and have no idea if that’s actually real, so I’d be happy to be proven wrong or right.

My ICE loving MAGA coworker trying to rile me up: “These damned liberals drive me crazy”

Me: “I agree, but not for the same reasons”

I’m a woman and I’m all about doing things for the people I love, but I don’t really cook. I’ll happily unclog a shower drain, put together furniture, change your spark plugs, but I hate cooking. Nothing makes me feel attracted to someone quite like when they cook for me; it makes me feel so loved. I joke that the worst part of being single is having to make my own dinner and do my own grocery shopping. I eat so simply now because I refuse to actually cook for just myself.

I work in healthcare. I’ve been spending a lot of time studying, listening to podcasts, and improving my healthcare knowledge and trying to be a better provider for my patients. You know, do better for the little bit of community I can affect.

I also go to the gym a lot and I’ve started doing a martial art. Get my physical body in shape and get myself out of my head. It gets me to stop thinking of the world and my own problems for a while.

On one hand, in 2009 I had hope my life would eventually improve and I would have a chance to be happy someday.

On the other hand, I was still a teenager and stuck living with my parents. I would rather be hopeless and paying half my income in rent than live with my abusive mother again.

Fuck shouldn’t you still be in elementary school? What happened to my fucking life?

10 seconds and I’ve paid off my student loans, my car, and have enough left over to pay tuition for my upcoming year (attending school while working full time of course, because no one pays my living expenses and I get denied financial aid because I’m an adult who has too high of an income to qualify, because, ya know, I have to have an income to pay my damned rent).

“Hey you, you’re finally awake”

The Lemmy version is: “guys I want to install Linux because I’m not comfortable with Windows but I’m not a tech genius and I just want a computer that I can install the OS and not have to worry about it again because I don’t have a lot of free time and I don’t want to have to spend hours troubleshooting it ever and I don’t understand any of the terms you guys throw around when you’re discussing Linux. I don’t know what OS to choose or how to set up the post install and I’m super confused, I hear you talk about repos, and incompatibility with drivers, and picking different options that I don’t understand what they are or how to choose and it’s like you’re all speaking a different language.” “well if you want to rot with Windows then you deserve to have all your personal data stolen, it’s a willing choice you made at this point you idiot, why are you even here?”

I liked the soundtrack much better overall (some of the packs sucked, but I just don’t play them) and I like the movement and flow better than Beat Saber. I’m ok at Beat Saber but was never quite able to hit the hardest difficulty levels. I was playing the hardest difficulty levels on Synth Riders pretty quickly. I think it turns people off because the easier difficulty levels are quite boring, but it’s very good on higher difficulty settings. They’re both good games, it’s very much just personal preference for me.

Beat Saber was fun until I tried Synth Riders.

Then I modded Skyrim VR. All my other VR games have been abandoned forever.

I have 2 cats that both need prescription food or else they get UTIs and urinary crystals and I’m not exaggerating when I say that I spend more monthly on their food than mine. Last week I was putting on my boots getting ready to go off to work another 16 hr OT shift and they were both sitting at my feet crying and I was like hey this is your fault you two are expensive I would prefer to be playing video games right now.