Reading a book while listening to music totally is good for you. Just not the same way physical exercise is. My suggestion is to find a level of exercise you find palatable. Once a week I do a loop around a local park, partially run partially walked. I also walk (without running) once or twice a week.

The reason I don’t do it daily and the reason I don’t always run is because I know I would just quit working out instead of continuing my regiment. So, that’s the best for me. Find an amount/location/pace of running that’s palatable to you and try to stick to it. Only increase the workout if you don’t dread the idea.

No both happen, people just have a much bigger problem when an assigned man transitions to woman.

It was not extradition, I think. They were simply allowed to come to the US, no court. Then, Florida was charging them with crimes so they fled. I cannot remember if Florida was charging them with new or old crimes.

Point is, they’re fucking terrible and keep needing to flee countries.

Time, sure, but how much space do you need to fuck?

What, like, percent of stored munitions would this likely be? How impactful of a destruction is it?

Yeah maybe the youngest voters have that excuse kinda. Like, they were at least 14 at the end of his first term, which had plenty of shit go down, but most voters should be old enough to remember what fucking happened last time.

While I agree with your concern, I think it does help highlight how bad these policies are because it is impacting more than just “useless <insert hated group here>” or something like that. I agree that rights should still matter regardless, but focusing on the impacts helps signal to broader audiences.

Yeah, but not in an enforced way.

There are humans that are named after other animals (Bear Grylls, Tony Hawk, Michael J Fox). We absolutely could have called it Boaty McBoatface.

uhhh, you also don’t own Greenland

How secret of it. Surely this is a distraction, right?

And what about plastic bottles. Like, not the packaging type but just plastic reusable waterbottles?

There is plenty of room for nuance, there’s just no nuance to be had.

I’m guessing it’s a split between considering the govt an enemy but not the people, along with people who think it’s nearing-but-not-quite an enemy.

Unfortunately, the military technically answers to the president.

Oh boy, I’m sure that’ll help with the extreme rise in right-wing ideology and leadership worldwide.

Hell, it can filter out tech people too. I’m a programmer by trade, but I almost dipped on lemmy because the onboarding is confusing enough. Like, I obviously (mostly) figured it out, but I did consider going “eh fuck it” and dipping. The site is ultimately a luxury and not a requirement, so effort or confusion required to get all started up is also something that’ll drive me to consider it not all worth it for some social media I’m not even sure I want to be a part of yet.

I need a reminder of what hexbear is about. I recall something… off.

kinda. It depends a bit on how we handle some of the stuff. Firstly, despite saying he wants to make Canada a state, he could make it a territory that gets 0 votes, which is straight up bullshit but exactly how it works. If he does make it a state, there’s still a lot of uncertainty.

Every state has gets 1 vote per representative. Senate has a fixed 100 members (2 per state). House currently has 435 members, divided by state population. If Canada is brought in as a single state, it would beat out California in size, but not by all that much. If we simply increased the house to accommodate the new state, Canada would have a bit over 52 electoral votes. If we add Canada’s 52-ish electoral votes to Kamala’s count, she still doesn’t have the electoral votes needed to win the presidency. Similarly, adding Canada’s 52-ish votes to Hillary’s count means she still loses. Literally giving Canada’s votes to the Dem candidate does not affect the last few elections results in a meaningful way. In fact, it would change almost none of the elections we’ve had in the last, like, ever.

However, that assumes they simply give Canada new reps, rather than redistributing the current ones. If they did a redistribution, electoral votes would be taken from the largest states. Any states with 3 electoral votes can’t have that reduced at all, and those with like 4-8 are unlikely to get the count reduced. Redistributing will affect California the most, followed by Texas, Florida, New York and so on. It’s… harder to analyze how that shift would shake out, but I wager still not particularly favorable shifts for blue states in general, meaning dems can’t actually expect an increase of 50-ish in that case, which means even less of a chance of flipping any results.

However, perhaps Canada gets split into a bunch of individual states rather than all one. If we assume each province-state gets 2 senate members and they collectively get 50 house members, you end up with 70 electoral votes (ignoring territories). If those all swing blue, Trump still wins 2016 and 2024. Both of those become far closer (2016 becomes 302 to 306 and 2024 becomes 296 to 312), presumably uncomfortably close.

And that’s assuming they all vote solid (D), actually get voting rights, voting is still free and fair, and voter suppression hasn’t become even more outlandish by then.

Anyways, our electoral vote system blows real bad.

This is going to be the weirdest part of any history book. People reading and trying to understand why the US suddenly turned on and invaded their close ally of Canada in a failed annexation attempt immediately after watching Russia struggle a similar (though less surprising) annexation of Ukraine, which the US helped fight against.