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  • michaelmrose@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldWake up sheeple
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    You are talking about surface tension. The importance parameter is speed not height and “like concrete” is a drastic simplification as both behave very differently on impact.

    Notably whereas high divers have reached speeds of 60 mph the Artemis II splashed down at around 1/4 that speed a speed you too can obtain by jumping from about 10 feet up.




  • There are offices you can go to both for registration or assistance. I’ve had to get a replacement for an accidentally discarded ballot day of an election. They are for support just not an in person voting option.

    In my instance in person was just showing an ID and receiving a replacement copy of very same paper ballot filling it out and dropping it in the same sort of collection box that is 5 minutes walk from my apartment. Because few people have issues there was no wait when I drove in to resolve mine. They weren’t dealing with the quarter of a million people who live in my county filing through a line just handling isolated issues like my dumb ass losing their ballot at the last minute and continuing the work of counting our verifiable paper ballots.




  • Washington votes entirely by mail with the postal system handling out going and drop boxes and postal system handling incoming. The county generally knows how many adults live there and can just figure most adults are eligible voters.

    You can register separately or when you get your id. If you are indigent the same place that gives you food stamps and medical insurance whether you have an address or not gives you a coupon for a $5 state ID.

    No idea why it’s $5 rather than zero under the circumstances and others may have challenges as far as coming in from out of state or needing multiple documents to establish identity especially married and divorced women who changed their name but generally people are pretty well served



  • https://www.occrp.org/en/project/corruptistan-azerbaijan/how-to-build-yourself-a-stealth-lobbyist-azerbaijani-style

    What lawmakers listening to Shaffer didn’t know was that the Caspian Studies Program she headed at Harvard was set up in 1999 through a $1 million grant from the US Azerbaijan Chamber of Commerce and a consortium of oil and gas companies led by Exxon, Mobil, and Chevron, all of which had commercial interests in the region. The chamber of commerce is a pro-Azerbaijan pressure group whose Board of Directors includes a vice president of SOCAR, the Azerbaijan state-owned energy company, and top lobbyists for BP and Chevron.

    Supported by an overseas regime and an assorted network of overt and undercover lobbyists, she used oil money to build her academic credentials, then in turn used those credentials to promote Azerbaijan’s agendas through Congressional testimony, dozens of newspaper op-eds and media appearances, countless think tank events, and even scholarly publications.

    She’s still doing it. Brenda Shaffer

    Shaffer first walked into Congress in 2001 to testify before the House of Representatives’ Committee on International Relations.

    She was introduced as “the director of the Caspian Studies Program and a post-doctoral fellow in the international security program at the Belfort [Belfer] Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government”.

    Addressing lawmakers, she asked them to repeal a section of the Freedom Support Act that barred direct US aid to the Azerbaijani government. “They have extended their hand to the US. They have huge expectations that the policy of this country is based on some sort of morality and high ideals,” she told them, and reinforced this in written testimony she also submitted.

    Challenged about Azerbaijan’s democratic record, she replied: “There is a lot of room for improvement in terms of democratization. However, every six months, every year, things are getting better and better.”

    What lawmakers listening to Shaffer didn’t know was that the Caspian Studies Program she headed at Harvard was set up in 1999 through a $1 million grant from the US Azerbaijan Chamber of Commerce and a consortium of oil and gas companies led by Exxon, Mobil, and Chevron, all of which had commercial interests in the region. The chamber of commerce is a pro-Azerbaijan pressure group whose Board of Directors includes a vice president of SOCAR, the Azerbaijan state-owned energy company, and top lobbyists for BP and Chevron.


  • Fossil fuel is incredibly well financed profitable well explored. The tiny modicum of public and private money that went into renewables didn’t stop any otherwise profitable exploration or expansion of fossil fuels.

    Iran had leverage since its resources began to be exploited. We could have spent a lot more on renewables decades ago that would in fact have blunted that stick. Instead we worked to make fossil fuels more valuable and thus hand them more leverage then we swung a stick at their head.




    1. It doesn’t scale. Where the problematic economic demographic is 50%+ percent of the pop and 70% live in cities no substantial portion effected could go live in all the Guthries in the nation. People are concentrated for reasons as old as civilization.
    2. It often wouldn’t help. Outside of shelter and taxes most goods don’t vary much or all by market and wages do.

    One could find yourself spending an overlarge portion of your money on rent in an urban market move for cheaper rent and find the difference in wages makes up the difference in rent and now you need to afford everything else on less total wages.

    1. Cheaper markets have worse services and safety nets. Those who already rely on good medial benefits in urban centers in blue states would find little savings in moving into the boondocks in their own states and would lose more in health care alone than they gain in rent moving to bumfuck