If not, I'm sure it's because they had to call it quits due to the sheer volume of candidates increasing faster than they could keep up with for the past decade or so..
It really does have some breathtaking landscapes... but it also really is largely populated by ... pretty much direct descendants of either the Klan, or the Mormons that were too insane for the mainline Mormons.
How to fix America in roughly one, simple, extremely unpopular step:
Literally everyone with a drivers liscense has to fully retest, written and driving, every single year.
Make the tests cost nothing, and make it so (if it isn't the case already), every state has a non drivers liscense ID, and no, no you cannot farm out the actual tests to some kind of contracted private entity.
Drivers liscenses always expire one year after issue date. Non drivers liscense IDs? 10 years.
Within 5 years I'm guessing the number of people regulalry driving cars drops by about 50%.
Infrastructure degrades less quickly.
Personal finances improve as less people are routinely cleaned out by hilariously overpriced predatory car loans.
Car insurance rates and traffic accidents drop dramatically.
People begin to demand functional public transit, walk/bike compatible urban layouts and renovations.
Public transit and walkable places force people to have a higher baseline for general social decency, result in people realizing that physically experiencing other people is fundamentally not optional in this thing we call 'society'.
Hell, even oil becomes relatively less expensive, thus somewhat moderating general inflation.
... All of this, something like this would happen, if we were just actually serious about getting and keeping incompetent drivers off the road.
Are there 60 people there, outside of Boise? I remember driving for miles and miles without seeing another car or even having the horizon change. Nebraska and South Dakota were populous and varied by comparison!
In many ways, we in the US are just doing the 1910's, 20's, 30's, all over again.
A big thing back then is what we now call scientific racism, eugenics.
Generally speaking, it was a bunch of unfounded psuedo science that purportrd to stem from Darwin's theories, but... didn't really actually have any sensible data or theory backing it up.
... the difference is that this time, eugenics part two electric boogaloo... its largely, not entirely, but to a great extent being used by ignorant bigots to hurt themselves, instead of other kinds of people.
So... would the meta of this be that eugenics and psuedo science and anti-intellectualism actually are a functional, definable evolutionary or maybe social mechanism, it just... basically works in the opposite way that morons think it does?
Uh, wow, okay buddy, do your research! You can drink raw milk just fine! You just gotta heat it up to kill all the bad bacteria! I just wish there was some sort of way to do it faster than boiling, but obviously science hasn't evolved that far, and I need my milk to prove I'm not a DUMBOCRAT (A lot of people don't know dumb has a b in it. Why don't my kids talk to me anymore?)
Well…it claims to cover everything. Until something happens. Then suddenly the cup of water you got was out of network and the fart you did was denied because it required prior authorization.
Ah yes, the millions of people who have shared their stories about their experiences are invalid and ignored because you haven’t personally experienced it. Standard Republican logic.
36 Comments
grainfed@quokk.au · 30 pts · 75d
It's a bit early, but they might win a Darwin award yet. Still a thing are they?
thepig@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 74d
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 74d
"I won that tournament! Fuggin' Chuck Darwin."
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 75d
If not, I'm sure it's because they had to call it quits due to the sheer volume of candidates increasing faster than they could keep up with for the past decade or so..
kibblebits@quokk.au · 22 pts · 75d
Everyone in Idaho should drink raw milk
Speculater@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 75d
My initial reaction to this article is, "Good."
There's a fucking reason we pasteurize milk you ignorant fucks!
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 74d
That's what Big Pasteur wants you to think!
CCMan1701A@startrek.website · 1 pts · 74d
Killing of the farmers will be a new excuse to increase the price of food
fireweed@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 74d
Poor Idaho. Such a beautiful state with such ugly people.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 12 pts · 74d
Damn.
Hard agree.
It really does have some breathtaking landscapes... but it also really is largely populated by ... pretty much direct descendants of either the Klan, or the Mormons that were too insane for the mainline Mormons.
Doomsider@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 74d
I lived in small town Idaho. It was atrocious, I would not recommend.
zane@infosec.pub · 2 pts · 74d
I'm there right now. These people cannot fucking drive.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 73d
How to fix America in roughly one, simple, extremely unpopular step:
Literally everyone with a drivers liscense has to fully retest, written and driving, every single year.
Make the tests cost nothing, and make it so (if it isn't the case already), every state has a non drivers liscense ID, and no, no you cannot farm out the actual tests to some kind of contracted private entity.
Drivers liscenses always expire one year after issue date. Non drivers liscense IDs? 10 years.
Within 5 years I'm guessing the number of people regulalry driving cars drops by about 50%.
Infrastructure degrades less quickly.
Personal finances improve as less people are routinely cleaned out by hilariously overpriced predatory car loans.
Car insurance rates and traffic accidents drop dramatically.
People begin to demand functional public transit, walk/bike compatible urban layouts and renovations.
Public transit and walkable places force people to have a higher baseline for general social decency, result in people realizing that physically experiencing other people is fundamentally not optional in this thing we call 'society'.
Hell, even oil becomes relatively less expensive, thus somewhat moderating general inflation.
... All of this, something like this would happen, if we were just actually serious about getting and keeping incompetent drivers off the road.
VinegarChunks@lemmus.org · 12 pts · 74d
So much of modern conservatism is based on intentionally un-learning the hard-learned lessons if the past.
nightwatch_admin@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 75d
RFK Jr., the DAD (Double Agent Democrat) lol
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 75d
It’s hilarious that he was supposed to spoil democrats and ended up spoiling Trump- so they offered him the current job.
This is why we can’t have nice things.
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 75d
And what an asshole for all of those things.
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org · 7 pts · 75d
Idiots meet consequences
fox2263@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 75d
That’s the rule. That’s the goal now.
CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de · 6 pts · 74d
I drove through Idaho.
Are there 60 people there, outside of Boise? I remember driving for miles and miles without seeing another car or even having the horizon change. Nebraska and South Dakota were populous and varied by comparison!
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 74d
You know, its funny.
In many ways, we in the US are just doing the 1910's, 20's, 30's, all over again.
A big thing back then is what we now call scientific racism, eugenics.
Generally speaking, it was a bunch of unfounded psuedo science that purportrd to stem from Darwin's theories, but... didn't really actually have any sensible data or theory backing it up.
... the difference is that this time, eugenics part two electric boogaloo... its largely, not entirely, but to a great extent being used by ignorant bigots to hurt themselves, instead of other kinds of people.
So... would the meta of this be that eugenics and psuedo science and anti-intellectualism actually are a functional, definable evolutionary or maybe social mechanism, it just... basically works in the opposite way that morons think it does?
Etterra@discuss.online · 2 pts · 74d
Time is a flat circle, we all know it.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 74d
Ah, the ironies of self aware mortality...
InfernoWarrior@piefed.social · 6 pts · 75d
Stop. Drinking. Raw. Milk. Pasturise the milk! Lol.
JesusTheCarpenter@feddit.uk · 6 pts · 74d
I've had enough. I don't care. If stupid people want to drink raw milk, take dewormer, don't vaccinate, etc. let them do it.
webadict@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 74d
Uh, wow, okay buddy, do your research! You can drink raw milk just fine! You just gotta heat it up to kill all the bad bacteria! I just wish there was some sort of way to do it faster than boiling, but obviously science hasn't evolved that far, and I need my milk to prove I'm not a DUMBOCRAT (A lot of people don't know dumb has a b in it. Why don't my kids talk to me anymore?)
Starik@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 74d
Not enough. More!
Paulsylvania@lemmus.org · 1 pts · 73d
Their body their choice.
switcheroo@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 70d
Enjoy your Darwin awards, I guess. Dumb dumb dumb.
You get what you voted for.
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 74d
Does their health insurance cover "stupid"?
pyre@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 74d
they're American. if they have it, it covers nothing.
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 74d
Mine covers everything. I'm sorry
ayyy@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 74d
Well…it claims to cover everything. Until something happens. Then suddenly the cup of water you got was out of network and the fart you did was denied because it required prior authorization.
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 74d
That seems far fetched. I've not had that experience.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 74d
Ah yes, the millions of people who have shared their stories about their experiences are invalid and ignored because you haven’t personally experienced it. Standard Republican logic.
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 74d
I didn't say anything to invalidate anything. You're completely wrong about everything. Take care now. B'bye.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 74d
I must have misunderstood what you meant by “far-fetched” then, because to me that reads like you saying the endless stories aren’t true.