Certainly, at the presidential level, however I recall Congress having a bunch of “tea party” nut jobs elected that shut down the government over the passage of Obamacare.

I started paying attention in 2000, even though I didn’t really understand it and couldn’t vote, however my first voting election was 2004 and I remember being disappointed when John Kerry lost to Bush, who had already gotten us involved in two wars that would cost trillions of dollars.

My experience has been that Republican administrations tend to be rife with corruption, cut taxes for rich people and run up the deficit.

Eventually, people get sick of the moral decay and tanking economic prospects and put a democrat back in, who tries to undo all the damage, but is blocked most of the time by Republicans in Congress acting in bad faith.

Then, the right wing media environment drums up a load of fear about immigrants and actual lies about the economy to get everyone voting for a Republican again.

That’s the cycle, except the Republican media ecosystem gets more extreme over time, and so do the candidates.

Some states still require you to file even if you don’t live there, but have ties, and may tax your income.

Not if you live in a state with state and local income tax. They capped SALT deductions, so you’re basically paying tax on taxed income.

Why is Ukraine against?

You got in at a bad time and probably picked some subpar investments. You likely bought some big tech stocks at the worst possible time, and many of them never recovered because they were way over valued to begin with.

Stick with total market or sp500 fund like VTI or VOO. You’d be up right now if you had.

Also, it sounds like you invested once and then never bought more? The whole point is that you’re buying more every paycheck. You’d be way up if you’d kept investing through 2022 when prices were low.

Retirement accounts with the right funds are supposed to be set it and forget it. Make the automatic contribution every paycheck and look at it maybe once or twice a year. Otherwise, let it be.

I always wondered this too. It was a good idea 15 years ago. But, they don’t offer enough to justify the price. Literally everyone offers cloud storage now and a million other features too.

Isn’t it most Gen-Z men are Trump supporters now?

Do China next

I want Lemmy to be a viable alternative and do use it. But, the lack of niche communities makes it harder. I do go back to Reddit from time to time for that fix and to keep up with a few things.

I think Lemmy is some times so far left to the point of absurdity. If you point out that absurdity people will still downvote you.

I’ve seen far left folks practically suggesting that Biden isn’t doing enough reign in Israel, so we might as well elect Trump. When I point out that no, actually that would be worse, we should still vote democrat, people will downvote with a straight face. Like what position are you actually advocating for with those downvotes? Some times it feels like folks would rather walk off a cliff than hold a somewhat moderate opinion grounded outcomes and reality here.

I like how they were like “you can’t fork this repo” and it’s like — actually yes I can.

Until it rains

I degoogled in 2018. Not much would change for me.

I don’t play this game. I buy my own unlocked phone and find prepaid cell service at a fraction of the cost.

It’s ugly af. Hope some designer can volunteer to set them straight.

The original question was whether legally they could toss his ballot if he died before Election Day. I think the state probably has the means to locate a ballot.

If a password manager stores passkeys, how is that much different than just using a password manager with passwords?

Aside from your needlessly hostile response — They can tell if you voted. Your ballot is linked to your name.

If he died on Nov. 5th, would they invalidate his vote?