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I don’t disagree, but I also don’t think that that’s enough on its face to determine with any certainty that muggles would “win” whatever conflict arose. An army would definitely have a tactical advantage, but wizards are presumably educated in order to be self-sufficient and many of the creature comforts they’re accustomed to can’t actually be acquired with muggle resources - at least from what we see in England, they have their own political systems, press, and currency.

Do not do this. You’ll create a Frankendebian and your updates could (and probably will) break your system. Try to use a PPA instead, since Ubuntu is Debian-based.

Hm, I guess you could say the selective service, no? If there’s a draft, men must present themselves (their bodies) for military service. It’s a bit of a bad faith answer, though, because there hasn’t been a draft in decades, meanwhile women’s bodily autonomy is being denied every day.

Honestly, I only really see wizards losing immediately in England, lol. It’s canon that many wizards can use spells silently and/or without a wand, and some even create their own spells; they could likely incapacitate a soldier (or many soldiers, depending on the spell) without raising suspicion by having to aim a wand or gun.

I dunno, Magneto gives the US Army a run for their money in X-Men - I would think a similarly talented or experienced wizard would have comparable powers.

It makes sense to withhold an endorsement to see if she’ll try to legitimately court progressives with substantive policy. I really don’t think she will but it’s worth a shot. Bernie’s old and his time in politics is coming to a close, but he knows how to be the squeaky wheel and make moves.

Doesn’t that mean that the church won’t marry you if the government hasn’t made it official?

That just follows the argument that the religious aspect is simply a voluntary add-on to the actual institution of marriage (a government-approved contract between individuals), which is the opposite of what the original commenter was arguing for.

Matrimony and marriage are separate already. If you want to get church-married, go for it. If you don’t, don’t. Doesn’t sound hard or like it needs to be changed.

Campaign length =/= “narrative development,” but okay. People can still do interviews and events and whatever, but no ads or official campaign duties.

It’s so obvious you’ve never had to think about this before or how it could work, which is exactly why I made my first comment.

And Elon Musk is 53. So?

Edit: This wasn’t meant to be about Musk, it’s supposed to point out that 59 isn’t old and that age cutoffs are largely arbitrary.

What analysis? This comment chain isn’t even about the text of the article. I’m not saying one is better than another, it’s just a fact that other countries have shorter campaigns. 3 months is also not worse than 12 months so I’m not sure what your point is.

A long campaign isn’t an inherent feature of democracy, it’s just what the current American reality is. That doesn’t matter to this particular election, but I’m pointing out that the way y’all do it isn’t the only way in case there are people who genuinely don’t know that.

Might be weird to Americans, but other countries like Canada actually limit their campaigns to 3 months total. I find it odd that you guys’ politicians have a relatively major election every 2 years and essentially don’t take a break from campaigning that entire time.

So do you use some kind of payment app that does a conversion or do you have to manually convert from Monero to fiat currency?

Most retailers don’t accept crypto at the point of purchase so I’m curious as to how this would be convenient enough to use regularly.

I am really enjoying the idea of using the phrase “original Hitler” in much the same way as someone might refer to original sin.

I don’t really carry one anymore, but the one I have at my desk has Ventoy and LMDE on it for when I need to mess with something requiring my system to be down or modify my OS partition. I don’t really do much on other PCs except when I have to help my wife with something.

When I was working at my last job I carried 2-3 with a ton of database backups and proprietary software and firmware files for clients’ automation systems. Kinda don’t miss it at all, but it sure made me feel important, lol.

Kbin/Mbin has this feature where you can block posts from a certain domain, maybe Lemmy does too? https://lemmy.ca/post/684030

Just a guess, but it’s probably cheaper. Specialist healthcare isn’t affordable.

You know a lot of straight people don’t want to be called straight either, right? They want to be called “normal” because they see gay people as freaks and don’t understand that words like straight, gay, trans, and cis are descriptive and neutral.

I bought BioFreaks for PS1 because it looked fun. I knew it would be janky and have weird physics, but it’s also got a weird dystopian story too!

To be fair, I was 8 or 9 at the time, but it’s an entertaining piece of shit, like Pitball (also for PS1).

Yeah, NBA League Pass doesn’t work on Linux either, they partnered with Microsoft to implement their new DRM and made the decision not to support Linux. I assume this is also the case here.

The only way to get around it is to use a virtual machine, which is silly.

Haha, yes, you would probably have to make it at least partially outdoors.

Try tumeric with a bit of paprika, maybe a bit of cayenne if you like spice. Add some ghee or butter if you want something more indulgent.