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[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

If the polls close while you’re still in line, stay in line – you have the right to vote.

I feel like that is worded poorly. I think it should say something more like...

  • If the closing time for the polls passes while you are in line, don't panic. As long as you are in line before closing time, and stay in line, the polls will stay open long enough for you, and everyone else that was in line on time, to vote.

Granted it's not as pithy, but the first version just gives me the mental image of a bunch of people belligerently standing in line in the dark at a locked door demanding to be let in.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 days ago (1 children)

But instead we just lock up the criminal, because it’s cheaper.

Except, in the long run, it's not. It's only cheaper within the scope of one or two election cycles. Over the long haul, weighing the costs and economic benefits of making person a productive member of society again, it's way cheaper to do that. But nobody ever won an election promising to spend more money now so that we don't have to spend nearly as much in a few decades.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Make sure you do so in the next week.

No! Tuesday! 4 days away. You don't have a week. You've barely got half of a week. And half of those days are the weekend.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

That's what the worm wants you to think.

 

The world has experienced its hottest day on record, according to meteorologists.

The average global temperature reached 17.01C (62.62F) on Monday, according to the US National Centres for Environmental Prediction.

The figure surpasses the previous record of 16.92C (62.46F) - set back in August 2016.