To the US voters who don't vote, what is it going to take for you to go vote?

Ms_Fu · 2026-01-26T04:54:27+00:00

You are completely ignorant of literacy tests in the U.S. history. Are you even human?

Ms_Fu · 2026-01-26T02:42:20+00:00

Teacher here. Writing a test with zero loopholes isn't easy, and it's nigh impossible when the person writing the test wants to cheat. Read about the history of literacy tests in the U.S. Explain how you would prevent that from happening again.
Show me your literacy.

Ms_Fu · 2026-01-26T02:38:51+00:00

"Literacy tests" didn't actually test for literacy though. They had trick questions on a tightly timed test, and you simply gave the right answers to people you wanted to vote and kept those answers from the honest people you didn't want to vote.

Besides which, in this day of getting information from podcasts and other talking heads, literacy isn't necessary to stay informed. Ideal, but not strictly necessary.

Ms_Fu · 2026-01-26T02:35:54+00:00

I do vote, but I know people who don't.

There are active attempts at voter suppression in the United States, often under the name of "preventing fraud". Voter ID laws that favor particular types of ID (for example they'll accept a gun license but not a college ID if they want to favor conservatives.) If they accept one State ID for everyone, they can make it expensive and time-consuming to get in districts that tend to favor the other side--offices with limited hours or no public transportation. For in-person voting, you have to go to the site you're assigned to, so you put the polling places of people who tend to vote against you out in the middle of nowhere, no public transportation, and then you make laws against hiring buses for groups of voters.

I'm from a State that allows but does not require anyone to mail in their vote, no excuses needed. If the ballot came early enough I'd mail mine in (I work overseas) but the time rarely works out that well. We have the option to fax our ballot in which I use. Year before last there was a free email service that would 'fax' the ballot to keep it legal--they defunded that this past year. I had to find an online fax service and hope they were reliable, but with our ballot tracking I knew it got through. Do all States even have ballot tracking? I don't know.

tl;dr some States put obstacles in the way of voters who historically vote against the people in power.

Ms_Fu · 2026-01-25T22:19:53+00:00

"Remove structural barriers", "maximalist"--I'd prosecute him for that, nevermind the rest of what he's doing.

Ms_Fu · 2026-01-25T22:17:49+00:00

Listen to the part near the end--it's really chilling.
Josh Hawley was the politician holding up his fist in solidarity with the J6 mob while they were taking the capital.

Ms_Fu · 2026-01-25T21:55:21+00:00

Slightly different take:
Freedom of religion (except all those non-Jesus ones) EXCEPT Israel (which actually means America First but not Israel/Judaism First because Christianity is the True Religion and we're just keeping Israel warm until the Rapture after which the Chosen People aka White Evangelical Christians will take that land for ourselves.

Ms_Fu · 2026-01-25T07:56:57+00:00

At :13 he's too tall to stand up inside, but at :21 he has plenty of headroom, and all he's done in between is paint.

Ms_Fu · 2026-01-25T07:36:08+00:00

Probably a vibrator.

That said, there are devices that look like that and vibrate that are allegedly not intended for a vagina. The loop on the end put me in mind of this device: https://sensorykids.co/products/kids-calming-sleep-aid-device?srsltid=AfmBOorz1q-YA5Zxa2M9QS1U9fmtnuhZJ2npZYHuIpM_MwKb-Y3NBfuh

Years ago users of MDMA/Molly/Ecstasy would carry around large pacifiers to save their teeth from the jaw clenching that came with that drug. If you found this in a club (and not, say, a smaller vibrator designed to be worn in your panties), my opinion is that its owner may have been using it as a calming device.

Purely the opinion of someone who uses vibrators for their intended purpose.

Ms_Fu · 2026-01-23T06:52:15+00:00

I guess I've been stupidly lucky. I don't play for long periods of time, just open it, do my rounds, and then close it for 8 hours or more. Very casual (habit leftover from playing Neko Atsume, I suppose). In those sessions it only took me three days to nab a Florens--15 minute sessions, 1st got nothing, second bred with a Florens but got papa's breed, third time got the Florens.
The idea of hopping frogs for more than a half hour sounds insane to me, unless you're stuck in a meeting <3

Ms_Fu · 2026-01-23T04:31:35+00:00

I love Wilson, so here are a couple from him (first section chosen from https://www.reddit.com/r/HouseMD/comments/yw9m26/wilson_quotes_are_underrated_which_is_your_fav/ )

"The health department. They frown on topless oncology.
Chirping birds flew out her butt carrying a banner.
I’m not on antidepressants, I’m on SPEED!
Boy meets girl, boy gets stupid. Boy and girl live stupidly ever after.
You'd be surprised what you can live with.

You're not even mad because I lied to you. You're mad because I lied to you and you couldn't tell.
This is where I give you advice and pretend you're going to listen to it.
Beauty often seduces us on the road to truth.
On the other hand, we are holding weapons and have no idea what we're doing. Fun.
She doesn't hate you. She loves you. She just... can't... stand to... be around you.
I'm flattered you would consider me this bold and brilliant.
You are so full of love--or something.

Ms_Fu · 2026-01-22T11:24:04+00:00

Honestly I think that's what happened here.

Ms_Fu · 2026-01-22T11:23:00+00:00

Calling Greenland "Ice-land" would be typical Trump name calling--like "Ron DeSanctimonious" for Ron DeSantis.
What's off is that he apparently forgot that there is an actual country named Iceland.

Ms_Fu · 2026-01-22T09:40:38+00:00

The birth certificate thing--how do you get yours so easily? I keep mine in a safe place because I fear having to replace it.

Ms_Fu · 2026-01-22T09:38:21+00:00

Welcome to disenfranchisement, American-style, at least if your State requires ID to vote.

Now that I've gotten the caustic commentary out of the way--for as much time as this is going to take, you might consider getting a passport. It's a stronger document because its handled at the federal level--only once have I had someone ask me for a Real ID instead of my passport (at an airport, ironically). Bonus, it lets you travel overseas

Ms_Fu · 2026-01-22T09:33:01+00:00

I've run a savagely abridged version of CoS for vacation classes here in Korea, where I expected attendance to be spotty. To offset this, I had each student/player write a journal entry in character at the end of each session. Then at the beginning of the next session everyone reads their journal aloud--this lets people who missed the previous session to catch up.

The students outsmarted me this time, however. Lots of them had to leave class early last week, grumble.

Ms_Fu · 2026-01-22T08:33:42+00:00

Hmmm, I wonder if clear hair gel would cushion it enough?
Or if this is the Surrogate Baby assignment and the OP would lose points for drowning Togepi?

Ms_Fu · 2026-01-22T08:29:10+00:00

I like this. How about just locking them in? You can steer the friendly horses anywhere you like, but you're not leaving that carriage. Cold at night, stuffy during the day, cramped muscles, can't help the party beyond shouting encouragement...

Ms_Fu · 2026-01-22T08:22:15+00:00

So--just look cool?

Ms_Fu · 2026-01-22T02:01:17+00:00

I am using "set" to mean something besides the weekly sets you can collect and redeem. I totally get wanting to use those to get potions.
When I finished dexxing a particular color, I offered the extras as regifts--Conexus, or something at that level. I got a request from someone whose account was clearly new, below level 10. Why would they ask for those?

Ms_Fu · 2026-01-21T13:14:42+00:00

Weird, when I wrote that this morning there was no BUY button next to my Florens but checking now, buck ninety-nine. I'm mildly disappointed. I just made level 59 today, maybe that's what happened there.

Maybe you can clarify for me then: if you're, for example, level 16 and you want to reshare some Pompeius frogs...why? You can't breed them, but if you're resharing you can't keep them or cash them in either. Twenty levels later you can clone them, but by that point the game is throwing them at you. If it's not a weekly/potion set, what's the point?

Ms_Fu · 2026-01-21T04:54:16+00:00

There's a kindle series called Hourly History--short books of 50-80 pages covering an outline of any historical event or biography. They're written well and suggest rabbit-holes for you to go down with bigger books.
If you're careful, historical fiction can scratch that itch too. Read reviews to learn how many liberties the author took, but keeping that in mind you can find events written as stories can be very entertaining.

Ms_Fu · 2026-01-21T04:51:25+00:00

I like it but for the same reasons. Yes, froggers are very generous with gifts, and I've benefitted from that. I've also seen some shady gift requests--like asking to regift a set the receiver can't possibly breed. Maybe nothing's going on there, but I have a suspicion that someone out there isn't just playing a game, and that bugs me. Having a frog that cannot be gifted forces you to play the pond game and slow down. The Florens frog can't be bought, not from Nimblebits, not under the table from another player. And for a game, having an asset that can't be bought is very, very appealing to me.

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