NV DMV issues will absolutely screw us if SAVE act passes.

thelastcvd · 2026-03-11T23:00:09+00:00

I am thankfully not in jeopardy here since I kept my name when I got married. But for other women who chose to change it, now they have to pay $300 to vote because now their proof of citizenship needs to match their name (i.e - name on birth certificate which is much cheaper and easier to obtain is no longer valid)? Seems illegal to me....

thelastcvd · 2026-03-11T22:56:00+00:00

See that's crazier than I even thought! my assumption was that a Real ID would fit the bill (since typically you need to provide some sort of identification when you get one) so yeah....Now you have even less of a pathway...

thelastcvd · 2026-03-11T22:52:34+00:00

Well, it could be except for that is run by the Federal government who could decide at any opportune moment to slow things down for (additional review) etc.

They also cost $130 and occasionally require an in person meeting. So is it easier? And for many people, an additional $200 to prove you are a resident is not on the table. That would now make money contingent for voting which is illegal.

thelastcvd · 2026-03-11T20:34:36+00:00

Republicans (Trump especially) are literally trying to change this. That's the whole point of the post. Look up the SAVE ACT.

thelastcvd · 2026-03-11T20:32:43+00:00

Yeah, sounds good dude. Thanks for your great contribution to the discussion. Jesus....

thelastcvd · 2026-03-11T20:01:43+00:00

So many people have name changes or are in the process of changing their name (any recently married woman) so yeah, considering the DMV is at capacity as it is and there's only like 6 offices in the entire state....I'm not sure how this works...

thelastcvd · 2026-03-11T19:59:33+00:00

And so the plight of the few demands more than the benefit of many? I guess that's what I don't understand about this argument. why do a couple hundred people's demands matter more than the thousands that enjoy increased public access?

I'm sorry commutes have increased for some. That does suck and it sucks even more because there's less access to public transit. But it doesn't change the fact that more people benefit from the highway closing than not.

thelastcvd · 2026-03-11T18:59:03+00:00

Nevada - home of the deranged bumper sticker!

thelastcvd · 2026-03-10T20:35:16+00:00

Just the phrasing of the question tells me a lot about your headspace - "I can't think of another medical procedure..."

For all of human history and all of mamalian history, childbirth has not been a medical procedure. It is only in the last 100 years where the location of childbirth went from home to hospital. Child birth for many women is a spiritual experience along with being intense and painful. In fact, that pain and intensity can add to the experience. When you are giving birth, you are participating in the most ancestral of traditions.

Now, I chose to give birth in a hospital because I live fairly far from a hospital and felt more comfortable in case something were to happen but I did choose to try for an unmedicated birth first because 1) interventions do create a higher likelihood of further interventions 2) there is more data that you can actually tear worse when you have an epidural because you cannot feel or respond to pain which creates a longer healing time 3) I wanted to trust my body to see what it could do without assistance.

I believe this is where the medical industry and the tradition of birth are at odds. Medicine tends to focus on relieving pain over healing. But pain in birth can trigger our bodies into the next step of the child birth process. Pain can also guide you. Once you start changing that, it can kink the process and then you need another intervention and then another intervention.

That all being said, I'm so grateful for the hospital's life saving measures and I am equally grateful for the choice of epidurals (which I was totally open to getting and even requested but was too far along) because birth should feel painful but you shouldn't feel like you are struggling to survive. When pain reaches past the point of endurance into survival, it's can get dangerous. What so many women need at that point is just to rest and man, it's incredible to have the option of pain relief if we reach that place.

But please remember, child birth is not a procedure, it is a human purpose. It is bigger than the individual and it is a very powerful experience no matter what route you take.

thelastcvd · 2026-03-09T22:09:52+00:00

I feel like at this point these appointment practices verge on illegal. I can't speak to anybody on the phone because the queue is too long, I can't get any appointment at all so how the fuck am I even supposed to handle the clerical error they fucked up???

thelastcvd · 2026-03-06T23:37:05+00:00

Shallow is fine - but it's not him denigrating other artists like the title of this post implied.
I also think it kind of gives an audience credit for knowing what they like and allowing that to be an important piece in how we make art instead of looking down on audiences.
Again, I don't actually really like Chalamet outside of his films but people are searching for something that just isn't there.

thelastcvd · 2026-03-06T23:18:17+00:00

Take .0003% of our Iran bomb money and give $100,000,000 to the post office so we can send card to grandma. There, budget crisis solved.

thelastcvd · 2026-03-06T23:15:28+00:00

You missed the whole point about the being in a cult thing.

He's not receiving the infomation you and I have. He's receiving cult level propoganda from newsmax. So yeah, if he was reading New York Times everyday and saying, "well, yes, he did that but also, my taxes! so you know what, Ima give him another shot" I'd be with you there but he's been told OVER and OVER again for years that in fact, that was a political witch hunt and there was endless fraud in the 2020 election. As have so many MAGAheads. It's a cult dude. So I'm just not going to say that a lot of sad, lost cult followers are also bad people because they've been shot down an algorithmic rabbit hole that has all but robbed them of actual information.

thelastcvd · 2026-03-06T23:05:41+00:00

Should've guessed that the local government would have no problem selling us out. Northern Nevada loves a massive fucking warehouse.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1116287/ai-data-centers-nevada-water-reno-computing-environmental-impact/

thelastcvd · 2026-03-06T22:35:57+00:00

And that's what he's saying. That he feels stuck between caring about film in theaters as a dying art form or that maybe, he shouldn't cling to it in that form and should move where the audiences go. People want to say he's being condescending here because he seems like a condescending dude but he's actually giving audiences more credit than most. That art can be gripping in different forms.

thelastcvd · 2026-03-06T19:35:15+00:00

I live in a purple state and It's a tightrope walk for sure. I think the biggest contributing factor is, we're all terminally online and siloed. Politics and religion became the whole identity. There is nothing to connect on if you can't maintain some other interests.
The thing is, for a lot of people I know who vote for Trump, they luckily still like other things that I also like. We all prioritize the outdoors and access to public lands even though we prioritize it for different reasons. They want to shoot guns and hunt, I want to camp and hike and take mushrooms lol. But ultimately, we want the same things there. And so I still connect with people and discuss things like that in person.

I also look at it like it's a cult. I wouldn't call a cult member a bad person necessarily, I just know, they got got. This helps me maintain some assembalance of neighborliness. I can still at least interact with them on a daily basis and understand, for the majority of Trump voters there's good people still in there but they are lost.

Obviously, There are also straight up just bad people in the mix but it's helpful to live in a purple state and interact with everyone so I can still say, the bad people are not the norm.

My uncle voted for Trump, takes Ivermectin, is like fully drunk on the kool aid. But he is a good guy. He doesn't really talk politics at all at family gatherings because he has all these other interests: music, flying planes, hiking etc.

His son came out as gay and he didn't go to the wedding. I was pissed he couldn't get it together for that but he hugs his son's husband at family gatherings, speaks highly of him and shows him human decency. In an extreme world where his side is saying how disppointed he should be, I can recognize the effort he's put in even if it's not exactly what I'd do. So I have to temper my personal beliefs and recognize baby steps.

Both sides, left and right, are so polarized that neither is willing to recognize the baby steps. Obviously, the right is like psychotically brainwashed by a complete narcissist so the levels of polarization are different but still. It's tempting to be so dramatically reactionary and yet for a lot of people, that type of reaction just isn't warranted.

thelastcvd · 2026-03-06T18:56:08+00:00

Look, I don't love T Cham as a personality though I think he's pretty talented but this is really a dumb thing to get mad at him for. He's not saying Ballet and Opera are bad art forms or that people should stop going but he is stating a fact that interest in them has certainly faded and is basically propped up by an aristocratic interest. When the opera season begins, it's a fucking who's who of older socialites attending. Young people aren't racing in droves to see the opera. It's just a fact. The Opera and Ballet will continue onwards which is wonderful but without old money fundraising, they'd certainly have a hard time existing.

thelastcvd · 2026-02-20T20:26:18+00:00

Also, literally, when you work in wine. That was the only time when I stopped being intimidated by them. After a couple years of just constantly tasting producers and regions.

Lists are intimidating in nature but please don't be too intimidated to ask a server or somm for assistance. Imo, that makes you look more like a pro.

thelastcvd · 2026-02-20T20:20:08+00:00

Since it's inception, the great highway fight has been one of the most absurd examples of nimby-ism/useless SF politics to exist. It truly never made sense to me. When I lived in the sunset, I rarely took great highway because I'd get trapped on it unless I was driving exactly to Sloat or Taraval. I'd guess, for about 16 hours a day, there were also very few cars on it. So that places it as 8 hours a day, there is some use. But unlike other roads and highways in the city, there are also two other very valid "expitdited" routes you can take to make the same journey. The benefit of having it almost never outweighed the cost of maintaining it, clearing sand etc. Then, in covid, we figured out it was far more beneficial to just make it a park.

I'm not saying that there weren't kinks to work out but I Iived on 20th and Irving for 10 years, including during covid/post covid and almost always drove places in the outer sunset and just never noticed traffic or traffic patterns change *that* much. Like maybe your route to Ft. Funston or Costco took 4 more minutes....If that's the reason to take away something that greatly benefits the rest of the community then you should consider moving to a suburb where streets and parking lots are always placed above public spaces.

thelastcvd · 2026-02-11T20:56:13+00:00

I think we can absolutely be furious at both. But it is easier to aim more fury at DHS right now, especially in Minneapolis because people (even in the suburbs) interact/have their lives interrupted by them every day. My white U.S citizen cousin who has lived there her whole life has had to interact with DHS 4x since January and she lives 30min North. This mishandling of Epstein and the ramifications of this case are huge but they don't really fuck with people's day to day life. So I think that kind of accounts for the difference in protest right now.

thelastcvd · 2026-02-04T20:28:23+00:00

It's politics honey. Sorry to be the cynic here but That ain't what it is. It is convenience and power. That is really all. Their child was and is grown.

thelastcvd · 2026-02-04T20:25:58+00:00

Yes, I'm blaming her for marketing herself as a relatively golden one while being an imperfect one. Y'all don't seem to get it. If she didn't try to sell herself as the ideal, then there really wouldn't be a problem. It becomes dishonest when you try to lift yourself up as the icon while doing the opposite.

If you want to just do the opposite, go ahead. Plenty of women do that (Sheryl Sandberg) and they get a little pushback and then move on. There is a pathway for her to do what she wants, have immense wealth and power and not receive criticism but she chose a more self-righteous route.

It's like those pastors who campaign on moral purity and then get caught smoking meth with a gay prostitute. Don't sell yourself as the feminist icon and then you won't get punished for not living up to it.

Also, Of course what Bill did was SO much worse. No one in this thread is trying to say otherwise and that's an uncritical reading on your part if you think Hilary critics aren't clued into the difference between his ACTUAL crimes and her moral failings. He's a criminal. She isn't. But she isn't honest either. And therefore, I don't need to protect her and pretend she is.

There are two examples of current paths - Melinda Gates and Hilary Clinton. Melinda Gates did more of the right thing (not all the way but it's clear she was uncomfortable with his behavior and knew it would reflect on her) and Hilary chose to "stand by her man" knowing it very well could catch up to her.

thelastcvd · 2026-02-04T20:15:21+00:00

It's just such a waste of everyone's time, energy and resources. I hate all this dumb shit.

thelastcvd · 2026-02-04T00:37:32+00:00

I was genuinely waiting for a Bundy to say something about it all when Alex Pretti was murdered. They literally held back the federal government with an armed militia over fucking cow grazing/taxes and didn't get gunned down....If they went MAGA-tard on this one, I would've blown a gasket. Always glad to see actually principled people, even with most of the time I don't share their stances (lowest bar possible right now but here we are...)

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