Dude who are you arguing with? I never said anything about those incredibly specific situations you’re talking about.

I already gave two things that a smaller population size might effect when it comes to elections. I am sure there are many other things that having a smaller population affects that I haven’t even considered.

I should have been more clear. I never said the words “egalitarianism” or “authoritarianism”.

That would be those “either” of the things I was referring to me having not said.

Smaller population simply means each person’s vote counts for more. Easier for small groups to have an effect when they only need to reach a smaller number of potential voters.

EDIT: spelling

…I never said either of those things?

I’m a bit more optimistic. This is just the pendulum swinging back as it always does. Don’t worry it’ll probably swing the other way in 4 years most likely.

Doesn’t sound like the worst way to spend an afternoon all things considered.

Well that’s… Good to hear? Certainly sounds better than whatever shit show the US currently has kicking off.

Our government took 3 billion dollars of our tax money to bolster our Internet infrastructure.

That was like 12 years ago. The money just vanished and they went “oops”. God I wish we had fiber everywhere.

I used to have fiber but now I’m on lowly copper gigabit lol

I’m not gonna pretend I know the exact details of how much of a slide and to what severity each countries election is going. I was nearly saying that it seems global we are in the middle of a shift right is all.

I never said the politics were the same as my country.

And many countries are currently in the middle of or already have elected right wing leaders. Not really propaganda when it’s verifiably a fact.

Well that’s cheating. Easy to brag about internet speeds when you live inside of a data center lol.

That reminds me of an article from a few years back of this old woman in I wanna say Switzerland as well that at the time had the “fastest internet in the world”. She said she used it to look up gardening tips lol.

I hope she had a dope garden.

Oh absolutely not. It’s a much smaller population and being an island it’s got a figurative and literal buffer to the rest of the world.

I have always loved New Zealand. It’s like the cooler uncle of Australia minus all the spiders the size of my head.

And it’s just a beautiful place. Makes me wanna go frolicking in the mountains with an elf, dwarf and old white guy lol

I paid for gigabit I’m gonna use the whole gigabit lol

Isn’t New Zealand currently going through their own slide to the right? The Māori only represent like ~17% of the population over there. New Zealand just elected a conservative coalition.

Seems like you’re just moving from one place you (presumably) don’t agree with to a new place that also just signed up for shit you probably aren’t going to agree with.

I mean it looks beautiful but if your travel is for political reasons I fear you’re just heading to a different slice of the same.

Have a safe flight.

Oh I am very aware. We once had like an inch of hail build up on the streets around here. This is a city that hasn’t seen snow or ice on the roads since like 1897 mind you. Anyway when that small sheet of slushy ice plopped down it basically gridlocked the city with accidents because nobody slowed down or anything. People really don’t take changing conditions into account very often.

I mean if it’s things you can go get again why not party hard and just use RAID0?

Im just kidding that’s such a pain in the ass if anything breaks.

Rare restraint from the Floridians. I’m surprised nobody is out with a lifted truck, rope and sled. We usually see that every time is snows below the typical elevations around here.

This is why we use RAID6 and not RAID5

Snow>beach

That being said you live in Florida and you’re being robbed of your sun which ain’t cool.

How are the drivers handling it? I know when snow goes places it typically doesn’t go lots of drivers don’t change any behaviors which leads to many many cars in ditches and piled up.

I give thumbs up all the time. Usually two of them at the same time with a forced smile to let people know I wanna turn into oncoming traffic every day.

I used to live up near Lake Tahoe. I lost count of how many city folk would think all wheel drive would be enough and skipped chains/cables.

One of our favorite things was watching people pour hot coffee or water on their frozen windshield. Man that never stopped being hilarious to watch. They would often just stand there in disbelief after their windshield shattered lol.