The blank ballot can be easily remedied by allowing the spoiling of ballots, or marking the vote in a way that doesn't indicate any choice.

I think this is a reasonable and valuable method of expressing political opinion, especially as this form can be counted. It also ensures that it was a deliberate choice and not just apathy.

Along the same path as incentivising people to vote, perhaps it should be cities/voting areas that get punished somehow for low voter turnout.

Expatriation means losing basically every right in the charter, and is politically equivalent to execution. This reason (failing to vote) is also heavily biased towards people with less control over their lives, and disrupting someone from voting could be used as a weapon.

I can see punishments for failing to vote, but such an extreme response should be reserved for those who explicitly choose not to vote, and such a system would need a rigorous judgment to act on.

Having such a thin line between citizenship and expatriation is too dangerous. On one hand, choosing not to vote may be considered a serious enough act, but on the other hand there are dozens of reasons a vote can fail to be cast, and they would all need to be addressed before something as serious as expatriation is considered as a punishment.

It's full implementation is unacceptable as a hard rule. I agree with doing a lot to ensure everyone votes, but removing rights for reasons beyond one's control is the opposite of helpful.

I could see this if every opportunity was made to allow it.

Loosing citizenship due to a debilitating illness is completely unacceptable for example.

With how much electricity they devour, I'd be mad if they needed oxygen too.

So it's like chewing cud, except it's multiple passes of the same stomach instead of different stomachs.

I think it has to do with the flimsy paper cups and being spill resistant. To drink out of those cups directly means no lid, whichakes spills a lot more likely and far worse.

I have seen some places use lids you can drink from (usually only coffee lids, but costco has them for fountain drinks), but that's still plastic waste almost necessary for drinking.

Expatriation is a bit extreme, especially when we don't even have a voting holiday. I agree with a strong incentive though, perhaps a 1-3% tax rebate?

TL;DR: Beaks are a lot lighter and more easily adapted than teeth.

It doesn't pay taxes.

That message behavior is more or less what happens in Boost for Lemmy. Whichever app/website you're using can implement that differently.

They aren't insects, but most arachnids have book lungs, which are basically a pocket full of air gills.

A fine for every day the problem persists, at a reasonable 1% of daily revenue, enforced by ban.

Those things tend to be full of fancy bells and whistles too, and many don't even get a full legth bed anymore. The market isn't targeting workers with them.

"Experiences" was a typo, I meant "Expenses". I think this is more of a roomate situation, where rent and utilities are shared, but food, taxes, and recreation are not. Paying more of the rent may indirectly allow your roommate to spend more on streaming services, you're not ever paying for their subscriptions directly.

That said, official clarification is definitely a good thing.

I think Fedecan donations go toward shared infrastructure expenses and projects, while sh.itjust.works donations go toward SJW expenses exclusively.

sh.itjust.works donations would go toward shared experiences expenses to some extent, but not other Fedecan projects.

I'm not part of the project though, that's just my interpretation.

Legolas can also tell that they carry spears and their leader is taller than average. Spectral information is unlikely to tell him that.

It's kind of a thing in certain animals, but not wolves like originally claimed. The certain animals here being mostly primates, so it's even more applicable.

That said, the politics of social primates are notoriously complex and many cultures have unique behaviors within the species, so there aren't really any universal rules particularly among the most social groups.

There's a reason the guy in the meme is dressed like a clown.

I think it's been styled to match the spectrographs in the background.

Still hard to read.