azimir

@azimir@lemmy.ml

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do PhDs HAVE to use Dr?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re a professor with a doctorate in Germany, the official way to refer to you is Professor Doctor [last name]. If you hold two doctorates it’s Professor Doctor Doctor.

  Professor is also a serious and registered title in Germany. You can’t just start a school and start handing out professorships without oversight and approval.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨California auto insurance costs set to rise by 54%, new report says⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree with the cost of private cars in the US are detrimentally low. We have insanely subsidized gas, the car owners don’t pay for the cost of the roads (see federal gas tax being laughably low), and the side effect health hazards (noise, plastics dust, crash deaths) are considered normal despite the sheer suffering they cause.

  That said, making cars more painful (cost/time) must be coupled with the work of rebuilding our infrastructure to modern standards. This means normal frequency mass transit (8 minute or less intervals), separated bike roads, and pedestrian safety put over car speed.

  It can be done (there’s solutions to all of the superficial emotional jabs people seem to throw online), it just takes work to get our cities back from the clutches of the car only thinking we’ve been doing for 60+ years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Biden died tomorrow and Harris took over? and she won the election also. Could she work full two terms or would it count as one when Biden died?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t need the voters. You need the states.

  We’re about to find out what happens when states refuse to recognize the winner of the Electoral College. Georgia, Arizona, and likely other states are going to fuck the state votes and refuse to certify.

  If you can get enough state reps and congressional reps to vote for you each cycle (as VP), then take over from the sham president, you could effectively be president forever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How the American war on porn could change the way you use the internet⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There was some way to either steal a “dirty” magazine, buy one from an older teenager, or check out the one you found at your friend’s house that his dad had in a drawer somewhere.

  If all else failed, there was always the Sears catalog.

  Pitching your desire to block pornography against the collective sex drives of the whole populace is a recipe for you losing and look stupid doing it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can we all agree to look up a local third party candidate and mention their name to someone you know who is also local?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) or literally any other preference voting system has mathematically and demonstrably better outcomes than the First Past the Post system most of the US uses today.

  If We the People want to keep having a democratic republic that even remotely represents us, we need to keep fighting for better access to voting rights, fair districting, and improved voting systems like RCV.

  Consider joining up and helping out: fairvote.org