lemmus

joined 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Benjamin Franklin was 70 when he signed the Declaration of Independence, the oldest person to do so.

If that’s a fact Americans might see as meaningful, the US could cap taking office as President if over 70 on election day (effectively 74 is oldest at end of term), same for the House (oldest 72), Senate (oldest 76), and the Supreme Court… just force retirement at 70 instead of death.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (6 children)

So much for liberté.

[–] [email protected] 122 points 1 month ago (7 children)

A healthy democracy for sure.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Absolutely. So many sensible sized European cars aren’t sold in the US because bullshit market research says small car bad big truck good.

 

The U.S. and U.K. led a series of airstrikes in Yemen on Thursday evening, setting off alarms globally about how the attacks play into the smoldering regional risk of conflict — including a stream of questions from Congress about whether Biden was legally authorized to conduct the strikes at all.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 10 months ago (12 children)

I still donate to Inkscape each month (please do the same at https://inkscape.org/support-us/donate/), but it became unusable for me on macOS, unfortunately. I now use Serif Affinity.

Inkscape is fantastic on Linux. I’d highly recommend it!