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Some people have a bad reaction to shaving in general. If I recall correctly, black people have a stronger predisposition to having that issue, but I have no idea the mechanism behind it. I assume it's something with the hair being different since head hair is often texturally different from what white people have. I'm not familiar with it happening in other ethnic groups, but I don't know much about it, so it's possible.

Bruh dems voted for it. They did what they could with the votes they had at the time. REPUBLICANS stone walled it because it's party over country for them. They probably hoped that almost getting lynched by an angry fucking mob the sitting president refused to call in the National Guard on would get at least enough to flip to convict, but nope, republicans will apparently literally die before they vote for country over party.

Primarily republicans. That's the party that benefits most from voter suppression, gerrymandering, shitty voting systems, etc. Ranked choice voting exists in some capacity in over a dozen states, and it trends heavily towards left leaning states.

The more important fact, however, is that it's an unknown idea that's not interesting enough to attract attention over more immediate problems.

Ranked choice voting exists in some regions of the US already. It sure as fuck won't come from the Republicans, but if voters actually cared to demand it, they could see it happen. It's not impossible, just utterly unknown to most of the populace.

You're never going to get meaningful change voting third party under the American voting system. A first past the post voting system will ALWAYS result in a two party system. If we hurt the current parties by voting third party enough to kill one, we'll just replace the dead party. It might be an improvement at first, but eventually, all the same forces push us back into the same end result after a while.

The US needs major reform to the electoral system. Switch from first past the post to something like ranked choice or approval voting. Abolish the fucking electoral college, which some states are attempting with a law to automatically grant all electoral college votes to the popular vote winner if enough states agree to make it guarantee the winner. Expand and guarantee access to mail in voting. And indirectly, reinvest in the fucking education system.

Of course, with full control of the federal government going to Republicans who benefit from all these problems, there's no way any of it gets addressed now.

I had similar thoughts in 2016 when he had a first attempt, and it was a dumpster fire. I'm not optimistic this time around.

While I definitely think there's truth in what you say, I don't think it's the real reason. The posture car seats try to put you in is just not good sometimes. If the seat itself lets you sit up straight, the headrest juts out, or the headrest is okay but the seat is curved into a bowl. It's comfy for lazy sitting, which is what most people will want to settle into, but if you try to be mindful of your posture, you're doing it without real support from your seat.

And you're absolutely starving, yes.

There's an actual process for it that's underway. I don't remember the details, but it's approaching the final stages. So basically, Biden has in fact been working on it, he's just doing it properly so it's harder to overturn for petty bullshit republican reasons.

He didn't even want to buy Twitter, just manipulate the stock price by talking about buying it. Dumbass signed too much paperwork and waived too many rights, though, and found himself obligated to buy it anyway. Pretty sure he tried to fight it and lost.

So now he's trying to not burn all his money, but he's fucking terrible at it, so he's just becoming a laughing stock.

Didn't one of the military branches release the Tictac video or something and admit they didn't know what the fuck it was? It's not an admission of aliens, but it kinda is an admission that UFOs exist.

Got my bachelor's and wanted to go to PhD, but realizing this has me strongly considering skipping it. I want to do the research, but holy shit, there's so much other bullshit, and it's so fucking competitive for funding. Since I'm considering an international move, I also have to consider how stable my position will be so I don't get deported. I want to push science forward, but I dunno if I can wade through all the bullshit to get my chance to...