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I'll just leave this here... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Marino#Government https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections_in_San_Marino Their first elections were in 1906. :nonono: Nice try. they were having 'elections' long before 1906. they were not general elections, just like elections in the ...

for 20 years after the USA civil war it had two governments. why does that not trigger your category change? What the actual fuck are you talking about? Hot Take: He's a southerner complaining that the lack of representation by the true south elections, because they cheated with all them black vote...

angelfromanotherpin wrote:A 'democratic tradition' isn't a country. An unsuccessful rebellion isn't a change of government. Take a fucking PoliSci class and stop making category errors.

for 20 years after the USA civil war it had two governments. why does that not trigger your category change?

The article itself makes the case for the US. If you have a local representative body that has no power because you are ruled by a foreign state, that seems to be a problem. Like Scotland? or Canada? In few or none of these examples is your statement true, I think. I am often wrong though. But if s...

You said math. Did you mean these countries didn't exist before these dates? or that they were not democracies before then? Does slave owners owning slaves votes, to cast as they will count as democracy? How does your math work on this? The Republic of Iceland was constituted in 1944. And how did th...

There's only one older fucking country on the whole fucking planet. Name any quality that the United Kingdom did not have in 1785 and the United States is the oldest country to have that quality. -Username17 Dear Frank. Check your white history https://www.history.com/news/what-is-the-worlds-oldest...

If you call a country where black people weren't allowed to vote a democracy, then, yes, the USA are the oldest continuous democracy. There's only one older fucking country on the whole fucking planet. Name any quality that the United Kingdom did not have in 1785 and the United States is the oldest...

But we're also the first modern democracy (or oldest continuous democracy) so it makes sense that we're weird. There are very few definitions of these words that can make this sentance true. But I guess you only need one. There are older, more democratic democracies. One can argue the American rebe...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_electricity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relative_permittivity the delay is more than the interconnects. I think we can assume tall people just have more interconnects. its not like the systems scale to the variations in the specie. like, bones are longer, not...

Um. When modern media wants a group of baddies to look badass, it’ll often borrow design elements from Nazi uniforms. It’s not hard to understand why; the Nazis famously had their uniforms designed by professional fashion designers, including runway mogul Hugo Boss, and it worked wonderfully in ter...

Dear Denzians; um... I can't find a great set of posts on the 'MAGIC SOOUULLLSSSS' take down of libertarian thought. I have a set of bookmarks I thought was in it is missing it. Goggle Foo failed me. If anyone can post a link to it, that would be awesome. Or any other critiques of libertarian though...

Prak_Anima wrote:Nope. I have not. And I'm still not seeing it.

Come on, he posted it twice... heh

That's a big chunk out of the nearly $80B that we federally spend on education (including college grants and such). Just sayin. When I last looked at federal education food programs were funded out of the DoA budget, as your linked study confirms. So it is not part of the 80B figure. In fact probab...

and maybe some protection from bullshit lawsuits for doctors, Fucktarded bullshit! Every state that has enacted "tort reform" has seen exactly 0 effect on health care costs. America spends a lot on education, but we also have tremendous mission creep because schools are so often the only ...

(on the other side, teacher unions are so powerful that getting rid of pedophiles in some states is such a chore that they can remain on the books drawing salaries for years as their appeals go through). Fucktarded Bullshit. There was another fucktard that wrote a book that tried this same bullshit...

Bullshit It does not pass the smell test. I fail to believe synthetic processes are unable to give everything one needs. I fail to believe that Beavers are harvested for their anal glands for mass produced food products. An artisanal perfume, yes. 1Million pounds of food a year? No fucking way. Its ...

So, how does the rate of suicide attempts in the US compare to that in other countries? We have about the number of attempts per capita as England, but we have almost twice the number of successes. Tussock's conspiracy theory that people in the United States who attempt to kill themselves just &quo...

How prevalent is it for businesses to require/encourage overtime and have employees plan their finances around getting it? Why wouldn't you as an employer seek to hire more people rather than continue to pay your crew overtime for months? Why would you, as an employee, just assume that you were goi...

A hard vacuum means a vacuum created for the purpose of maximum vacuum No. There is no maximum vacuum. You can always spend more money to get more molecules out. OK but we are talking about NASA making a vacuum chamber to test shit going into space. As opposed to a vacuum chamber to do high altitud...

Does anyone have a suggestion for a way heat water, preferably without an outlet, and without turning making a cup of coffee on the go a huge, attention grabbing production? Does the cafeteria sell tea? Usually that's a bag and you add hot water from a coffee caldron that has no coffee. Get the hot...

3) Dump ~20 pounds of air into both That is approximately seven cubic meters of air (at normal conditions). Are you suggesting that that came through the hose in fifteen seconds? Or that that is how much was in his suit? Or are you suggesting that large amounts of air can significantly change the p...

Ima go all Socratic on your ass... 1) "It's just a vacuum chamber, not hard space." The dangerous part of space is the vacuum, and the difference between that vacuum chamber and hard space is probably measured in nanopascals . That difference simply won't matter; for all intents and purpos...

A human exposed to zero pressure passes out instantly. NASA has film on this. I've heard otherwise. Project Rho says that you would pass out in "about ten seconds"; NASA says fifteen. http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/answers/970603.html If you get a chance to see the video in q...

Also, people do very, very well at short term exposure to low pressure. The first Russian spacewalk didn't account for how much the space suit would inflate, so the cosmonaut could not fit back through the hatch. He solved that by popping off his helmet , then quickly getting back in his space caps...

did not the US just about DOUBLE the min wage? Did the sky half fall? Are you high? The US Federal Minimum wage is $7.25. It became effective in 2009, it was a raise from 2008 from $6.55. That's not even close to doubling. The current Minimum wage, is not quite double the minimum wage from 1990. I'...