I have read of tourists coming to Vienna and thinking there is anything worth seeing north of the Danube.
Unless you count the UN headquarters, there isn’t. All of that is a completely unstructured and boring mix of industrial, commercial and residential zones mostly built after WW2 like you find anywhere in the world.
It was bad enough to have to get through the world of children and especially teenagers once. I have zero desire to ever watch and accompany someone else having to go through that hell.
I have never heard of that being an issue in my country where it is a constitutional requirement for elections to be held on Sundays or public holidays.
Lots of countries vote on Sundays which solves that problem
I have never been to India and have no intention to travel there. My imagination is that it is overcrowded, the people there are mostly polite, hard working but not especially skilled. It is definitely a relatively poor country with a lot of inequality and crime.
Train toilets dumping directly on the tracks isn’t excessively unusual, we still have trains here in Austria that do that although it is definitely being phased out.
I meant not all criminal offenses necessarily cause an exclusion from voting rights. If I recall correctly there is a list of specific ones for which people can be sentenced to loss of voting rights.
Can exclude, not all of them do, I think it has to be a specific part of the sentence (ie not automatic) because some high court ruled that some years ago.
As a European I have always been confused when Americans talk about “voter registration”. The way it works in my country is you are legally required to register your residence with the government and that registration is automatically used to determine a voter registry (just filtering by age, citizenship and exclusion due to criminal convictions all of which is information already known to the government). I always just get a letter a few weeks before elections informing me where my polling place is.
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Future archeologists be like we keep finding microSD cards from the early 21st century and have to wade through all that data to figure out anything about that period, from earlier periods we only have paper records.
I use Ghost Commander as a file manager on Android.
He got that prize mainly for not being George W. Bush if I remember 2009 correctly.
Technically these kinds of things are decided by the Wikimedia Foundation but they’ll usually not do things that the editing community of the local wiki doesn’t want.
In 2014 the WMF forced a new software feature (Media Viewer) on all wikis and enforced this by “superprotecting” the JavaScript on the German-language Wikipedia so local admins (who at one point even blocked the Deputy Director of the WMF from editing) couldn’t disable the new media viewer. The WMF doesn’t really want these kinds of constitutional crises to happen again.
How do you want to do that “through some third world country” if the registration documents are in the US and only anonymously published anymore? Not following your logic there.
“Programmer” humor 🤔
Is this real?
Why not? Illnesses can be cured.
Ivan is just the Slavic form of John, a very common name in English speaking countries too.
stop posting on lemmy while drunk