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If you want to vote by mail please do so as soon as you can and consider dropping it off at the counter where they will postmark it right away.

Even then you have to request it. The term you need to ask for is "hand canceling". The USPS worker will take a handheld ink stamp and mark over the postage stamp with the received date. That letter is now "processed" as received by the post office.

I think we’ll have to agree to disagree. Often times if I see an interesting question in the comments, I am glad for it, because that was the insight I needed to want to read the article and answer it.

Just reading comments without the article? I have no issue with that at all, and do that myself.

For me that isn’t annoying unless the commenter is getting something wrong that is talked about in the article, and doubles down on it.

How do you, as the commenter yourself, know you aren't getting something wrong without reading the article?

I feel like each post is an invitation to discuss the general topic

How do you know what the general topic is without reading the article?

If you feel like that is disrespectful, I get where you’re coming from, but I don’t think it is that disrespectful.

Maybe disrespectful is too strong a term. Let me amend that; I lose respect for the poster when they're asking a question that is answered in the article. I sometimes write off engaging with them further in that thread because they're clearly not even doing the most basic of tasks to be a part of the conversation.

But plenty of interesting conversations can happen in the comments (like this one) that have almost nothing whatever to do with the article!

I'll do this too on occasionally, if I can clearly tell we're not discussion the article topic, but its a gamble on my part and if someone smacks me down because it is article topical, I fully own that and apologize knowing its my fault.

I get where you're going here and I do the same as far as reading, but before I post I make it a point to actually read the article. Otherwise I may be forming and asking questions clearly already addressed or are completely divorced from the actual topic because I lack the articles context.

I feel it is part of the mutual respect with other posters to not waste their time asking questions already answered (in the article) or derailing the conversation because I don't know what conversation I'm in.

Nowadays, iOS sees just as many vulnerabilities as every other popular OS.

I'm no Apple fanboy but Apple security is more than the OS. Since they also produce all of the hardware, it means they can do things at the hardware level and either make available or restrict things to the OS that Windows cannot do because Microsoft doesn't control all the hardware makers.

I'm posting this in Asahi Linux on an M2 powered Macbook. Its been an interesting experience learning not only the benefits of this as a hardware platform, but also its limitations from the FOSS point of view.

please learn to comprehend - i did not ask for examples i asked for why they are allowed.

I didn't give you a single example to answer all of your questions. You don't even know enough to form the right questions yet. That's why I told you to pick up a history book.

yes you have lots of heroes and good guys and volunteering when needed is indeed important.

Thats not the takeaway from the example I gave. Its that war is murky. Geopolitics is a constant moving narrative. Its that principle can be more important than civil statute. Its that a nation of immigrants doesn't immediately divorce itself from its prior ethnic affiliations.

i do not trust the US to not pull the rug out from these guys.

That is indeed a possible risk. You're going to be shocked to learn about American citizens that fought for Germany in WWI, and were welcomed back to American with no hard feelings.

so … how is this legal and allowed

"allowed"? Which unit of the US government do you see chasing US citizens into a warzone to stop them?

and what happens when the US turns its back on ukraine?

Again, history book. There is no one answer. History has examples of it going both ways and no consistent answer as to what the future holds.

So again, pick up a history book and look at how prior examples of this play out for not only US citizens, but also other citizens in other nations that we in the USA drew our legal inspiration from.

Along with the reading of history, if you could check your arrogance at the door, that would be appreciated too. Starting from a place Ignorance is no crime as long as you're looking to learn. It is possible to engage in conversations without being an asshole.

why the fuck is a us citizen allowed to join a foreign military?

Please, pick up a history book.

"Forgotten Veterans: The Americans who died fighting for Canada in WWII"

"Alfred Parkyn was one of nearly 9,000 Americans who volunteered to fight for Canada before the U.S. had officially entered the Second World War."

We have 4lbs of honey baked ham to go through. I'm eating a lot of ham.

My company made significant investments in doing business with our brothers and sisters to the north in Canada. That segment is entirely dead now. Our clients are apologetic to us personally but its pretty clear they don't want to do business with a US company. I don't blame them one bit. trump is killing us all.

You make a very good point. I've stopped using CDC for any realistic data or health guidance and instead defer to Health Canada or the NHS.

I should have also assumed economic data from the trump administration was equally suspect now.

In mainland China, probably not tolerated outside of like the context of museums. Idk about the laws, but at the minimum, cops will probably visit you and “have a chat”

Gotcha, that's closer to what I had thought.

I’m Chinese-Amercian, I was born in Guangzhou, but I’m no longer PRC National anymore so I don’t give a shit what mainland nationalists think. I think ROC flag is fine overseas…

Oh certainly! It was not rare when I visited Flushing.

If a potential employer is telling you you're overqualified, could you potentially be putting too much knowledge and experience on your resume (for that specific role)?

… we do not count towards the offical unemployment numbers.

Wait...

unemployed for over 2 years now.

If you're still actively seeking jobs you'd still be counted in the official unemployment category of U-3 unemployment. Even if you weren't applying to jobs but still wanted to work you'd be counted in the (potentially more accurate) U-6 unemployment, right?

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