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Besides a lot of approved tax exceMptions and administrative stuff, some referenda include
* Asking DC to look into becoming it's own state as New Columbia
* Making Alabama a right to work state and Virginia did not
* Legal weed in California, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Massachusetts, Montana, Nevada and North Dakota
* Raised minimum wage In Arizona, Colorado and Washington
* Washington wants to limit free speech to individuals and not corporations
* Background checks for purchasing weapons in California and nevada
* No universal health care in Colorado (80% no)
* Florida voted against allowing home owners to use solar to make their own electricity
* Indiana and Kansas voted for the right to fish hunt etc.
* Minnesota removed the power for officials to set their own salary
* Missouri wants voter ID laws
* Nebraska abolishes the death penalty
* Oklahoma makes the death penalty constitutional and let's them use unconstitutional means of execution
* New Jersey disallowed gambling in two more counties
* New Mexico allows the state to deny bail for felons
* Oregon let's universities invest in equities
* South Dakota keeps minimum wage as it is
Seems like weed is legal (to some degree) in lots of states. Also, it seems like change on the national level will only happen if they ripple through.
I got these from the Google election thingy.i don't know if the US has binding referendums, so don't if the things I mentioned may or may not happen.
I'm gonna be angry about this for an hour before I give find something else to do.
I asked my professors why and they argued that Python "doesn't get in the way" (static typing, compilation etc.) allowing us to focus more on learning the algorithms and theory.
Most of the patrons only use Word and Safari on them anyway.
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But as venomsnske said, it could be that we have no civil war.
To be honest, I don't know what the future is for Zimbabwe. Nothing really seems to work properly and we don't have money to do anything.
They are going to introduce bond notes pretty soon to ease the liquidity crisis, but none of the citizens want to use them. The government say that there's only going to be $200 million dollars worth and they're pegged to the US dollar, but they might pull a fast one to pay off the national debt.
I guess it's time to move to another country. Any suggestions?
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I just wish I knew how to make pretty things with it...
What are you guys planning on doing next?