I just rotate my eyes every 3 months, much simpler than equalizing blinking.

Thank you. 2,000 tones is an insane amount. A quick Google search puts the weight closer to 20,000 pounds or ten tons.

Which will dramatically change the calculus for carbon sequestration. Also remember that this only works for new trees, and that mature forests release as much carbon as they absorb.

Still, I am all for planning as much trees as we can possibly get away with. Climate change is an emergency and we should be doing everything possible to mitigate it.

That's what they said about the dinosaurs! and yet here we are 47 movies in and they are still wreaking havoc!

Life, uh, finds away.

I hope you are being sarcastic. That's not how any of this works.

I still don't agree that one side advocating for fascism and the other for universal healthcare is the same thing. At all. Conservative media is a pox on our democracy. Fox news is only good at it because propaganda is easy when you are able to lie continuously. There's a middle ground between censorship and not giving a platform to hate speech that encourages violence, or at the very least regulating what is able to be called "news"

Fine let's leave the electoral college behind for now. Hopefully you can agree it is an outdated institution. A thousand years ago 200 miles was a long way, and people can have a very different culture too much away. Fast transportation and instant communication have changed that. Things aren't really that different across the country, at least not more different than say racial and religious differences between people that could live next door to each other.

But I'm willing to hear you out, You've been some what clear about what you don't like. What do you advocate for?

Would it regional autonomy you advocate for allow a particular region to ban gay marriage? Reinstate Jim Crow?

>I never actually advocated for this. I just pointed out that it's clearly something that was thought about on some levels and not others.

That is correct. The solution is to give each person an equal say in all levels of politics. One person one vote, regardless of who you are or where you live.

>Lmao, it's not just conservative media man. They are all propaganda machines, right and left.

I guess you haven't argument that all media is pro corporate. But let's not pretend that MSNBC has the same effect on the left that Fox News has on the right. And either way if they're both propaganda machines, then bring back the fairness doctrine with solve the issue anyway. Would you support that?

Yes, a liberal Washington would still benefit greatly from being in the union. Mutual defense, disaster support, commerce, etc. Each day does get a say in the politics of the country as a whole, But that say should be based on population rather than land area. Land area is one of 100 arbitrary divisions that you could use to influence politics. The only fair way is each person gets one vote.

And if the majority of Americans were pro-Trump supporters, and they voted to build the wall between Washington and Canada, It would annoy me but I would be okay with it because that's how democracy works. Individual parts have to compromise for the greater whole. But I would only be okay with it if it was actually Democratic, If more people believed a certain way or voted that way then fine. I believe in democracy even when the majority doesn't agree with me.

How do you think black people feel being steamrolled by a plurality of white Americans? Women outnumber men in America, But men have a hundred times the political influence. How do you think women feel? Why does the only group that gets extra votes is rural people? It's an outdated arbitrary division and should be abolished.

And it's not like rural Life is even that different. When the county was founded, a factory worker from a city would be totally lost in the country. A rural farmer would equally be lost in the city. But most people in rural areas have jobs similar to people in urban areas. It's not like urban people are factory workers and raw people are farmers anymore. The number of independent farms and ranches has plummeted 40 years. Now people in the middle of nowhere work at the same restaurants and offices, eat at the same fast food chains, watch the same TV, drive the same cars, etc as people living in a city. It's an arbitrary distinction that should not be The basis of perverting democracy. Each individual should get one vote.

Poor people live very different lives than rich people, black people live very different lives then white people, women live different lives than men. All those groups are vastly underrepresented politically, should they also get extra votes?

If the status of living in Wyoming get you three votes for president to everyone one a Washingtonian gets, should not like people get two? Poor Middle Eastern women get four?

The issue that needs to be addressed is some people get more votes than others. Living in a different area should not get you an extra vote, and land mass should not get to vote either.

Right now 60 to 75% of the country supports Medicare for all, But senators that represent only a small percent of the nation are able to prevent it because of the outdated way the United States government represents people.

The only fair way to do it is one person one vote. We need to change our laws to acknowledge that and move from a flawed democracy to a true democracy.

But why should the status of "living in a rural area" allow one to get more votes, at any level?

Why is landmass the one area where we allow this?

Women are disproportionately represented in government, so are black people, young people, etc. Should they get extra votes?

If living in Wyoming gets one 3 votes to every .8 California vote, why doesn't being from Laos get you 4.5 votes? That underrepresentation certainly drives the culture divide between white America and Asian America.

The only way to do it is one vote for one person. The electoral college, gerrymandering, and any other scheme that allows one group to disproportionate voting power should be abolished.

Currently rural populations have disproportionate power in politics, and that has done nothing to resolve the cultural divide. If anything it is worse than ever. I would argue that if you want to try to get rid of the cultural divide we should bring back the Dennis doctrine intermediate, as currently falsehoods spoken in conservative media fuel the culture divide more than anything.

I mean, there's the port Angeles - Victoria ferry, and another across to Vancouver.

Or Port Townsend - Coupeville. 101 would be a bit out of the way, but they would avoid I-5 and the Seattle metro area. Definitely counts as a good scenic route with cool towns along the way.

They could explore Whidbey island, deception pass, and la Conner. Then be in a good spot for the Skagit valley and North Cascades NP

The real question is if they gained more profit off the sales that those bribes generated. If that's the case, then this paltry fine is just a good investment from Google's perspective.

Yeah, my gut tells me Facebook should be the top hated in way more states.