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Cake day: February 15th, 2024

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  • Incoming Chinese carmaker Xpeng

    Australian firm Pegasus Aerospace Corp received airworthiness certification from CASA for its driveable Pegasus E flying police car last year

    you would need a pilot’s licence – not simply a car licence – to be able to eventually fly the X2 in Australia.

    likely to be bungled in red tape for some time before it could take to the skies

    We can take orders… you can secure one with a fully refundable $100 deposit.

    So I guess a more accurate headline would be this:

    “Australia’s” “first” “flying car” “now” “on sale.”


  • wjrii@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldTweety. I like stretching
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    3 days ago

    I’m gonna need some clarifications here. Does the stick/cone/tube go for the ride? How far up the ass does it need to go? Is this a proper insertion or a wedding-cake photo-op mushing situation? If it’s insertion, can the ice cream be modified to fit the butthole, or must the butthole adapt to the ice cream? There’s a lot of moving parts and complex interplay going on.








  • wjrii@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldThe Divine Dick
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    12 days ago

    Mormon theology also pretty much just cuts the Gordian knot proposed in this post by saying, “Fuck yeah he’s got a dick. Uses it ALL THE TIME.” I believe that a “perfected body” was the verbiage I was taught in Sunday School. Tritheistic heresy, Shmitheistic Shmeresy…


  • Top-two primary and/or ranked choice voting to start. I’d also like to see the popular vote compact come into play for the presidential election. Eventually, for Congress I’d like a hybrid system that accepts the existence of parties so it can manage their worst impulses and give representation to smaller constituencies.

    For the remaining geographic regions, set a certain standard for mathematical compactness; this doesn’t have to be too aggressive, as a long thin district can be completely sensible, but we don’t need the devil’s fractals many places have now. Also/or require districting committees to try to draw districts that would roughly approximate the state’s popular vote percentages. We know they’re excellent at isolating voters by party, so let them, but force them to play around on the edges to get one seat here, or get out front of some changing demographics here, not the wholesale cracking and packing we see from both parties now.

    It also all needs to be legislated at the federal level or even by constitutional amendment, but honestly we’re kind of fucked. The people who need to be reined in the most very much live in states where they are overrepresented in voting power, and I don’t see them giving it up.