Many US states have official citizens initiatives systems, but not on the Federal level, no.

Likely never, the intiative is not pushing for retroactive legal changes, it is pushing for new regulations / legal standards going forward.

No, no no.

You have to input your name, address, and various ways of establishing your EU member state, such as an EU electronic visa/id, or your specific EU state drivers liscence or tax id or some such, and the form makes it very obvious you must actually be an EU citizen.

Examples:

Poland

Portugal

Estonia

Its possible there could be spam or accidental/malformed inputs… but if you are putting fake info into an official government portal, especially en masse, thats potentially a number of crimes, and if its a genuine mistake from an EU citizen, it seems like there is a review process where people will be contacted and allowed to fix up their info.

Also, technically, there are a few countries with more lax submission requirements, such as the Netherlands, likely due to more intense personal privacy laws… but its not like this system is not logging people’s IPs, not like they won’t be taking that into acount.

This isn’t a change.org petition, its an official EU government portal for a core process of democracy.

Knowingly falsifying info on this is again, potentially a large number of crimes, as if you say lied on voting registration, or lied to Social Security or your US state’s unemployment assistance system.

Dean Hall and RocketWorkz of uh DayZ fame/infamy… are working on Kitten Space Agency… I dunno, maybe they could pull it off?

Dean’s track record is really hit and miss imo, but hey, at least they actually give a damn and try, often with pretty bold / niche concepts.

The US has been regularly helping to assasinate Iranian foreigner dignitaries for years now, literally assasinsting many high ranking members of their government/military for years as well.

Exploding golf ball.

Please.

He let Epstein use Mar a Lago as a ‘recruiting ground’ for a fucking decade.

Not only did Trump very obviously partake in this evil business, he was a fucking integral part to facilitating it.

Every time you hear any Trumpoid cabinet member mention that Trump kicked Epstein out of Mar a Lago… yeah, yeah that’s after a fucking decade of him disappearing women and girls from there, there’s no fucking way he didn’t know what was going on, he just kicked him out when he got too sloppy and tried to fuck the daughter of someone Trump was trying to impress.

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/09/epstein-mar-a-lago-trump-1456221

https://www.newsweek.com/jeffrey-epsteins-visits-mar-lago-detailed-1857636

I have definitely gone into a rageful fugue state and woken up a week later after reworking an entire code base from being an inconsistent mess of slop…

…into actually having a common library of functions instead of just rewriting slightly different versions of them 8 times, having those functions only actually instantiated for necesarry classes…

…rewriting every variable name and function name to an actually consistent and intelligible naming scheme…

… and finally, moving a whole bunch of shit out of some kind of global ‘think’ type loop that doesn’t actually need to be called or checked every goddamned micro second.

Done that more than once actually.

Never look inside ‘baby’s first video game mod’ code, unless you have healthy blood pressure.

But uh yeah, spite, hatred, and anger are indeed powerful motivators for making good code, lol.

… so many idiots just jam everything into a global, called every tick loop, and then claim that it just can’t be optimized, because “the game engine just can’t handle it”…

lol, RIP Jebs 1 - 48395.

But uh yeah, the… the lore is basically:

We made some cute little dudes and dudettes that are… possibly animated, sapient fungi? Or something?

Anyway they are sm0l and live in sm0l solar system.

And they have a space program.

And most of the characters are just obvious cutesy knock offs of famous humans in spaceflight.

Woo!

lol

Derp.

Looks like I need to complexify the manifolds of my own brain, haha!

Uh, its more like a new publisher bought the IP, functionally fired almost all of the original dev team, and then hired a bunch of other people who had no idea how their insanely modified version of Unity worked…

And then the idiot in charge just started spamming out extremely grand and difficult to implement new core functionalities… with a team of mostly newbies who had no idea how anything worked.

So, basically, they started out where KSP started out… and would very obviously thus need years and years and years to get it out of Early Access / Alpha state… but it needed to make money NOW, and it didn’t, so everyone got laid off (other than the idiot in charge), and the game was functionally abandoned, but not totally abandoned, because MY IP MINE NO YOU CANT HAVE IT!!!

Or… maybe not? With regard to the IP rights?

Nobody seems to know who actually owns the KSP IP at this point.

https://techdriveplay.com/2025/01/03/kerbal-space-program-2-a-tale-of-corporate-neglect-and-failure/

Bro why you trippin’?

All my homies be constantly morphin’ into better, more flexible and robust versions of themselves.

Generally, biologically speaking:

Men have a urethra and an anus.

Women have a urethra, and anus, and a vagina.

Presumably, discounting mutations, birth defects, serious injuries, etc, most people have the same number of uh… head/face holes.

…

Allowing for rarer cases:

Also… intersex people exist… there have been at least a few recorded instances of duplicate and/or forking dongs…

And I guess we could also consider varying kinds of conjoined twins.

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Also also, we could argue about whether milk producing mammaries constitute a topological ‘hole’.

Yeah a lot of online ones were and still are BS, my parents put me through an actual, go to a place, sit and do a test for multiple hours kind of thing.

I am not sure that they actually needed to, but the explanation they gave me was that it was needed to get into the ‘gifted’ program in Elementary School…

Always stood out as weird to me, most of the other kids in it never did a whole ass IQ test, they just had really good grades and their parents asked the school nicely… … ???

EDIT: Also uh, IQs are supposed to be noralized at 100… so… by standard deviations…

If I really am 135, then I’m in roughly the top 2% of the population.

If your friend is really above 145… they’d be in roughly the top tenth of a percent of all humans.

???

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4749462/

Here is a more recent meta-analysis from 2015 that concludes that the genetic additive effect on total outcomes is significant and distinct from the SES…

But only in the US.

In Europe, Australia, elsewhere, the genetic additive effect is statistically insignificant.

(IE, SES is the dominant factor)

This meta-analysis of published and unpublished data provided clear answers to our three questions.

First, studies from the United States supported a moderately sized Gene × SES interaction on intelligence and academic achievement (a′ = .074; Fig. 1).

Second, in studies conducted outside the United States (in Western Europe and Australia), the best estimate for Gene × SES magnitude was very slightly negative and not significantly different from zero.

Third, the difference in the estimated magnitude of the Gene × SES effect between the U.S. and the non-U.S. studies was itself significant.

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Fig 1, Variance vs SES, in the US

(my own commentary: the wealthier you are in the US, the more of a complete crapshoot it is whether or not you are smart or stupid… because IQ doesn’t matter for wealthy people.)

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…the cross-national difference identified does not appear to be an epiphenomenon of cross-national differences in the age ranges examined or the particular intelligence or achievement outcomes measured.

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Interestingly, as can be seen by comparing Figures 2 and S2, these Gene × Age trends closely parallel the U.S. Gene × SES effect. Genes account for considerably more variation in intelligence both at higher ages and in higher U.S. socioeconomic contexts.

Indeed, both phenomena may reflect a process of increased and accumulated effects of gene-environment transactions with the increased opportunity that comes with both social class and age (Tucker-Drob et al., 2013; Turkheimer & Horn, 2014).

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Without conducting my own entire study…

My read on this is that the genetic component is much more significant in the US than in other places…

… because the US is significantly more economically stratified, nepotistic, and has a broken education system where rich idiots can get all the education they want, and skate by, but you basically have to be a diligent and lucky genius to escape poverty and the shit-tier education it has bestowed you with.

The noted tendency of age to also be correlated with SES and genetics in the US, is again, imo, explained by our vastly broken healthcare system just literally killing you if you are either poor, or stupid.

If I am not mistaken, we are uh, still trending downward on overall life expectancy, as compared to most other developed countries in this study sample set where life expectancy either was not badly affected by COVID, or was but has since rebounded.

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But uh yeah, going back to this more recent study… looks like genes have a less meaningful impact than your SES in civilized areas of the world.

Here in the US, we only have downward class mobility, unless you are very, very clever, and continuously lucky, continuously reinvesting those gains from your cleverness into social and financial capital without making any ‘bad investments’, or ever having any sudden medical or financial disaster happen to you.

Kakistocracy: Rule by the least fit to govern, the worst qualified, the most unscrupulous.

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Anyway, not to sound like I am directing my venom here at you, I do very much appreciate you bringing an actual comprehensive meta analysis and giving a very good and well reasoned read on it, with caveats. =D

Different numbers of holes though, gotta take homeomorphism into account.

Are you just gonna sit there like an undergrad and clumsily perform a naive mapping of my topological space, or are you gonna use your brain a bit, and exhaustively define a continuous homeomorphic equation to radically transform me into whatever shape you want?

If you can make the key, you can unlock me, and then I can map to whatever you want me to be >:D

Lol, I’m a software developer that started by writing legacy windows software, I know exactly how much (little) has changed.

Oh, so this whole situation is to a significant degree, your fault.

=P