Respectfully… if someone came here looking for a note-taking app, would you recommend pad and paper?

I am not looking for advice on my local issue advocacy, I am looking for a software solution to host a petition.

I think cryptpad will do the job.

Okay buddy, you are way overthinking this. I’m not trying to create the next change.org here. The scope of this is a petition to put a stop sign on main street and get maybe 50 people to sign on.

I could always use a Google Form or a Wordpress plugin for this, I thought there might be a more private way to go about it.

I did not expect all of this debate over a software recommendation, haha.

For your information, petitions can be quite effective at the local level. The problem is, if you sign a petition on Change.org or something like that, they start bombarding you with emails to sign other similar petitions (kind of like the recommendation algorithms on sites like Youtube or Facebook).

People who sign these things know full well what they are doing. Advocacy is not anonymous. I am guess the folks giving me grief about asking for a petition tool won’t sign them, and that’s fine. I just don’t see why there is so much hate.

Another option I considered is a form to mail script. I thought that this is a common use case and something would already exist, haha.

All apps collect some information. Piefed requires your email to sign up.

I don’t want the free petition websites online getting my personal network’s info and sharing or selling it, hence the interest in self hosting.

I’m happy to! Sorry, I’m a noob, haha

Well, I guess the workplace has a form of politics. 🤷 A lot of the jokes in this comic are workers vs management. I think of it as finding humor in daily office life.

Would you call the TV show The Office political? The humor is similar I think

I hear you. In New Hampshire we have a very high concentration of libertarians, but still not enough to beat the Republicans or Democrats.

As an alternative, many pro-liberty Republicans and Democrats have gotten elected in New Hampshire (about 80 of them) and they make up the Liberty Caucus. It’s similar to the position of Thomas Massie or Rand Paul in US Congress… both are registered Republican, but pro-liberty.

I’m guessing you are referring to Minneapolis? I am not sure how that’s related, haha.

What about running for office is fascist? If anything, its democratic, right?

I use qBitController to manage downloads on my home computer from my Android device.

Do you want something to download onto your android device? I thought LibreTorrent was fine 🤷

I was agreeing with you 🙂

It has to be approved in both houses and be signed by the Governor to become law. So far it has passed the New Hampshire State House.

Yes exactly!

Okay bear with me here. So school budgets will still go up by the rate of inflation. Inflation is how much more expensive things have become, so in inflation-adjusted dollars, they will be getting the same amount of money. Does that make sense?

Not increasing funding is not a cut. In fact, the schools will still get more money every year. 🙂

In the period from 2001-2024, per pupil spending in New Hampshire has doubled on an inflation-adjusted basis, but test scores have remained the same… https://jbartlett.org/2025/06/per-pupil-spending-in-nh-nearly-doubles-from-2001-2024-as-district-public-schools-spend-1-25-billion-more-on-54000-fewer-students/

Linus Tech Tips did an exposé on those boxes a few years ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vpepaQ-VQQ

We still have to pay federal income tax. There is no state income tax.

Yes we have public schools and hospitals, yes we pave our roads. I think a lot of people have been led to believe it is either or, but it turns out when taxes are lowered, government starts prioritizing their spending better.

We have a lot of taxes for specific uses, where only tbe user pays it: a tax on liquor, toll roads, a tax on gambling profits and a tax on hotel stays.  None of these are essential goods or services. So if you don’t use them, you don’t pay it. 🙂

New Hampshire has no sales tax either. At the local level we have property tax.  We also collect a decent amount of money from toll roads, a tax on liquor, a tax on gambling profits and a tax on hotel stays and restaurants.  Oh and there is a payroll tax.

As you can see, we rely more on user fees than broad based taxes.  The way to lower your taxes is to not partake in these services.

As you mentioned, both income and sales tax are basically a tax on living your normal life.

Well, New Hampshire is pretty wooded ✅

I think the vast majority of Americans love our society. We all just disagree about how to make it better!