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From: rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
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Subject: Re: The joy of Democracy
Date: 22 Oct 2024 17:30:28 GMT
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On Tue, 22 Oct 2024 09:22:50 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

> Indeed. One of the reasons the USA has held together is because state
> legislation is quite powerful and federal more sparse.
> Imagine if there was a federal law insisting that you pick up your dog's
> shit and put it in a shitbin, and they applied that in Montana..

We try. The trailheads have free plastic back dispensers and pictorial 
descriptions of the technique used to pick up the shit without soiling 
your hands. Unfortunately the instructions stop there resulting in 
brightly colored bags of dog shit along the trails.