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Voting is a guaranteed right of the US constitution, but there are some real barriers for some people for getting state issued ID. It's has a monetary cost, it expires, it now requires a birth certificate. If you're poor, older, or happened to have your birth hospital's or county office's records destroyed by a fire (not uncommon at all), you may not be able to get a valid, state-issued ID.
For instance, my mother was born to Irish parents with US citizenship through naturalization (granted under a law according citizenship to people who fought for the allies in WWII). When she moved to a new state and needed to renew her driver's license, it took months to get someone to accept her documents and explanation even though she had been a US citizen all her life (but born outside the country).
Whatever national ID system would be implemented, it would have to be bulletproof. Otherwise it could incidentally disenfranchise people.
Google didn't even make any phones until much later. Instead they gave phone manufacturers the green light to do whatever they wanted. They ended up designing phones later because of how crappy the Android phone ecosystem had become. Google could have made Nexuses from the get-go.
> But news of the protest has been heavily censored in mainland China, with any mention of the mass movement wiped off the Chinese internet.
> Hong Kong’s protesters have therefore turned to Apple’s AirDrop feature to get their message across to their mainland Chinese compatriots. That the messages are written in simplified Chinese—Hong Kongers use traditional Chinese—confirm that the intended audience is Chinese tourists.
All of these conditions had a negative effect on society, but individually could be considered one's personal responsibility. The negative effect in aggregate was considered strong enough to have to regulate. People are social, and network effects of social media effects are strong. Seems like it fits a similar enough niche to warrant regulation.
The video ("How Wolves Change Rivers") states that humans had previously failed to control the deer. You could pay more humans hundreds of millions of dollars a year to patrol every one of these areas. Or you could simply let the wolves do it.
You asked what the difference was with the social media post vs. TV: The difference is that COPS, etc., don't want to be sued, so they get releases, because they realize that they could potentially be sued (and sometimes for good reason!) I sincerely doubt the person in the post signed a release from Amazon.
If you argue that it's technically legal, the OP wasn't specifically arguing that either.
> Even if one claims the video is fine (and I'd disagree), it's still a very very very bad idea for Amazon, or any large company, to be enforcing the law and conducting mass shaming via advertising.
> In a natural environment, there is no 'evolutionary diversity' in the way you try to paint it. Main drivers in human sexual evolution are hidden ovulation and a monthly cycle, we are one of the few rare mammal species that have it. Its purpose is to make monopolization by a male costly, because he doesn't know when the female is fertile. This generally results in serial monogamy - a male and female are together until their child reaches age of around four. The female, being fertile from cca 14 to 30, will generally enter cca 4 pairings of this kind. With high child mortality in hunter-gatherers, that generally results in slightly above replacement rate.
> This assumes all men would be equally likely to get to have sex with the women.
I think the OP meant since no one was expected to be monogamous, there is no "cheating" and no conflicts of "infidelity". More women having multiple partners means potentially more different men would be having sex.
> it just means many men working for free (like drones) to support other men's children.
Well, not just anyone's children, because they would all be related by blood. They'd be taking care of family.
It would be possible to have emergency services organized nationally. I wonder if cities that overlap two or more states share emergency services. Seems like that would be ideal so that you'd always end up in the closest hospital.
Being educated can help protect some against abuses of power, but do you believe engineers are immune to abuses of power? I don't think so. The mechanisms are the same.
What would lower abuse is deescalation training, dedicated, well-founded mental health care, decriminalizing drugs, and most importantly breaking the blue shield: holding officers accountable by actually trying officers that have committed crimes, increasing the power of agencies regulating them, weakening the power of the police union so they can actually be accountable.
Sadly trans inclusion in casting has been pretty damn abysmal across the board. My impression is that most audiences are actually willing to watch something different, but the people making casting choices chose often not to cast them.
Shows like Next Top Model and Queer Eye play up their queerness for ratings, but that's actually progress: queer folks (actually played by other queer folks, not straight people parodying us) are being queer on camera, and people want to watch them for that. Millions of people. It's actually the point of those shows. That's huge!
Commonly people's first reaction to things they don't understand or things that are unusual is fear. I used to resent Will and Grace for being over the top, contrived, and playing on stereotypes. But I think, like Big Bang Theory, however cringeworthy the humor is, they've both put gay folks and nerdiness in prime television slots. People watch them, and they become less "foreign" to millions of televison watchers. They're made relateable (simply because not as many folks would watch it if it wasn't), and in turn nerdiness and queerness are made relateable and understandable. I don't need to watch either, but... I don't have to. It's not for me.
Something like 65% of San Fransisco is zoned for single family housing. Some rich people looking to move there will balk at the prices and then look further out, increasing demand in the surrounding areas. With more dense housing in SF, more rich folks who can afford it can live there. Currently the housing supply is so low (because of the zoning) that it forces most rich folks to look elsewhere.
We need something national. And just bottles isn't going to cover it - single use plastic products are cheap enough, and companies have no incentive not to use them, so of course everyone else ends up dealing with them.
Hemp protein is pretty disgusting, I agree. It's gritty and slimy, and the texture by itself is horrible.
I was fired from my "contracting" job, and the state eventually ruled that I was technically an employee. But I had to wait the longest 6 weeks of my life to find that out, and what if they had not? Or what if they ruled against me, and I had to appeal it? What if my former employer retaliated in other ways? I would have been even more screwed than I was.