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  • Aspartame's patents expired between the late 80's and early 90's. Current limits were set after that and have been reviewed as recently as 2024. I'm going to say that the ability to patent and monopolize aren't really a factor since aspartame hasn't been protected in over 30 years and a search to see who produces it returned an article listing the top 100 manufacturers of aspartame.

  • That wouldn't have been better. Wesley wasn't a great character but neither was Yar and her departure made way for Worf to become main cast. So Yar leaving was better for the show and it was better for the production because Yar was killed off after Denise Crosby asked to leave the show.

  • Let's be a little more granular here. Increased production efficiency is good. If we could legitimately just have everyone take turns working five minutes a week and provide for all of humanity that would be great. The problem is how the benefits of increased productivity are distributed. If worker's pay started at a reasonable livable wage and increased along with their productivity the world would be in a much different situation now. If we had a UBI scheme that allowed everyone to have a minimum acceptable standard of living automation would be much more desirable.

  • By any reasonable moral system God is unjust in punishing them for eating from the tree. They couldn't be culpable for their transgression because they didn't have knowledge of good and evil prior to eating from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Without that knowledge they were incapable of making an ethical decision. The Garden of Eden, like many of the stories in the old testament isn't a story of the failure of man, it's a story of the failure of God.

  • Ok, here's the plan. No legislation needed and the courts can't stop it. Alright, we divide the population of New York City into ten parts. The first part stays in the city to keep New York state. The other nine parts each move to the nine least populated states. We might have to put together some sub plans for the nine states so that we can pick up house seats along with the Senate seats.

  • No worries, foreign universities and governments are happily trying to outdo each other to hire as many American scientists as possible. That's not going to be a problem for America in the future right? I mean it's not like America's technological advancements since WW2 were frequently dependant on its ability to recruit foreign scientists or anything right?

  • If they're under the justification of the US does that mean that they are entitled to the same rights and protections as prisoners still held in the US? Prisoners in the US have a right to be protected from physical and sexual violence, to medical care, they have limited first amendment rights and a right to communicate with their families in most circumstances. Prison overcrowding has been ruled to violate prisoners 8th amendment rights multiple times.

  • It would also help if they could reliability access the healthcare they need in order to work.

  • It's Trump's secret plan to address student loans. Weaken the dollar until we experience rapid severe devaluation. When the Big Mac hits $1,000 paying off existing loans will be easy for the people lucky enough to still be able to find a job.

  • I don't know about the million dollars but the right to film in public and to film public officials while they are doing their jobs is covered by the first amendment's freedom of the press. It's gone to SCOTUS multiple times and been upheld and strengthened each time. Not saying that there's no way this particular SCOTUS would overturn those rulings but it would be a huge deal and seriously negatively affect not individuals but a bunch of major corporations so that at least would probably give them some pause.

  • There's also a degree to which conservative media and conservative culture teach their people to act like they are more inline with the mainstream. There's old stuff that's been going on forever like using coded language so they talk about an "urban problem" instead of openly saying that black people are the problem or they'll talk about "New York people" instead of openly saying that Jewish people are the problem. If you haven't been exposed to that then some of what they're saying can sound somewhat reasonable.

    Then there is the "respect" thing. Conservative parents are big about emphasizing how you say something over what you say. So they're fine with saying that disabled people should just die as long as it's not phrased that way. It should sound more like "It's sad that some people are sick but there are only so many resources and we need to put them where they're most productive. Hopefully their family can take care of them." It's more etiquette than real respect but they make a big deal out of it.

  • You listed all the back to Johnson.

  • Clinton explicitly didn't support segregation. One of the biggest influences in his life was his mom's parents, who he spent a significant portion of his childhood living with. They owned a grocery store and faced frequent harassment and threats because they refused to segregate their business. There's plenty to go after Big Willy for but this particular point is incorrect. You can't even shoehorn in his VP like with Obama because Gore was an avid civil rights supporter as well.

  • I would like to understand the meaning of Goatse.

  • Hopefully they can get adult children of undocumented immigrants who were born in the US. They have already had their citizenship recognized but the EO doesn't say that it's limited to new births so they should still have standing on the basis that, if taken as written, their citizenship is at risk of being retroactively stripped.

    Disclaimer: ianal and could be completely wrong.

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  • Al Bundy peaked in highschool, never went to college, was a shoe salesman at the mall. Al Bundy had an, at least, three bedroom single family home in a nice neighborhood, supported a family of four plus a dog on his single income, had ample free time to spend with family and friends and to spend on hobbies.

    Al Bundy: Failure and constant butt of jokes in the 1980s, unobtainable vision of success in the 2020s

  • I wanted to reminisce about the Daily Show when it was at its best. John Stewart and Stephen Colbert were huge for me. Realistically though they aren't the right kind of people for the type of role model your talking about. Part of the left's problem is that the language and style that are used is too intellectual. It contrubitues to the right being able to dismiss progressives as "coastal elites" Part of Bernie's appeal is that he seems very down to earth and straightforward and that's one of the reason that the right has so much trouble going after him. We need a progressive plumber.

  • How much personal information is going into the intended use of the tablet? If all you need to do is watch some videos can you take it to a public library or a McDonald's? Does your Dr's office have wifi or could you watch it at work?