Founded by the US

That is misleading, if not false. I infer from that statement that you mean it was founded by the U.S. Government. Wikipedia confirms what I remembered:

Beginning in 1820, the region was colonized by African Americans, most of whom were freed slaves.

It did have help from a private organization, but not the U.S. Government.

Because college should be teaching you advanced skills or advanced ways of thinking.

Yes, I think automation will probably automate away many of these minimum wage jobs! Why can't a machine flip burgers?

Plus, you didn't respond to the part about minimum wage jobs not being intended as careers or for older people at all.

Why shouldn't people who work in the fast food and service industries earn a living wage even when they work more than 50 hours a week?

Because they're minimum wage jobs. Should someone really expect to be able to buy a house on minimum wage? Again, those jobs weren't meant for people's _careers_. (Why didn't they go to college? Community college even.)

That's ironic, since people totally made fun of how iOS didn't have copy/paste for a while.

You do realize Amazon bought twitch, a video game video site, for $970 million in cash, right?

I'd never heard of it before the news came out.

In the 70s, when cable TV first started rolling out, one of the big selling points was "no ads."

Not true, since cable TV started out as literally a shared antenna with cables to each house.. So it was "just" getting OTA, which obviously still had/has commercials in it.

Plus, even if that WERE true, just use a VCR or nowadays a DVR. (Though there are RARE times I will use On Demand for a show with 'forced' commercials.. Though several commercial-cable channels end up having their shows On Demand WITHOUT commercials, so it's even better than DVRing it for those shows.)

*I* don't pay credit card companies interest, since I auto-pay my cards every month. So I get an interest free loan for an average of 15 days, cash back, AND it's more convenient than cash.

Nothing is unlimited from every angle

Which is EXACTLY what others are trying to say, yet you're arguing with them at every turn.

Except for the T-Mobile and Sprint plans that others pointed to that are exactly that....

I'm not trying to be a jerk, but can you provide a citation? I didn't think those "counted" as credit card purchases, even if they were using the same network, since they DO take money directly from your account at time of purchase.

The same company that made thalidomide also made penicillin. You're saying that Monsanto can never have any good product again?

Also, I had wrongly thought your "killed more people" actually related to *food related* products. It doesn't, so it's even more tangential to the discussion of GMOs.

In areas where Roundup-ready corn has established hegemony, such massive quantities of pesticides have to be used that half a dozen studies have shown sick people with high concentrations of those pesticides in their internal organs.

You do realize you're supposedly refuting "A DOES NOT HAPPEN" by saying "B HAPPENS".

Just because they're using *other* pesticides (unnecessarily?) does not mean THE GMOs THEMSELVES caused any problems.

It's often common wisdom that you can fill whatever hunger you have by eating piles of fruits and vegetables as snacks. Nobody ever says this outright, but they recommend directly to eat fruits and vegetables if hungry between meals. Imagine just sitting at your desk all day, munching Doritos and pretzels; now imagine being healthy by eating an apple, two kiwi fruit, and munching on a two pound bag of cherries. As you observe, people wish to believe fruit is good for you and actively makes you healthier, and so eating a ton of it makes you a ton healthier.

I think you're making a bad leap there. Much of the reason that eating fruit is better for you (at least compared to Doritos), is because comparatively, it is much bigger than the junk food for the same amount of calories.. so it fills you up. Plus, at least some fruit does have some nutrients you need.

I say this as someone who definitely prefers the Doritos, but do know that "filling myself up on fruit" sometimes works.

killing as many people as Monsanto has.

[Citation needed]

*Initially* you are accepting "a certain level of belief".

However, if you want/need to, you can figure it out (or have someone else explain/teach it to you). Which *can't* be done for the invisible man in the sky beliefs.