Democracy requires an educated electorate. This is something else.

Private care is so spectacularly bad that VA health care can be very bad and still be better.

I can't remember the last time I witnessed a hospital demonstrating general competence. Usually there are only a few people who can even do their jobs correctly and management is clinically worthless.

The government doesn't care about munitions after use, and it's always treated soldiers that way

It's only one semester, and a semester of the least important material of their university time.

I think this actually sounds decent, giving the students an adjustment window, preserve the ability to completely fail if they really bomb out, and still the majority of their university years count for real and around the material people will actually care about in the real world.

If I am looking at a new college grad and give any weight to GPA, I won't care if that GPA excludes the sorts of classes they would have first semester.

One of the requirements to become a US Citizen is you have to show some proficiency in American English.

Other countries have an official language, we need to make it official here.

We want people coming into the US to assimilate and the greatest tools for that is common language.

You rarely go to other countries and hear commercials in different languages ......certainly the signage for streets, etc is not in multiple languages...etc.

There is nothing bigoted about expecting someone trying to live in your country to speak the common language ....

The USA doesn't have an official language.

We need to fix that...other countries have official languages.....why not us?

If you wanted to call the entire assemblage a robot, maybe. Calling the motes robots is nonsense.

It should have been prevented economically before this instead of what actually happened

You just let us know you're racist for free thanks

What makes you think it ended?

I'm in favor of enforcement of laws which protect rights, but it's cheap and easy to get such devices, and there are valid reasons for them to exist — like knives.

You could cook with only shorter knives. It would be a lot more difficult (I also cook) but it would be possible.

I don't think most people who can afford a thousand dollars for a phone plan to keep their phone for longer than the 7 years Google will support their Pixel devices these days, nor do they want to buy a phone which has been out for very long. The poors will accept last year's iPhone, or an even older one, or the Shitty Edition bundled into their phone plan.

For a non-Pixel device you'd have a solid point, as most other Android phones have abysmally short support lifespans. Then again, many of those phones are so much cheaper you can buy one every three years...

It's partly end stage for a nearly dead country that causes us to have to talk about politics now.

But it's also partly because we didn't take politics seriously, and get involved enough in it. If we had discussed it a lot more sooner, maybe we wouldn't have to discuss it so much now.

Even if it could find the answer it might mess it up before it gave it to you. It might give you the right answer sometimes and not other times, especially if the right answer has changed...

Wikipedia wasn't banned, though one asshole did introduce a bill which tried.

You can't cite ANY encyclopedias after elementary school, whether it's claimed they are particularly inaccurate when they aren't, or not.