That constitutional amendment was NEVER meant to allow any foreigner to come to the US and drop a kid and have it be a US citizen ......

It was to ensure the slaves were treated as citizens...they were forcibly brought here....

Very different.

SCOTUS didn't actually rule on this.....but they need to and change the misuse of this that has haunted us till this day.

What other countries allow this so readily....that a non-citizen drops a kid in your country and it has automatic citizenship and full rights??

So remind me again why trans people acting on their own fundamental and unchangeable mental processes that don't hurt anyone are bad? Maybe also explain again why respecting these people is "identity politics" while hating on them isn't as I didn't follow your logic there. I also don't follow how struggling to find new terminology to cover a minority group that has only been recently recognized (despite having always been there) is hateful.

For grown adults...no one gives a fuck if they want to play dress up, or call themselves whatever they want to call themselves (pronouns , etc).

The problem is when they want to force the overwhelming majority of normal people in the world to play their game with them....

Throwing fits when a normal server at a restaurant calls what looks to be a male "mr" or "sir"....trying to get them fired, etc.

It comes when men calling themselves women, start to intrude into real womens' spaces...locker rooms, competing in women's sports....etc.

The real thing that sank that ship, is when they started coming for children.

Trying to force books on trans and queer on school children.....in some states, ruling against parents that refused to permanently harm their kids with medical "trans help treatments"....hormones, surgery.

Allowing ultra left teachers to hide secrets on sexuality from parents while allowing them to speak sexuality into the children's ear....

People tend to get really fucking uptight when you start fucking with their kids....and moving to that plane was a bridge too far for normal people and parents.

Again, if you're a grown adult...you can dress and act how you want to....you can chop off or surgically do whatever you want with your own body and no one care.....aside from not wanting to PAY for it....that's on you too.

How hard would it be to pull all their servers OUT of the country...and just allow connections to continue to servers outside the country?

Sure, response times would drop some...but how much response time do you need for FB??

Serious question: Is there a boat to be missed with solar and wind? That is, given that China is ahead and pulling further ahead, does that relative success present any roadblocks for other countries to do the same? China does have industries that manufacture and support solar and wind, but same question there, is there an impediment to other countries ramping up in manufacturing and support? Are the current reasons for China's current strength intrinsic or more a matter of relative national will?

For example, if the UK or the US decided to be serious about solar and wind, could they scale up quickly or are there intrinsic impediments, like technology, natural resources, insurmountable supply chain issues, etc.?

Well to allow the industry to grow in these countries, you'd need a bit of home grown protectionism...tariffs, etc....to make anything made domestically in the same price range as the Chinese stuff...

Couple this with tax breaks and other incentives and you could grow your domestic capabilities....and, considering energy in all forms is a national security interest.....I think both US and UK would be wise to do this.....

They turned me into a newt.

....I got better....

I also know that I would personally prefer someone in government making the call in regards to whether I get treatment or not rather than a for profit company which has every reason to refuse me coverage.

I've never run into my insurance refusing my care/tests/procedures my Dr's have said I needed....

I'd definitely NOT want the govt deciding what I can and cannot have done.....I mean, I don't want the same type entities that run the local SS office or DMV, or anything having a deciding hand in my medical needs....

So is that a non-urgent treatment, or urgent? Because there's different wait lists for different categories, just like in the USA. Also if a GP in most countries says you need a scan then you get one, in the USA a HMO might just say that you don't get a scan. While charging everyone for the HMO's time

I've never had my insurance say I could not get an exam or test my Dr said I needed....

How is there "no real viable way we could afford that in the US" when other countries can afford it? Very clearly it's affordable given the number of countries currently using such systems.

Don't many of these socialized medicine countries also have tax rates for most people WELL north of 50%?

That's gonna be a key sticking point in the US, no one here will tolerate their taxes going up that much for the Feds....and don't forget that would be in addition to state and local taxes.

I'm quite happy with my insurance coverage and medical coverage I have....I recently had surgery, and it was done in a timely manner, and even my ER return for a PE that was a post surgical problem..was caught and treated. It didn't cost me that much outta pocket....and I was happy to have had the treatment and life saving care.

Granted, anecdotal story by one....but still, I've not experienced the nightmares others seem to be pushing as the common US narrative .....

Obesity is probably going to become rare in the next 10 years, now we have really effective medication for it. The biggest step change will be when the patents expire and generic versions become available for a small fraction of the price they want today.

The many potential side effects scare me off of the GLP-1 meds.....I mean, spontaneous irreversible blindness comes to mind.

I'd rather be fat that risk that.

Will several hundred dollar wrist watches be bought for everyone? My wife has a galaxy watch and it only took four years for the battery to wear out and hold less than a day of charge Not only is the battery replacement part $150 on its own, but there is no one within hours of me that can replace it. --

You might look into the Apple Watch series....my; first one I think version 2 worked for quite a long time...my currentl Apple Watch Ultra 2 is now about 2+ years old, going strong with multi-days on a charge....and it is easy to get a battery swap if you need at an Apple Store whether you have one near you or ship it to them.

I've been MORE than happy with their electronic watch offerings....and customer service.

Single payer healthcare.

The problem is....there's no real viable way we could afford that in the US.

i mean currently we cannot afford the single payer systems we DO currently have : Medicare, Medicaid and the VA system.....

How would you propose to fund such a system as you propose? We'd have to have basic tax rates on everyone well over 50% I'd estimate...likely higher and I don't think that would fly well here in the US.

What are your suggestions?

Hell, every new car on the market has TPMS now

What is TPMS? New term for me...

As it is, for decades I heard about nothing else but the cheap fuel in the US compared to the rest of the world... and that's gone REALLY quiet for the last few years

I wonder why it went quiet......gas prices are still quite low over here....especially compared to the rest of the world .

Because none of that stuff ever existed in Hollywood before conservatives starting crying about woke stuff, right?

Not to the extreme extent we're seeing these days...no.

Have you considered what you call "left" is more a reflection upon your biases and environment and limitations

I speak of "the left" as how the general political divide is in the US, since that is where I live and am a citizen of....