In the USA, it was 21 until the 1970’s. It got changed as people pointed out that you could be drafted and forced to die for your country at that age, but you couldn’t help choose the people to make that decision. Given than 18 is the age when you legally become a legal adult, it was decided that 18 made a good age to gain the right to vote.

A major argument I’ve heard around it becoming younger is compulsory education. There is a fear, likely unjustified, that high school teachers would get a lot of control over part of the voting block since they would be able to tell students how to vote.

I’ve never had this happen to me.

Yeah the only difference here is that someone being gay won’t cause that reaction.

It is hard to not have a laugh track in front of a live studio audience.

There are even ones that were popular back then which fell into a memory hole, like the 90’s Brady Bunch reimagining.

Actually, it depends on the state/city. There is no federal sales tax; all sales taxes are determined at the state and municipal level and are only charged at the final point of sale. Some states or cities allow for limited versions of what you’re talking about; Washington State rebates sales taxes for Oregon residents.

However, why isn’t this typical across all states? It turns out that taxes tourists is generally more popular than taxing residents. This is especially true if the tax is enacted by referendum. For instance, a lot of stadiums are publicly funded via hotel room and rental car taxes.

They were always stupid. They are just more able to write out their stupidity.

https://youtube.com/shorts/i4TICZ67Ws4

I like this video from a London historian who goes through what common people knew before compulsory education.

It isn’t considered to be in the public interest to make medical confidentiality the equivalent of legal confidentiality.

Until recently, the major cost to growth is getting new customers, not retaining existing ones. Unless there was a mass exodus of fans if a streaming service cancelled a show, streamers are more likely to use the money to make a new show which will attract a new audience than continue an existing series that won’t lead to growth.

I don’t think they the whole Internet has been abandoned yet, but bots keep growing as a percentage of traffic for various reasons. There is also a vested interest in more people to have bots than not.

Snapchat isn’t owned by Meta?

are there also pronunciation differences for words that are spelled the same?

Through through tough thought, I can’t think of any.

Why do you keep taking people talking about how something is working as them saying it is good and just?

What do people mean by saying the US does whatever Israel wants? Sending them weapons to kill brown kids in Palestine, Lebanon, etc?

That Israel has invested in American politicians and American public opinion for decades. It doesn’t absolve the US of its moral failing, but it provides an explanation.

Likely not. However, if Trump is being blackmailed, it would explain why Vance is leading the Iranian peace negotiations.

The only thing is that the US hasn’t really used Israel as a staging area for expeditionary action in the Middle East.

Both the Gulf and Iraq Wars used Saudi Arabia as a staging ground. Afghanistan was too far away for the US to use Israel. If anything, the US usually excludes Israel from any overt military action given the political blowback from using Israel in the region.

In the context of “what did the military action physically do?” it is important to recognize the difference between direct action and additional effects caused by the reaction from the affected government.

The attack on Venezuela was orders of magnitude less than the attack/war with Iran. Yet, Venezuela gave up financial control of its oil supply while Iran might be getting unprecedented control over a strategic waterway. If a government is going to resist American imperialism, it needs both the means and the will to resist. Iran has it, Venezuela didn’t have it, and early indications seem like Cuba is more like Venezuela than Iran.

Control of the gold and oil wealth was given by the remaining government and its release wasn’t enough to topple the Venezuelan government.

I don’t want the USA to invade Cuba, but I don’t think that Cuba could credibly resist an occupation.

Cuba is isolated from any ally who could offer military supplies, including drones. It is also fairly close to the US mainland, allowing for easy supply from the US.

What I expect would happen is that the US would force some minor restoration of capital to pre-revolution owners and install a government filled with a mix of government collaborators and Cuban-Americans with a mandate to transform the Cuban economy.

Unless the new government is wildly incompetent and corrupt, I expect that there would be enough stateside support to ensure that the new government is successful for the first few years. Keeping enough collaborators, which is something likely to happen with Trump, would likely prevent the whole government from engaging in an organized resistance. The likely dropping off the embargo will also allow an increase in economic conditions on the island, muting resistance of the rest of the citizenry.

Yeah. The USA engaged in one raid to take the current head of state but left the rest of the country mostly intact.