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99% of these problems would be solved if copyright lasted a reasonable amount of time. IMO copyright should last for 50 years from the date of publication or the life of the original creator, whichever is longer. That way the author has control over their work during their own lifetime, and like an author's husband won't just be screwed if his wife published a blockbuster book and then dies soon after, but we don't have Disney milking shit from the 1920s for a hundred years. It's absurd to me that I have to pay Amazon $4 to watch Citizen Kane, a movie that came out before my grandparents were born, and that's the only legal way to watch it. Literally nobody who was involved in making that movie is still alive to benefit from it, it's only people making money from doing literally nothing.

Idk I know I was pretty excited for Netflix's early original content because the proposition was like "HBO, but on the internet and you can watch it any time" and they were doing big budget stuff. Things only went south when they didn't keep up the HBO level quality and ruined their reputation to the point where I see "Netflix original" and immediately think "garbage TV"

Yeah he's certainly the most famous modern defense lawyer. He got a guy who very obviously murdered someone off through his skills as a lawyer so that sticks in people's minds. For the young people in this thread, he was OJ Simpson's lawyer.

Same dude. Like signal word "Fuck" for the spiciest of chemicals that really probably shouldn't exist in the first place that are desperately trying not to exist

Oxidizers aren't typically flammable themselves and only react with fuels.

Holy shit fours on blue AND yellow, AND it's an oxidizer? My guess is some kind of halogenation agent, likely fluorine based. The lack of flammability with those stats makes me think it's an inorganic compound, probably some wretched fluorine abomination.

It greatly simplifies life from a legal standpoint. It's basically like creating a tiny corporation of two people that can act as a single legal entity. If you're married it simplifies buying a house together, inheritance, medical decisions, etc. As others have pointed out, these are important especially when your partner's family don't approve of you or the relationship especially for LGBT people.

I am going to break the mold though and say the actual ceremony is important too. Declaring your intention to stay together for life in front of your friends and family changes things. It adds a level of security and finality to the relationship- you have to put your money where your mouth is on the relationship. Although people frequently do it, I don't know how someone can go through the wedding process without reflecting on how big of a deal it is to stand up in front of so many of your friends and family and declare your intention to stay together forever, even without the religious ritual aspect of it. I wouldn't want to have kids with someone without having this commitment, for example. Ultimately even though marriage is a social construct, I think it's still a useful one even in a world where women are no longer considered property of men.

Hey if it gets more people driving EVs why not?

I live in Trump country. A lot of these people are living in an alternate reality where trans people and immigrants are lurking behind every corner to take their kids and women and the economy is in shambles but in a way that only impacts white middle class Americans.

Is it a pollution issue from the farms?

Honestly I think that's just what chocolate actually costs when it's not full of filler. I made the decision to just not buy American chocolate years ago and I had a Hershey's bar at Halloween because someone brought in a bag of them to my work and holy shit it was bad, I legit couldn't finish the tiny bar. It tasted like plastic or something and the texture didn't even resemble milk chocolate, it was chalky and crumbly. I don't understand how things have gotten this bad, and how American consumers accept it. Why even buy shit that doesn't even taste good just because it's cheap? I'd rather go without than eat the shit Hershey's chocolate. If tariffs mean I have to stick with American made chocolate (disregarding that you can't grow cocoa in the US) I'll probably just stop eating chocolate because American chocolate sucks ass.

Idk what it is about Trump that has completely broken people's brains. I know a lot of people who were relatively normal or at least not really interested in politics before Trump and are now completely obsessed like this.