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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.

Did your mom teach you? Because she’s really talented.

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

The only reason why we know more now is because the source code got leaked and Rockstar needed to get ahead of it. If the leaks never happened, we would know far less.

How is he doing that with his mouth?

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.

Nah. AAA game development is going to die. The smaller games won’t need the great specs.

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.

I get the problem of people on Lemmy asking for an explanation on why something exists or why people see something a certain way and take being able to explain it as agreeing to it.

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.