In the U.S., we have allowed the courts (particularly the Supereme Court) to legislate matters that should be decided by Congress. A recent one is the question of whether "prediction markets" are financial things regulated federally by the SEC or if they are gambling, which is regulated by each state individually....

I've followed and engaged in politics for about 8 years now, on and off. A lot of what we see on the news feels way too big to make any difference, and often it feels like no matter what effort goes in, we're just kind of crossing our fingers & hoping the right powerful people win - sometimes they do, and sometimes...

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I lived a relatively standard life for a long time. Then I went independent, had a taste of success, then failed and moved home into my dad's. My mental health had been bad for sometime, had been declining for some time. But then I opted out of work & most productivity for a few years. Then in 2018 I became...

I know so many things are bad in society right now. Aside from global warming, we are collectively better off than any human generation in modern history. I have no intention of dismissing the bigotry today. Racist gerrymandering is stripping votes from people of color. ICE raids have attacked U.S. communities. The...

I've been sober (from weed) since May 20th. It's now June 3, 14 days later. And I want to write about it while its all still fresh. I want to reference this next time I think to myself "smoking isn't so bad for me." I'm not sure I'm never gonna smoke. But I don't want to go back to even smoking every weekend....

Language has the power to shape how we think about all kinds of things. You see this criticism come up with mainstream news outlets (including purportedly liberal & leftist outlets) and how they frame their headlines - often in a way that minimizes U.S. cruelty and paints other countries as the bad guys, as the...

Most of us are strongly opposed to animal cruelty. Some are more in a grey area where it's okay to hit your animal as punishment to get them to behave how you want them to behave. I find this cruel, but I understand we're not all on the same page on that. But I think we generally agree that it's not okay to just be...

Orgasms are great, genuinely one of the best feelings that I think we get to have. Generally, this is achieved through masturbation or sex, and sometimes some of us might get them in our sleep. I believe I've woken up post-orgasm once or twice in my life, but I've had many many dreams where I get extremely close....

You're familiar with atoms, and likely envision them as little balls. All of the stuffs of the world is made up of these atoms, bonded together. You probably know atoms are composed of protons, neutrons, and electrons - even smaller little balls. Well even these sub-atomic particles are not actually little balls....

A couple years ago, my bestie and I wrote a short book for NanoWrimo (We took 2 months and didn't reach the desired word count but we DID finish the story!). On one of my writing days, I proposed a new political system into the story's universe and I've been dreaming of it ever since. I really want it to become...

As a teen, I considered myself a "Grammar Nazi". I would frequently correct people's grammar, asserting that I knew the one "right" way to speak. In my early 20s, I learned about how (some) dictionaries are made. They look and see how words are actually used by regular people, then the dictionary records...