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Recently, the National Constitution Center assembled three teams of legal scholars to draw up their ideal constitutional revisions. After the libertarian, conservative and progressive groups released their proposals, organizers noticed several areas of possible agreement and invited them to reconvene, this time not divided in teams. They compromised on five amendments: eliminating the natural born citizen requirement for President, allowing a legislative veto, strengthening Presidential appointment power and applying term limits to the Supreme Court and lastly making future amendments easier. (video) So is it possible that change could come to this founding document or will discussion remain trapped in the ivory tower? [more inside]
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As Twitter continues its daily descent, Post has popped as, hopefully, a hate-free replacement. Still in beta and you have to wait a few days after registering to get an account, but it certainly looks promising.
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Plenty of movies rate a 0% critics' score on Rotten Tomatoes, but much rarer is the 0% audience score. Here is a list of 30 movies with a zero percent audience score on Rotten Tomatoes. Inspired by this post on Fanfare.
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You enter a bright new digital world, exited to explore and hyped just to enjoy the vibe. Ten months later you're yelling at someone for standing in fire. What changed? [84 min.]
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Nicolas Cage and John Carpenter are cinema’s most studious eccentrics. From Documentjournal.
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If you're under 45, you can get vaccinated against HPV. [more inside]
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Cohost.org is a new, in-development blogging platform that pledges: no ads, no tracking, your home feed is a chronological timeline of posts by the people you follow, with "clear and effective moderation done by humans." It's open to signups and it's built by a not-for-profit worker-owned software company. It's currently not that easy to browse unless you're logged in; here are some sample tags: food, autism, long post. Previously.
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"How much would you pay to save your cat's life?" On cats and kidney transplants (warning: extensive talk about pets dying)
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As you look around for a new social media platform, I implore you, only use one that is a part of the World Wide Web. If posts in a social media app do not have URLs that can be linked to and viewed in an unauthenticated browser, or if there is no way to make a new post from a browser, then that program is not a part of the World Wide Web in any meaningful way. Consign that app to oblivion.
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“Once the river broke the record, your mindset is, ‘It’s not going to get any higher.’” A riveting account of the horrifying 2021 "atmospheric river" storm and flooding in British Columbia that resulted in an estimated $13 billion in damages. [more inside]
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It is not feasible to buy a good quality cashmere sweater for $50. (SL Twitter thread from Derek Guy, menswear writer.) (Previously)
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Ketchup Is the Absolute Worst Condiment. When Every Ketchup But One Went Extinct. Heinz Is Not America’s Best Ketchup. Oxford Scientists Crack Case of Why Ketchup Splatters From Near-empty Bottle. The Surprising Asianness of Ketchup. Climate Change Is Coming For Your Ketchup. A Skeptic Tries: Ketchup. Ketchup: Fridge or Cupboard? The Debate Is Settled. So, Can Dogs Eat Ketchup? We Have The Answer. Don't Even Think About Putting Ketchup On A Hot Dog. Queen Elizabeth Is Releasing Her Own Royal Condiments.
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