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  1. AlexB23

    Who was your first vote when reaching the legal voting age? How has politics changed since then?

    Hello folks. The political landscape has changed a lot over the past few years. Who was your first presidential vote once you guys have turned the legal voting age (lowered from 21 to 18 in 1971)? Mine was Biden in 2020, back when I thought he would be a good choice to get us out of a pandemic...
  2. AlexB23

    The Case for (or against) Open-Access Journalism (Paywalls Part II)

    Hello guys and gals. Yesterday, a group of folks including @essentialsaltes , @JosephZ and others have enlightened me on the ethics of bypassing paywalls, a structure that news agencies use to pay their employees. I now understand that using software to bypass paywalls is unethical (both from a...
  3. Heartofsilver

    "Whiteness"

    Whiteness Hello everyone, I have been around my fiancee's family and have been hearing their views lately and a while ago my fiance posted about the new part of the Smithsonian where they are discussing a new category in their museum or in their repertoire about "whiteness". I actually found...