Plenty of states have banned it in the past 50 years. It's on the decline.

And some states while not having banned it outright have made it effectively impossible to carry out. Oregon IIRC had their execution chamber and death row dismantled when their last governor left office. Execution is still on the books though.

I've worn a mask for probably over 1500 hours in a restaurant that never closed and I and my coworkers have gotten along just fine. I just don't understand why so many people are resisting them so and acting so put upon.

Do you plan on wearing a mask for the next year while socializing with your friends? If yes, do you see this as a big burden or a small burden?

So that MSNBC could’ve been forced to air pro-Trump defenses?

Yes. And Fox could have been forced to air criticism, and in both cases fewer Americans would live in echo chambers.

Media partisanship is misinforming and dividing Americans.

Why do Americans believe vigilante justice is more inevitable than the citizens of other developed countries?

Because we know the absurd amount of guns that surrounds us at any given time, and are acutely aware of how flimsy hunting and personal protection are as excuses for the intent behind the ownership of small arsenals.

Would the general public of other developed nations be happier if their healthcare systems were more like the US's?

I doubt it.

In any case we have public and private hospitals. Paying an insurance for assuring a "premium" service with better rooms or faster treatments (closer to the US system) is also an option.

Haha nope, ya’ll be crazy

I've lived in the US, and now live in Canada.

Despite right-wing propaganda that we're all flocking to the states for care (never met a single person who has even considered that), or that we're all dying on years long wait lists (there is an element of truth to that, but it's a triage system. So cancer patients get priority for surgery before the skier who blew his ACL).

I still have yet to meet a single person who doesn't think the US system is batshit crazy.

Canadians recognize that their system has problems, and can be improved (which is true of ANY complex system). But they also don't think that the US system is functional or desirable.

I know that the nearest border crossing to me regularly has ambulances waiting for people that preferred to travel sick or injured than seek healthcare in the US. In other words, people literally flee the country to avoid being treated in the US.

Is curious, but I had heard exactly the same advice before. In case of a minor accident or health issue as tourist in US, try to leave the country ASAP unless you have a solid travel insurance. In any case you will be not allowed to fly with a fracture (if I'm not wrong).

Would iPhone users be worse off if they gained the ability to use multiple different app stores?

Are you sure about that? Chinese phones use Chine app stores because Google products are banned in China, but outside of China 99% of apps are installed through the Play Store.

Why would iOS be any different?

Because iOS has a very profitable app ecosystem that deep pocketed competitors (such as Google, Facebook, and Amazon) would buy into.

You can’t seriously imagine that at least these three plus TenCent/Epic wouldn’t create stores, likely within their existing Apps.

What subreddits have they banned that weren't vile?

/r/watchpeopledie was a very educational sub.

Sometimes you just want to see real life events that they will never show on TV. Reddit used to be a place where you could find content like that.

What was the best time in human history?

I would say the early and mid 90s. The iron curtain is gone, economy is going up (without the gaping inequality we have now), and the world was having great hopes on pulling Russian and China into the international community.

Probably around 450BC, when the Eleusinian Mysteries began initiations in Athens.

Don't overlook that it's pretty recent that our beds are comfortable and our teeth don't hurt. Men not having extra children and wives to compensate for watching them die is pretty neat as well.

Pick your time post ww2 otherwise forget it. Even the roaring 20s were total and utter garbage compared to when penicillan existed.

In the west, Boomers did pretty well. When they were at their horny age there was this great new pill and STDs were all treatable. We really should rename the baby-boomers the boomer-bunnies. ;-) Probably had it the easiest economically, no world wars.

We sleep on the beds of emperors, kings and queens and banquets from the 4 corners of the earth is our norm.

Athens still had widespread slavery though, so I guess you had to be born in the "right" family, which would have been a minority.

How are rural communities with low budgets going to meet that hiring standard?

They could try copying rural communities in other countries that don’t have such a big problem with “bad apples”.

For a country which, from the outside, likes to boast about how rich it is, America doesn’t seem to be very good with money.

It's really mind-boggling to me that anyone in the USA can hop online and talk to people from all over the world, yet we still think that stuff they take for granted elsewhere is impossible.

Just get rid of all these small Sheriffs and police departments. One ploice forse for state and one federal works well, most other developed countries have around 2 to 3 main police forces (depeding on how you count). Limiting the number of police departments also makes hiring and common standards a lot easier.

There are some issues with that approach. Example: the county (and surrounding areas) where I'm typing this has significant enough issues with agricultural & rural crime that they set up a dedicated task force to fight it (this is unfortunately now common with counties like ours in CA).

It's not just equipment or product either (i.e. stealing trucks filled with almonds), but there are methheads who actually steal dairy calves up in the central valley.

Sacramento doesn't really care. The dollar figures are relatively low when you consider the size of the state, there aren't a ton of voters in those areas, and a fair bit of those voters tend to lean further right politically than present leadership. So, the locals have to take care of it.

It is roughly the same argument as the (gulp) electoral college: if the coastal megacities make all the decisions, who sticks up for the person in Idaho and their needs? Also, Sheriffs are almost always elected positions, so the public gets an opportunity to directly influence leadership of their local law enforcement.

That said, I'm not a huge fan of our local PD, and enforcing standards is a fair point.

Ideally, state funding paid for by taxes on the more wealthy cities.

A lot of the readers of HN identify more with people at the top of society than at the bottom