Pitch accents are a system of speaking. They apply to all of the words. Every word has a tone, even if the tone is flat. If you don’t say the word in the correct tone, you said the wrong word. It is not the same thing as stressing a word.

Marbury v. Madison established the right for the US Supreme Court to strike down laws that violate the Constitution. Overturning Marbury would turn the Supreme Court into a court of review, meaning they only apply the law as written. They would lose the power to invalidate statutes. Some countries with civil systems do have high courts like that. It wouldn’t be the end of the world. We just generally believe that adding checks and balances encourages a healthy government.

So, no. Overturning Marbury does not make the Constitution not the law. The Constitution is the law because the drafters signed it and the legislatures enacted it. The only way to get rid of it legally is to pass a new constitution in the same way.

you know the option that’s 1.5x the price of the other options and has the most bland, grown up branding imaginable? yeah it survives because it’s better quality than everything else.

Graduations are for the parents. They want to celebrate you. They want you to feel proud and accepted by your community.

that’s not an addiction. it’s not hurting you. your body desires sex because it’s good for you to reproduce. letting go of the idea is bad is how your desire decreases. you’re struggling because you’re mentally obsessing over something that doesn’t actually matter. ik your religion tells you it’s bad or whatever, but seriously if you were married and having sex, basically the exact same physical response, your religion would be fine with it. it’s just arbitrarily controlling for the sake of it.

They wear out. The unfortunate thing is that the replacement ear pads don’t tend to last as long. So buy them if you have to, but keep an eye out for new headphone sales over the next few months.

It’s giving away our intelligence apparatus to every other nation. What do you mean how.

Of course not. He’s a criminal. What did leaking that data do to improve the lives of Americans? Now, how much more advanced did our foreign enemies become in attacking our intelligence? He was an extremist that made us more vulnerable to threats based on his own personal value system.

The screens are designed to be addicting. That’s not hyperbole. They literally use data scientists to increase the amount of time and money you spend on them. The longer you scroll, the more time you’re playing the game, the more money the developers make on average. Online service providers don’t care about your wellbeing. Your parents do. Just like there’s more food than chips and cake, there’s more to life than being on a screen. Investing in long term hobbies, skills, and friendships won’t have the instant gratification to compete with a video game, but 10 years from now you will think back way more fondly on your hours skateboarding or learning to play guitar than the ones you lost online.