Bill Clinton instituted Don't Ask/Don't Tell in the 90s as a means of protecting homosexuals in the military. DADT basically meant that the military couldn't conduct investigations into a person's sexuality. They were allowed to prohibit homosexuality, but they could only act against a service member who openly indicated their homosexual preference.

DADT was horseshit from day one. The only redeeming characteristic of the policy was decriminalization of gays in the military. They could still be thrown out, but the policy quickly put an end to court martial and imprisonment of gay soldiers.

DADT was a compromise, a transitory policy that never should have been needed. It needed to be retired as soon as it was enacted, and it took decades to actually accomplish.

Obama's ACA is in a very similar position. It was horseshit from day one. It was a program designed and promoted by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, as opposition to various Universal Healthcare plans. It was designed from the outset to prop up the health insurance industry that desperately needed to be gutted.

It may have been the best that Obama could have achieved at the time, but it was disgustingly terrible, and the whole thing needs to be replaced with something that actually works.

The sign being metal would probably provide a low-impedance path for the electricity to flow around your body instead of through it. It would function similarly to a faraday cage.

Why am I being tasered?

This question needs to be answered before any meaningful conclusion can be made. If I am being tasered by cops to stop me from unjustifiably harming you, responsibility for that tasering falls on me, not you, nor the cops protecting you.

If I am being tasered for no good reason, responsibility falls on the taserer.

Legally, there is no such thing as a "suppressor". Legally, they are "firearm silencers" or "firearm mufflers".

And before you downvote me, actually look it up.. "Suppressor" is an industry term with no legal meaning.

We need to eliminate district-based Congressional representation.

To my way of thinking, if you have 20 congressional seats to fill, and the statewide voter split is 40% Dem, 40% GOP, 5% Pirate, and 5% Ninja, we should be sending 1 Ninja, 1 Pirate, 9 Dems, and 9 GOPs to the senate. When Ninja and Pirate voters are spread throughout the state, any geographic map you draw is Gerrymandered with respect to those two smaller parties: They can never win a single seat, despite voter numbers indicating they should split two seats.

Gerrymandering is inevitable so long as races are conducted within geographically-defined districts. No "independent" "non-partisan" commission can prevent gerrymandering. The best they can do is restrict specific forms favorable to the two major parties, while disenfranchising third parties and minority interests.

Every congressional seat needs to be filled in a statewide election. That might mean that in the primary, we vote for how many seats that each party gets to fill, and in the general, voters in each party decide how to fill their own seats.

Thirty minute time zones are not at all feasible.

The best solution is to permanently adopt the more widely used system (DST) immediately, then reconsider the boundaries of four (or perhaps five) zones.

That's not actually true. Physical activity, exercise affects circadian rhythms as well, and is a far more important consideration.

Again, the "circadian rhythms" factor of morning daylight can be adequately addressed with a simple bedside smart lamp providing consistent "morning light" to wake up to. That little lamp can start your winter day two (or more) hours earlier than your latitude would otherwise allow.

Stadium-style lighting over my local metro park, simulating afternoon daylight, isn't nearly as feasible an option.

How does a lamp in my bedroom window replace an hour of afternoon daylight at my local metro park, or any of the other, non-bedroom places I want to be?

Are you not understanding that I don't want to be in my bedroom at 4:30pm?

Kids don't get daylight in the winter under standard time.

We send them to school before dawn. They are locked indoors until a brief recess at lunch time, then locked back indoors until 3pm. In winter, that gives them just enough time for sunset shortly after they get home.

In December and January, the only school-day hours of daylight they get to enjoy are the ones given to them by Daylight Savings Time.

Morning daylight is more than adequately replaced with a smart lamp next to your bedroom window. There is no replacement for evening daylight.

Morning sunlight can be adequately replaced with a dawn-simulating dimmer lamp next to the bedroom window.

Nothing replaces evening daylight.

School age kids don't get daylight in winter. We lock them away indoors until a brief, lunch time recess. Then it is back inside until 3pm. They get home just in time for sunset, when they are locked back indoors after dark.

The only daylight they can feasibly get in winter is after school, and standard time deprives them of it.

Dawn-simulating lamps/alarm clocks are more than adequate for meeting early morning circadian needs; there is nothing capable of replacing the utility of evening daylight.

Mornings are miserable regardless. Let the boss man have us at the lowest and worst part of the day.

When the work day is over, we should have some daylight left for our own use. That means DST.