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Bypass the system entirely, send your kids to university in Europe. Relatively easy compared to the US to get into professional programs like 6-year med schools (some even offer English-speaking classes), plus some countries have a more tolerant attitude to vice (drinking age 18!) than the USA.

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SAT ad(i)versity score will exist — it will remain to be seen how/where it’s actually used. Private schools already tend to make preference for candidates who did moderately well but are from poorer districts.

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If it’s a plumber you need, I’ve had good luck with Pro-Drain Plumbing.

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Of course insurance cost changes if you don’t own — if you buy for cash, you can drop collision/comprehensive and just carry state minimum liability.

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It would benefit Mother Earth if there was a full-on trade war and tariffs shot up to 200%. We don’t need more disposable Chinese junk being thrown in our landfills and taken to e-waste breakers in Africa to be burned for metals.

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You’re reading this wrong. Minors have a right to consent to mental health services on their own. The law doesn’t prevent parents from seeking mental health services for their children. Parents are allowed to be involved in the mental health treatment of their children, but “medical records” are confidential, even from parents. This might be a good thing, considering some parents are abusive, and the patient needs to trust the therapist enough to talk to them honestly.

Drug/alcohol treatment — minors don’t have a right to refuse if parents consent. However, confidentiality laws still apply. This is a good thing, see above.

This law also protects minors and allows them to get birth control, have abortions, get STD/HIV testing, get STD treatment, get prenatal care, all without a parental unit’s consent. Again, a good thing considering how hateful and abusive some so-called religious/conservative parents can be.

Read the link before whining so much. I bet you don’t listen to your kids either.

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Here’s the thing … the law sounds bad until you realize how shitty some religious/conservative parents are. They’ll forbid their kids to speak to their doctor about birth-control issues, then act all surprised, horrified, and Pope-holy when their kid ends up pregnant. And instead of allowing an abortion, they’ll saddle their kids with a child at 16 and kick them out of the house. Would you rather California went in the other direction like Alabama or Georgia, where basically no woman has autonomy over their body, even after 18?

I’m sure you’re a good parent, but what about parental abuse, sexual abuse, and rape? Should kids have to beg for their abusers’ consent before seeing a doctor or a shrink?

The flip-side of your “going postal” argument is that kids can actually seek counseling without their parents knowing what was said in confidence between child and therapist. Bonus points if California gets public health care in the next 5-10 years and psych services are subsidized or free for all residents, including those under 18. This will actually expand access to therapy, make therapy more effective (confidentiality is important), and do more towards your goal of preventing school violence than reducing autonomy would.

BTW, I saw your original post. Nice troll there, speedy.

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Good on California for recognizing that people below 18 or 21 still have human rights. Be a shame if your kid reported you for human trafficking on the way to Utah and got you thrown in jail for a few days until the case was resolved.

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Great logic — you’re upset about economic equality and social injustice so let’s help preserve it. At far as the Middle Eastern situation, is it OK to love people but hate the people running all of the sides and pushing them towards war?

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Whatever you pay them, someone will be paying tax on it, no matter many weirdo schemes they try. They can hide the tax in their sales prices, but at the end, it will still be paid.

Frankly, why skirt sales taxes? At least they go to useful stuff on the state level like infrastructure, public transit, healthcare, and education. I can understand being pissed about Federal taxes since the money gets wasted on wars abroad, but state tax is actually useful.

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You can say this for almost the entire US, unfortunately. San Diego isn’t unique. Oregon actually had a law banning Black settlement up until the 1930s, Portland is still considered racist. Queens, NY had active KKK and Daddy Trump was a member. Boston had literal riots over school segregation in the 1960s.

Even Vermont had active Klan at one point…
https://vermonthistory.org/research/research-resources-online/green-mountain-chronicles/the-k-k-k-in-vermont-1924

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The solution is hydrogen or propane tanks, not craptastic electric stoves. Especially not until the grid is close to 100% renewable, nuclear, and hydroelectric. Electric minus generation, transmission, and heat losses isn’t even close to as efficient as burning a fuel at point of use.

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It would be better to drill out the camera’s lense after buying the house. Why become part of Scumazon or Google’s surveillance network?

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How about spending money on medical treatment for addicts and creating educational/job opportunities? Also, decriminalize personal use of all drugs so as not to stigmatize former addicts with a rap sheet and further ruin their lives. The US views the problem too punitively.

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I don’t think you’d want cities and states to have the ability to “deport” people to other parts of the USA.

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