Different weed smells different, skunk weed has volitale sulfur compounds, others varieties lack this and may smell like fruit or rosemary.

You're correct, the non existent democratic rights of the people have not been eroded. As you have you described, USA is a Republic not a Democracy.

Well, your democratic right would be to vote. However, as you said we are in a democratic republic where we don’t vote to make the laws but rather vote for representatives.

Teachers and doctors may abuse their authority, but there is a sharp legal limit to what they can get away with.

There are sharp legal limits to what cops can get away with: they've just historically been unenforced by government prosecutors and/or juries.

Those limits don't seem very sharp if they are rarely enforces.

The primary argument that castle "created the modern state" suggests we've regressed into feudal times. I don't think this is accurate.

It's an opportunistic solution to a budget problem.

Local governments have extra money from property price bubble increasing tax revenues.

At the same time there are great open source image analysis models for companies to put on a pole using cheap android hw and a solar panel and make bold claims about solving all crime, then they can sell that data again to 3rd parties like insurance. Also can start buying access to more video feeds from ring cameras etc and resell that. They'll hire someone to make a ux to integrate it into PDs later, for a premium of course.

Or you could say a coalition of women and their male allies forced the state to acknowledge their innate human rights, if you wanted to focus on accuracy and cohesion.

Yes! Thats a good one too.

Full reform: Select representatives randomly like jurors to prevent maligned motives. If selected there is temporarily a freeze on their assets and they move to dormatories on a political campus built around the White house with a panopticon of cameras 24/7 live streaming the political process with ads to generate revenue to pay down the debt. All communication during this period is public record and searchable, ads will be included in the results. Run it like the reality TV show it has become and pay them current per capita gdp, they can get a raise by increasing it.

You “overran first base”.

There is a small bug in your onboarding flow: when I select research model and upgrade on phind on my phone it shows some features, but it is not possible to scroll down to the purchase button.

thanks for reporting!

Most prestigous colleges are profitable and don't need the funding or the tuition

They're actually public figures and have different standards since they're being paid by the public to represent their interests.