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It’s May 2025, and the Cognizant Center for the Future of Work is looking back at the months and years following the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020. The world that emerged post-virus looks and feels incredibly different as digital transformation was accelerated and new needs were revealed.
1. Online’s Big Bang: COVID-19 digitized the world at light speed.
2. Everyone's Home is Their Castle: Houses were retrofitted with dedicated home office spaces as working from home became the norm, not the exception.
3. Business Travel Lost it's Cool: Business travel became a last resort.
4. Health Screening is Widespread: You’re now subject to “OK2GO” scans on entering buildings, governed by the newly-formed Health Security Agency.
5. Gaia and Greta Went Mainstream: The environmental agenda gathered momentum.
6. Humans in the Machine: Online interactive dinner parties, concerts, and political rallies became common and “real” versions withered.
7. The Birth of the Clean Regime: We realized just how dirty (metaphorically and literally) the Earth had become.
8. Privacy: Another Casualty of the Virus. The long-term implications of a permanent surveillance infrastructure became apparent for governments as they recognized that personal data is a new source of economic wealth.
I’ve been a legal citizen since 1912
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July 1, 1912
A major citizenship law (Law no. 555 of June 13, 1912) took effect. Before July 1, 1912, if an Italian citizen became a citizen of another country through naturalization, he, his wife and all his unemancipated minor children (see March 10, 1975, below) lost Italian citizenship together. However, if the Italian father naturalized on or after July 1, 1912, all his previously foreign-born or adopted* children retained Italian citizenship even if they were unemancipated minors as long as they were granted the same foreign country’s citizenship automatically when they were born in that country.
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In 1912 in his Treatise on the Laws Governing the Exclusion and Expulsion of Aliens in the United States, Clement Lincoln Bouvé argued that based on the 14th Amendment, Wong Kim Ark, and other case law, "...the child born of alien parents who, though under the immigration law they have no right to do so and are subject at any time to deportation thereunder, are nevertheless residing in the United States and owe temporary allegiance thereto, is necessarily born in allegiance to, and, therefore, is a citizen of this country."
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United States v. Wong Kim Ark, 169 U.S. 649 (1898), was a landmark decision[4] of the US Supreme Court ruling that "a child born in the United States, of parents of Chinese descent, who, at the time of his birth, are subjects of the Emperor of China, but have a permanent domicil and residence in the United States, and are there carrying on business, and are not employed in any diplomatic or official capacity under the Emperor of China",[5] automatically became a U.S. citizen at birth.[6] This decision established an important precedent in its interpretation of the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution.
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2018, President Donald Trump announced his intention to issue an executive order abolishing birthright citizenship for U.S.-born children of non-citizens.
originally posted by: RelSciHistItSufi
Gotta love the plan... Dems need to choose between admitting losing or being proven to have cheated in court!
Guess that's why everything's too close to call at the mo.