CriticalDuty
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CriticalDuty
2yr ago
But that just makes the choice all the more stark - if you're a guy who wants to start a family, why would you pick a woman who's nearing 40 to do that with, instead of a woman 10-15 years younger for whom you don't have to shell out $100,000 in conception fees?
CriticalDuty
2yr ago
I've heard that the success rate of frozen eggs in geriatric pregnancies is a lot lower than it's commonly understood to be, but I'm not that knowledgeable on the subject.
CriticalDuty
2yr ago
The main concern with polyamory is the main concern with dating single mothers, divorcees etc. - the involvement of other men in her life, be it other denizens of the polycule or the ex-husband/baby daddy, will be a constant source of unnecessary drama in your life. "Mom's boyfriend" is also a factor that correlates heavily with child abuse.
CriticalDuty
2yr ago
Anyone planning on having 3 kids with a 36-year-old is likely not going to be having 3 kids.
CriticalDuty
2yr ago
It's not at all unusual for data analytic tools, cryptography functions and proprietary algorithms to end up on tech export control lists. If a Chinese company tried to buy Twitter, the US government would do the same thing.
CriticalDuty
2yr ago
The Chinese government has indicated it will invoke technology export controls to block any TikTok divestiture, so unless they're bluffing it's not inconceivable that banning TikTok may just mean banning TikTok.
CriticalDuty
2yr ago
We have extremely practical and highly intuitive solutions to deal with both - simply throw violators of historical social norms into large containment facilities sealed off from the rest of society, and then forget about them. We chose to ignore these solutions because policymakers and commentators are unhappy with the guaranteed increase in black incarceration that follows any sort of law enforcement whatsoever, and we now extend that unhappiness to other politically protected demographics.
CriticalDuty
2yr ago
This is not correct for several reasons. Edwards was tried in a federal court in North Carolina, not a state court, or in South Carolina. Trump has not been charged with any federal crimes, and in fact the DOJ and FEC conducted their own inquiries into the same alleged offense and decided against charging him with anything. It also makes a significant difference as to whether the money comes from a donor - which places it in the realm of campaign contributions - or from the candidate's own pocket or business organization. The Edwards prosecution also cited fake invoices for nonexistent purchases that the donor listed as the reason they were giving money to Edwards, so that the money wouldn't have to be listed in FEC reports.
CriticalDuty
2yr ago
John Edwards was accused of using campaign contributions as hush money, which is not the same thing.
CriticalDuty
2yr ago
Banning people who work at nuclear power plants and the military from using TikTok at work would be enough to satisfy national security concerns.
What if one of these people has a spouse or family member who doesn't work at a nuclear power plant, or for the military? You can spy on a person without spying on that particular person.
CriticalDuty
2yr ago
HR doesn't really have much input on hiring from T14 law schools. Firms like Skadden and Cravath send senior associates, or sometimes junior partners, to do OCI interviews and their goal is always just to snap up the people with the best grades and journal titles for bragging rights. You're hired by other lawyers, not by HR ladies, and as long as your 2L GPA is great and you successfully impress upon your interviewer that you know how to dress and behave like a Skadden lawyer, the only input HR has is verifying your credentials and running a basic background check.
CriticalDuty
2yr ago
Some have speculated that the reason Yale students seem notably more psychotic than other Ivy Leaguers is that there's literally nothing else to do in New Haven but rabble-rouse. Columbia students live in New York, the center of the universe, and Harvard students are a short skip away from Boston, but I don't think anything really happens in New Haven besides Gilmore Girls fan conventions. Stanford is only a short distance away from Palo Alto, though, so unless Palo Alto is particularly boring I don't know if this explanation still holds good.
CriticalDuty
2yr ago
I don't think Lindsay was ever meant to be a fanatical progressive or even really a progressive of any kind. Her whole character is just supposed to be the faildaughter who's never worked a day in her life and has no idea how to make a living after her father's finances are frozen. She believes in whatever ideology will further her latest grift - by the end of the show she was a Trump expy Republican.
CriticalDuty
2yr ago
It's not really "left-coded media", but Alice in Borderland on Netflix has an example of this. One of the main female characters is played by a woman, presents as a woman throughout the whole show, and then near the end of the last season has a "btw I'm actually trans" moment.
CriticalDuty
2yr ago
I didn't think there were that many CW elements, unless you're the sort of person who writes culture columns for Slate or The Atlantic and feels a compulsion to parse for "subtext". Young chef girl's mistake I could understand as a screw-up from an overworked sous chef, but cake maker man was behaving like a fucking moron in the middle of an extremely high-pressure service. He really didn't deserve an apology.
CriticalDuty
2yr ago
Every 4 years there's a fascination with some New England/Acela Corridor Republican's campaign for the White House, and every 4 years it falls flat because these people have basically zero appeal to Republicans in places like Texas and Oklahoma. I wouldn't expect Sununu to do any better than Bill Weld or Chris Christie did, and given how much of the party apparatus is lining up behind DeSantis, I'm skeptical about his willingness to anger other parts of the GOP by propping up Trump.
CriticalDuty
2yr ago
AFAIK, the certain kinds of wrongdoing that teachers (and doctors) are required to report is child abuse. This isn't necessarily child abuse that they or their peers are committing - it can be child abuse committed by the parents or by other students. The teachers themselves are not usually the subjects of the complaint; they are simply reporting observations. Policing on the other hand is an inherently confrontational job; you often have to get physical with people, and it falls to the observer to try and parse out acceptable physicality from unacceptable physicality, and if you get it wrong, you're in your colleagues' bad books, etc etc. It's understood that police get into fisticuffs a certain amount of the time, whereas students don't, so a bruised suspect in police custody wouldn't instantly raise alarm bells the way a 6-year-old with purple contusions on their ribs would.
CriticalDuty
3yr ago
Liberal states will trust in liberal admissions offices to ignore court rulings and find a way to keep admitting underperforming minorities. The only real way to fight affirmative action would be to adopt a Kendiesque policy of assuming discrimination as the default whenever student demographics don't match up to the racial distribution of test scores, and/or to ban interviews and institute blind admissions.
CriticalDuty
3yr ago
What's a primary goal and what's a secondary goal? A primary goal of the EU is, charitably, to keep Europeans in the manner to which they have grown accustomed, i.e. to maintain their welfare states in an age of falling fertility rates and dwindling tax bases. They have decided that the optimal way to do this to usher in an endless number of migrants from Africa and the Middle East, and have repeatedly made statements to that effect. To the extent that any European country - Hungary, say, or Poland - objects that they do not want to take in large African populations, the EU has indicated that it will cajole, threaten and twist arms until it gets what it wants. After all, such objections are an obstacle to the goal of maintaining a particular economic state, and thus an undermining of the EU project at large. Given these facts, is it fair to say that the EU is at odds with the continued existence of European countries as majority-European states, as they want migrants in numbers large enough to affect demographic pyramids?
CriticalDuty
3yr ago
A lot of what we now regard as the Russian sphere of influence used to be the Polish sphere of influence, including much of Ukraine, until the dwindling of Polish imperial power led to the loss of these territories to the Russian Empire, and the occupation and gradual irrelevance of Poland. Poland exists as the bumpkin cousin of the great European empires, never counted among the likes of Britain, France, Austria, Spain or Russia, and the Tsars in St. Petersburg were a major part of why - even before the Soviet era, Russia played the role of humiliator in the Polish psyche, the rocks against which Poland's great power ambitions ran aground. There's unlikely to be any Polish-Russian rapprochement for a long time.
CriticalDuty
3yr ago
European sovereignty and self-determination were discredited as racist concepts when America won World War II. The ability to draft such plans requires a level of independence that no European nation possesses. If America wants half of Germany to freeze to death, half of Germany will freeze to death and the German government will quietly accept it.
CriticalDuty
3yr ago
Given that Charles isn't claiming to be king of Ireland, what are you even asking for? A public ceremony where he shouts "I'm not king of Ireland! I'm not king of Ireland!"?
CriticalDuty
3yr ago
No idea. I don't think we will find out until more information about why Magnus withdrew comes to light, which will almost certainly not happen until the tournament is over.
CriticalDuty
3yr ago
Magnus has been voicing his displeasure with the WCC format for more than a decade, even before he became World Champion in 2013, and has repeatedly suggested along the way that he might no longer defend the title. It's really not a surprise that he called it quits after five defenses. He's lost games to weaker players before - Andrey Esipenko was lower rated than Niemann when he beat Magnus at Wijk an Zee. He's won most of the OTB and online tournaments he played in this year and decisively won Tata Steel for a record eighth time in January. Frankly, I think he deserves some benefit of the doubt before everyone decides he's gone Fischer.
I'm sure there's always at least one possible reason in the universe of possible reasons, but I'm trying to model what a typical man would do, not write a sitcom about a 40-year-old career woman who has a whole lotta love to give and is searching for someone who completes her. "Marry a millionaire" should not be anyone's plan for starting a family - if you've reached this point, odds are you've already lost the game.
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