NewCharlesInCharge
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NewCharlesInCharge
2yr ago
Mulan was a big flop, taking in $70 million on a $200 million budget.
There was no race swapping, but most people I know were turned off by the titular character gaining magical powers on top of being a girlboss.
NewCharlesInCharge
2yr ago
The EEOC has gotten many companies to agree to settlements merely for disparate impact: https://www.google.com/search?q=disparate+impact+eeoc+settlement
Here's one example: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/dollar-general-pay-6-million-settle-eeoc-class-race-discrimination-suit
CHICAGO - Major retail chain Dollar General will pay $6 million and furnish other relief to settle a class race discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.
According to the EEOC's lawsuit, Dollar General, the largest small-box discount retailer in the United States, violated federal law by denying employment to African Americans at a significantly higher rate than white applicants for failing the company's broad criminal background check.
Employment screens that have a disparate impact on the basis of race violate Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, unless an employer can show the screen is job-related and is a business necessity. The EEOC filed suit in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois in Chicago (EEOC v. Dolgencorp LLC d/b/a Dollar General, Civil Action No. 13 C 4307), after first attempting to reach a voluntary settlement through its conciliation process.
The three-year consent decree settling the suit, signed by U.S. District Court Judge Andrea Wood, requires that Dollar General pay $6 million into a settlement fund which will be distributed through a claims process at the direction of the EEOC to African Americans who lost their chance at employment at the company between 2004 and 2019. If Dollar General chooses to use a criminal background check during the term of the decree, the retailer must hire a criminology consultant to develop a new criminal background check based on several factors including the time since conviction, the number of offenses, the nature and gravity of the offense(s), and the risk of recidivism. Once the consultant provides a recommendation, the decree enjoins Dollar General from using any other criminal background check for its hiring process.
NewCharlesInCharge
2yr ago
I think in the case of Xinjiang the banality of evil may be that so many will easily consume manufactured consent for war.
There are reeducation camps in Xinjiang, but there is no genocide and no sterilization campaign.
This is how the state is dealing with their Islamic extremism problem. Time will tell whether or not this works better than fighting a war against them, but so far I think there’s probably less evil afoot than in the collateral casualties of the GWoT.
NewCharlesInCharge
2yr ago
I think Gates might go nondescript on purpose. His home on Lake Washington isn’t even visible from the lake. When you’re boating and tell friends where Bill Gates lives, you’re gesturing at a clump of trees on the shore.
NewCharlesInCharge
2yr ago
Trappist ales were the first thing I thought of in response to the claim that women were the original brewers of beer.
Also that fermented grain drinks arose in every culture with access to grain, and that it sourcing the original beer brewer would be as impossible as figuring out who baked the first loaf of bread.
NewCharlesInCharge
2yr ago
Fishing ban: https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2020/mar/25/statewide-fishing-ban-ordered-by-washington-wildli/
It lasted until May 5. No accommodation for people who obtain significant amounts of food from catching their own.
Shower curtains for sex: https://lynnwoodtimes.com/2020/12/07/covexxx-19-has-king-county-public-health-gone-too-far/
NewCharlesInCharge
2yr ago
The Western governments really, truly weren't, as some conspiracy theorists claimed, trying to use the pandemic to re-engineer the society; more than anything, they just wanted the pandemic to go away and to return to "life as it was".
I think government leaders largely deferred to public health authorities, and those public health authorities saw this as the opportunity of their lifetime to Do Good and Make A Difference. Bureaucrats being bureaucrats, they weren't keen to acknowledge any shortcomings or limits to their knowledge, and put their hands in all the pies they could fit in. Many of those bureaucrats had a very ideological take on what Doing Good looks like. My state banned fishing and then later on one of its counties promoted having sex through a hole in a shower curtain.
NewCharlesInCharge
2yr ago
There's a family in my neighborhood -- mom, dad, three kids -- that takes walks together every day. Still fully masked even outdoors.
I think mom relaxed the rule for one of her kids. She was out with just the one kid when we ended up crossing paths on a narrow trail and as soon as she saw me she was calling to her kid to mask up. It also wasn't a normal surgical mask, it was some kind of child ventilator with a rubber seal.
This is a wealthy area of the Pacific Northwest, so they're probably on the smart end.
NewCharlesInCharge
2yr ago
Money supply went nearly vertical during Covid, increasing by about 30%: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2SL
NewCharlesInCharge
2yr ago
This sounds like Elizabeth Warren style economic theory where greed explains everything we do not like.
But that would require greed to be a variable that just happens to line up with other economic indicators that are more plausible all on their own, and would entail that when the economy produces results we like it is because the hearts of the corporate grinches grew larger.
NewCharlesInCharge
2yr ago
Sanctuary laws like these make the benefit of moving states pretty minimal. At age twelve kids can purchase plane tickets and fly alone to a state that will keep them from you.
Maybe you’d wonder where they could get the money. A wild amount of runaways end up earning money through prostitution. Googling around shows estimates of around a third will end up being prostituted or trafficked.
I’ve thought about this, and this is something I’m willing to die for. If the state comes for my son because they’ve brainwashed him into thinking he’s a girl and I won’t consent to medical interventions, then I will defend my son with lethal force. Morally I find it no different than defending my child against a pedophile who has convinced my kid that they’re in love and is trying to kidnap them. I’m not going to stand aside and let such grave damage be inflicted on someone that I have the ultimate duty to protect.
NewCharlesInCharge
2yr ago
Far fewer than 90% of my liberal friends will endorse trans activism when in arenas where they can express themselves without fear of getting fired.
NewCharlesInCharge
2yr ago
/r/Christianity is more like /r/ProgressiveChristianity. Anything short of ELCA/Episcopalian rainbow flag Christianity tends to get downvoted out of sight. The sub also attracts a lot of non-Christians telling Christians that they're wrong about Christianity.
I had found /r/Christian as an alternative where posters wouldn't get mobbed for expressing traditional values, but that's about its only merit. Most of the posting there is uneducated, with a smattering of folks with Christian-flavored OCD. Recently someone posted asking if his repeatedly saying "Jesus is Ba'al" was going to damn him to hell.
/r/Reformed appears to be a home for conservative, scholarly Protestants on Reddit, folks that would probably enjoy Kevin DeYoung.
NewCharlesInCharge
2yr ago
Humans are weird enough that I’m near certain that some are gender dysphoric. But this is likely a stable, rare number. Growth in trans identifying youth appears to be a misfit thing, like the goths of my generation.
Some of the goth thing seemed to me to be an embracing of and celebration of misfit status. They dialed their weirdness up to eleven so no one could possibly mistake them for a normie.
It would be so very strange to see even a news story about goths being bullied in middle school. People would have a few reactions:
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That’s so unfortunate.
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It’s probably not happening because they are goth.
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If it is, why don’t they just dress normally?
NewCharlesInCharge
2yr ago
The fixed version highlights the absurdity of the original: https://twitter.com/politicalmath/status/1648299180945801218
NewCharlesInCharge
2yr ago
CanadaBC BritishBC NipponHK
These are non-standard ways to refer to these entities, at first I thought you were referring to some kind of official Twitter account of British Columbia.
NewCharlesInCharge
2yr ago
I don’t think this should be considered inflammatory. If a black comedian had these lines in their act it would be a non-issue.
The argument was that there’s a communication style among black folks that can be jarring and intimidating to people not used to it, and this was a not even very egregious example.
If a white person gave such an example in Polite Society they might very well lose their job over it, but we are supposed to be able to violate those kinds of norms here.
NewCharlesInCharge
2yr ago
A variant of this statute has actually been tested before the Supreme Court in Virginia v. Black. They held that it is constitutional to limit intimidating speech that represents a true threat, but invalidated part of the statute that directed juries to infer intimidation from the mere act of cross burning.
The statue in the Supreme Court case appears to be the template for this one. The original referred to cross burning specifically, this one is more generic.
The Court did qualify their ruling as pertaining specifically to cross burnings and "particularly virulent form[s] of intimidation":
The First Amendment permits Virginia to outlaw cross burnings done with the intent to intimidate because burning a cross is a particularly virulent form of intimidation. Instead of prohibiting all intimidating messages, Virginia may choose to regulate this subset of intimidating messages in light of cross burning's long and pernicious history as a signal of impending violence. Thus, just as a State may regulate only that obscenity which is the most obscene due to its prurient content, so too may a State choose to prohibit only those forms of intimidation that are most likely to inspire fear of bodily harm. A ban on cross burning carried out with the intent to intimidate is fully consistent with our holding in R. A. V. and is proscribable under the First Amendment.
A general ban on burning objects, especially objects whose designed purpose is to be burnt, doesn't seem to fit.
NewCharlesInCharge
2yr ago
The only scenario where you'd be justified at shooting through a door is if the other party is also threatening you with some ranged weapon like a gun, or they're threatening someone else on the other side of the door.
Doubtful that this is what has happened, but I've also been trained by the media to doubt the early reports on these kinds of stories. Jacob Blake was just trying to drive away. Rittenhouse gunned down people merely protesting.
It could be that Yarl carried for defense, saw the old man answered the door with a gun in hand, and drew on him.
Or, old man saw Yarl going for his phone to figure out where his brothers really are, and thought he was going for a weapon.
NewCharlesInCharge
2yr ago
My state's supreme court has held that invocation of racist stereotypes, such as suggesting that a person is looking for a windfall, or that a person's employer may not be an unbiased witness, is always grounds for a hearing for a new trial, and at the hearing the burden is on the other party to prove that race was not a factor in the jury's decision.
There are no bounds on this, so if the matter in question happens to be whether a Chinese man peed in your Coke, he'll always be entitled to a new trial based on descriptions of his actual behavior.
https://www.courts.wa.gov/opinions/pdf/976724.pdf
Henderson moved for a new trial or additur on the ground that the repeated appeals to racial bias affected the verdict, yet the trial court did not even grant an evidentiary hearing on that motion. The court instead stated it could not “require attorneys to refrain from using language that is tied to the evidence in the case, even if in some contexts the language has racial overtones.” 1 Clerk’s Papers (CP) at 180-81.
That reasoning gets it exactly backward. In ruling on a motion for a new civil trial, “[t]he ultimate question for the court is whether an objective observer (one who is aware that implicit, institutional, and unconscious biases, in addition to purposeful discrimination, have influenced jury verdicts in Washington State) could view race as a factor in the verdict.” State v. Berhe, 193 Wn.2d 657, 665, 444 P.3d 1172 (2019). A trial court must hold a hearing on a new trial motion when the proponent makes a prima facie showing that this objective observer could view race as a factor in the verdict, regardless of whether intentional misconduct has been shown or the court believes there is another explanation. At that hearing, the party seeking to preserve the verdict bears the burden to prove that race was not a factor.
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During closing arguments, Thompson’s counsel alluded to racist stereotypes about Black women as untrustworthy and motivated by the desire to acquire an unearned financial windfall. Defense counsel argued that Henderson’s injuries were minimal and intimated that the sole reason she had proceeded to trial was that she saw the collision as an opportunity for financial gain. Id. at 1195 (“And it seems pretty evident that the reason we’re going through this exercise is because the ask is for three and a half million dollars.”), 1198 (arguing that Henderson did not inform one of her doctors about the collision soon enough “because $3.5 million hadn’t coalesced in her mind yet”). Defense counsel’s argument that Henderson was exaggerating or fabricating her injuries appealed to these negative and false stereotypes about Black women being untrustworthy, lazy, deceptive, and greedy.
...defense counsel argued that Henderson’s chiropractor was likely to lie for her because they had more than just a doctor-patient relationship, implying that hiring her to work in his office demonstrated impropriety in their relationship. This strategy could open the door to speculation that plays directly on prejudice or biases about race and sexuality.
NewCharlesInCharge
2yr ago
That wasn't necessarily progressive, I think most of it was just anti-conservative, from both independents and Democrats. At that time this was an important distinction.
For W's entire term a standard Democrat would have been against gay marriage. They also would have been against crime, drugs, and war.
NewCharlesInCharge
2yr ago
I’ve seen others point out that it would be odd to apologize for mere cultural differences.
The tongue sucking request also came after a full on-the-mouth kiss that was also inappropriate.
NewCharlesInCharge
2yr ago
Steve Hsu has a startup that claims to have solved the hallucination problem. AFAIK they’ve not yet described their technique, but Hsu is no confabulist.
NewCharlesInCharge
2yr ago
I got my first Model S in 2015, a Model 3 for my wife when they came out, and replaced my S with another S in 2020.
The battery and power train are still the best in the market, still absurdly fast and fun to drive.
Autopilot / full self driving are not perfect but still sorely missed when driving rental cars.
Service has taken a massive dive. With my first Tesla the service center was so mildly loaded that when I had any issue they’d tell me to come in that day, no appointment. Now it can take weeks to get an appointment, and they’re stingy about some things. My headrest developed bubbles in its “vegan leather” and I had to pay $200 for a replacement, even as they told me this can be caused by scalp oil. They gave me a refund after I wrote my attorney general.
Build quality is also bad. I rejected three cars that all had various paint issues, mostly bubbles, before I accepted my current Model S. This one has some wind noise coming from the passenger side that is super obvious to me but that Tesla’s technician can’t hear.
Current struggle is that the infotainment inexplicably loses its connectivity. I live next to a cell tower and the car will sometimes have no signal until I drive for a couple of minutes. This is very annoying for cold days where I’d like to start warming my car with the app.
Oh, and a design flaw that is not covered under warranty keeps filling my wife’s trunk with rain water. Newer 3s have a lip on the rear windshield to work around this, I need to build one of my own.
If you're as competent as you portray yourself to be, you should interview with Google/Facebook/Apple/etc. $200,000 is about what kids fresh from college were earning at Facebook when I was there. A couple of levels up people are pulling more than $400,000. And that's as ICs, with no pressure whatsoever to become managers.
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