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New York City is rather large for a "municipality", if you weren't aware. It has twice as many people as the adjacent state of Connecticut (8.5 million vs. 3.7 million), and nine-tenths as many people as the adjacent state of New Jersey (9.5 million). And it contains Wall Street. It's practically as important as a state.
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I use a modded Reddit apk, but the experience is just abysmal.
I recommend just using your mobile Web browser, with the "New Reddit" interface toggled off in your account settings.
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4mo ago
It would be a nice dogwhistle for "mudslime" (common slur for Muslim/Arab).
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Naruto fanfiction (circa 2010) → Harry Potter fanfiction → TVTropes fanfiction-recommendation pages → HPMOR (circa 2014) → Big Yud's Facebook page → Slate Star Codex
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HPMOR → /r/rational → /r/themotte
Or something like that.
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You said that getting a concealed-carry permit is trivially easy, and in support of that first statement you said that sheriffs aren't allowed to contact the references provided by an applicant for that permit. My point is that your second statement appears to be incorrect, so your first statement is weaker. (Though a different lawyer says that your second statement is correct and Columbia County is violating the law.)
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Columbia County's online application states that an applicant's references must call the sheriff's office within five days of the applicant's applying.
The only minor impediment
Don't forget the requirement of two references, including at every five-year renewal.
I write with " - " transitions all the time. Is that materially different from that em-dash thing all the kids are complaining about? Do I look like an AI??????
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Human or LLM: Yes—no—maybe (em dashes)
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Lazy human: Yes--no--maybe (pairs of hyphens as ersatz em dashes)
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Idiosyncratic human: Yes – no – maybe (en dashes plus spaces)
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Lazy and idiosyncratic human: Yes - no - maybe (hyphens as ersatz en dashes, plus spaces)
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Insane human: Yes- no- maybe
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Insane human: Yes — no — maybe (em dashes plus spaces)
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The government of (the Republic of) Ireland has chosen to impose rent control on literally the entire country. (83 percent of rented properties in Ireland already were in rent-control zones before this law went into effect.) Rent increases now are capped at 2 percent per year nationwide.
Note that the government of Ireland currently is a coalition of two right-wing parties. The most prominent left-wing party has openly stated that it would ban all rent increases for three years if it were in power.
(found via this article)
Ireland has 5 million people, in comparison to the 8 million people that live under New York City's rent control.
The government of Italy has approved a plan to build a bridge across the Strait of Messina, between Calabria and Sicily. Completion is scheduled for year 2032.
- A person is being investigated. Twelve minutes into a "custodial" (at the police station) interview (with Miranda rights having been read to the suspect), the following exchange takes place.
Suspect: Would I be able to call my lawyer?
Detective 1: You can, yeah.
Suspect: I got, uh, Lou Savino.
Detective 1: Do you want to continue this interview or what do you want to do?
Suspect: I want to continue it but I want my lawyer present.
Detective 1: Ok. So then we have to end the interview.
Suspect: You have to end the interview?
Detective 1: Mmm hmm. If you want your lawyer here, we have to end the interview.
Suspect: Will he be here today or no?
Detective 1: Probably not. Lou Savino is a very busy man.
Suspect: Yeah, I called him this morning before I left Delaware.
Detective 1: If you want him here, we’ll end the interview.
Suspect: You can keep it going.
Detective 1: Are you sure you want to do this without a lawyer?
Suspect: Yeah, because I got the right to remain silent, right?
Detective 2: Sure.
The interview then continues.
- Several months later, the suspect is charged with various crimes. However, the trial judge suppresses all statements made by the defendant after the exchange recounted above, and the appeals panel affirms. According to the federal supreme court, once a suspect in police custody has requested a lawyer, he is not allowed to revoke that request until either he gets a lawyer or he leaves police custody and then initiates a new contact with the police. After the then-suspect said "I want my lawyer present", the detective should have ended the interview immediately, or at least should have disregarded the then-suspect's later statement of "you can keep it going".
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In year 2021, the mayor of Philadelphia issues an executive order (1) declaring Juneteenth a city holiday and (2) renaming Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples' Day. A coalition of Italian-American organizations promptly sues, alleging that this executive order not only is the latest in a string of anti-Italian discriminatory actions perpetrated by the mayor, but also is a usurpation of the city council's exclusive power to declare city holidays.
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In year 2023, the trial court rejects the coalition's arguments. The city charter grants the power of establishing holidays to the city personnel director, who is a member of the executive branch under the mayor.
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In year 2025, the appeals panel reverses. The city charter grants to the city personnel director, not the power of establishing holidays, but merely the power of establishing employment regulations regarding holidays. The power of establishing holidays is not explicitly mentioned anywhere in the charter, so by default, in accordance with state and federal practice, it inheres in the legislative body—the council. Therefore, this executive order is a usurpation of legislative power. (This analysis applies to substantive holidays that are days off for city workers. The mayor still may declare temporary, symbolic holidays that have no effect on anybody.)
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Lemon is a term from anime fandom used to designate a work with explicit erotic content. The term derives from an early pornographic anime/hentai from the 80s called Cream Lemon. While still most prevalent within anime fandom, the term "lemon" (and other associated citrus fruits) has since become established as a pan-fandom code for various types of smut.
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Grok 4 was willing to generate a story where Shinji agrees to undergo conversion therapy in order to cure his homosexuality
Truly, age doth not wither nor custom stale the infinite variety of some people's imaginations.
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Knowledge of noun cases is bourgeois. You would be wise to forget it, comrade.
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A search for all instances of "fifty stalins" prior to year 2014 shows the Slate Star Codex article (archive) as the only result.
In the trial court, he pleaded guilty to the three felonies. The state supreme court now has reversed those convictions and remanded the case back to the trial court. The prosecutors technically are allowed to try prosecuting the three felony charges again, but there wouldn't be much point in doing so with all the evidence of those crimes suppressed, so they probably will just drop the charges. (I assume that, four years after the event, it's too late for the prosecutors to charge him with the misdemeanor of driving while intoxicated, which they previously didn't bother to charge him with.)
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You'd think we would at least have a discussion as to whether this should be legal or not
Fun fact: In New Jersey, cloning a human is in the same category (first-degree crime) as murder.
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A person accused of harassment drives to the police station in order to give a statement. The investigating officer (1) watches from the lobby as the suspect stumbles out of his car after parking, and (2) observes a fresh injection mark on the suspect's arm while taking the statement. The officer tests the subject for intoxication, and arrests the subject after the suspect fails two of three tests. Five officers immediately search the suspect's car, without impounding it* or getting a warrant for the search. They find, not just a second intoxicated person in the passenger seat, but also illegal drugs and a gun with an illegal "large-capacity magazine" (capable of holding more than ten rounds). The suspect is charged with three felonies. (The prosecutors don't bother to charge him with the misdemeanor of driving while intoxicated.)
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The defendant moves for suppression of the evidence, but the trial judge denies the motion, and the appeals panel affirms. The federal supreme court has ruled that, if there is probable cause that a person has driven while intoxicated, then the "automobile exception" applies—there is no need to get a warrant before searching the vehicle, because vehicles are both readily moved outside the current jurisdiction and so pervasively regulated that their users have a reduced expectation of privacy in them. It is true that the state supreme court chose to significantly narrow the automobile exception, ruling that it does not apply when the vehicle already is at police headquarters and therefore is not at risk of disappearing before a warrant can be obtained. However, when the state supreme court said "headquarters", it meant a secure impound lot at a police station, not an unsecured ordinary parking lot at a police station.
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The state supreme court reverses. "Headquarters" includes an unsecured ordinary parking lot at a police station, especially when the vehicle is parked close enough to the building that the officers can keep an eye on it from inside. After the second intoxicated person was removed from the car, it was securely under the control of the police, and there was no exigency justifying a warrantless search.
*Under state law, if a person is arrested for driving while intoxicated, the vehicle that he was driving must be impounded for twelve hours.
Books should be structured as expandable trees. One-paragraph summary of each chapter, expandable into summaries of component points/stories, expandable into the full text. Can read the whole book in five minutes or five hours.
It was always unlikely that the best format for long-form information in the pre-hyperlink world (books) would continue to be the best format in the post-hyperlink world. Authors should experiment more with different ways of structuring complex and interlinking sets of ideas.
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I forget where the github repo is at
It's linked in the menu at the upper right corner of the page (under your profile image).
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Click on the link that looks like a speech bubble near the upper right corner of the page.
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The "firehose" view makes getting an overview of all the active discussions easy. But reading everything seems unnecessary.
>be me
>interested in reading cases where US citizens (not aliens) are prosecuted for marriage fraud
>PACER's search function is useless
>GovInfo and RECAP's search functions return mostly false positives
>a Westlaw subscription would cost 100 $/mo
>try to hire four different "legal researchers" (who I assume are paralegals) on Fiverr for up to 30 $ with a simple query: "I would like the docket numbers for the last twenty convictions of citizens (not aliens) for 8 USC 1325(c) (marriage fraud). I assume that such information is available through legal subscription services."
>they all flake out without explanation (and without asking for more money)
Can the lawyer denizens of this website explain to me why this is so difficult? Am I underestimating the billable hours that would be required for this seemingly simple search even with the fancy tools of Westlaw/Lexis/whatever? Am I really obligated to hire a lawyer at 200 or 400 $/h for the privilege of knowing which files I should download from PACER?
I'm not sure whether this counts as culture-war material, but it definitely is political, and I found it extremely interesting.
Daily Telegraph (found via Breitbart):
I'm getting flashbacks to my Engineering Accounting class in college. Calculations in this vein definitely are used on a regular basis for cost–benefit calculations in engineering. And a long-term discount rate of 5–6 percent certainly sounds reasonable to me. But, if discount rates are being used selectively rather than uniformly, that indeed would count as an "accountancy trick".
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