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11mo ago
This is just a reverse application of “When I am Weaker Than You, I ask you for Freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am Stronger than you, I take away your Freedom Because that is according to my principles.
First there was cancel culture, with people of all walks of life getting canceled for going against the party narrative (remember the scientist who got canceled for his shirt). Then (interestingly seems to have starred around the time Elon took over twitter) a denial that there is such a thing as cancel culture, and it is just a right wing boogeyman (eg how can cancel culture exist if Shane Gillis is more popular now than when he was canceled from snl) . Now, we’re at the stage when the right is using cancel culture and the left is angry it exists.
The left is very good at progressing by disavowing it’s failures (eg eugenics) and only remembering its successes.
Hopefully cancel culture will be one of those failures, but I think it is too much a part of human nature to ever go away.
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5mo ago
Harris tweeted support for funds to pay rioters’ bail. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/09/03/kamala-harris-tweeted-support-bail-fund-money-didnt-just-assist-protestors/
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4mo ago
I’d like a breakdown. The only thing I’d seen is his 1 minute prepared statement on his YouTube channel.
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7mo ago
If Harris loses, I think there is a strong chance that the powers that be will remove Biden from office using the 25th amendment, so that Kamala could be the first woman president. (Maybe I just like the idea because I’m tickled by seeing how far Kamala can go without winning an election.)
If she loses, Biden will get a lot of blame for sabotaging her campaign, and this would be the perfect revenge.
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1yr ago
Want to make your theoretical movie even more interesting? Make two versions of the movie and release them simultaneously. In one the extremists are right wing and the government is left wing. In the other, the extremists are left wing and the government is right wing . Create a realistic portrayal of both sides, not cartoon villainy, and see how they both do.
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7mo ago
https://youtube.com/watch?v=CVGeQepBlqk I remember watching this news story out of abeline, Texas. A California judge used a fluoride study to sue the EPA to stop putting fluoride in the water. The city of a Elise used this as an excuse to remove fluoride from their water, while stressing that their fluoride situation was nothing like the one in the study, and their fluoride levels actually meet the guidelines.
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1yr ago
Here’s Matt Damon explaining that the death of DVD sales killed mid budget movies that took risks.
He doesn’t give quantitative analysis.
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1yr ago
There’s the old joke of a governor interviewing prisoners, determining why they were incarcerated. After prisoner after prisoner professed their innocence, one prisoner said he was in jail for theft. The warden quickly proclaims, release this man from jail, before he corrupts all these innocent men.
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1yr ago
Not to mention the required reprogramming.
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11mo ago
But I'll bet he gets some flack for "helping Trump."
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2yr ago
What about this: Windsor police officer who donated to convoy protest will work 80 hours unpaid? That's 80 hours of unpaid work for a $50 donation, that was given by a person who was on unpaid leave, and never went through because the accounts were already frozen.
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1yr ago
Sure. And don’t do any transitions until you can reliably tell the difference.
But at the moment, a doctor feel pressured to do the opposite.
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2yr ago
It is apparently illegal for states to secure their borders, as this fall only under federal jurisdiction. From here:
Can states enforce immigration laws?
The federal government has sole authority to enforce immigration laws. While DPS and the National Guard can’t enforce those laws, Abbott increased trespassing penalties under the disaster declaration and directed state troopers to arrest migrants on state trespassing charges when they are caught on private property.
It is very easy for the federal government to decide to let people illegally cross the border, since Washington DC is thousands of miles away from the Texas border. Why should Texas have to absorb all those people illegally coming into the country?
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1yr ago
• (Related tidbit from outside this particular hearing: Senator Bill Cassidy, Bernie Sanders’ Republican counterpart on the Senate HELP Committee, has complained that we have a shortage of trained nurses partially because many states require nursing colleges to be taught by nurses with masters degrees, who are few in number and already mostly working as practitioners. I can buy this because in my experience looking into other healthcare issues, state level regulations often do make federal laws go much less far. For example pricing transparency rules don’t really matter when states allow hospitals to be monopolies.)
• Democrats responded that the rule provides $75 million in grants to train nurse aids, and also pointed out that Democrats repeatedly have tried to boost federal spending to help with this kind of training and hiring but Republicans were opposed soooo.
So the states restrict training more than is federally required and the response is to give them more federal money so the state can get out of the problem they caused? Seems wrong.
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7mo ago
AOC argued against the bathroom ban on Capitol Hill by saying that it will be bad for women who will need to be stripped searched to prove they are women. https://thehill.com/homenews/lgbtq/5002529-ocasio-cortez-mace-johnson-transgender-bathroom-ban/amp/
Does that mean she’s backing away from the trans rights argument, or just using a talking point that will resonate with most women?
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1yr ago
You left out the 3rd clause in the Russel conjugation: https://tomdehnel.com/what-is-russell-conjugation/
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2yr ago
It seems to me he's just doing it to show the people clamoring for censorship that it goes both ways, and they don't really want it as much as they want opinions and voices they don't like muzzled.
But maybe I'm reading too much into it.
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2yr ago
You can see it here. (It's kind of weird that the Guardian has a video which is just Gillette's video, but it has 4.4 million views, so they're probably making some money off of it)
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1yr ago
Doctors don’t recommend multiple cesareans because the scarring accumulates and leads to bad outcomes.
On the other hand, doctors often will not allow a vaginal birth after a cesarean. https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/labor-and-delivery/in-depth/vbac/art-20044869
So once you have one cesarean, you’re pretty much going to have only cesareans, which will limit the number of healthy pregnancies.
—— on a slightly related note, I've heard stories from mothers where the doctors basically decided to do a cesarean because the labor was taking too long and the doctor didn't want to stick around.
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1yr ago
It does not explain why Saylor Swift earns so much (it's not like she works 1000x harder or puts in 1000x more hours)
She provides more than 1000x the value. Do the same exact production, with the same exact experience, but substitute Taylor Swift with a random woman singing the same exact songs. How much of the stadium would be full? How much would each ticket go for? I would say much less than what it is now.
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2yr ago
To your Bernie Madoff example, if he'd paid back all the people who were conned, yes, he would have probably skated
Martin Shkreli made money for all his investors and was still charged and served jail time.
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2yr ago
How easy is it for students to simply lie about their race in their application? It's not like the university is going to run a DNA test to see if your grandma was actually native American.
Mindy Kaling's brother did just that. In his words:
I shaved my head, trimmed my long Indian eyelashes, and applied as an African American. Not even my own frat brothers recognized me. I joined the Organization of Black Students and used my middle name, Jojo.
Vijay, the Indian American frat boy, became Jojo, the African American med school applicant.
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1yr ago
in addition to the other reasons given in this thread, Peter Parker wasn't race swapped. He was replaced with another character, Miles Morales, After Peter Parker was killed. All this happened in an alternate universe.
Also, it is very common for conservatives to be initially upset about something, but after a while they accept it. Miles Morales was introduced over a decade ago. There definitely was some complaining at the beginning.
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1yr ago
I don’t have a twitter account, mostly for my own sanity. One of the worst new features is that if you are not logged in to twitter you cannot get a chronological feed of an account, it sorts by most popular, which is more than useless. (You can change it if you’re logged in).
Also, unless you’re logged in, you can’t click on a link to a twitter comment and read the replies. Only the actual tweet is displayed.
On the other hand, This has caused my twitter usage to go down to less than a minute a week, which is great.
And only promised not to destroy all life.
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