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1yr ago
The fact of signing a consent inform is irrelevant if the reason you signed is because someone deceived you about what you were consenting to.
Yes and no. While there can be exceptional circumstances, the presumption usually is that any signed document would take precedence over verbal discussions. If I sign a bill of sale, I can not allege fraud because I thought we had agreed on a different price.
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1yr ago
Judges determine sentencing, not juries. Juries determine the verdict prior to sentencing.
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1yr ago
I agree with this. It seems to me that a lot of the argument for the superior morality of long prison sentences weighs on the importance of being able to apologize to someone after unjustly imprisoning them. This leads to the intuition that it's much more tragic for someone to die one day before being released from unjust imprisonment than one day after, but I've never really found this very persuasive. It seems transparently self-serving for authority to believe in the morally transformative power of declaring "Sorry, I fucked up!"
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1yr ago
The jury is still only finding facts as regarding the sentencing enhancements. If the jury finds those facts support the death penalty, it is still up to the judge whether to impose that or some lesser punishment. Importantly, the jury is not supposed to consider the appropriateness of the sentence even in those cases, but simply whether the factual requirements are met.
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1yr ago
You could use a memoranda email box for this. Free cloud mailbox providers like Google or Microsoft will let you create a free mailbox with at least a couple of gigabytes of storage, to which address you can send or share things to remember. You can create automatic sorting rules or filter views to process based on keywords or search terms, file attachments are supported (and often indexed), and they are designed to be quickly and easily searched, and you can easily forward things to others as needed.
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1yr ago
Losing to the Vikings stings though. Seems like the same weird pattern as last year, where they stink out loud the first game, come back strong, then proceed to win a bunch of games in as dramatic and heart-attack-inducing ways as possible.
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1yr ago
You're not anti-semitic, but I would argue you are a dog. A "dog-whistle" is generally just a term of art or piece of jargon that reads differently to those in-the-know than those not in-the-know. I don't think that agreeing with the argument being made is a relevant part of it. The difference is between you hearing it (and disagreeing) vs. it going completely unnoticed by you.
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1yr ago
Like /u/FarNearEverywhere says, the expectation of Wall Street is that growth is perpetual, outside of actual innovations that genuinely increase productivity — like a better kind of grape, or a better machine to process them.
And why shouldn't it be? Investors are the ultimate reality-based community, and economies have in reality grown basically forever. Where and in what form this growth happens changes, though. It can change a lot, which is why companies that fail to grow get capital removed and companies that do grow get capital applied.
This is not a moral judgment, though. Investors are not morally shunning companies that fail to grow. It's just that by all appearances, those resources would be more useful elsewhere. It's like selling a guitar you rarely play any more to finance a bicycle that you would ride often. This is not a judgment on the quality of the guitar, or its inherent moral worth, or driven by an unreasonable expectation that the guitar be more useful to you. It's purely an optimization.
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1yr ago
Poster's point is that Smith is explicitly advocating a "great replacement".
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1yr ago
Pre-op trans women are literally hedging the hog.
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1yr ago
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1yr ago
It's one day, right?
Just call in sick. The only winning move is not to play.
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1yr ago
It’s all black in background
Again, background is too dark,
-8:45 shot is too dark
I'm convinced Amazon broke something in the Prime Video app around HDR. I recently started rewatching Season 1 of the Expanse on my phone and could barely make out anything unless I set my phone on maximum brightness. I got an LG OLED TV and noticed the same thing, when I watch certain things on Prime that enable the TV's HDR mode, these same programs (all Amazon originals) are almost unwatchably dark. I don't remember the Expanse looking like that on my old TV, and it was a plasma that couldn't get anywhere near as bright. However, HDR movies like Oblivion or Batman have looked fine. Online, it seems like lots of people have similar issues, that the programs are not just dark in production, but dark to the point of being unable to see almost anything at all.
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1yr ago
I predict that as he gets too old for leading man status, Cruise will be the new Eastwood: the Hollywood veteran who actually has a firm grasp on what makes a movie pleasurable for mainstream audiences, taking directing roles that give him lots of creative control and reliably turn solid profits, and the occasional vanity project to flex some underused acting muscles.
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1yr ago
The taboo exists whether you like it or not, and flouting it provides no benefit that I can see.
I don't think that's quite true. Taboos are not objective facts, they are a social consensus. Your argument that an individual alone cannot move social consensus is true enough, but many individuals acting in concert certainly can. Likewise, while it is true that in any given election, your individual vote probably doesn't determine the outcome, it does not follow that all voting is pointless. Taboos can be destroyed, it this is normally done by a small group violating it and not being punished, then more and more, until there is no clear social consensus and the taboo is gone. What objection could you have to that, other than that the taboo is taboo, which is circular?
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1yr ago
To do the work of dismantling their privilege
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1yr ago
I'm cynical. I believe the plan is to get people so fucked that they need the government, and specifically a nanny-state, far-left, socialist government.
BZZT! You have been fined one credit for a violation of the verbal morality statute.
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1yr ago
It requires either extremely high pressures or extremely low temperatures to store an appreciable amount of energy per volume. That's why rockets use super-cryogenic liquid hydrogen and vehicles use expensive COPV vessels capable of containing thousands of PSI. These problems in themselves are not deal-breakers, but the other hydrogen fuel cells needed to utilize it effectively have stubbornly refused to come down in price, namely I think due to the inability to find a suitable replacement for the platinum catalyst.
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1yr ago
Sorry, the parent post just reminded me so much of Lenina Huxley's litany of things that are bad, and therefore banned.
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1yr ago
Same as with Gawker, the concern is using massive judgements to financially ruin someone such that they are effectively silenced by being unable to afford to publish.
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1yr ago
Also, what are the arguments against LVT, besides low-effort "taxes are always bad and raising them is evil?" Genuinely curious for well thought out reasons why an LVT would be a bad idea.
My understanding is that this is effectively an opportunity cost tax. I.e., if you are sitting on a valuable plat which could generate 10 M$ in rents with 1 M$ of improvements, the market value of the plat should be about 9M$, and you would be taxed on that value, even if you were only generating 100K$ of rents (including imputed rents).
This is economically very efficient, as it encourages land to be used for its most economically efficient purpose. However, this butts directly up against peoples' real-world desires to "settle" - to establish a home in a place and be able to stay there indefinitely. If, for reasons beyond their control, the price of their property increases, they can be financially forced from their homes, which is about as soulcrushing as being foreclosed upon, while also seeming much more unfair. It destroys a person's ability to make stable long-term plans regarding a very fundamental fact of life. It also destroys residential community, by creating a disincentive to make a community that people want to live in, which has the natural effect of increasing property value. These are already problems with existing property taxes, that would be greatly amplified by taxing away all of the land value (leaving only rents).
After all, most people recoil about applying the same logic in other contexts: should a person's income tax be based on the amount of money they theoretically could be earning, if they worked as much as possible in the most valuable field they are qualified for, in the location with the highest salary? Hard-core utilitarians have seriously proposed this, but the concept of being treated as an economic ends with no function other than to produce social benefit, rather than a sapient being with noneconomic needs and desires makes most people reject this with prejudice.
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1yr ago
There would be no point for Nick and his attorneys to agree to a trivial settlement when they could go to trial instead and potentially win big.
Plural's contention was that there was in fact almost no potential to win big, so the settlement may very well have been trivial.
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1yr ago
Of course, if someone aids and abets a campaign of harassment against that person
What would this consist of, exactly? I think this is the area most ripe for attack. Under the theory of stocahastic terrorism, public criticism itself, however valid, could certainly be considered "aiding and abetting a campaign of public harassment."
I'm definitely more of a YIMBY, I understand that losing a house can be a serious blow, but I am more concerned with the fact that our cities are becoming increasingly less dense, losing valuable network effects, and wasting huge swathes of land.
Build new cities! Sounds glib, I know, but there is really no shortage of unzoned, unoccupied land in the United States, in nearly every temperate zone. Sure, the best port locations and the most ideal of weather locations are taken, but this isn't Europe. There's no reason that building the cities you want must entail destroying the ones that exist, unless you are unwilling to settle for anything less than the maximum possible ideal locations, in which case no amount of land reform is ever going to solve the problem that millions of people want to live in those places without also living in proximity to millions of other people.
From what I can tell though, one of the big issues of community being destroyed in the U.S. especially is the lack of density. It's much harder to have a strong social group when you have to drive 15-30 minutes to see any of your friends, being able to walk to another building one block over is much easier.
I disagree, I think too much density is also harmful to community. There is balance between not having enough people to form a community and having so many people proximate that your community is too large to meaningfully participate in. I suspect that in reality, the ideal community is within an order of magnitude of Dunbar's number, and the physical size of one's "community" is simply scaled by the density. In a small town, the entire town is your community. In a suburb, it is your residential neighborhood. In a larger city, your block, and in a megalopolis, your building, or maybe even your elevator stop.
I could never get behind this, and you're changing my mind on the 100% LVT. How would you feel about an LVT that taxed away 80% of the land value?
Better, but still not very positive.
This does not seem like a healthy use of prosecutorial power. This is fully into "I'll find you the crime" territory, if we are opening investigations without even an articulable belief that a specific crime was committed.
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