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The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
19hr ago
She's been default judged multiple times and ordered to pay millions in damages, so she'd likely go immediately to jail.
For what? We don't have debtors prison in the US.
thejdizzler
19hr ago
Not limited to vegans or environmentalists, but both of those things are important values of mine that might drive people away who don't agree, which is fine. I don't think I'm too thin. My BMI is ~22.5 (trying to lower my weight slightly to get faster again, but won't go much below a BMI of 21.5-22). Don't think I have veganface, but you can decide for yourself.
I thought the relationship would be quickly sexual. To be clear, we did make out, but every time I tried to escalate towards sex (i.e. fingering, taking off clothes), I was shut down. The discussion that prompted the break-up was me saying that I wasn't cool with this.
Indeed. Which is why their former employment does not suffice for why someone should care about their explanation / interpretation on a culture war issue.
'They worked for a smart person' is not a credit that bolsters one's own credibility, particularly when said smart man was known for routinely hiring people he thought were substantially wrong on major issues.
zeke5123a
20hr ago
To be explicit, Scalia famously made a point of hiring some clerks that didn’t share his view to try to better understand different perspectives.
Counts for what to who?
Is 'Scalia' in this context supposed to count as a proxy for 'shares Scalia's worldview and judicial philosophy?' Or does it count more as a talismanic shield, akin to 'he worked for a conservative, therefore he must not be politically biased?' I imagine 'Scalia clerk' counts for either, but to different people.
What else is 'Scalia clerk' supposed to mean? Was Scalia known for only employing clerks who agreed with his philosophy, and thus they are proxies for his professional reputation? Are Scalia law clerks as a class any less prone to culture war shenanigans than the rest of the legal profession? Was Scalia known for characterizing deportation as being cast into Dante's inferno, or viewing deportation as oppression?
If I look up Adam Unikowsky's professional bio, should I expect to see Scalia-esque disagreement with the lawfare practices of the last administration to shape the election, or should I expect to see concurrence as many other respectable professionals felt it was right and proper?
UrgentSloth
20hr ago
I think that's right.
What's your perspective on "one call and 12 hours"?
While I agree the order probably doesn't mean that the government is required to hold the hands of the detained, it does seem like it requires the government to give a reasonable amount of time for a called lawyer to evaluate the situation and act appropriately.
12 hours doesn't seem like enough to me.
Owlify
20hr ago
Yes, but even outside of that pregnancy can have changes that affect your life permanently. Many women have permanent body changes and problems that they have to live with. Apart from health issues, there is still the fact that many women are unable to do much during pregnancy and it affects your career.
UrgentSloth
20hr ago
So every alien in the US has a legal right for a stay of deportation for at least what, two days?
No. This applies only to aliens who the administration is trying to remove under the Alien Enemies Act. Do the normal process and it doesn't apply.
From first principles I’d say we should have a judge rubber stamping the deportation warrants with a chance for a public defender to object when appropriate.
Here you are asking for a higher standard of due process than is provided by the normal process. In immigration proceedings, you don't get a real judge (you get an article 2 "judge) and you don't get a public defender.
But I don’t see how a functional deportation process functions under a standard deportation process. How different would a ‘good’ process of deporting millions look?
You hire a huge pile of article 2 judges, informally give them a quota for how many people need to be deported by each a month (probably 150% of whatever the norm was under Obama), and they chew through the backlog at a speed proportional to the number you hired. If you're in a rush, hire enough and get it done in a year. Then let the judges go as they're not life tenured.
It doesn't get done in a month, but Trump's way isn't getting it done either. Take a year, spend the necessary money on the judges, quietly remind them that they're not article 3 and that they need to process cases the way you want, and get it done.
UrgentSloth
20hr ago
"former Scalia clerk" counts for something among many.
jake
20hr ago
If anyone thinks we can win a cold war against China without immigrant brainpower, they are out of their minds.
Depending on the amount of espionage we could in fact and quite confidently say we would win if we blocked Chinese nationals from all US STEM.
Wet streets don't cause rain, and top-ranked schools don't cause good students. If China didn't need our schools, their nationals wouldn't be here. If those Chinese geniuses are making such great contributions, they wouldn't have been let out of the country. There is an alternative explanation, which I'll address in a moment.
There were 76 million people in the US circa 1900 and they were 88% white. The American Empire followed, and it wasn't Chinese students building it. We did have a glut of Jewish talent but if anything the peak of our Empire was smaller than it would have been as their contribution was hastening the inevitable that was American victory.
There are twice as many whites in this country now, so we can also confidently say that just given a larger population there must be far more geniuses and far more overlooked geniuses. This relates to the alternative explanation, which is China does sequester their best and brightest, but they let the lessers attend school in the US because of the most fortuitous consequence of reducing opportunities for Americans.
Anymore, be it either true success from China or paper success, there is no reason for their nationals to be allowed continued participation in US STEM. I do agree this plan will be haphazard and amateurish, but not truly indiscriminate, as their nationals in US STEM should be indiscriminately and unceremoniously expelled to the last. But we could reach a happy medium with reciprocity: they can have, given the difference in populations, 1 student in our schools for every 5 we have in theirs.
Dean
Flairless
21hr ago
We haven't discussed deportations, recently, and appellate litigator (and formula Scalia clerk, for those who care about that sort of thing) Adam Unikowsky posted a good explanation of AARP v Trump/WMM v Trump, this morning. The situation seems pretty Kafka-esque:
Who is Adam Unikowsky and why should anyone trust / care about their explanation / characterizations of a contemporary culture war topic filled with bad and bad-faith explanations / characterizations?
Corvos
21hr ago
step on Elsevier's toes, you will have a bad time as soon as you set foot in the US.)
I cannot believe that America or any other country is stupid enough to take action against SciHub. Where do they think all the startups they are trying to nurture get their research from?
ulyssessword
21hr ago
My example is a nine year old story from a second rate publication: Machine Bias from ProPublica was the last long-form news article I trusted.
I don't have anything newer because...I stopped trusting the authors, and therefore stopped reading the articles. I'll revisit the issue once they cut ties with the old, flawed system and try to make a new one. I'm not holding my breath, though.
BurdensomeCount
Messenger Status: Shot
21hr ago
Lmao, there is no way this order survives as written its first brush with the legal system. This is textbook discrimination and the way they are phrasing it only makes their life harder.
ulyssessword
21hr ago
At least 99% of these cases cite the original press statement so you can judge it.
Can you link two examples? I've seen one news article that contained a link back to the company/government/organization's original press release. The rest just say "according to a press release", if that.
self_made_human
C'est la vie
22hr ago
What? Here I was thinking I'd found true platonic nirvana intalking about my hard scifi novel with a cute girl, and now it's tarnished? Couldn't be the case, I refuse to believe it.
2rafa
22hr ago
If ever hauled before the Metropolitan Police for wrongthink posted online (which I actually think I’ve largely avoided), I will declare ‘Civis Americanus Sum’ and Tweet my man JD, who will get it all cleared up.
ResoluteRaven
22hr ago
As far as I know, the schools most dependent on tuition from Chinese international students to stay afloat are mid-tier public universities in flyover states, not the most highly ranked, and by extension the most woke, private schools. I suppose Iowa State may still be too progressive for Vance or whoever is the brains of this operation, but I think a better strategy would have been to kneecap the top colleges and then raise up some midwest state schools in their place.
orthoxerox
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22hr ago
I think she likes you.
ActuallyATleilaxuGhola
Axolotl Tank Class of '24
22hr ago
Curtis Yarvin debated Danielle Allen, a Harvard professor, last week. Did anyone here listen to the debate? What were your thoughts?
magic9mushroom
If you're going to downvote me, and nobody's already voiced your objection, please reply and tell me
23hr ago
I'm also pretty nonplussed by "body count". There are red flags related to it (HIV and stepkids are obvious; I'd also consider a nonzero count of "times cheated on partner" without an extremely-good explanation to have too high a risk of ending in Extreme Drama) but the count itself is not very relevant.
IGI-111
God was a dream of good government.
23hr ago
Could this be more about the general pressure put onto the Universities and their funding rather than what it says it's about?
IGI-111
God was a dream of good government.
23hr ago
The conceit of Liberalism is that the average man has the time or inclination to invest into this level of reasoning. I think you'll be disappointed if you still think they will.
The brand of autist that hangs around in these parts might well put in the effort. Most people won't. They may or may not end up trusting the NYT. They could also revert to base superstition because the NYT is not trustworthy.
Finnish is a ridiculous language, but the country is real enough. Mostly it exports people (like Linus Torvalds) who are angry all the time from having to speak that language.
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