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hydroacetylene
6hr ago
I think high spending high performance blue states throw the correlation into something too crazy to be a correlation.
VoxelVexillologist
Multidimensional Radical Centrist
6hr ago
public high schools in the US average around $19k in per student spending, no correlation between spending and outcomes.
Is that true across public schools? I've often wondered if the extra funding thrown at Title 1 schools that typically underperform actually makes the correlation negative, but I've never found an actual dataset.
FistfullOfCrows
6hr ago
The whole point of PP is to provide abortions, everything else is a smoke screen.
OracleOutlook
Fiat justitia ruat caelum
7hr ago
I think the article describes that Ms. Zito is not a "Normal person" any longer and has gone "crunchy." Crunchy women get into charting for all sorts of health reasons, including mental health awareness, productivity boosting, meal planning and exercising, etc. There are lots of books out there that recommend women do X task on one part of their cycle, eat a specific way on another part, etc.
EverythingIsFine
Well, is eventually fine
7hr ago
Oh man, looking at the pictures I can totally see what they were going for but… it’s still so painfully ugly. I wonder if that’s one of those cases where if you stare at something long enough and tweak it in minor ways enough times you become blind to the overall impact it has on someone seeing it for the first time.
hydroacetylene
7hr ago
But then again, we have sealed food order bags for the delivery apps for 'peace of mind', so its likely that this type of thing is common, even for low value goods.
I suspect tamper proofing is less about drivers stealing and more about liability for the order coming through wrong.
hydroacetylene
7hr ago
Pathetic, disgusting. Using your child as a shield and making them do bad things. I have heard that some places like SF dont have felony charges unless you dont strike a threshold amount, meaning that you can legally send kids to steal a lot of stuff regularly and not face any consequences legally either.
The use of minors to commit crimes is quite common; the main reason in the US that dads don't do this more often is that the criminal class are, uh, not very involved fathers. They do like to befriend fatherless adolescents(even ghetto mommas don't like their kids kids hanging around criminals much) to recruit them into being patsies though.
hydroacetylene
7hr ago
NFP is overwhelmingly a method used by hardcore Catholics and not the underclass; actual lower class people use condoms.
hydroacetylene
7hr ago
Normal people do not use NFP to refer to anything other than using it as birth control, unfortunately.
EverythingIsFine
Well, is eventually fine
7hr ago
The chances of actually striking it down in its face are actually zero. I mean that completely. Zero. If it happens I will shave my head and never comment anything about politics again ever on any website. Zero.
The chances of them weakening it via some kind of practical or legal obstacles, to the point where it is effectively dead is extremely low but not impossible. Under 5% surely. Maybe 1-2%? Still quite a reach. Maybe still that’s high.
The chances of some other procedural weakening where it is merely super annoying, that’s a little higher. I’m not sure exactly where to peg it.
The chances of practical and legal burdens and even unalterable mistakes for those currently giving birth in the next year or so are actually kinda high. But that’s by definition temporary. Not much comfort if you or your wife are pregnant right now and lack papers. Honestly I think this is the true target and goal of the administration. If you are cruel and capricious enough you might get enough people to self deport, or not make the trip over, and this helps the near term numbers and politics.
The long-term outlook for birthright citizenship is not really under any actual threat. You still need an amendment to change it. At most, beneficiaries will have to budget a little bit more on practical or legal bills surrounding the birth, but that’s already the case to some extent with any new baby birth (it’s never free)
hydroacetylene
7hr ago
Just curious- other than one great grandfather, all of my ancestors were in the continental US before 1776(many were in then-Spanish Louisiana, but the rest were in the thirteen colonies). Do I count?
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
7hr ago
I get your conflict theory view on law.
I don't understand this part though
You accepted violation of the law to allow illegal immigrants in. On what grounds do you appeal to the law now?
Where have I accepted violation of the law to allow illegal immigrants in?
EverythingIsFine
Well, is eventually fine
7hr ago
You mean the literal exact argument that leads to authoritarianism and the destruction of democracy? I think Democrats obviously freak out over stuff way too often and too loudly, but this is a pretty classically un-American view. The irony is rich here.
hydroacetylene
7hr ago
The one who banned the abortion pill?
hydroacetylene
7hr ago
This is about teenagers, not homeless people. It is, specifically, an age verification law- yes, getting around it is probably very doable for a motivated young lad, but we can reasonably assume that the people the law is explicitly targeted at are the ones most affected.
EverythingIsFine
Well, is eventually fine
7hr ago
It’s not actually. This was briefly mentioned in the dissent, but birthright citizenship was already very established and practiced English law for a long time pre-Founding. So I’m sure you can continue to argue against it morally, but in a constitutional sense this is one of the most clear-cut issues ever, if you are an originalist OR a textualist OR even a living-documentist. Want to change it? You sure can! It will take an amendment, however.
You do have to remember that immigration now is very different than what it was. Just to name three of many reasons, generally if you immigrated somewhere you were effectively settling and living there, and two, international remittances were much less practical and common, and three, there was limited to nonexistent welfare.
hydroacetylene
7hr ago
For comparison, the average Catholic(best ranked school system in the US) high school tuition nationwide is around $10k, public high schools in the US average around $19k in per student spending, no correlation between spending and outcomes.
For common denominator education, I'd guess $10k a kid is pretty close to the minimum.
hydroacetylene
7hr ago
eah, you could just stick the kids in the library and leave them to their own devices and they'll come out okay.
Uh, no you couldn't. The kids would spend all their time in one, maybe two, sections and not get a balanced education. That's at best; worst case is they never progress because they get distracted by, say, Terry Pratchett books.
phailyoor
7hr ago
In that case bush never defected against the dems. The dems started the defection.
hydroacetylene
8hr ago
How much of the Asian academic system is spent on teaching/necessary repetition of core subjects, as opposed to ridiculous grinding scoremaxx training on standardized tests? Asian countries are rather famous for this.
EverythingIsFine
Well, is eventually fine
8hr ago
Per what the majority seemed to strongly imply, class actions are the new method, though Alito wants the requirements to remain strict for class certification. The somewhat jarring thing for me (not a lawyer) is that class action suits are NOT constitutionally mandated or enforced. It’s national law set by Congress authorizing them. So it was a little strange to me to see the SC “take away” the universal injunction ability from district courts on constitutional-ish grounds (really just a bit of semi tortured originalism plus some practical consideration) in favor of something decidedly extra-constitutionally grounded. For all the too-casual tone criticisms of Jackson’s dissent, she’s not really wrong in the narrow sense that this gives the administration permission to routinely ignore rulings against it in all non-party districts even if the action is blatantly illegal. Seemingly the majority is fine with this, and feels the delay created by class creation and certification and the actual arguing of the issue and the ruling (remember all this wrangling is over what to do in the time period before a case actually gets argued in full even at the district level) won’t be too excessive. That’s… honestly a little questionable. Kavanaugh wrote that he hopes the court will fill the gap somewhat by being more willing to take actual action, and action sooner, but it’s unclear if his fellow justices are actually on board with that. I think this is an error and they probably should have been okay with universal injunctions as long as they complied with some kind of fairly strict test.
FCfromSSC
Nuclear levels of sour
8hr ago
Congress has not decided that illegal immigrants since the last amnesty are legal. They could do so. Alternatively, they could decide that whatever laws my side has, is, or will violate weren't actually laws after all.
I certainly believe that Congress should decide that violations of the law I support are no longer violations of the law. I think they should not do that for violations of the law I don't support.
To say the law is useless is an overstatement. People like you might still follow it, even though people like myself will not. That's useful!
Throwaway05
8hr ago
What is your proposal.
stuckinbathroom
8hr ago
(Not OP)
As stated, I think the claim is hyperbolic and TTBOMK wrong.
Having said that, the Bush-era GOP-controlled White House and Congress could have prodded states to mandate that all employers use E-Verify, by threatening to withhold various federal moneys from noncompliant states, but they didn’t.
I grant you that this would have required Congress to pass new legislation, so the blame doesn’t lie solely with Bush, but Bush had a trifecta for a decent chunk of his 2 terms and easily could have made such legislation a priority. That he didn’t speaks volumes about the values of the GOP establishment of that era.
Anecdatally, it feels like the backlash against (what was perceived as) the Bush-era GOP establishment cucking on illegal immigration was one of two initial rifts within the party that first emerged in the late 2000s/early 2010s, then metastasized and eventually led to Trump’s 2016 takeover (the other rift being the Ron Paul libertarian/Tea Party movement)
They actually say intermediate scrutiny, not rational basis, I believe.
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