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Sounds like an open and shut case of false advertising, a crime.

I sure am glad we have Google and Apple looking out for us, instead of the traditional unions.

> Not only does this mean that police can very easily control crime statistics

One could compare police statistics with victim surveys (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Crime_Victimization_S...) to check how close they match. Or look at homicide statistics, that are not so easy to control.

But then one could no longer dismiss all inconvenient data with a simple "the police are racist". So one keeps one's head in the sand and sticks to that line.

How do you propose they do that? For example, take your typical steel-and-glass skyscraper, such as the One World Trade Center. How can the inhabitants make the exterior less hostile? Or affect it at all?

And isn't the complete absence of any kind of style, color, or pleasant features in general, an imposition of a specific view in itself?

And finally, is what you describe even a problem? How many people living in old Art Deco skyscrapers are miserable and trying to leave due to having a century-old style imposed upon them? Or people living in historic neighborhoods? Whereas featureless gray cubes "free them to bring their own life and color"?

> highly skilled craftsmanship will never again be affordable on an architectural scale

Is that why those award-winning buildings look like that? Because the architects tried to make them cheaper?

Is 'detail' requiring highly skilled craftsmanship the only way to make pleasant buildings? Because a few of the buildings (Venice and the Italian village) the article gives as examples of beauty have only the barest, simplest of details.

> Biden's first plan would have prioritized funding for broadband networks owned by municipalities, non-profits, and co-operatives, but that didn't make it into the final bill.

> For some reason Intel keep a significant presence in Israel.

A great many US companies have a significant presence in a great many countries, that receive far less in military aid and support.

> Yes?

Meaning that boycotts against Israel are irrelevant to what the US gains by supporting Israel - I assume that's why you brought them up?

> racist parents getting mad about children learning the story of Ruby Bridges.

Let your political adversaries choose which true, uncontested historical facts are taught in schools, and you too will find yourself in the uncomfortable position of getting mad about what children are learning.

Did you know governor Ratcliffe, depicted in Disney's Pocahontas as greedy and arrogant, trying to start a war so he can steal the Native American's gold, actually met his end trying to trade copper for corn for the starving Jamestown colony (his fellow colonists accused him of being too generous in trading, that they would soon run out of items to trade)?

He and 25 others were invited to a Powhatan gathering, promised they would be given corn for their copper. Instead they were ambushed, and only two escaped. The rest were killed, while Ratcliffe was captured, and:

Women removed the skin from his entire body with mussel shells and tossed the pieces into the flame as he watched. They skinned his face last and finally burned him at the stake. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ratcliffe_(governor)#Deat...

That part was omitted from the Disney version. Is it time to teach this in schools, to correct the popular, mistaken impression of early settler-Native American relations?

> Intel has a significant presence there

That's a bit tail wagging the dog, isn't it? Intel has no trouble getting engineers to immigrate to the US when it comes to other countries.

> boycott Israel

There's a lot of room between "unquestioning military support" and "boycott".

Yet another in a long line of articles that denies via omission the existence of any European culture prior to the Victorian era, and entirely ignores eastern Europe and Slavic people.

It should be plainly obvious that mothers needed to carry their babies in Europe just as anywhere else, and that they probably didn't use baby strollers since the paleolithic. A quick search confirms this:

Such a tradition of babywearing in Europe continued through the early and middle ages [..] In 1733, William Kent invented the first baby stroller. The stroller was initially reserved only for the highest social strata - https://love2carry.com/history-of-babywearing-in-europe-%E2%...

But the use of carriers in Western societies fell out of style beginning in Victorian-era Europe when baby carriages became fashionable. - https://www.sapiens.org/culture/babywearing-culture-mainstre...

https://thebabyhistorian.com/2015/03/27/medieval-babywearing...

https://web.archive.org/web/20121114155357/http://celticbaby... and https://web.archive.org/web/20140531182023/http://www.noseni... - photographic evidence of traditional babywearing in Wales and eastern Europe

> a beneficial although controversial deal for both parts.

How did the US benefit? Did that benefit go to the US population as a whole, or to a few oil companies? Does that benefit exceed the astronomical cost of the many middle eastern conflicts the US has gotten tangled in?

> progressively minded, a bastion of secularism, LGBT rights, and western ideals.

Which other ethno-nationalist states do you laud this way?

It is unrealistic and unacceptable to expect the State of Israel to voluntarily subvert its own sovereign existence and nationalist identity and become a vulnerable minority within what was once its own territory. - https://web.archive.org/web/20210519103412/https://www.adl.o...

Eritrean migrants resettled from Israel to Sweden [..] The resettlement - which Israeli NGOs said included 54 Eritrean women – was part of the “ongoing process of willful deportation to Sweden,” - https://www.jpost.com/National-News/Eritrean-migrants-resett...

> If a phone has a bad radio it could affect hundreds of other customers.

I still don't understand - what does 'activation' do, how does it prevent a bad radio from interfering with other customers? Why not kick phones with bad radios off their network, regardless of what model they are? Do they activate every phone with a conforming radio, or are they more picky? If they are more picky - why? How can they even distinguish one conforming phone from another? If a phone conforms to the network rules, what reason do they have for caring what sort of phone it is?

> and it is their right.

They are near-monopolies providing an essential service using public airwaves. Lets not pretend they're equivalent to Moe's tavern down the street.

> Lamoureux focused on whether the gesture fit into the Criminal Code’s definition of assault as an act where someone “applies force” without another person’s consent. Advertisement Article content

> “Air pressure is a force at the molecular level in the same manner as physical force visible to the naked eye. This is basic science, uncontroverted, and not requiring any expert opinion,” wrote the judge. “Accordingly, when Mr. Pruden engaged in an intentional act of coughing, he was emitting a force consisting of lung air molecules into the atmosphere.”

Then breathing at someone is also assault, even when not in a pandemic. As is quickly walking past someone, since that disturbs the air molecules enough to emit a force on passers-by.

Could you explain what that means, for someone unfamiliar with phone tech or the US approach to activation?

Naively I would think the SIM card functions as a sort of API to the carrier network, and as long as a phone supports that API, carriers should not know or care what type of phone it is. They shouldn't even know if the SIM has changed phones, so from that perspective, there should be no such thing as 'activating' a phone, only a SIM (though I don't know what exactly is meant by 'activating' in the first place).

Any deviation from this reeks of carrier abuse.

> to prevent automatic downloading

To prevent all downloading, not just automatic. When they remove a video, they don't want you to have an archived copy to prove the content ever existed, or to watch it without their permission.

I wish they used more honest language. He was jailed for an 18-second clip he posted to Facebook. That means he was jailed for insulting them, disparaging them, or threatening them (though no threats are mentioned), not "abusing".

I'm confused - are you disputing their findings? They use official Dept. of Education data. And a 2019 peer-reviewed paper gives broadly similar numbers [1]:

on average, both Black and Latinx total per pupil expenditures exceed White total per pupil expenditures by $229.53 and $126.15, respectively. This is anticipated due to the strong relationship between race and poverty (Reardon & Owens, 2014) and the increased federal funding targeted toward stu- dents in districts with concentrated poverty (Cascio & Reber, 2013). - https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/23328584198724...

Why would this not be convincing on the narrow question of average education spending per pupil?

> Meanwhile school funding remains directly tied to standardized test scores, creating virtuous/vicious cycles of classism in virtually every city across the country.

Unequal school funding is a common talking point, but, on average, the spending per White/Black/Hispanic/Asian pupil is nearly identical. Black pupils receive 105% as much funding as White, or 101% if adjusted to cost of living in the school district [1].

For those wondering how this is possible, when school funding is tied to property taxes in the district: It's because roughly half of school funding comes from state budgets, and is allocated based on necessity, so school that receive less district funding, get more state funding.

[1] https://www.heritage.org/education/report/the-myth-racial-di...

That may be so, but the article gives the impression that the professors were forbidden from testifying, presumably under threat of losing their jobs.

If they were simply not allowed to take payment for that testimony, the article and title should reflect that, regardless if such a policy is also wrong.

And I would have liked for the article to elaborate more on this barring. What would happen if they testified anyway, if they did or did not get paid for it, etc.. It is after all the central issue of the article, and that they leave it so vague is either incompetence or deception.

I couldn't find this information in the NPR article - do you have a different source?

Staff members must be sensitive that perfectly proper political activity by their spouses, family or companions may nevertheless create conflicts of interest or the appearance of conflict. When such a possibility arises, the staff member should advise his or her department head and the standards editor or the deputy editorial page editor. Depending on circumstances, the staff member may have to recuse himself or herself from certain coverage or even move to a job unrelated to the activities in question. - NY Times ethics handbook, https://www.nytimes.com/editorial-standards/ethical-journali...

Search for 'appearance', and you will find many other examples where journalists have to avoid not only conflicts of interest and bias, but even the appearance of them. Because an outside observer cannot distinguish between the two.

Is there really no-one as qualified (or more) they could have chosen, that does not have such a blatant appearance of bias, if they really wanted unbiased journalism?

> Targeted companies and institutions were restricted from doing business with China.

Academics can simply shrug this off, but for many businesses, this could mean bankruptcy. And China doesn't even have to use this much, as just the possibility will ensure chilling effects restrict what businesses are willing to say.. or allow to be said on their platforms. Imagine a conglomerate, that owns TV stations, and has suppliers in China for their consumer products. Will they risk their consumer division, for the sake of airing an unfavorable news report?

> Renewables need to be combined with power sources that can be turned on and off quickly and on demand.

Do most fossil fuel power plants currently serve that purpose? Only running when there is excess demand, instead of continuously?

As long as the answer is 'no', there is no reason to prefer them over nuclear (even ignoring the ways nuclear could be made to load-follow).

It's so frustrating seeing nuclear pitted against renewables, while fossil fuel powerplants are still operating/being built, whose baseline power could be replaced by nuclear.

But somehow the idea took hold that nuclear would be built instead of solar, and not instead of coal.

Or why not comply with the license and open-source it? It's not like their social network is popular due to their technological edge, and if someone else copies that, their users would leave..

Because Apple could launch a competing search service, that would potentially be competitive, thanks to how many users and data Apple would get through it.

That search service could then spread beyond the iPhone, into Google's territory.

> The jokes referenced Mr Gabriel's disability and mocked his appearance.

I am ever so grateful to the BBC for not including any examples of the jokes at the center of the case. My delicate sensibilities simply couldn't withstand such offensive humor, so I am all too happy to let the BBC judge them in my stead.

> people care more about price than anything else, so businesses are incentivized to produce cheaper, ad supported lineups, and inevitably nobody buys a more expensive, ad-free version

We know this because "contains large ads and spies on the user, and this cannot be disabled" is advertised as prominently as the price, right?

I was very disappointed to find no parallels to the Name of the Rose novel.