He might have been in a different prison before then. It's another dehumanizing tactic of our prison system to move people around, often away from their families.
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I would ask anyone who believes that the US should work to to control entry at the southern border to question why they believe this is an important thing to focus on. What is the root of that belief? Why should the US be exclusive? What benefit do you derive from keeping it exclusive, and why is the accident of your birth somehow firmer ground of entitlement to citizenship than any other abstract concept?
Perhaps they are not "a racist" but I strongly believe that the desire to control the border is deeply rooted in racism in America, and anyone having this discussion needs to be willing to consider the basis for their ideas.
People whose ideas are on the wrong side of ethical will often say this sort of thing- as though the two things, a person's character and their ideas, are somehow not connected. I'm not sure where they get the idea that the ideas they support indicate a lot about their character, and they will be judged accordingly.
This book, "Technical Documentation Basics: How to Write That F*ing Manual" was a great jumpstart resource for me, in helping break some bad habits about word tense, case, and that sort of thing. https://www.amazon.com/Technical-Documentation-Basics-essent...
Even taking your claim at face value, whether or not someone "deserves" to benefit from some profit-based exchange of labor for currency seems irrelevant. If work has a concrete value and someone is unable to receive fair compensation for that work, and all of the value is received by someone else who did not do the work, this is inherently unfair and unethical (and by definition, slavery).
I'm not going to hit every one of your points but would also like to add that 95% of the time, the bikes are in great shape and well-maintained. I don't know if that's due to a lack of vandalism, or regular maintenance, or both. I've logged hundreds of trips myself and only a few times have I had a broken bicycle.
They aren't joking about the "variety of different shapes and sizes" for the diagonal supports. It's really incredibly ugly. In my view any "aesthetics" gained from the fake cables on the bridge are far outweighed by how goofy the whole thing looks when viewed from the side. It's really jarring, and I imagine that it would look rather cobbled together when walking over it.
I also was shocked by the reported "2000 pages of calculations" that 3 different structural engineers signed off on. I have a hard time imagining that none of these experts might have said at some point, "this is a bad bridge that should not be built!" even if mathematically it could have survived magnitude 10 earthquake. Which it clearly couldn't. I'm not an engineer but it ought to be outside the ethics of an engineer's role in approving a bridge design that appears to have redundancy (the cable stays AND the diagonal supports) when the cable stays are merely a foolish aesthetic choice. Doesn't seem much different than selling a car with an airbag icon on the steering wheel when no such airbag exists. It's a false claim to structural integrity.
One final thought- the PURPOSE for this bridge seems ill-conceived in the first place. Why is the campus divided by a highway to begin with?? But that's neither here nor there.
Dodging a parked scooter on the sidewalk is no more burdensome to me than having to step around every parking meter that crowds the sidewalk presently.
There is to me something negative implied in being a Delaware corporation (tax avoidance). This article is only critical of the shady tactics of the two firms mentioned in the story, not of the existence of Israel. It's not a dog whistle.
Comanche (from a Ute word meaning "they fight with us.")
Apache (from a Zuni word for "enemy.")
"The term Maliseet is the exonym by which the Mi'kmaq people referred to this group when speaking to early Europeans. Maliseet was a Mi'kmaq word meaning "broken talkers", "lazy speakers" or "he speaks badly," or differently by which the Mi'kmaq contrasted the other tribe's language to their own.[3] The Wolastoqiyik and Mi'kmaq languages are closely related but distinctly different. The Europeans met the Mi'kmaq before the Wolastoqiyik, and adopted their term of Malesse'jik (transliterated as Malécite in French) for the people, not understanding that it was not their true name. The later English colonists anglicized this term as Maliseet, in another transliteration of sound."
I've been in plenty of job sites with limited power and heat, and a fresh cup of coffee would be much appreciated. Sometimes you can't make it down to the lunch truck!
It's true that under capitalism, a laborer is only valued to the extent that their labor can be exploited to further the interest of capital, but it is incorrect to believe that this is the only possible system (it is not), or that it is somehow natural and correct (it is neither), or that the inherent value of Amazon's serfs is truly set by market forces (it is not) rather than the value of their own humanity.
Applauding Amazon or any multinational corporation for squeezing the maximum value out of workers is rather disgusting.
Yes. If, as you say, criminal history was not a bar to employment, why ask the question at all if you are going to run a background check anyhow? You contradict yourself by stating that "criminal history was not an bar to employment" but also that "The nature of the roles in question [...] required us to care about the pasts of the candidates." so it's difficult to understand why you are so firm on this point. Anyhow, there are plenty of protected groups of people that a prospective employer can't legally discriminate against, yet the discrimination still happens.
The applicant has to take a calculated risk when deciding whether to answer the question about criminal history honestly. Maybe a better question on the application, rather than asking outright about criminal history and discarding an applicant when you catch them in a lie, is asking about relevant convictions that might have some implications about whether that person has a history of violations in your area of practice, or present a conflict to your customers.
I commute now from Albany where there's no tunnel, we are east of the Hudson the whole time and nobody to fight with to get in to Penn (except when, due to every other train having delays getting OUT of Penn there are sometimes no free tracks to come in on, but this is rare).
I lived in NYC for 5 years, and had no idea that the subways were on a fixed schedule. I thought they just came when they came.