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Ding ding ding. Humanitity 101

Ex-Fox news reporter so it's ok, the NYT signal,s even though she was last employed at CBS.

Introducing, the Bill of Rights.

And some people said we didn't need em.

Wickard v. Filburn

Dred Scott v. Sandford

Long history here of bad judicial decisions

Yeah, there was/is? A lot of money in green washing and Tesla stock was great as well.

It wasn't completely out. We were using it all day yesterday for video and.phone conferences without issue. Chats were slow and image loading was hit or miss.

Dealing with that right now. I have multiple PMs and directors involved in requesting another team to literally do five minutes of work because we didn't insist they put it in the current iteration and they put it several iterations away.

That's where a lean and hungry third party startup comes in and offers to take a little piece of that action in exchange for handling all the backend work.

With internet fragmentation, I wonder if a generic sports magazine isn't going to be nearly as useful as something focused on a specific sport. "What's happening in the sports world today? Oh yea a magazine that gives me all sorts of sports news. How incredibly useful to me."

Maybe it was only popular because it was the only game in town 30 years ago, and the auto-renew subs for doctor and dentist's offices stopped when those doctors and dentist's retired.

The lottery for the good schools is a recent thing isn't it? Your friend got into a good school because she tested into it.

This is mostly debunking strawman arguments that no serious historian would make.

This literally looks like a webpage generated from someone's RSS aggregator.

No problem, in the future everyone will be employed directly by the government or a ngo that is funded by the government that provides support to people that will be funded by the government. Just keep that money velocity really high, it will work out swell.

“Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them. In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.” ― Michael Crichton

Are they using ipads or iphones to do support chats? Really odd sounding as everyone is saying.

Maybe an ai that was trained to be a cherry gen z persona?

What might also blow your mind is that spurs predate stirrups by like 1000 years.

Or maybe there's a clue hidden there.

A cynic might counter claim that law enforcement was created to protect criminals from lawful citizens.

The emphasis on regulation in the US has historically been the part that controlled how fast it could fire, hence the receiver.

So not only are we not teaching them, we are going to not even pretend that's what we are trying to do.

Denis Leary wrote a song about that guy.

"turn transit operations over to a new agency that's funded and run by only Boston-area communities who actually can point to a direct benefit from T service."

How would they pay for it? It's set up the way it is for a reason.

That doesn't preclude a change in the law at some future point. Or some sort of massive amnesty that we see sometimes in times of political upheaval. The death penalty is society decisively deciding that this person must never be allowed to kill or harm anyone else again.

The prison one is one that never gets enough focus, mainly because we have an attitude of writing off people that go to jail and that whatever happens to them there a rough form of justice. But then it's not really great to have people sentenced to life in prison without a chance of parole now performing this kind of "justice" to other people that might have a chance to reform and go back into society.

Just as a single example, Freddy Geas was a mafia hitman who was sentenced to life in prison. He killed Whitey Bulger, another murderer. Sure, Whitey wasn't innocent, but did he deserve to be beat to death by another murderer under state care?

Sometimes, even if someone is sentenced to life in prison they are let out and kill again.

Also, putting remorseless killers in prison also represents a threat to other prisoners. We haven't figured out how to prevent that yet.

Should capital punishment be more strictly controlled with a massively high barrier to use, yes, but there are solid reasons to use it.

Bullshit jobs before they were labeled Bullshit jobs.

And then in a year or two linkrot happens and now the article exists as some useless thing.

Another potential component of the "Great Filter"

It's about regulatory capture.

The chief thing to understand about the MBTA (and many other things about metro Boston), is it's a patronage system at heart. Jobs to friends, and jobs to allies. That's it. Stripping the system and the public in order to pay for nice homes on the Cape, and to pay for nice retirements in NH and Maine.

Tata Steel becomes Tata Iron after de-carbonization?

Watch Margin Call. Jeremy Irons character explains exactly what is happening.

The basement bathroom in Quincy Market is the best option in most of the city.