Regardless of the electoral politics, as Chris notes, the important challenge in social policy is helping people who won’t benefit from wealth transfers from wealthy relatives, rather than engaging in fantasies about “generational warfare”. What matters is not generations, but class.
‘Is it bigger or smaller than a breadbox’ was a common question in games of 20 Questions and stuff when I was a kid, although I’m not sure why or where from originally (a game show I think?)
So yeah here instead of a bread box it’s a Bread Box factory and the thing being compared is also really really big
E: yeah a game show https://boards.straightdope.com/t/origin-of-is-it-bigger-than-a-breadbox/245317
Right, I was trying to imply that it wasn’t really okay, hence the ‘okay’ in inverted commas and stuff - this obviously isn’t okay
While this prosecution was completely fucked up and was 100% linked to the criminalisation of abortion (and therefore miscarriages and pregnancy in general), the issue was that following the traumatic premature birth she didn’t immediately remove the baby from the toilet
Moving north wouldn’t have helped on paper, as the alleged crime of letting your baby drown is still illegal
That said, possibly a more progressive state might have had the good sense to not prosecute or even treat this as a criminal matter. On the other hand, the DA where this happened was a Democrat according to the article
A grand jury declined to indict her, so it ended ‘okay’, apart from all the unnecessary additional horrific trauma inflicted on a grieving mother and being a harrowing sign of dark repressive times
I think it means + more than zero but less than one
So like, +(between 0.01 and 0.99)
They’re using it as (+0<1), there’s no - here bc that would be + (the other candidate)
Honestly looks pretty good as actiony eye-candy
Bit ironic seeing this right after that post about how the fan-service and callbacks ruined the new Alien film though
The Stanford Prison Experiment. But it shouldn’t be taken seriously, it was terribly done, biased and unscientific
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31380664/
Could be interesting to run something similar under actual experimental conditions, if that was doable
There was a really good article on this and unfortunately I can’t find it now to share
But the gist was that Titan exploited a bunch of loopholes, among other things. The paying customers on the sub were in fact ‘marine researchers’ who coincidently made a donation, and things like that
Some of the people who were at one point involved but left due to safety concerns raised the issue with OSHA (? - or whoever the more specific body was) who repeatedly failed to investigate or take any action
So for me, whether or not they are able to charge the company, the industry regulators and government bodies overseeing them need to face some questions and judgements too (though it would take a more knowledgeable person than me to know what exactly that looks like)
‘There’s no point voting against Hitler right now because the opposition is right leaning and may one day grow into Hitler’
It’s just copypasta, yknow. It’s a meme
I don’t know why you are using in person community praxis as a refutation of an online space being toxic
Real life isn’t online, the issue is an online space being shitty
In the UK, you can’t decide whether to ‘press charges’ or not, the decision is the CPS’s.
But in practice, saying you aren’t interested in pursuing a conviction often ends it, because:
1 - the prosecution must be ‘in the public good’ which is undermined if the victim isn’t interested
2 - a lot of the time the testimony and cooperation of the victim is key to the prosecution case
3 - the system is horribly underfunded so if they can justify dropping it they will
I read in the paper today that a bankruptcy court is going to take 40% of Katie Price’s OnlyFans income
When i saw this headline my brain skipped to Rudy Giuliani’s OnlyFans income
Has Rudy Giuliani considered OnlyFans?
In the UK you start school at 4
I’d like to recommend The Trojan Horse Affair. Its a limited series and a few years old now, but a a really interesting listen
Its about the scandal in the UK in 2013, where an anonymous letter ‘exposed’ an Islamist conspiracy in Birmingham schools to radicalise children.
The investigation in the podcast is helmed by two people; a rookie journalism grad who is muslim, and an experienced white journalist. The contrast in perspectives and emotion between them adds to it
And yeah it’ll probably make you angry, and for those not in the UK it might key you in a bit on the tensions that do and don’t exist with British Muslims, how they’re viewed and treated by lots of parties here (including the Government)
Hey man, he had bone spurs, you ableist (/s)
“Yes, I lost this election, but I’m young, beautiful, and rich as f**k,” she concluded. She lost her job at Purina dog food over her extreme rhetoric and her campaign was unable to purchase ads.
She came 6th. Its funny, but I think she was never a real candidate and hasn’t learned anything
It’s kind of complicated in the UK - parts of both the left and right have issues. Some reasonable, some less so, etc
Around the same time of the original proposal for National ID, the government lost discs containing the data (including NI numbers and even bank account details) of 25m people, 7.25m familes. They were literally lost in the post. Understandably this made a lot of people sceptical about ‘the government’s ability to protect it’s data’
It was already an unpopular idea. A lot of this was kind of libertarian-y people, combined and heightened by a post-WWII fear of having to carry ‘papers’ and present them for identification. How reasonable this fear is/was is up for debate, but for better or worse it was a big part of the conversation.
Then in the years since there’s been more concerns raised: things like the Windrush Scandal. In case you’re unaware, basically a lot of immigrants from the Caribbean who had been here for decades, sometimes nearly their whole lives, and who thought they were Citizens, were apparently not. There were pensioners who lived here since they were kids and who followed all the correct procedures getting deported to places they had never meaningfully lived in.
Some people say that a National ID would have prevented this - but others say that since the UK is apparently so inept at dealing with this data, it’s just more evidence that we could end up in a system whereby if you can’t get a card for whatever reason, you could face discrimination or even prosecution.
So yeah I guess it basically comes down to a distrust of the government combined with a British Libertarian mythos
For what its worth, personally I don’t think a National ID inherently poses any problems that don’t already exist between documentation and our data being collected online etc. But I’ll admit that on a gut level I don’t like the idea, even if that’s a bit irrational
https://www.ft.com/content/2ec95b9a-4709-11e8-8c77-ff51caedcde6
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2007/nov/21/immigrationpolicy.economy3
I don’t know why you’re being down voted, he is literally a billionaire
‘No ethical billionaires’ apart from this guy apparently