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by Frondo 6y ago
Not a lawyer, not a judge, not a member of congress, but I would suggest, as a starting point, that an "unreasonable seizure" is one conducted against a citizen who has not been convicted of a crime, as is the case with civil forf
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by Frondo 6y ago
I went pretty strictly gluten-free for a number of years, and it was a really good thing for my general feeling of health. No celiac diagnosis, but just experimentally trying it out I felt like I'd reverse-aged 10 years within a week o
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by Frondo 6y ago
> Why not make the optimal decisions, all else being equal? Money isn't everything. For a lot of people, it isn't even a top 5 consideration.
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by Frondo 6y ago
It is extremely offensive to compare chattel slavery with living in a society that requires you to pay taxes.
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by Frondo 6y ago
"Move fast and break things" has a human cost, always, and at times the human cost can be tremendous. Ignoring that human cost is always a little sinister.
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by Frondo 6y ago
Well, then, let's make lies illegal, if that's where you're drawing the line.
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by Frondo 6y ago
I'm not "avoiding" it -- it doesn't matter. What you're asking for is analogous to how to handle NTFS performance issues on a MacOS application.
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by Frondo 6y ago
What legal argument? Texas has no standing to sue Pennsylvania over what is an internal matter to Pennsylvania. Let's not pretend that this absurd lawsuit has any merit -- it's one in a long line of losing lawsuits (what are they
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by Frondo 6y ago
Anecdotally, from my friends who work in the service industry, this is also a law that is often simply ignored -- so in lean shifts, workers can go home with less than federal minimum wage. Not a good scene.
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by Frondo 6y ago
Why? If the workers can apply pressure and get their employer to change whatever objectionable behavior it's doing, why shouldn't they? Why shouldn't workplaces be more democratic? We got rid of kings everywhere else, why sho
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by Frondo 6y ago
Taxation isn't thievery.
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by Frondo 6y ago
So let the beatles pocket their billion, and we'll collect most it back at the end of the tax year. How's that?
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by Frondo 6y ago
Look for places where laws can be broken with relative impunity for whatever reason -- maybe they're small laws (like hotel regulations), maybe they're laws that address a relatively small and poor group of people (like the taxi m
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by Frondo 6y ago
Let her control it til the end of the tax year, and then let her help fund the system that made her fabulously wealthy.
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by Frondo 6y ago
> Like if production is down how can you say... Come on, man, it's not your company and if they're not paying you for that time, it's not your responsibility. Volunteering your time for someone else's business? Is thi
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by Frondo 6y ago
Who do these people, the "United Nations", writing their "Universal Declaration of Human Rights," think they are with declaring union organizing a human right? ( https://www.un.org/en/universal-decla
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by Frondo 6y ago
Screen Actors Guild member Tom Cruise would like to chat with you about negotiating based on leverage, since you seem to have some misconceptions about what a collective bargaining agreement does what to the workplace.
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by Frondo 6y ago
Damn straight, or more autonomy over your work environment, less crunch time, freedom to choose wfh outside pandemic conditions? I've literally never worked anywhere that couldn't be improved in one dimension or another, which is
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by Frondo 6y ago
I would sooner credit the 35th rule of acquisition ("Peace is good for business") than American foreign policy for the lack of a global conflict.
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by Frondo 6y ago
I'll go even further: find a way to grant them all the rights of citizenship (representation for their taxation) and let them decide for themselves on statehood. If there's any downside (I honestly don't know, maybe there is
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by Frondo 6y ago
That might be true in the FAANG/bay area world, but there was a time when nearly all of my social circle was "software people" and none of them were in any way in the capital owners category.
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by Frondo 6y ago
Holy shit, Dan! I just gained so much respect for you as a moderator (and therefore participant) in this community. Taking the time to write out this very thoughtful, insightful reply to someone who may be knowledgeable but was throwing o
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by Frondo 6y ago
I am also beyond tired about the nebulous interplay between word and deed when it comes to right-wing violence. Bannon is "just joking" about beheading his opponents, Pompeo is "just joking" about Trump not stepping down
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by Frondo 6y ago
Both these disasters are pretty horrible, of course, but I think the OP's point was that Chernobyl and nuclear disasters leave an area uninhabitable for periods of time that far outstretch the entirety of human civilization up to now.
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by Frondo 6y ago
Philadelphia County switched their machines to a new style in 2019.
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by Frondo 6y ago
One more data point in terms of political parties' views on science: there are two people in the White House now who believe that evolution is a hoax, Mike Pence and Mark Meadows, both of whom derive that belief from their religious p
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by Frondo 6y ago
I'm also not sure if this is enough of a problem to try to solve preemptively, if there's one example from four years ago from a state-level election. If outcomes in general are better, I'll take the risk that they're oc
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by Frondo 6y ago
I don't want to get into an "all languages are the same / all languages have quirks" kind of thing, but the idea that PHP is weird, different, and in a sense inscrutable, and this has an impact on its use and performanc
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by Frondo 6y ago
As others have pointed out, we users of Signal have no way of verifying that the code running on the server we connect to is the code they've released. We are very much trusting the Signal team to do what they're saying (not loggi
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by Frondo 6y ago
It's also a very serious thing to use the resources of society to protect people's private accumulations. If people get to use the force of law to keep their stuff from being stolen, they do have an obligation to pony up for the s

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