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by GavinMcG 5y ago
Just some background info for other people without a law degree (I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice): Sellers of new products are in general strictly liable for harms those products cause to consumers. "Strictly liable&qu
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by GavinMcG 5y ago
Mine too!
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by GavinMcG 5y ago
Having some hospitals be full is not a system-wide breakdown. Even before COVID emergency rooms would be "on diversion" when particularly busy, and ambulances would go elsewhere.
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by GavinMcG 5y ago
And when there's a dramatic split on how to move forward, they apparently generously buy out the minority.
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by GavinMcG 5y ago
It's interesting that you associate motels with more privacy. In a motel I feel as though everyone knows exactly where I am, whereas in a hotel while I may run into people in the hall, they often won't be able to match me with m
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
No idea on the technical answer, but the healthcare logistics answer is that because it's not all that likely, a positive flu test was a decent stand-in when COVID tests weren't widely available.
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
> these days they are equals This is laughable and just reinforces what I'm saying: you need to listen to more of the women in your life about their actual experiences, not what you imagine them to be. I am not invoking my experienc
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
You should talk to more women in your life about their experiences. Every suggestion you're making here is premised on priors from your experience as a man that do not hold true for many or most women. You say she should get out and ca
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
If he didn't do anything illegal, then your suggestion that she poke his eyes or break his finger is entirely misplaced. You don't get to hurt people when they're not legally a threat to you. Never mind how ridiculous a sugge
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
This is the definition of victim-blaming. You are going to lengths to imagine a way she is at fault.
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
> regardless of me saying I didn’t want to Why are you making up this story that she couldn't say no? She says she said no .
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
That's not insisting, that's asking, or suggesting. The construction used by the author indicates that it happened. That's how the term is used.
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
"Insist[ing] on having intercourse regardless of me saying I didn’t want to" is rape.
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
> because someone makes an advance towards you, instead of feeling flattered and politely declining Convenient to leave out the rape in the next sentence, and the other rape in the next paragraph: > I felt being taken advantage of tha
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
You literally said "If enough people do it" as though that's remotely possible. The law doesn't necessarily have a process for this because you can't simply maintain a lawsuit whenever you feel you've been wr
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
> Private companies are the only ones willing to make these investments in infrastructure ...because there's an anti-government cult that occupies a disproportionate number of government offices in the country. "Bad" inves
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
Every time discussions about big systems like this one come up, there's a comment that basically amounts to "just solve the collective action problem!" If enough people do it ... but they won't. They need to be sold on
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
Which is why the parent comment acknowledged that "Obviously things don't come for free, somebody has to pay for it". The fact that ads got us here doesn't mean that we should uncritically accept that business model goin
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
Well then you're not really engaging with the parent comment. The author said they "decide to direct my attention to this website " and used "attack" because they "didn't agree to getting my attention div
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
Even accepting that everything counts as an attack, there can't be an ad attacking your attention when it doesn't exist on the page in the first place.
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
The whole point of the article is that many doctors have had to step into roles or acuity levels that were not every day material for them and not what they signed up for. A trauma surgeon expecting gunshot wounds could well find it muc
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
What are you trying to say? "It's what they signed up for" sounds like it's hinting at a further claim, but it's not clear what it is.
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
Not relevant? Do you somehow imagine that how things were done in the past doesn't affect "how they're structured and operate today"?
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
Could you help explain why you think that would be the case? Sex trafficking can still be prosecuted. In general, though, prosecuting the victims of crimes doesn't make it any easier to prosecute those who victimized them.
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
> it's arrogant to criticize or tell someone what their opinions and experiences should be. So were you not telling people what their experiences should be when you said "Big cities...tend to be terrible places overall...and
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
Residing isn't the same thing as having different people in and out on a daily basis, with no connection to or accountability to the community and one's neighbors. There's also just a raw market concern: using housing stock +
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
Yeah, the parent comment asked about "the best way to convince people you are the peaceful victim," but Iran isn't necessarily (wholly) emphasizing that narrative. They probably don't primarily care about being believe
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
In many states there wouldn't necessarily be any protection from losing his job, if he did.
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
The parent comment wondered > whether Johnson & Johnson and AstraZeneca are meaningfully different Grammatically, that asks about the difference between J&J & AZ. Your response instead compared them collectively to the mRNA v
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
Which Amazon didn't fire them for.

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