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by GavinMcG 3y ago
This is just the court following the law Oklahoma has enacted, which does not give it the power to act here. It's not forcing anything—it's doing the nothing it's empowered to do. If Oklahoma wants its court to have the pow
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by GavinMcG 3y ago
No, that’s the thing: it’s unsafe unless it stays safe to an “unrealistic” range, since people exceed “normal” usage without meaning to.
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by GavinMcG 3y ago
The article did not use that headline, and is explicit about what it claims: > no passenger jet pilot has tried again since (emphasis added)
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by GavinMcG 3y ago
Interesting questions. What do you think?
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by GavinMcG 3y ago
> McInnes is open about his glorification of violence. In a speech, he described a clash with Antifa outside a talk he gave at NYU last year: “My guys are left to fight. And here’s the crucial part: We do. And we beat the crap out of the
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by GavinMcG 3y ago
> These people are only ever made fun of That doesn't mean they're "tangentially related." They sow the seeds that grow into extreme right wing commitments and actions like insurrection. McInness didn't raid the
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by GavinMcG 3y ago
He's given people like Alex Jones and Gavin McInnes a platform—something that McInnes himself (for example) has said directly helped recruitment to the Proud Boys.
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by GavinMcG 3y ago
Effectively monetizing the hosting of images embedded elsewhere seems like a fool's errand—at best, it's possible to subsidize that usage with other revenue streams. The vast majority of people wanting to post images on forums hav
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by GavinMcG 4y ago
> I am not a lawyer Don't be so confident, then. I'm not either, but it doesn't take much looking around to see that the situation isn't as simple as corporate presence. A company can be subject to the state's ju
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by GavinMcG 4y ago
Being an Illinois company is irrelevant once they actively choose to do business in Colorado. You have to follow the law wherever you go; so do companies. Pulling out entirely is one possible answer, but something less than that (like adver
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by GavinMcG 4y ago
That's a stretch. Volokh queried “Whether sexual harassment by professors has been a problem at American law schools; please include at least five examples, together with quotes from relevant newspaper articles.” If Alice asked this qu
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by GavinMcG 4y ago
You might be thinking of "publication" which merely means sharing with a third person – even one. It's a term of art distinct from spreading it widely in a periodical, say.
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by GavinMcG 4y ago
Libel has a pretty clear definition in most legal systems, and how it was generated doesn't come into play. What makes you think there's any real ambiguity here?
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by GavinMcG 4y ago
You can of course blame the victim while also blaming the perpetrator. As you point out, they're not mutually exclusive. But if your communication to your friend focused exclusively on her actions—like the comment does—then yes, I thin
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by GavinMcG 4y ago
Yes, fine, but lacking all naiveté is a horrifying view of the world . We must have mechanisms for achieving justice after wrongdoing, and have faith that we can trust each other to do the right thing. Cf. Shaw: “The reasonable man adapt
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by GavinMcG 4y ago
This is a horrifying view of the world even on its face, but also: even if we anticipate that people might do the wrong thing, it is still wrong and it is still appropriate to condemn that wrong and call for justice.
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by GavinMcG 4y ago
Quite the opposite: both cradles and graves are spots to lay human bodies, and both are being used metaphorically for times in one's life.
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by GavinMcG 4y ago
No, we agree about the phrase. But that's the whole ballgame: if "cradle" independently referred to the place, there would be no need to say "of civilization." It's an idiomatic use that is expressly non-lite
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by GavinMcG 4y ago
Our other thread fleshes this out, but there's a difference between widespread idiom and accepted definition . A dictionary's description of idiomatic use does not indicate that the term independently denotes the idiomatic me
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by GavinMcG 4y ago
I think "whether or not [you] know it" is key. The definitions I'm advancing have to do with the subjective mental work you do (or don't do). I agree that "typing" is literal because we do not loop in the con
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by GavinMcG 4y ago
Not denying that the process happens, and maybe it's irreconcilable. But I'll attempt to describe my position in more general terms. The difference between "literal" and "figurative"/"metaphorical&quo
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by GavinMcG 4y ago
Then don't play fast and loose. Maybe one day we will look at a river or valley and use the word "cradle" in a non-metaphorical manner. Right now, we don't.
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by GavinMcG 4y ago
Yes. But at this point in time, no one is looking at a river or valley and using the noun “cradle” to categorize it. I’m not saying it could never become a literalism—only that it remains metaphorical, as a way to invoke the idea of a bir
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by GavinMcG 4y ago
No, it isn’t. The definition is of a metaphor. A metaphor doesn’t become a literalism just because a dictionary included it.
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by GavinMcG 4y ago
It does when it’s part of eliminating an entire division and 7,000 others are losing their jobs.
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by GavinMcG 4y ago
(Along with 7,000 people who still need to work for a living.) Maybe I shouldn’t complain, though; laying off management alongside labor should be normalized.
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by GavinMcG 4y ago
I agree. Also, I dislike it, and the double emphasis provided by "quite" makes it even worse—how can something be especially non-metaphorical, or especially understood in the (already) "strongest admissible sense"?[0
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by GavinMcG 4y ago
When you say “quite literally” you seem to mean “figuratively.” A river is not a cradle.
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by GavinMcG 4y ago
As a man, talk therapy has worked wonders for me. No individual tool will fix the underlying cause, of course, and I also benefit greatly from weightlifting and other exercise. If therapy is less immediately effective for men, that may si
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by GavinMcG 4y ago
Do you think banks don't need to compete? Aren't exposed to risk? They're not hedge funds, but they're still participants in various investment markets, and compete for customers on rates.

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