ROTMetro

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by ROTMetro 4y ago
Had to come back because this upset me so much. Here we have an elite person functioning at an incredibly elite level with the strength to reveal their weakness publically with nothing to gain from it but maybe helping others they don'
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
This sounds like a crabs in a bucket response to me. I have been assigned physical labor jobs in prison that were actual torture where I finished with hypothermia and shredded hands embedded with fiberglass and complaining would definatlely
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
Or we could realize that we already have socialized healthcare, just in the stupidest most expensive way, at the ER (who can not refuse anyone service) and change it to a more effective way. No one is arguing that ERs should turn dieing peo
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
But isn't vision just holding firmly to a plan and sticking with it? The same thing people here are complaining about C-Levels doing? Rigidly plunging ahead (driving towards the vision) and not sidetracking from the vision instead taki
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
From my management experience the leaders are actually doing their job when they do this. Leaders at that level are expected to make strong decisions and to stick with them. It is thought better to have a leader make the wrong decisions fir
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
Sadly chain restaurants are your friend now. PF Chang's has never poisoned me with their gluten free. Red Robin's are pretty good about their gluten free but ask them and make sure they know you are actually celiac, the waitress w
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
Sometimes it helps to use a Linter. And a debugger. Even on yourself.
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
As someone whose work imbalances led him from a software development manager to years of prison, here's what years of alone time to think about things led me to (probably just the ravings of someone gone insane but it feels good to sha
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
This right here. It is a desired feature of our system, not a bug.
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
Can you imagine anything more un-American and yet ironically American than "welcome to the USA, now shut up. Also, draconian Kafkaesk rules now govern your life for the entirety of the immigration process"
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
Maybe 20 years ago the system worked, but it does not work currently. While I was incarcerated all of the decent COs quit or descended into drug/alcohol abuse if they had to keep the job. One was like 2 years from retirement and he jus
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
Don't forget the 'good faith' deference that the Courts give to these people. They can lie, you can have actual evidence to show they are lying, but the court will extend 'good faith' to their testimony and hold it
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
I was super upset after visiting China and returning to the USA. Our immigration people were so much more authoritarian scary than the Chinese had been. And the Chinese had this cool smiley computer interface where you rated the chinese imm
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
Sorry, I'm a little confused by your post(I didn't follow this story originally and was, um, indisposed when it all happened so I don't know any of the larger social discussions that occured at the time other than a few newsp
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
Thank you for your persistence. I know it probably seems obvious to you but this helps my thinking. You can refuse work that goes against your principles, but you can't refuse custom work to someone that goes against your principles. I
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
Owning a business is most definitely a right. One of the highest. It falls under 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' and is explicitly a right given by the constitution. It is on the same as familial association which is
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
But it doesn't seem like the same to me. If he refused to sell a cake out of the display, it's an obvious violation. If he refused to take an order for a wedding cake, obvious violation. It looks like to me he refused to meet for
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
No crap. Which is why we are discussing the boundaries of rights in the context of an organization that's purpose is to ensure that those boundaries don't get pushed to the point of infringing on other rights in either direction.
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
Dude, have you bought a wedding cake? Mine was $2500. WTF? We had a dedicated time slot where we had our own private cake tasting to determine what cake we wanted and they establish a relationship with you and understanding of what you want
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
They sure do deny it, it's happened to me may times. Or they allow it once or twice, but then later on they told me I can't keep ordering it because it's too much work and not on the normal menu. I'm not saying it's
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
'design and create' that is not purchasing a standard service but is commissioning a custom work.
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
It's funny in prison. So many guys come in thinking the ACLU is going to help them. The ACLU will not take on prison cases. You can try local chapters, but they don't even refer you to them. Check out this joke: https:/&#x2F
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
Wow, keep voting me down and ignore that this is a real world example that happens all the time. Making accommodations for off menu items at ethnic restaurants is often determined by race but it isn't being done out of racism.
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
And comment is why we need the ACLU in it's old form. Dude, do you not see no one is arguing for being pieces of crap, but that rights can easily be curtailed long term from an initial starting point of everyone agreeing we shouldn&#x
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
I am a computer geek and suck at words, but I thought that is what I said. If you provide a standard service, you can't deny that service to people. If you have something different, say a wedding cake that takes tens of hours and is a
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
Can you point to something establishing what you say it true? The specific situation you reference would seem to totally be a violation under my argument but taht doesn't invalidate my argument (especially since I did not mention a sp
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
And? Ethnic restaurants do this all the time with same ethnicity patrons and not me as a white guy. Shoot, they often even have a seperate menu for the right ethnic group that I never even get to see.
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
Come on man, if I list services, and am willing to provide you those services, how did I deny you service? If I am not willing to go above and beyond to make you special creative accommodations that is not a violation of your rights. If my
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
Just look at the 'good faith' allowances granted when government officials violate the legal system's own laws and requirements. Not only is it ineffective if someone is good at lying, it just voids it's own laws and req
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
For the record I am pro-gay marriage, but your example is BS. The baker in your example was willing to bake them a cake. They were never denied a cake. What the baker was not willing to do was bake them the exact cake that they wanted, clai

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