UncleMeat

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by UncleMeat 1mo ago
What is the remedy? There isn’t a private cause of action through the state courts and suing the government itself will end up with sovereign immunity. If they can’t raise a 1993 claim, how specifically do you expect them to sue?
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by UncleMeat 1mo ago
Substantive due process in the 14th. The 9th makes it clear that not all rights need to be explicitly in the text.
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by UncleMeat 1mo ago
The position is not that the government needs to ensure that all bodies of water are potable or that the government needs to provide clean water to every resident. The claim is that you have a 1983 case against state officials that tell you
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by UncleMeat 1mo ago
If a state official interferes with this you could have a 1983 claim.
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by UncleMeat 1mo ago
That’s not what the outcome of this case would be if it went in the other direction. In this case the state told the people that the water it was already providing was safe, when in fact it was contaminated with lead. This case was about a
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by UncleMeat 1mo ago
Google is contracting with the US government in ways that advance the destruction of Palestine.
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by UncleMeat 1mo ago
Do you believe that the grandchildren of immigrants are not Londoners?
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by UncleMeat 1mo ago
There is much more than just this one post. I also don't think that your portrayal of the text is accurate.
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by UncleMeat 1mo ago
Then I have no idea what you are talking about.
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by UncleMeat 1mo ago
A doctor refusing to heal a bigot is not even remotely the same thing as refusing to work for a megacorp because of their direct involvement in military action that kills children.
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by UncleMeat 1mo ago
I'm slowly making my way out of tech and going into food preparation for the poor. I previously thought working at one of these companies to extract as much money from them as possible so that I could provide as many meals to the poor
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by UncleMeat 1mo ago
In 2017 Sergey was seen protesting Trump’s signature Muslim Ban policy. A highly visible act of resistance against one of the things that Trump cared about the most. Does anybody believe that this would happen today?
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by UncleMeat 1mo ago
Scale matters. The “well technically an army of tens of millions of cops could achieve the same thing” argument is thoroughly unconvincing.
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by UncleMeat 1mo ago
“Removed it from the preface and retained it as the last sentence.” They moved where it appeared in the document. That’s not removing it.
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by UncleMeat 1mo ago
Why can I still see it then?
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by UncleMeat 1mo ago
Google does plenty of evil. This has nothing to do with the slogan. "Don't be evil" was never removed. But even if it was, the idea that Google just was champing at the bit to do all this evil but was held back by the pesky s
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by UncleMeat 1mo ago
The "get a heat pump" narrative is just saying that heat pumps are better than gas heating or electric resistive heating. It is not hypocritical to say "people who already have a furnace and an AC should get a heat pump"
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by UncleMeat 1mo ago
I believe that human flourishing is a better goal than state power relative to its rivals.
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by UncleMeat 1mo ago
And its going so great for our citizens wellbeing. Oodles of programs for the needy smashed to bits. Corruption and self dealing out the wazoo. Protestors shot to death by ICE agents. A legendarily stupid war fucking up international ship
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by UncleMeat 1mo ago
The number of times I've heard "just wait your turn in line like my grandparents" from people is infuriating. There is no line! We have a series of lotteries, and even these are straight up forbidden for people from a bunch o
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by UncleMeat 1mo ago
My wife is a professor. "Administration contracts with some company that is providing tools to improve pedagogy" is pretty universally garbage. It typically comes with mandates to be used even when it is inappropriate and faculty
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by UncleMeat 1mo ago
Yes, but the leaders that are spending time and money pushing their political beliefs are the fashy ones. People like Thiel and Musk. Garry Tan and Sergey Brin. Ellison and Andreesen. Even Bezos (although less fashy) reshaped the Post edito
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by UncleMeat 1mo ago
Musk is spending billions again in 2026. Kicked out? He has never been more aggressive in influencing politics.
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by UncleMeat 1mo ago
At the employee level, there is generally widespread support for liberal social ideas (though often not liberal economic ideas). At the leadership level there are a ton of illiberal people who think that things like democracy are bad and sp
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by UncleMeat 1mo ago
I mean, Garry Tan is precisely the kind of person being criticized here. Rich tech CEOs with illiberal beliefs and limited care for the rights of other people.
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by UncleMeat 1mo ago
The size of the court is set by statute. It would be pretty wild, even for this batshit court, to find a law increasing its size to be unconstitutional.
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by UncleMeat 1mo ago
I live in a college town on the east coast and it is highly advertised at all of the wellness businesses here.
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by UncleMeat 2mo ago
I do not believe that careful slogan construction would change a thing. The people who say "All Lives Matter" are not genuinely upset at the phrasing. They are upset at the goals of the movement. No matter what slogan you choose y
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by UncleMeat 2mo ago
Have you ever asked an expert in these areas to evaluate your knowledge? My experience is that people using ai to learn think they are learning but really aren’t.
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by UncleMeat 2mo ago
Where are these quotas?

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