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Not sure how you got that from my comment. I'm not the one arguing for "payment nuetrality". I'm just saying that such a provision wouldn't apply in the Pornhub case if it allowed for a suspected illegality escape h
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In addition, her partner Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani was convicted of multiple counts of defrauding patients.
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Then it wouldn't have protected Pornhub. The payment processors pulled out due to CSAM, revenge porn, and copyright infringement, none of which are legal.
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> They are literally self-selecting themselves out of the gene pool! One person's genes are not that important to continuing humanity. > Apparently making sure humanity doesn't continue on to the next generation isn't c
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Horse ownership was not as prevalent as car ownership is now. Horses were and are incredibly expensive to own.
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Damage to the road scales with weight to the fourth power. Fuel use does not go up that fast with weight. Also, it does nothing for the incredibly large and heavy electric vehicles coming out like Rivian and Hummer.
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This phrase has always struck me as incredibly optimistic. Reading that it's been used for over 100 years reinforces that belief.
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I think a ton of reddit is already bots. But usually they copy comments word-for-word. Also, I think voting and moderation will upvote and downvote the AI generated comments in such a way that they don't poison Redditch as a training d
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> The groups avoided helping candidates on purpose, said Mr. Engle, a Washington lawyer they recently hired as a legal advisor. He said they made sure not to exceed $1,000 in direct aid to federal candidates — which could trigger a requi
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If someone is punching people, that's a legal issue. That's not really something the medical system has tools to address. To the rest of your scenario, no one says they're "fine". Just that the person has the right
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> Mental wards in the United States today are not, conventionally, torture chambers for mad doctors. I've worked on an inpatient psychiatric unit, and while the doctors might not be "mad", it absolutely is torture. The mos
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> There has to be some kind of middle way where people who are deeply sick can have healthcare even if they are resistant and also heavy guardrails in place to prevent them from being abused while they're vulnerable. The only guardr
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> "Oh, they have some cross-promotion with Chipotle to sell their burrito bowls here." Who is going to Sweetgreen or their website to even encounter this information when they're trying to get Chipotle? As for the rest, Ch
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> OTOH, calling your new product "Chipotle Chicken Burrito Bowl" is starting to bump up against the place where I'd agree, "yeah, I could see an argument for customer confusion". But what is the customer confusio
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> What is the type of racist that accidentally doesn't promote any black people? Have you not heard the term "implicit bias"? > Furthermore, what is the subset of those racists that simply stop once they get lectured ab
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It's not half and half. I live in a world where employment and racism both exist. What difference does the role make? If I said "lawyer" would that be different than if I said "accountant"?
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I said that I observed people doing certain actions, and yes they are "guilty" of that. I never said anything about their skin color making them guilty. Pointing out discrimination is not discrimination.
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> Are you of the opinion that corporate training events matter? Yes, they definitely matter. Corporate trainings provide social validation for ideas (good and bad). In my field, managers are herd animals, afraid to disrupt the status quo
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> The word milk can be traced back thousands of years to the indo-european... Well, if you develop time travel, then this information will come in handy. That has no bearing on how the word is used now or has been used for 100s of years.
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There is absolutely nothing misleading about the phrase "insect flour". And people are allowed to try to normalize things. See "part of a balanced breakfast" from cereal commercials.
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> unnatural You keep using that word, but you haven't explained what makes it unnatural. There are people who eat insects right now, and I'm willing to bet people have been eating insects as long as there have been people. It s
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> NHTSA comprehending removal of backup camera requirement on some vehicles... My understanding is that NHTSA has a visibility requirement. You can make a car without a backup camera provided the driver can see behind them. Seems pretty
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> Who signs up for this? It's pretty clear from your comment that you've made up your mind and don't want an actual response, but for anyone who is interested, I can give a real example. I worked at an agency where the &qu
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Sounds impossible. If the money is just shoved in a vault, the bank has to come up with money for rent/taxes, payroll for someone put the money in and take it out, etc. If the money is guaranteed to be there, then it can't be 100%
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The good news is that it's not all or nothing. There are places people live in the US today without car (I've done it myself). Improving and expanding those areas, as well as creating new car-free zones, is achievable.
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> As such, it might be necessary for us all to walk, at least until we can develop practical systems to regulate speeds on bikes and ensure that the roads are not mad max style kill zone. I suggest a top bike speed limit of 10-12 km to e
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Most derailments are completely uneventful. The train just barely goes off the tracks and slows to a stop, remaining completely upright. I've heard from people that they were on a passenger train that derailed and didn't even know
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Copyright isn't going away for the masses. People won't be able to get away with publishing Google or Disney adjacent materials justbecause they’re laundered through "AI". It just means Google and Disney will be able to
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> With the left as the current establishment... The conservative party has controlled the UK government for 12 years now.
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> The summary[0] reads like the government just saying "you'll take the existing terms and like it". That's it. > I didn't know that the government could do this. It's explained in the "whereas"
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