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by rhino369 5y ago
https://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks/frequentlychallengedbook...
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I take no position on whether the books are pornographic--I haven't read them or investigated them at all. But at least for young children, exposure to pornography is well-recognized as harmful. Not just morally, but psychologically.
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Both sides can be a fallacy--but it isn't always. But I think its very reasonable to conclude "both sides" are engaging in social media mobs, censorship, and cancel culture. Of Mice and Men and To Kill a Mockingbird are on th
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It's hard to tax them at effectively the same rate. One issue you have to consider is inflation. If you buy a house in 1980 for 100k and sell it for $314k in 2020, you didn't really make any real income. You can adjust for inflati
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Even ignoring that a driver is presumed to be more capable (licensed + an adult), driving into a lake is somewhat more obviously dangerous. Everyone should know not to touch a live plug. But electricity is a more abstract concept and knowin
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Obviously, we don't need copyright to have any creative works. Some people will do it for free. But the sale of copies is a huge incentive. And the result is much more creative work now than ever before--at least some types. Pre-copyr
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True, but I think the parents point was that "buying" media was essentially dying anyway. Disney will still sell you a BluRay of Frozen if you want it, but they really want to sell you 65 dollars a year Disney+.
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Most schools require a long paper from grads. You typically write one for the journal you work on or maybe for a class you take. Unlike real scholarship, legal "scholarship" is only reviewed by third year law students. It's p
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While a nurse is hard to train in 2 years, you can start pulling doctors and nurses from adjacent specialties and cross train them for COVID ICU wards. If we are going to see constant new variants and new waves, then its the only choice we
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And the emoluments clause doesn't say POTUS cannot own interest in foreign companies. That is a creative re-interpretation invented in 2016.
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The unintended consequence of banning nation specific licensees, is that you'd essentially be giving a huge advantage to the already global services. Any service that isn't global, wouldn't be able to compete with those who a
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Part of the problem is tornado watches are very commonplace in the midwest. Business never close because of them. Little league games would be canceled, you'd keep an eye on the weather, would stay inside, etc., but its not like a hurr
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We are in a silver age of TV right now. The golden age was caused by cable networks venturing hard into original programing and it started right around the Sopranos. But the golden age ended 5-7 years ago as talent got spread too thin, the
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Seems like Millenials and GenXer still watch a lot of TV, its just on a steaming service instead of cable, and much of it is pretty damn passive. Not sure how GenZ engages, I hear more twitch/youtube/tiktok, but I think they still
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FM radio probably knows it, but what are they going to do? Nobody is going to start listening if they reduced ads. Best course to just squeeze every last dime out of the current listeners until you can't turn a profit anymore.
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Hosting primary sources isn't really journalism, in and of itself, as that term is commonly used.
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>Sure, despite there being a formal agreement that people at that specific base _not_ receive diplomatic immunity. At least one UK court disagreed with your interpretation. AND the US and UK re-wrote the agreement after the incident, wh
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To play devil's advocate, there is at least some value in US diplomatic cables being secret. It allows our diplomats to pass around honest impression and sensitive information back to our government. If all diplomatic channels were tra
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If she's not adequately paying the costs, that issue should be resolved directly. But business deductions aren't really avoiding taxation. It's more accurately calculating your profits so the taxation can be calculated.
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International number dialing is confusing as hell. I've got a BSEE and law degree and I can't figure it out 80% of the time.
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Well, its not like the Taliban ever supported an insurrection.
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Man TicTok must think I'm a pervert since I get 50% of women dancing in bikinis.
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The US populace. The Japanese intention was a big blow that would force the US into favorable negotiations. Giving the US a propaganda win by attack our "soil" meant the population was willing to fight a long war that the Japane
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It's not inappropriate to be apologetic or sympathetic. But saying "this is hard on me" is basically asking for sympathy from the person you are putting in a very stressful situation.
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The standard for surviving a motion to dismiss is really low in Federal Court. The court mostly assumes the factual allegations are true and then decides whether a claim could be made based on the law. So it's mostly a tool to weed out
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>If Twitter doesn't already do this, then it's dumb, quite frankly, from a business sense due to all the extra labor (in terms of engineers, support, etc) to provide services for these VIPs compared to normal users. Like you sa
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" . . . as a means of promoting equity" and "The intent of the state mathematics framework, its designers say, is to maintain rigor while also helping remedy California’s achievement gaps for Black, Latino and low-income stud
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Big business is wasteful on our behalf. If I fly on plane, you'd blame American Airlines, but it was 100% my consumption. Are you going to blame me or Toyota for my V8 4Runner? I bought it. You might think, "well, its American Ai
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Even crashing back to pre-industrial civilization doesn't make sense. Climate change is fast on a geological scale, but its not that fast on a human scale. It might be shocking if Phoenix is uninhabitable in 100 years, but it barely ev
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It's really only a good question after we stop slaughtering animals for essentially entertainment.

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