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by rkk3 5y ago
> If you can't prove it didn't happen, denying the accusation is libel. Fair is fair. Yes, Bill Cosby was sued this way. He was accused publicly, he denied the accusations & they sued him for defamation. Everything depends
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by rkk3 5y ago
I think the accused should have the right to legally challenge a public defamatory statement. In this case... it probably wouldn't be a very strong case, just from a quick google search, my guess is they would struggle with 1 & 4 b
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by rkk3 5y ago
> what I can say about people I think there is a distinction between "say" and "publish". NAL but libel deals with published falsehoods, these are not private conversations or communications. Communicating a message t
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Her initial claim of harassment, which kicked off the whole mess, was based on assuming malice from a meme twitter account which was actually run by a random guy in England. Personally I'd rather not assume malice for any of the partie
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by rkk3 5y ago
He experienced an internet mob. But by calling out the people who made that happen in his "receipts" post, couldn't he be inadvertently sicing a mob on them?
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> three random unrelated women They may be unrelated but the events here weren't independent. He was accused of anonymously harassing someone thru a meme twitter account (actually run by someone else). This caused him to be virtuall
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by rkk3 5y ago
That link has to deal with regulation and risk mitigation for removing Asbestos, not selling a consumer product with Asbestos. The UK took its time but they did fully ban Asbestos in 1999.
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by rkk3 5y ago
Does expiration date reflect a difference in manufacturing date? For the listed affected products between .1ppm & 2ppm Benzene, Expiration dates range from July 2021 to May 2023. https://www.valisure.com/wp-content/
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by rkk3 5y ago
You aren't guaranteed to die from being shot in the head either. However there are things which the medical community recognizes have no safe level of exposure. From the original article: "The toxicity of benzene in humans has bee
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Because there is no safe level of exposure to asbestos. From the above Reuters article "The World Health Organization and other authorities recognize no safe level of exposure to asbestos. While most people exposed never develop cancer
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by rkk3 5y ago
Post Malone, The Weeknd, Drake ... Those are all commercial pop singers, they are associated with hip hop culture in the same sense that Sum41 or Blink182 is associated with punk culture.
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by rkk3 5y ago
Since the Yakuza is only around 10% Ethnically Korean its a bad comparison. Ethnic Koreans are over represented though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakuza#:~:text=According%20to%...
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by rkk3 5y ago
They are factually incorrect about 70% of the Yakuza being Korean. "While ethnic Koreans make up only 0.5% of the Japanese population, they are a prominent part of Yakuza ... The Japanese National Police Agency suggested Koreans compos
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It's really not free... there is a tremendous cost to their population's health and their environment (air, water). It's shocking and tragic to see but their hospitals are full of children dealing with respiratory problems fr
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Isn't there a difference between tradeoff's in the 1800's and 2021? The benefits of fossil fuels is not the issue, the cost is. If today we in fact have alternative's that do not inflict such a terrible cost on human lif
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by rkk3 5y ago
> At the very least "burning fossil fuels is bad" is a statement of privilege. A person who's cold or unable to travel or get necessities delivered would never say this. You could extend this argument "Slavery is bad&
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by rkk3 5y ago
“What I find most ridiculous is that the ‘take’ for Uber is often over 50% of the fare, especially with the $3.10 "safe ride fee" but their deductible for incidents like this is $2500,” he told me over e-mail. “My own insurance di
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by rkk3 5y ago
Do you disagree that a large factor in the reformation being more successful (and bloody) was the printing press? That there were similar, smaller, failed movements beforehand seems irrelevant. I still don't understand why the author,
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Alcohol is a very strong depressant, your nervous system will adjust to it and will be over stimulated if you cut it off abruptly. A minor symptom of this would be anxiety... severe symptoms could be psychosis, seizures or death. https:&#x
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by rkk3 5y ago
Last time I landed at SFO, in Feb around 8pm, it was consistently $100 to $120 to go from SFO to SOMA. I waited for 10-15 minutes then got a "bargain" price of $50 to go from SFO to SOMA in a clunky older car. The driver actually
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by rkk3 5y ago
Yep different cultures have very different ways to signal these things. For instance in Vietnam my understanding is that Hairdressers are often sex workers, but in the US that is not the case.
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Sure it is creepy... but he believes they are sex workers, you just selectively quoted. "he’ll now head to Instagram instead, scroll through accounts ('a dead giveaway is if she has travel pictures alone')"
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You would need to stop less frequently and for a longer interval to see health benefits. For heavy drinkers stopping and starting every week would cause withdrawals, which is dangerous and often worse than consistent heavy drinking. Weeken
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Henry VIII and Bloody Mary were 1500's. Not sure what point you are trying to make but that graphic is for homicide which is very different than deaths from state genocide and war. The Irish oppression started in large part because of
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The Bible was originally in Greek/Latin which only the Clergy were trained in, not the language of the people (Vernacular). Democratizing access was a direct result of the printing press and was a very contentious part of the protestan
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"Since the invention of the printing press, every new revolution in information technology has prompted apocalyptic fears. From the panic that easy access to the vernacular English Bible would destroy Christian orthodoxy... And yet soc
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Class is defined by the members of each group. Non-members are by definition mostly ignorant of the groups' culture that they are not a part of. So they can recognize people are different from them, but not which group they belong to.
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Since when has a reality-tv career been considered high class.
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How about earlier this month when corporate asked child care workers to come back to the office to take care of your kids and refused to re instate their transportation benefits? https://thehill.com/policy/technology&#x
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by rkk3 5y ago
Ellison Ranching Company is at 100, no relation to Larry. Also the Kennedy Family is at 67 is not the political dynasty, they founded Dominick and Dominick in 1899.

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