anon_
3d ago
This missile attack is a dramatic warning that Iran can decimate oil production and other regime critical infrastructure
Didn't they spend the major fraction of their most modern ones just now?
If anything, the expenditure of materiel means that they have diminished capacity as compared to before.
anon_
4d ago
ISTM that the reason that primates take pleasure in punishing wrongdoing is that it is group-selectively-adaptive to evolve to take such pleasure. Cue all those game-theory results (I assume you've read them, otherwise will cite) in which participants willingly pay to punish defectors even at personal cost.
Same as eating a ripe piece of fruit or seeing a beautiful flower, the pleasure in punishing the wicked might be the result of evolution creating a brain that maximizes fitness.
anon_
4d ago
But there's nothing in the mechanics of the Veil of Ignorance that prevents it from being used the opposite way: imagine you were rich, would you dislike any of the redistributive policies you currently advocate for?
I don't at all agree with Rawls, but I think the point is that there are far fewer rich than poor.
anon_
4d ago
My reaction to him (putatively, let's say) suffering is that if Canada and others can figure out MAID, it's not a technical problem.
That said, regardless of what he deserves, there is a valuable fence in not engaging in cruelty or barbarity for our own sake. Civilization is discipline and if we wish to impose it on others, we must be willing to impose it on ourselves.
[ Conversely, I accept the observation that since civilization isn't imposing it and is countenancing disorder on a large scale, the breakdown is happening across the board. ]
anon_
4d ago
You're paying for the optionality here -- you can take the bike for one ride then pivot to bus/Uber/walk for the next.
Buying is the better deal in money but severely constrains options.
anon_
5d ago
Broadly agree.
I guess I think the statement "the feds can pick and choose prosecution" needs elaboration -- do they already investigate everyone so they have dirt pre-made before they are chosen? That kind of thing seems difficult to keep under wraps -- it's not like you can have an official marker on the file that tells middle management "not for prosecution until he steps on the wrong rail", so you run the risk of someone taking it at face value. And in the worst case, the next admin can come in and actually use it.
anon_
5d ago
Doubt, but with sufficient room to be convinced if there's evidence.
In particular, the timelines don't make sense. The comments on fake asylum seekers are after many of the matters in the indictment.
anon_
5d ago
You could just as easily take this the other way, right wing sides with a major D figure for once.
If that's the case, it's the absolutely most retarded choice.
anon_
6d ago
The choice of whether to have a union is with workers. If Starbucks wants to not have one, it needs to convince workers that they will benefit more not having one.
anon_
6d ago
The issue is that they get seniority for their kids by padding out their timecards.
anon_
6d ago
Naturally, the right wing didn't stop for a second to acknowledge that the Biden DOJ has indicted a major D figure.
Part and parcel of a politics where even if opponents do something completely and unambiguously right (for once), it can't be acknowledged. Which is sad, because Adams had it coming and the DOJ was absolutely right to indict him (and Hunter Biden while we're at it).
anon_
7d ago
I appreciate the candor, it also occurs to me that this is probably quite against what I assume is your political preference. I’ve no doubt that you hold this sincerely though.
anon_
7d ago
I understand and respect that this is your opinion.
For the better part of the century, the core tenant of US labor law is that If a majority of employees vote to empower a union to negotiate on their behalf, The business is indeed required by law to negotiate with that union.
anon_
9d ago
Indeed, I doubt it's quite that high. For regular convictions, I'd probably say 1/200. For capital cases probably 1/1000.
anon_
9d ago
Where would you draw the line then?
If he lives in Missoula for 3.5 years and then takes a 6 month contracting gig in London, should his vote be dependent on the timing of that 6 months (e.g. he gets to vote unless it overlaps an election)?
anon_
9d ago
What does the NLRB do?
I'm not a huge fan, but they do have some function in ensuring that the right of workers to chose to unionize or to chose not to unionize is respected. At the very least, overseeing that voting is a role for a neutral third party.
If a business isn't allowed to shut down without NLRB approval and it must only employ some designated union, I'm going to say they're bad and should have this power revoked.
A business is allowed to shut down for any business reason. It cannot shut down because the workers there voted to unionize, that would be unlawful retaliation.
That's the kind of factual question that is litigated all the time and can be resolved by the normal judicial process. For example, one could look to whether other stores with similar performance shut down during that period, or what the usual process would be for underperforming stores.
Someone has to be decide on it, the NLRB should probably let the federal courts do more of that though.
anon_
9d ago
I don't necessarily think the NLRB should be abolished, but I do think that its structure leads to a predictable flip-flopping on key legal rulings every 4-6 years in a way that undermines the legitimacy and continuity of the law.
Whatever happens, it's ridiculous that the legal status of a thing just arbitrary flips back and forth and that both companies and unions have to gamble on the result of a Presidential election. It's even more ridiculous that before the end of Chevron, the courts would simply shrug and say that if both interpretations of the statute are reasonable then the NLRB can flip flop between them as many times as they want for no other reason than the President of the opposing party finally got to nominate enough members.
anon_
9d ago
The DNA found on the knife was not from a potential alternate suspect but some police officer who mishandled it in the station after testing and finding no DNA could be recovered.
Do you have a cite for this? It would be super helpful because of all the "BUT THE DNA EXONERATED HIM" discourse.
anon_
9d ago
But when talking about the death penalty, we must take the 'reasonable doubt' thing extra seriously. So what do you think mottizens?
I don't think this is true. Justice should be justice. A bunch of convicted murderers in states without the death penalty don't get even a quarter of the extra attention lavished on this guy.
Moreover, I think the DNA evidence is plain inconclusive. A bunch of hucksters are spinning this as DNA EXONERATES which is just totally nonsense -- DNA cannot exonerate someone except by implicating someone else more strongly.
anon_
11d ago
Their insistence that we should not clean the voter rolls, enforce ballot integrity or deadlines
The deadlines are enforced by the country by stamping the actual time of arrival of the ballots. And they stop taking them on Election Day.
Writing the date on the front is entirely superfluous -- no one reads and no one ought to because.
I'm all for cleaning the rolls, enforcing integrity or whatever, but jeez, find an actually meaningful hill to fight for! Throwing out ballots because a date that otherwise wouldn't matter is wrong doesn't actually advance any of those causes.
anon_
11d ago
I think it's likely to miss the election entirely if the plaintiffs aren't quick about it.
anon_
11d ago
Although state law requires envelope dates, election officials do not use them to ensure ballots arrive on time. Mail-in ballots are logged in and time-stamped when received, and must arrive at county elections offices before polls close on Election Day.
This is on the legislature for mandating a feature of the ballot that's not actually useful/used.
By most estimates this was 5-10% of their supply.
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