The_Nybbler
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The_Nybbler
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1d ago
Trans, really.
The_Nybbler
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1d ago
Pre-Columbian population isn't the right basis assuming (as is believed) many natives were wiped out by disease before the US was founded. The Mayflower was in 1620, which is considerably later than 1492.
The_Nybbler
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1d ago
I expect once Trudeau is gone, Canada bends the knee... but Trump also becomes somewhat less demanding.
I'm not changing my investments, which are broad-market. If the tariffs turn out badly, I don't see any clear winners as a result, and making money off losers (with options or short plays) is too risky for my blood.
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1d ago
If you have literally no credit, your credit score is supposed to be indeterminable. I would suspect that any scores in this case are the result of errors and are basically random. Or you're mistaken about having no credit.
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2d ago
No chance of that until March 24, thanks to Trudeau proroguing parliament, right?
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2d ago
I say the kid (or his parents) owes the rescuer a new suit, which short circuits the whole thing.
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2d ago
Paying rent can affect your credit score, but only if your landlord reports it, which few do. I would expect this is mostly your big corporate landlords.
At its core, the credit system is managed by a small number of powerful credit bureaus—Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion—that operate in a monopolistic manner, much like a state-controlled entity. These institutions dictate the financial credibility of individuals based on proprietary algorithms, without allowing for much transparency or individual input.
They're oligopolistic, though your scores tend to be basically similar from them all. This is because they have basically the same input and the same goals (of determining a probability that someone can and will pay back a loan), and the scoring systems have all been developed through an iterative adversarial game. They are transparent about what goes into them, however, though not specific weights.
Additionally, the credit system fosters a kind of financial surveillance that is reminiscent of state-controlled economies. Every financial decision—whether it be taking out a loan, missing a payment, or even just inquiring about one’s own credit—is meticulously tracked, recorded, and used to shape an individual’s economic identity.
Eh, not really; as you've noticed, rent usually doesn't go into it. Nor do any non-credit purchases. Nor investment decisions. Nor salary or other payments for work, for that matter. It's only about credit.
Finally, the way the credit system forces people into debt in order to maintain a good score
It does not. Unless you count using credit cards and paying them off within the grace period as being "in debt". You can have a score good enough for all practical purposes doing nothing but that. (Having multiple types of credit will get you a few more points, but it's not necessary). There is, as far as I can tell, no disadvantage to doing this compared to paying cash (or using a debit instrument) for everything. (If the problem is you might be tempted to spend above your means if you do this... well, your credit score probably should be lower)
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3d ago
These are largely quibbles, especially when applied to Hiroshima. The point is that weighing the civilian lives lost at Hiroshima against the immediate military advantage of destroying Hiroshima's military infrastructure rather than against the actual, plausible, objective of ending the war without a full-scale invasion is unreasonable.
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3d ago
Dresden, perhaps. With Hiroshima and Nagasaki it depends on if you take into account that they won the damned war. Critics like to not count that part. If you balance Hiroshima and Nagasaki against continued conventional warfare to a conclusion, they look a lot more proportional.
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3d ago
A jewish population in an Ottoman style empire would be return to normalacy.
The Ottomans are not around any more. Nor is there any replacement; even Erdogan doesn't seem to be that ambitious.
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4d ago
A ten mile radius around DCA covers the entire extent of the river adjacent to the District of Columbia, and in fact most of the District. And a fifteen minute period for no planes at DCA would take longer than your helicopter has fuel, most times of day. There need to be practical solutions, not precautionary ones.
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5d ago
Tell it to the SA. Fascists, like Commies, have a tendency to purge their early backers.
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5d ago
I'm not a pro-tradwife person. I would guess one reason they don't talk about "practical family risk-management considerations" is that bringing them up at all would be a turn-off.
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5d ago
It’s as if these people are trying to do a Weimar Republic speed run. If they got what they wanted, they’d likely also subsequently get what they are afraid of and what they deserve.
Unfortunately, so would the rest of us. And there's no spare United States to save us.
The_Nybbler
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5d ago
And your implication that woke doctors are intentionally letting pregnant women die so they can make a political point about a law they don't like is somehow more plausible?
Whichever one is more plausible, they're both villainous.
No doctor is going to take a risk where the only thing standing between him and a 99 year prison sentence is convincing 12 people who know nothing about medicine that his actions are "reasonable".
Then every single one of them should find a new profession. Because they face the possibility of murder charges any time they make a decision in which the patient dies. For instance, William Husel Doesn't happen very often, but it does happen.
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5d ago
Lastly, it seems like literally every member of this group was a transexual
It looks like they're all biologically male except the actual killer, which I find surprising. A 21-year-old computer science student named Teresa who is part of a rationalist-adjacent cult screams "transwoman", but it seems from the reporting that she's a transman ("Milo").
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5d ago
She comes to the ER, they suspect she's septic, they check the fetal heartbeat, they know what they have to do but they can't do it, they know that if they admit her for further observation their liability increases exponentially, so they send her home.
This is the reasoning of a cartoon villain from an anti-capitalist morality play.
They can say whatever they want to in dicta, but the actual opinion tells a different story.
You said the Supreme Court declined to offer any further guidance. They were, in fact, pretty clear. That statement, whether you characterize it as "dicta" or not, was part of the actual opinion.
but the court made it crystal clear that it's an objective test based on what a reasonable physician would have done.
Either the offered standard -- good-faith belief -- isn't reviewable, in which it case it creates a liar's exception to the abortion law. Or it is reviewable, in which case there's the same issue as with the actual reasonable physician standard. Reasonable professional judgement is demanded of doctors (and other licensed professionals) all the time; it comes with the territory.
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6d ago
The point is false though. Lots of groups have stopped. Pretty much every group has stopped short of omnicide, including the Nazis.
The point of SteveAgain's response is that sometime it's us or them. And sometimes it's us or them for no apparent reason. There's no apparent reason why the situation seems to be that either the "gay communists" get oppressed or the straight cis white men do, but it does seem to be the case.
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6d ago
I mean, I'm not sure what you're talking about. First, none of the Texas cases at issue involved patients who were discharged, but lets forget that for a minute because it doesn't mean that future cases won't. What is it about exercising extreme caution that requires the hospital to discharge a septic patient?
The first hospital diagnosed her with strep throat without investigating her sharp abdominal cramps. At the second, she screened positive for sepsis, a life-threatening and fast-moving reaction to an infection, medical records show. But doctors said her six-month fetus had a heartbeat and that Crain was fine to leave.
Neither of these have anything to do with over-reaction, even justified over-reaction, to the heartbeat law. Nor do they demonstrate a precautionary attitude in the first place.
She went to a third hospital where care was supposedly delayed two hours because they needed two ultrasounds (it doesn't take two hours to get two ultrasounds if your hospital is at all competent) to confirm fetal death. But that doesn't explain the first two hospitals.
The other interesting thing I would point out about this is that, for all the guarantees I've seen here and elsewhere that the doctor's actions in any of these deaths would have totally been covered by the exception, they've been curiously absent coming from anyone who actually matters. I haven't heard Ken Paxton or anyone else from the AG's office saying that performing an abortion in those circumstances would not be criminal, nor have I heard it from the governor. I haven't heard any state legislator suggest that those circumstances were of the type the exception was intended to cover. The Supreme Court declared that the law wasn't vague and declined to offer any further guidance.
The Supreme Court:
A physician who tells a patient, “Your life is threatened by a complication that has arisen during your pregnancy, and you may die, or there is a serious risk you will suffer substantial physical impairment unless an abortion is performed,” and in the same breath states “but the law won’t allow me to provide an abortion in these circumstances” is simply wrong in that legal assessment.
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6d ago
One of the things I've always told clients asking for advice on specific actions is that you don't be the one who finds out where the line is. Yes, you may have a strong argument that your actions are legal, but you don't want to put yourself in a position where you have to make that argument and hope that someone with your liberty and livelihood in your hands agrees with it.
Right, this is why you only ask a lawyer about something like that if you want a "no". If you want to be able to do anything at all without risking losing your life, liberty, and/or property to government action, you need true anarchy.
Nevertheless, it doesn't apply in some of the situations promoted in the press, because respecting a 200-mile zone around the abortion law's actual strictures would and did force the hospitals and doctors into non-compliance with other laws and regulations. Unless discharging patients with life-threatening conditions like sepsis is somehow black-letter legal?
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6d ago
Any damped pendulum stops in the middle. But I don't see any damping.
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6d ago
You have to go a little bit earlier; "Heather Has Two Mommies" is the ur-example and is from 1989.
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6d ago
A dog described as a "mongrel" may be a crossbreed, but the implication is also that they are the product of uncontrolled breeding. A breeder crossing a St. Bernard to a Chihuhaha to make a Mexican mountain rescue dog is making a crossbreed; the cur in the street that some gangbanger's (probably already mixed) pit bull sired on a stray Labrador is a mongrel.
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6d ago
There is a reason why a powerful constituency on the right supports having a Fort Bragg but no Fort Arnold despite Benedict Arnold being a better general than Braxton Bragg.
One is viewed as a rebel, the other as a traitor. To a European, the former is a subset of the latter. To Americans, not so much.
Setting up a snitch hotline for employees to inform on each other and warning that non-snitchers will be punished for failing to snitch on their colleagues who are still doing DEI sub rosa is something you only do if you want this kind of panicked overcompliance.
The snitch hotline is there because we know high level employees WILL do DEI sub rosa. ATF got caught trying to hide their DEI by changing publicly visible titles, and we have two people on this very group who have said that two different directors of national labs told their employees they would be doing DEI sub rosa. There's no panicked overcompliance, there is only malicious compliance.
That's embarrassing, but mostly for the ordnance disposal teams. It's not like it's a surprise that there's American and Israeli weaponry used there.
Think "Trump Gaza Resort and Casino". Probably also a military base, hopefully there will be some separation. It's prime real estate, or would be if it weren't for the people living there.
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