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Changing amendments is no problem when you have judges to āreinterpretā them at will
Changing amendments is no problem when you have judges to āreinterpretā them at will
That might be because they actually arenāt binding in many cases. Courts have held that if the contract canāt be reasonably expected to be read or understood by the people it ābinds,ā itās not really enforceable, and 99% of EULAs are ridiculously long and legalese-heavy. But that doesnāt change the fact companies can and will treat them as such until challenged in court, and theyāll almost always be allowed to refuse service to pretty much whoever they want.
So youād be right here; grandmaās post about not giving Facebook the right to her data is meaningless. Donāt want Facebook to have your data? Donāt use Facebook!
Iām no expert. But probably there just isnāt enough evidence yet to accuse China as a whole of systematically doping its athletes. Iād imagine they err on the side of āallowing participationā with this kind of stuff.
Iām pretty sure Russia only got banned because they had a state-sponsored doping system. Long as you donāt get caught with that, you can be as authoritarian as you want.
I think Republicans are also generally disengaged. Thatās what enables them to vote for so much monstrous garbage; they donāt pay enough attention to know what theyāre voting for. There are also plenty of true believers who really are christian nationalists, but for most people, if they follow the policy positions, theyād be Democrats.
So when it comes to the number of people watching a convention, the DNC sorta naturally attracts more people since the base is paying more attention.
What difference does an airtight case make when you have a litany of judges, all the way up to the supreme court, that will happily twist the law to rule in your favor?
Well obviously all you lightweights were just stunted by vaccines, REAL babies come out of the womb with all their teeth and a craving for beef jerky
Fewer legal immigrants doesnāt mean fewer workers, it just means fewer people being paid above board. That extra money doesnāt go to union members, it goes to stock buybacks and CEO packages. The more of a companyās workforce is part of the union, the stronger the unionās negotiating position, and THATāS how unions get more money for their members.
Immigrant labor is actually cheaper when immigration is tightly controlled, at least it is in the US where ārestrictedā really just means more illegal immigrants rather than fewer overall. When you let people in legally, theyāre documented, unions can actually reach out to them, and they are protected by things like minimum wage.
Illegal immigrants are not.
The geographical argument for Russia wanting to take Ukraine is nonsense BECAUSE of the nuclear threat. Having a physical buffer zone or whatever is complete nonsense in an era where anyone who poses a real existential threat can simply be nuked out of existence and start the apocalypse. A few thousand kms of extra land does exactly zilch to change the calculus for the West starting a war with Russia. Russia wants Ukraine because it wants to make more money, and no other reason.
Weird to segue directly from arguing that cluster munitions are illegal into claiming that the legality of weapons doesnāt matter, but okay
Itās way cuter if heās kicking his stubby ol legs
Iām no expert either but as I understand it, the core service they are most well known for is protection against DDOS attacks. By routing traffic first to Cloudflare before sending it to the intended destination, it can try to check to make sure that whatever itās routing isnāt coming from a botnet or whatever.
Holy shit
āRuinedā seems like a strong word but the yolk wasnāt supposed to break
Exercises on lichess are one of my favorite ways to kill time. Havenāt played a real game in years but I love the low pressure of running through little scenarios, even if I canāt always grasp why the computer thinks a particular line is optimal lol
(And you can do a bunch of them offline)
No, that is exactly the over-broad, willy-nilly, tossed-around definition they were talking about. Gaslighting has a much more insidious context than simply making someone question themselves. It means doing it on purpose; intentionally lying to someone and trying to convince them that theyāre crazy. Like if I said I was going to the grocery and then when I came back with nothing, I insisted I never said that. Or if i borrowed $50 and when it came time to pay you back, I try to tell you I only borrowed $25. Itās inherently deceptive and cruel.
Iām not saying that piracy, as a general concept, results in zero losses for a company. There are people who would have paid to see a thing, who wonāt thanks to piracy. I am saying that there is also a ton of stuff I would never pay to see, but would happily watch if it were free. Having some interest in a thing isnāt the same as being willing to pay for it.
Hell, thereās also stuff that I saw thanks to piracy that I wound up liking so much I went back and paid for a copy. In that sense, companies can make money through piracy. The point is that piracy isnāt taking something like theft is, itās copying something.
Not liking something and expressing it isnāt the same as being rude. It can be done rudely, but this is about as benign as disagreement on taste gets. Canāt imagine how a mod could self justify a ban over this.