👍 law, menswear, @pontifex | 👎 bad ties, schism | omnicause centrist | "like a young Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch" —Juror No. 2
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Yglesias is correct on how YIMBY-skewed this discourse is. The core overlap of the left and center-left in his party is urbanism, and once you move beyond urbanism, their regulatory attitude rapidly changes.
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Justices will read one of these amicus briefs. I don't know why someone filed the other one.
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Weil takes blaming AI are the "vaxxed???" obituary comments of the legalsphere.
SO MANY people commenting on this equate "bad parenting" with "the mother should be prosecuted."
They're totally different things! The bar for upending a family due to bad parenting needs to be SO HIGH. Way higher than "I personally would not make this choice."
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Law firm goes to the doctor, says its partners are leaving and it’s worried the firm will disintegrate. The doctor says “treatment is simple. The great restructuring firm Weil is available tonight. Go and see them for advice on your options”
“But doctor…”
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The Platonist: now surely you admit that it is just for the best flautist to receive compensation for his talents
Batman: very true
The Platonist: then we must consider a man whose talents lie in robbing banks
Robin: Batman don't listen to him!!
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I went out for some half-and-half yesterday. They had surgical scissors, gauze, sutures, body bags, even a bone saw. But no half-and-half. Twenty minutes wasted walking to and from the coroner store. I suppose I should have called first.
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Yeah, something really wild has happened to our collective moral compass over the last ~12 years
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Good example of the rationality gap between how people behave when it matters and how they talk about the same thing when it matters less
update.news/p/the-rationalit…
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“While the act of creation is inherently satisfying, there’s a danger: one might find satisfaction in the labor itself and mistakenly believe that a high-quality piece of work has been created,” he said.
very insightful comment from miyamoto
Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto, the acclaimed designer behind Super Mario and Zelda, has explained why he believes generative AI won’t make human creativity obsolete.
"There will always be a role left for us to play."
videogameschronicle.com/news…
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If Americans had to deal with the dog ownership rules of Denmark, the UK, or Italy, their heads would spin. Our failure to properly regulate dogs is one reason why I think the need for a pit bull ban here is actually greater than in other countries.
Nobody else at the cafe cared! A nearby table told her to "please quiet down the child" because her 90 year old mother was trying to enjoy her brunch. Nobody cared except the child and his parents. When the mom tried to find out if the dog had been vaccinated for everything, the owner told her to shut up.
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If you ever stop to really really think … it’s *mindboggling* that our our densest, more expensive cities have more dogs than little kids
It’s dystopian to a Brave New World degree
did this for my tennis ball machine! strongly recommend
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I genuinely do think there are a lot of basically good people who have never really thought about the ways in which they are behaving badly as dog owners, because nobody ever really calls them out for it.
If your dog is ever off leash, you are being antisocial and behaving badly. If your dog ever jumps on somebody who didn’t specifically ask for that to happen, then you are behaving antisocially (even if the dog is just being “friendly”). If you have an invisible fence in your yard, but your dog comes running right up to the line at full speed only to stop at the last minute and bark at everybody who walks by, then you are behaving antisocially. Honestly, even behind a fence, this is an aggressive and annoying imposition on anybody walking by.
If somebody has ever respond with fear or annoyance at something your dog has done and you’ve reflexively protested, “oh don’t worry, he won’t hurt you” or “he’s friendly” then that’s antisocial behavior. (You should just simply say, “I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have done that, I won’t let it happen again” and then you should work to actually make it not happen again. Telling people not to worry, that you think your dog is just peachy, is bad behavior.)
This is all bad behavior. It’s all antisocial. And I have these experiences with dogs and their owners routinely. This is all extremely common stuff.
The primary problem with widespread dog ownership and car culture is growing entitlement and anti-social behavior of owners
People who just break rules and then feel as though YOU are a problem for caring because they “aren’t hurting anyone” and to “mind your own business”
So they park in bike lines, refuse to pick up shit, let dogs off leash in places where it’s specifically prohibited.
If you are a lawyer and you sell real matter files to a data procurement company, you should be disbarred. I don't care what they say they redact. This is not hyperbole. You should permanently lose your license to practice law.
We’ll pay you up to $100K for every company you refer that licenses its data to @Mercor.
We’ve partnered with > 500 companies so far.
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