If Congress must act to re instate a candidate but almost must act to bar a candidate, why was the amendment written the way it was? Pretty stupid they want Congress to make the determination.

I mean there's no harm in using a cultural moment as a starting point to see if two people are compatible?

I think the language in the article and perhaps from the influencers is a bit rigid.

I don't think anyone is suggesting that if a man has valid reasons for disliking the movie they are automatically exist. The idea is that the film is causing a knee jerk reaction in men who are otherwise prone to hiding their misogyny.

I didn't get a lot of the inside jokes about the product. And the barbies and Ken's did not unite to kill Will Ferrell.

When did it become illegal to say "do you know who my father is?"

Lots of kids in salmon colored shorts are heading to prison!!

If only conservatives listened to scholars. Then they might consider a) the intent of the constitution and b) the practical implications of nominating someone so unfit. Alas.

At some point Parental Rights is going to run up against Parents Who Want Their Kids to Go to College

Isn't it illegal to transport a child to commit a crime? Human trafficking? Kidnapping? What a can of worms. I feel like there's too much money in fertility treatments for SCOTUS to let this stand.

It's 100% juice but not 100% of the juice.

Imagine, entering the factory is only juice. Let's say maybe the filter or centrifuge the juice to remove anything that's not totally soluble. Then exiting the factory is pure juice, as well as the sediment that you were expecting, but it's separated as waste.

A sandwich you remove the crust from is 100% sandwich, but it's not 100% of the original sandwich....

You should talk to a therapist.

Asking this question and being self critical is a good sign.

Being told you are gaslighting is NOT necessarily a sign you are a psychopath. They could be gas lighting you. Or you could just have some other blind spots about your own behavior.

A conservative you are guilted into seeing occasionally? We call that family

They say to try and eat where the locals eat 😢😢😢

If I picked and chose my customers at work I'd be fired.

I think it's a joke on the Putin thing. Like OK, a historical border doesn't justify a present day war. Even the leader of Mongolia was riffing on this. Should Mongolia reclaim all of it's former land Asia?

His ruling on so-called line-warming allowed the ban to still be enforced in what he dubbed the “buffer zone” around a polling place, within 150 feet of the building where ballots are being cast. But he paused enforcement of the ban in the “supplemental zone,” or additional areas that are within 25 feet of a voter standing in line.

If I understand it, should allow relief to a really long line. Stupid that money is free speech but passing out sandwiches sometimes isn't. Step in the right direction I guess?

Now they will just make the voting line snake around the building within the 150 ft 🙄

Say what you will about pronouns, sometimes they aren't clear.

Fucking tractors, how do they work?

The last handful of paragraphs:

The decline of Amazon is closely tied not just to its size but to how it has chosen to grow. Amazon is now less of a store than a mall, or maybe a sprawling bazaar. Last year, nearly 60 percent of units sold on Amazon came from third-party sellers rather than from Amazon itself. Want to set up a booth? There’s a nominal monthly fee to reserve the space. From there, though, the charges add up quickly, according to a report from the ecommerce-intelligence firm Marketplace Pulse.

Amazon takes a cut of every transaction, typically about 15 percent. For front-and-center placement, you’d better pay for one of those sponsored slots. According to the FTC, advertised products are 46 times more likely to get clicks. Call it another 15 percent of revenue. Oh, and if you want to qualify for Prime—and if you want any shot of making a sale, you do want to qualify for Prime—you’ll need to use Amazon to fulfill your orders. That’s another 20 to 35 percent off the top. All of a sudden, half of your revenue is in Amazon’s coffers.

Amazon itself has reported that all of those fees amount to a big business; the revenue generated from them has tripled since 2017, totaling $117.7 billion last year alone. But although it’s been great for Amazon, it hasn’t been great for consumers. When sellers are nickeled-and-dimed, not a lot of savings are left to pass on to you.

Amazon denies that it squeezes its third-party sellers at the expense of shoppers. “The FTC’s allegation that we somehow force sellers to use our optional services is simply not true,” David Zapolsky, Amazon’s general counsel, wrote in a lengthy response to the charges. “Sellers have choices, and many succeed in our store using other logistics services or choosing not to advertise with us.”

That is technically true, but in a world where so much of online retail runs through Amazon, choice is an illusion. Dare to offer a cheaper product elsewhere online, and Amazon might bury your listing on its platform. A heavily redacted portion of the FTC suit claims that the company “deploys a sophisticated surveillance network of web crawlers that constantly monitor the internet” for such sellers. (In his response, Zapolsky says that the FTC “has it backwards” and that the company doesn’t “highlight or promote offers that are not competitively priced.”)

Of course this is where Amazon wound up. The company spent years sacrificing profit for scale, until it had so many customers that sellers couldn’t ignore it. Now that it extracts billions each month from those sellers, it can afford to ignore those customers—or at least prioritize them less. Amazon gets paid by all of its vendors, no matter which products go in our cart.

Shoppers are not privy to any of these machinations while browsing Amazon. We can’t know which third-party sellers have been banished to the shadow realm, or how tightly their margins are squeezed. Even knowing this might not get us far, considering how entrenched Amazon is now in American life. On Monday, I went ahead and bought the Linfairy Kids Child Purple Dye Wig Halloween Costume Cosplay Wave Wig, for $19.88 plus tax. My daughter liked the curls. It’ll be here by Thursday, which is no small relief. After all, it was my only option.

I can't hear you over all the pumps running.

This means 90% of the year is spent on remote work, and the remaining 10% is dedicated to employee off-site events.

What does that mean? Five weeks of retreat a year? Who pays for that?

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/10/trump-eligible-president-abdul-hassan/675669/

Back in 2012 this lawyer thought that the equal protections clause should guarantee immigrants can run for president. So he sued. And none other than Neil Gorsuch argued that yet States have the right to "protect" voters from constitutionally unqualified candidates.

Which is odd, because now they fascist sympathizers are currently arguing that states should let voters decide if Trump is qualified. Hmmm.

Let's just nationalize SpaceX and Starlink. Then maybe he can focus in tesla, X and his spliff rolling.

https://www.tetongravity.com/story/news/your-chances-of-dying-ranked-by-sport-and-activity

Gear isn't the whole story. My running shoes are safe but a slip or getting hit by a car are always a risk. In the photo, the risk isn't necessarily the equipment: it's human error or the unpredictability of nature.

Ten years ago Gorsuch ruled that the state of CO has an interest in blocking unqualified candidates to protect voters. Let's see what he feels this time.

They specifically mention open kettle canning as a bad practice. My friend and I were canning something and he wasn't sure we were doing it right. He called his mom and she said she had always done open kettle canning (where you basically just pouring boiling temp food into hot jars and seal them). I guess experts have soured on the practice.

Either way, we made our cans the "right" way after lots of googling and none of the jars seemed to fail.

While I sympathize with the moderators, I would assume that historically most subs are not moderated by experts, but yes, a decrease in quality mods and mod tools will choke reddit to death.

I mean it's pretty clear to me. The constitution says that Congress writes all laws, and nothing about the courts is noted in powers congress does not have.

Then about the Supreme Court, it says that justices shall serve during "good behavior". Who could possibly define what that means legally besides congress?

Seems pretty clear that Congress could pass many different types of laws on SCOTUS that would be constitutional. Whether that is adding more justices, setting term limits, or creating and ethics standard.

Alito is a moron. The SC is to decide things between states and other high level topics. It's not an untouchable organization.

"on paper". You only add this in when everyone knows it's not actually true, but someone wrote it was.

I just got brain cancer

You can't accomplish it in a year.

I think it's a power move. The GOP is nothing without his base. He's forcing that point. Viewer numbers are what feeds his ego.

The government has to get involved right? For something like food, you can't set up a system that walks right up against price gouging.

Per capita, California is not losing the most people. Red states are.

Start a charity foundation, but pay poor people in your community to lead it, instead of local millionaires.

This isn't exactly novel. Some professors allow a cheat sheet. But that just means that the exam will be harder.

Physics exam that allows a cheat sheet asks you to derive the law of gravity. Well, OK, you write the answer at the bottom pulled from you cheat sheet. Now what? If you recall how it was originally created you probably write Newtons three laws at the top of your paper... And then start doing some math.

Calculus exam that let's you use wolfram alpha? Just a really hard exam where you must show all of your work.

Now, with ChatGPT, it's no longer enough to have a take home essay to force students to engage with the material, so you find news ways to do so. Written, in person essays are certainly a way to do that.

It's short for gasoline, which is the term for refined petroleum.

IF yOu ArE ANtICAPiTaLIST Why dO yOU HavE A JOb? energy I'm getting from this post.

No, I don't think renting out your first home is a grave issue, but it's a snow flake in the avalanche for why housing is unaffordable. Housing is either a necessity that should be affordable, or an investment that grows and grows in value. Society has to pick one. And it would be obviously ruinuos for the status quo of housing to outpace inflation to continue.

He wasn't even revealing the gender of his future child?? What a waste

Thank god SCOTUS said bribery doesn't exist. Or else I might be upset about all this.

The house is only 50.8% republican.

When the senate is 50/50 they come to compromise favoring the party who has the white house/vp/tie breaking vote.

When the house is effectively 50/50 they apparently shut the government down for weeks on end.

The country voted 49/47 for Democrats so we will all held hostage while the minority figures out who their leader is? Even if their new leader was so great bills would have to pass the Senate (where the minority generally thinks they are too extreme) and the white house where again the opposition controls that part of the government.

Maybe the founders weren't all knowing after all.

That's not really how it works. I would bet most of these companies were building their phones in the same factories as other small time brands. It's not like they were all making their own chips and capacitors and assembling every last piece.

Imaging explaining to a jury:

A statistical model says that there is a 99% chance these two finger prints belong to the same person. We don't know how this model works and it was not programmed by a human. We will be taking no further questions.

Read the book by Graeber. It's pretty easy to find a pdf copy online.

There's a lot of different reasons and it varies depending on the type of bullshit job, the industry, the country, etc.

Here's a good example. It might make sense to re-train or fire members of a low performing team. But instead you hire more people to basically just redo the poorly done work. It would make economic sense, initially to fire them and replace them with less people and less rework, but morale, pensions or other factors may make firing them unpalatable.

Risk aversion. If you have a team of twenty people who only put in half days of work, well now you can easily absorb double workload when the business needs to.

Maybe a VP has a big ego and demands to hire a big new team. Most people think it's a waste, but no one wants to tell the VP "no". Afraid the industry veteran will quit or worse. So they get their team of questionable value and it makes everyone feel good that this powerful person now leads more people/teams.

The short answer is the market is never fully efficient. I mean, it can't be. Not even serious capitalists would expect it to be.

Seriously, read the book. It's not super long.