$500 per week - 500x48=24k with 4 weeks of thankfully “unpaid” vacation

I’d counter part of that is that US law is based on common law, which is defined by prior court cases not just law - vs civil law which is only based on law.

There are issues with both of course, but, its common law that requires lawyers and knowledge of every court case and knowing what a judge in the 1800s thought a word means to win or lose a case.

I think the common law system of justice is deeply flawed and leads to this legalese where everything is vague and malleable with no certainty

So you care about what he dosent say, but dont care about what he actually says and does.

Got it.

This book should fulfill all your goals - it doesn’t leave a single word unsaid: https://shop.merriam-webster.com/products/websters-third-new-international-dictionary-unabridged?_pos=1&_fid=95a7efe7f&_ss=c

Because he’s said multiple times that that word should instead be attributed by the international court of justice

https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/09/politics/video/israel-genocide-bernie-sanders-collins-source-digvid

Its intentional that he doesn’t say genocide, because its a powerful legal word and he believes its not his place to apply it - however his stance and his actions are clear - abundantly clear - latching onto this one point, that he explicitly has a rationale for is silly at best, and deceptive at worst.

Here’s Bernie in 1988 talking about Israeli war crimes against Palestine: https://youtu.be/TocimL0AT1w

From what I understand, this is a tiered boycott. Yes it starts today with a one day boycott, but there are more and longer and targeted boycotts planned. The other day I saw a flier but forgot to save it or I’d share. Hoping it pops back up again.

I think that’s important because for a general strike and boycott to work, you need to train the people, and this is how you train the people. Most everyone can stop shopping for a day, next week they can stop shopping for two days, then not at amazon for a week, then not at Walmart for a week. Then not at any big store for a week, then a month, etc

It dosent end with a one day boycott, it begins with a one day boycott!

I’m still mad at that, it was totally unnecessary and a weak virtue signal at best

Wow, somebody is hunting mechanical engineers - hopefully none doing significant work get duped.

I’d be curious if the malicious downloads are basic viruses, or are something specialized to exfiltrate cad drawings, or something even more complex to subtly alter designs and cause harm

Note that while he resigned from this current Congress, he did get reelected to the next Congress, so he’ll still be a US rep in Florida once the session starts in late January. Just kind of an extended two month vacation really.

Gang and nude are now censored words to some? Jeez

https://www.economistgroup.com/esg/board

Chaired by a Baron, the Lord Paul Deighton, who also chairs the Heathrow airport and was involved in banking and the conservative governments of UK, handling part of the covid crisis for Boris, and being involved with the Pandora papers scandal.

The rest of the board has their own stories.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Deighton,_Baron_Deighton

The editorial board had written an unpublished endorsement for Harris, and they have been publicly endorsing presidents for the past ~50 years. This year they did not, and recently it was made public why: the billionaire owner, Jeff bezos, ordered them not to.

It is more about there being proof that the owner is having editorial control of the paper, than about any endorsement.

The owner controlling editorial decisions is to many, myself included who also cancelled my subscription, a violation of journalistic principles and not the product we are paying for.

I want to read a publication where skilled journalists can speak their mind, and that is no longer certain at the Washington Post, instead I must interpret their opinions as filtered through a billionaire’s goals and opinions. I do not want to pay for that.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chu_space

Quite abstract indeed

Why did cops even show up to a medical call?

Bullshit. She’s great, with a long track record to back that up.

Not only is she not old and not in mental decline, but she’s also charismatic, engaging, and she is progressive. Congress and the courts will limit her policies of course, but that’s by design, the government is not just the president.

Beyond that, with picking Walz and other strategic picks in her campaign, she’s shown that she knows how to form a good team and avoid landmines.

I’m looking forward to the Harris presidency and voting For her, not just against Trump.

Check out Jen Perelman in South Florida

She’s going against Debbie Wasserman Schultz and is explicitly anti AIPAC and progressive

https://www.jen2024.org/

God I hope it’s Walz, it’s a dream ticket for progressives

I eventually quit, I finally cold Turkey’d it, I combined it with quiting nicotine.

I’ve tried to quit many times in the past, but this time has been the longest at 5 months or so

The advice I have: Don’t plan to quit, at some point you’ll have the impulse to quit after it weighs on your head for a while, that’s when you just lean into it - in the spur of the moment, toss your stuff or put it away someplace that’s annoying to get it back out of. Be as fast about this as possible as to not give time to the little voice that says “one more”: catch your brain off guard.

Then importantly, ensure to not substitute your habit with something else, like binge snacking or another drug - just accept that you’re gonna be uncomfortable - and embrace the discomfort - potentially make use of a fidget toy - but I found success in just destroying the habit rather than replacing/redirecting it. It took a couple weeks before it no longer was on my mind.

Finally: don’t beat yourself up if it takes a couple attempts to break the habit, each time I quit I got better at quiting.

It took a few weeks before I felt like it was all out of my system, and I started feeling healthier and better and more productive and more myself, and now I actually decline weed when offered because I like my sobriety. Mama Ganja taught me a lot, and she’s taught me all she can, and no I have moved on.

I’ve seen something like this referenced a couple times now, what is it?

I’m not sure about this gate keeping.

When I was first accepting this part of my identity and thinking structure, and why I’d react in certain ways - it really helped me become comfortable by dipping my toes in and saying “well, I’m a little bit autistic, so what?”, before getting more comfortable and understanding of who I was and the masks I was wearing and that it was ok to take them off and say confidently “I am autistic, so what.”.

I think we should allow people that grace to slowly take off their masks at their pace, and if some people improperly co-opt that, so be it

Someone unsure of being “a little autistic” doesn’t hurt me, provided it’s only an introspective admission.

There’s a difference if they say “well, I’m a little autistic, so I don’t think someone else needs support or dignity” of course, and those people should be opposed.