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Harold Fjord posted:That's already been poo poo down by Sinema and Manchin. Typo or not, this sentence is true either way.
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If fetal personhood at that state becomes legalized does that mean every miscarriage needs to be investigated?
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bobjr posted:If fetal personhood at that state becomes legalized does that mean every miscarriage needs to be investigated? Yes. That was already the case for Texas.
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May 5, 2022 21:01
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bobjr posted:If fetal personhood at that state becomes legalized does that mean every miscarriage needs to be investigated? It most likely won't be limited to miscarriages, "we think she got an abortion" is gonna be the "I smell weed" of cops being able to randomly target women. Drive by a planned parenthood? Well, they just need to make sure you weren't just coming back from an abortion.
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May 5, 2022 21:05
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bobjr posted:If fetal personhood at that state becomes legalized does that mean every miscarriage needs to be investigated? Yes. All uterus-havers become potential crime scenes and deserve a commensurate level of monitoring and supervision.
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May 5, 2022 21:09
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bobjr posted:If fetal personhood at that state becomes legalized does that mean every miscarriage needs to be investigated? This will definitely happen as is already the case in the Worst States. I wonder what this means for fertilized frozen embryos. Is the egg donor forced to carry them? Will they have forced surrogacy? Will it be murder to keep them on ice forever? They’ve opened some wild scenarios with this poo poo and it’s going to be really fascinating and depressing to watch.
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Black Lives Matter? We can't jump on that quick enough! Don't Say Gay Laws? We're all over that! Reproductive Freedom? We'll get back to you! quote:We contacted 30 of the most powerful companies in America. Few had anything to say about Roe v Wade
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May 5, 2022 21:39
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Star Man posted:It's that I consider my home to be sacred and the last thing I want is my job in it or my employer able to monitor me at home. When I'm at work, I'm at state; when I'm at home, I'm at church. I'm the same, I had to work from home at my previous office job and personally I hated it. I currently work in supply chain now and not in a office position so I do not have the option to work from home but that's what I prefer. Respect to those that can balance the work/home life. RBA Starblade posted:I'm glad the Democrats are standing up and doing something, hopefully they have enough voted into office to get it though. Oh, you sweet summer child
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May 5, 2022 21:47
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Star Man posted:I must have some kind of brain damage, because I loathe the idea of working from home. I don't enjoy commuting either, but I'd prefer to keep my job and my home in separate locations. On and off there were times where I enjoyed the flexibility. Like being able to mow the lawn the day before a big storm and the spending a few extra hours that next day catching up. Not a game changer to me personally, but I did appreciate it. However, the biggest catalyst for changing my opinion was having a child. WFH makes so many aspects of parenting easier and less stressful. For example, you can get away with doing daycare/school pickups/drop offs, one-off medical care appointments, and so on and if need be, have the option to continue working more from home as your kid is watching TV or napping. It offers a tremendous flexibility that is super, super important for me in this current lifestyle. I'd expect a lot of parents who WFH would agree. HOWEVER, once my six year old reaches an age to be self-sufficient and reliable or reach the age of 18 and thus the ending of my legal responsibility for him, I could definitely see the allure of once again going to work instead of being at home all the time.
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May 5, 2022 21:55
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Willa Rogers posted:Black Lives Matter? We can't jump on that quick enough! Its weird to me that Amazon gave no comment, given that they launched a new abortion travel benefit in response to this: [url]https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2022/05/03/amazon-abortion-travel-benefit-pay-employees/9626023002/[/url Of course, if this decision stands, the first thing Republicans are going to try to do is make cross-state illegal too, and then gun for federal anti-abortion laws.
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The story covers that too:quote:In response to these new laws, earlier this year, Citigroup announced it would help employees travel out of state to receive necessary care, as did Yelp. Salesforce previously announced it would help employees in Texas relocate for reasons related to reproductive health care access. Austin-based Bumble and Match Group, which owns a slate of dating apps, said that it would establish funds to help employees affected by Texas’ law.
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May 5, 2022 22:00
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Willa Rogers posted:The story covers that too: I'm betting they're doing this for the positive PR because most people have zero desire to disclose their abortion with their employer for obvious reasons.
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May 5, 2022 22:02
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Lemming posted:"Americans will see where every senator stands." aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA no shiiiiiiiiiiiiit this is human nature.
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BiggerBoat posted:US worker productivity fell at the fastest rate in nearly 75 years IMO, and from what I've been seeing lately I think a lot of this loss of productivity is due to all the turnover that's going on pretty much everywhere. It takes a bit, even if you're really talented, to be as productive as someone who was doing what you're doing for years previously. Institutional knowledge gets lost as people quit, retire or die from COVID-19 and has to be re-created. In some cases the new way of doing things might be better but it's equally likely that a process will end up being fundamentally slower. My guess is that as the economy goes through its austerity phase and turnover in the job market drops that those productivity numbers will come back up.
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More troubles for the not good sex tape fellow. https://twitter.com/SollenbergerRC/status/1522234966838554632
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I'm curious about who would have access to some of the materials being leaked about cawthorn. It's a pretty diverse range of stuff.
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Discendo Vox posted:I'm curious about who would have access to some of the materials being leaked about cawthorn. It's a pretty diverse range of stuff. Maybe he shared it to show how cool he was to get into those coke orgies they didn't let him attend.
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May 5, 2022 22:36
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PhazonLink posted:this is human nature. Personally I would disagree with this. It is not a general human response it is a response best typified by those with power.
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PhazonLink posted:this is human nature. And? These are the people elected to the highest positions of power in our government and entrusted with protecting our rights, not a neighbor who annoyingly calls a tree trimming service after a branch from his yard breaks a window in your shed. Ciprian Maricon fucked around with this message at 22:48 on May 5, 2022 |
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PhazonLink posted:this is human nature. On an individual level yeah, but the noble idea of collective actions is that working together allows us to overcome our limitations and be far better at managing risk. In practice that collective action can also be captured and used to benefit a few but we don't need to accept that.
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Discendo Vox posted:I'm curious about who would have access to some of the materials being leaked about cawthorn. It's a pretty diverse range of stuff. Kevin McCarthy, who else???
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Discendo Vox posted:I'm curious about who would have access to some of the materials being leaked about cawthorn. It's a pretty diverse range of stuff. Per the reporter, this particular one is just them doing some digging and finding a screwup, not a leak. Which, given the story, seems pretty plausible.
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Trazz posted:Kevin McCarthy, who else??? K-Mac strikes me as the type of guy who doesn't go to the coke orgies himself because he's too much of a nebbish prude, but is the guy who everyone who goes to the coke orgies runs to to rat out everyone else they saw at the coke orgies thinking they were gaining some kind of upper hand on someone else.
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Assuming the hitpiece on cawthorn really is a hitpiece, wonder if they people that want to see cawthorn get damaged are annoyied at being overshadowed by the SCOUTUS leak.
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Bugsy posted:More troubles for the not good sex tape fellow. I'm surprised people still are like "The evidence just isn't concrete yet..." You vastly overpay a staffer, live with them, took them with you on your honeymoon, have photos groping them and a video performing a sex act on them. Now imagine this- you're male, and they're female. What would be the most simple conclusion? "Yeah, they're loving." It'd be a over and done with gossip story if Cawthorn wasn't homophobic in public.
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not sure if this is the right thread to ask, but had a question that's been bugging me for quite a while: https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/military-spending-defense-budget why is it that defense spending under reagan was much higher as a percentage of gpd than during any of the post clinton years? according to that graph, under reagan, defense spending hovered between 6-7%. whereas not a single year past 2003 went over 5%. and yes, i know we had that whole cold war thing going on, but we had, you know, an ACTUAL war (TWO OF THEM IN FACT!) since dubya. how does that work?
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Mr Interweb posted:not sure if this is the right thread to ask, but had a question that's been bugging me for quite a while: My first thought would be Cold War, but I don't know that for sure.
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Gort posted:US GDP grew faster than it's military budget, perhaps? A lot of it is probably this, plus we spent money on developing a lot of new weapon systems (including the stealth bomber) that was used for decades afterwards.
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Mr Interweb posted:not sure if this is the right thread to ask, but had a question that's been bugging me for quite a while: wasn't part of Reagan's strategy to increase spending heavily to get the Soviets to follow suit and bankrupt themselves since the Soviet economy wasn't capable of sustaining huge expenditures like that anymore? I thought a lot of that US spending went to silly programs like STAR WARS.
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Mr Interweb posted:not sure if this is the right thread to ask, but had a question that's been bugging me for quite a while: In addition to what's been said, when the Cold War ended there really was a push to reduce the size and scope of the military. Right-wingers love to talk about Clinton as the one that "gutted it" but he mostly followed a plan GHWB laid out. It's not like the US military ever got small, but after the Soviets collapsed there was a general bipartisan consensus that maybe we didn't have to have so many active duty personnel, so many planes and tanks, lots of other things. Salaries, benefits, and other things that scale directly to active duty forces are a big part of military expenditures too, and those dropped after 1990 and never really came back.  The graph would look a lot different if Iraq and Afghanistan were the types of war where the US mobilized a million new soldiers or was suffering a lot of equipment losses from near-peer foes, but the slow-grind counterinsurgency stuff doesn't make the same big peaks relative to peacetime. The cost is more human than dollars.
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Crazy Joe Wilson posted:wasn't part of Reagan's strategy to increase spending heavily to get the Soviets to follow suit and bankrupt themselves since the Soviet economy wasn't capable of sustaining huge expenditures like that anymore? It was the entire part, yes.
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Mr Interweb posted:not sure if this is the right thread to ask, but had a question that's been bugging me for quite a while: The defense budget is passed in terms of dollars, not in percent of the GDP, and the GDP keeps getting bigger. So we spend more money but it's a smaller portion of the economy. Also, the 1980s were a period where the US was spending a lot of money to modernize and rebuild the military after the low points of the 1970s, and we were goading the USSR into trying to match our spending, which eventually ran them into the ground.
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Tnega posted:As far as I can tell, if Graham-Cassidy refers to the Graham-Cassidy amendment to the Affordable Care Act it did not fail by one vote, it was never put to a vote. Am I missing something obvious? I should be more clear. Graham Cassidy saw momentum right up to the end when McCain killed the skinny repeal. They only had 4 hard nos in Paul (somehow,) McCain, Collins, and Murkowski. In closed door talks he was able to get Murkowski behind the block grant idea but didn't like the the tight schedule. Only after Collins released her statement was it officially dead. McCain killing the skinny repeal and eating enough time to bring things up against the reconciliation expiration sucked the oxygen out of the room, they were going to make block grants a central part of any attempt going forward. Thankfully the midterms stopped everything. I meant to say were one vote short. All those shots of disabled people outside senate offices being drug out of their chairs by police was to stop this. Here's a post mortem: https://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/27/obamacare-repeal-graham-cassidy-243178
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Cheesus posted:I started doing full time WFH over ten years ago. I had a similar problem with it and initially part of me was secretly hoping my employer would cut me loose (I didn't give them a choice; I held a lot of cards and said, "I'll keep working here, but it will be 2000 miles away from here") and I'd be forced to find something local. I'm single, childless, and live by myself in a one-bedroom apartment, so it's gonna be real hard to separate work from home. I think what gets me about it is that when I'm between jobs, I just end up glued to my computer and keep weird hours where I was up all night, slept all day, and just sat around. What always managed to pull me out of it was a job with regular hours, so I'd have to be somewhere and have something to do. I struggled in undergrad with any classes that had to be done online because I never felt accountable and they'd end up getting sidelined. I don't even do my laundry in my building because I'll just start it and leave it and ignore it for too long, so going to a laundromat forces me to just get it done.
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PhazonLink posted:Assuming the hitpiece on cawthorn really is a hitpiece, wonder if they people that want to see cawthorn get damaged are annoyied at being overshadowed by the SCOUTUS leak. I don't think they really care. The reason I assume they're going out of their way to destroy him in every direction is because the "coke orgy" thing was real, but the undisclosed part of it is that, the attendees are all horrible ancient disgusting men (and like, a few token horrible ancient disgusting women), so it's extremely unlikely they'd be loving each other at those orgies. Given Matt Gaetz's ability to get away with probably sex trafficking, the conclusion more or less invokes itself. Or to put it bluntly -- Cawthorne (accidentally?) probably alluded to something less "Eyes Wide Shut" and more "Epstein's Basement" and that sort of thing is maybe one of the only terrible things the public would turn on the republicans for.
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Ershalim posted:I don't think they really care. The reason I assume they're going out of their way to destroy him in every direction is because the "coke orgy" thing was real, but the undisclosed part of it is that, the attendees are all horrible ancient disgusting men (and like, a few token horrible ancient disgusting women), so it's extremely unlikely they'd be loving each other at those orgies. Given Matt Gaetz's ability to get away with probably sex trafficking, the conclusion more or less invokes itself. Cawthorne broke the First Rule of Coke Orgy Human Trafficking Club.
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