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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:- 10% of American Buddhists also believe in Hell (?!?) That’s not really odd at all. Shinto-Buddhism has a concept of hell even though neither Shinto nor Buddhism do. Look syncreticism does weird poo poo sometimes.
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https://twitter.com/ddayen/status/1618354915218436098 For today's edition of Paracaidas' Prospect RSS feed we have meaty piece about the White House approach to competition. It's long as gently caress. Setting the scene quote:On July 9, 2021, President Joe Biden signed one of the most sweeping changes to domestic policy since FDR. It was not legislation: His signature climate and health law would take another year to gestate. This was a request that the government get into the business of fostering competition in the U.S. economy again. The origins of a new mindset quote:The competition order was released four months after Wu’s appointment, but in reality, it was laid out over the previous five years. In that time, a collection of policymakers, journalists, lawyers, politicians, and experts, sometimes known as the New Brandeis movement, warned of the dangers of economic concentration. Wu, Khan, and Kanter were part of this crusade, and prior to the 2020 election, they and others strategized about how to reinvigorate competition policy if Democrats took the presidency. Organizational mechanics quote:A new White House competition council, led by the NEC, was established to monitor implementation of the 72 actions, as well as legislative and administrative efforts outside the order. There are nine core agencies on the council, each with a senior-level designee on competition policy. The order requires regular council meetings for members and other invited agencies. The successes (publishing, poultry processing, others) have been well covered but are in the story as well. Some of the struggles: quote:The order actually called for a number of Section 5 rules, including on unfair competition in prescription drug patents, internet marketplaces, occupational licensing, and real estate listings. But FTC spokesperson Doug Farrar told me there’s nothing imminent in those areas. “If you asked me a year ago, I would have thought FTC would have done more by now,” Vaheesan said. One problem was that, having abandoned rulemaking long ago, the FTC had no staff with expertise. When commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter was acting FTC chair before Khan’s appointment, she set up a rulemaking group in the general counsel’s office. But administrative procedure for new rules takes an eternity, especially if starting from scratch. gently caress the USDA and the farm animal it rode in on: quote:But when DOJ Antitrust sued to block the merger of sugar giants U.S. Sugar and Imperial, USDA chief economist Barbara Fesco testified for the sugar industry in the case, stating that the merger would benefit consumers despite admitting to having no data confirming that. “Knowing these people as long as I have, ‘I had high faith that [the deal] was good,’” Fesco said at the trial. The judge ruled against DOJ last September, explicitly stating that Fesco was a credible witness. This is maybe a quarter of the text from the article which I cannot recommend enough for those with the time to read it (or to listen to the 42 minute audio version). The closer: quote:Just about everything on competition has been hard-fought. But there’s plenty of evidence of real movement. Agencies like the Department of the Interior, Department of Education, and the Small Business Administration, none of which are mentioned in the order, told the Prospect about their efforts to maximize competition in procurement and support small business. The lead agencies have gone beyond the order, reinvigorating dormant anti-monopoly laws like the Robinson-Patman Act (which prevents chain retail stores from gaining unfair advantage) or Section 8 of the Clayton Act (which bars directors and officers from sitting on the corporate boards of multiple competitors). Congress chipped in with the first new antitrust law in nearly a half-century, which gives state attorneys general a better chance to win antitrust cases. To add a bit more text: One of the reasons I love The American Prospect is because few outlets bother to dive into rulemaking at all, fewer followup on impacts, and fewer still bring together the various bits of news into a cohesive whole. Wu, Khan, and Kanter show some of the power of what can be accomplished despite a dysfunctional congress. Sohn and Vilsack show the importance of appointees and the risks of corporate intransigence and capture. The USDA in particular (and to lesser degrees Justice and the FTC) show the importance of maintaining executive power. It's not buzzy or sexy or typically even newsworthy, but a lot is being done and it exceeds the (admittedly low) expectations I had after Biden won the nomination. Hopefully, future primaries will focus more heavily on "assuming congress continues to suck, what will your administration accomplish through nonlegislative means?"
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That religion pool isn’t granular enough. Some of the categories have pretty widely varied denominations inside. A lot of the weirdness is going to be because of that. An example is “Lutheranism” that will catch ELCA and Missouri Synod which is a lot of variance. Several of the categories are going to have poll weird because the categories have too much variance inside. It’s like the poll was set up by somebody working off a list rather than actually knowing about the denominations. There is also weird location specific almost esoteric things that affect it. Like some of the Sikh low numbers approval numbers are probably due to drayage trucking in the west coast.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:The White House and Department of Housing and Urban Development are implementing new rules for landlords and protections for renters. They include: are there any draft rules anywhere because i dont see how the right to counsel is going to work; and i'm curious what the grace period is that isn't a 5 day notice or whatever that already exists in major cities
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Bar Ran Dun posted:That religion pool isn’t granular enough. Some of the categories have pretty widely varied denominations inside. A lot of the weirdness is going to be because of that. An example is “Lutheranism” that will catch ELCA and Missouri Synod which is a lot of variance. Several of the categories are going to have poll weird because the categories have too much variance inside. The problem with making the poll more granular is respondents are going to be less and less likely to have an opinion on these extremely niche denominations. How many people are going to have an opinion on the Missouri Synod, let alone even know it exists? This is a general problem with polling. The more specific and scientific you try to make them generally, the less likely you're going to get meaningful data, unless you're surveying some very specific population about very specific things.
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mastershakeman posted:are there any draft rules anywhere because i dont see how the right to counsel is going to work; and i'm curious what the grace period is that isn't a 5 day notice or whatever that already exists in major cities I don't think they have the actual draft rules written out anywhere yet. The announcement and "Renters Bill of Rights" summary pages are here: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing...-affordability/ https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/White-House-Blueprint-for-a-Renters-Bill-of-Rights-1.pdf Looks like they have $33 billion in allocated money from the stimulus bill in 2021 and HUD budget to give to states and local governments on the condition that they provide attorneys during eviction. No info on how long that money will last or if they have to scale it back when they are left with just the normal annual budget in the summary page. Pretty sure the grace period is exactly what you are talking about, but expanding it to everywhere instead of just most major cities.
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https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/26/politics/cnn-poll-house-gop-leadership/index.html I figured the numbers wouldn't be in Kevin and Friends favor but I figured it'd be the usual 54-46 splits or whatever not 75-25" you're not getting it Kevin". This is sort of a positive sign that perhaps not as many Americans are into culture war bullshit as it always seems. Will it matter much? Probably not but I'll take any encouragement that Western society isnt totally and utterly broken. Those numbers for Jeffries versus Kevin are something too. The thing is the GOP house leadership hasnt even leaned as heavy into the culture war poo poo as its probably going to over the coming months so theres still time for the split to grow.
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Captain_Maclaine posted:And then mainly because BYU's football team was going to get kicked out of the NCAA over it, if I remember right. That may have been a partial factor but I think the most important one was the threat to 501(c)3 status
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Judgy Fucker posted:How many people are going to have an opinion on the Missouri Synod, let alone even know it exists? It depends geographically. Most people in let’s say WI would. And this is the other issue. These opinions are intensely geographic for some of the denominations. A national level poll is very much the wrong tool to look at this with and produces incorrect conclusions. To do it right they’d almost have to do a lot of regional polls
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The Baha'i thing is very weird but maybe some bigots found out it started in Iran and figured they all must be terrorist or some such crazy thinking. I'm sure the people polled probably don't know much about Baha'i or the fact that the Iranian government isn't too friendly and welcoming of people that follow the faith. It is such a weird side religion to get up in arms about or have a strong opinion about.
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"I demand other people pay my mortgage" is a very landlord thing to say.
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Madkal posted:The Baha'i thing is very weird but maybe some bigots found out it started in Iran and figured they all must be terrorist or some such crazy thinking. I'm sure the people polled probably don't know much about Baha'i or the fact that the Iranian government isn't too friendly and welcoming of people that follow the faith. It is such a weird side religion to get up in arms about or have a strong opinion about. Some of the denominations are going to have been refugees resettled to specific places. I don’t know about the Baha’i specifically but think about the Hmong. They were placed and concentrated in specific mid western cities as they fled Vietnam. So those specific cities have opinions affected by that and had an encounter with relatively large communities, where the rest of the country encounters individuals or dispersed communities. Thinking back again, I do know something about the Iranians, there is a big Iranian expat population in Great Neck on Long Island, that’s where a bunch fled to when the revolution happened. So I’d think it’s this same phenomenon.
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# ? Jan 26, 2023 18:45 |
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This relates to a larger general issue. There is a prioritizing of data like this poll as “scientific“ when it is very much not and and that label implies that it is more valid for informing opinions, even though it’s garbage.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:I don't think they have the actual draft rules written out anywhere yet. some quotes from that quote:If an eviction is filed, tenants should be given 30 days’ notice of an eviction action and the right to counsel during an eviction proceeding. The eviction proceedings should be fair and provide: even without a right to counsel that's pretty big. of course, judges are gonna be petty tyrants and do whatever they want, but if this becomes commonplace it'll massively bog down eviction proceedings. Conducting discovery is very rare in residential evictions but I've seen some defense attorneys who judges trusted do it routinely, as it's very effective at delaying the case. The other thing is that a 30 day notice period is big, because you can't file until the notice is up. For 0 day notice, 3, 5 day it's not a huge deal, but a lot of the notice issues don't come up until the case is actually in front of a judge, so if you do a bad notice, wait 30 days, then find out you have to start over, lol This becomes an even bigger issue when the notice statutes are poorly written and no one, including the judges, know how a landlord gives notice to someone on vacation and it often boils down to whether the judge likes the attorney. edit but maybe this will all just be HUD only quote:The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development will publish a notice of proposed rulemaking that would require public housing authorities and owners of project-based rental assistance properties to provide at least 30 days’ advanced notice before terminating a lease due to nonpayment of rent. One thing the CFPB might actually be able to help with is to have people with sealed cases actually be able to get the cases pulled off credit agency lists. Last I looked, the cases go online, then get sealed after, and there's a window where the credit agencies can scrape them and then no way to have them removed. mastershakeman fucked around with this message at 19:29 on Jan 26, 2023 |
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Kavros posted:At present estimation, Ensign Peak Advisors (as the church's private internal investment group) manages over 100 billion in investments, over twice the entirety of the entire catholic church. I'd bet that the Catholic Church is vastly more wealthy but yes their open investments are smaller than the LDS. But it's impossible to know.
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Turns out the Biden administration granted more oil and gas drilling permits on BLM land in their first two years than the Trump administration: https://news.yahoo.com/biden-granted-more-oil-and-gas-drilling-permits-than-trump-in-his-first-2-years-in-office-190528616.html quote:Meanwhile, Biden has handed out drilling permits at an even faster pace than his predecessor. The new federal drilling permits are overwhelmingly in the West — nearly 4,000 in New Mexico, followed by more than 1,000 in Wyoming and hundreds each in California, Colorado, Montana, North Dakota and Utah. Yet another piece of evidence that no major party treats the climate crisis with any kind of seriousness. Really nothing is happening beyond performative nonsense as we barrel towards oblivion.
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cat botherer posted:Turns out the Biden administration granted more oil and gas drilling permits on BLM land in their first two years than the Trump administration: This is being framed as a good thing. WH Chief of Staff: https://twitter.com/whcos/status/1618377482700476417 WH Deputy Press Sec: https://twitter.com/andrewjbates46/status/1618365198250946560 WH Deputy Comms Director: https://twitter.com/kateberner46/status/1618364327488290817 Rep Garamendi (D-CA): https://twitter.com/repgaramendi/status/1618398938402533377
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mawarannahr posted:This is being framed as a good thing. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Paracaidas posted:https://twitter.com/ddayen/status/1618354915218436098 I have been hearing schlubs on the radio discussing the recent action against Google monopolizing the online ad game, and this ties right into that. Who knew government could be...effective? The problem with modern politics is we all have goldfish brains. Remember how Biden was DONE when his classified docs thing was happening, and we were talking about his 2024 replacement? Then both Carter and Pence admitted they had docs as well? Thank goodness the adults are in charge and some actual good things are happening, slowly but surely.
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Goldfish can remember things for up to 6 months.
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Meatball posted:"I demand other people pay my mortgage" is a very landlord thing to say. Ah, but you see, landlords provide a valuable service. Without someone to lord over them, the properties they own would literally vanish into nothingness. Such is the power of a lord.
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ive been renting the same house for years, i refuse to look at how much all the rent i paid could have gone to a mortgage instead lest i die of anger
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The Justice Department has concluded that the state of Louisiana was violating the constitutional rights of nearly a quarter of the inmates in the state prison system and may need to release up to 27% of them and turn over control of the system to the federal government if they can't implement reforms. The whole story is completely insane. The state has been keeping people eligible to be released in prison past their deadline for over 10 years. They kept people for an average of 44 extra days and some of them for more than 90 days past their sentence. Most states process their prisoners release in a few hours. Louisiana wasn't even doing it for any specific reason. They were taking so long just because they were understaffed, overincarcerated, and didn't really care to fix it. https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1618374424851517445 quote:Louisiana ‘Deliberately Indifferent’ to Keeping Inmates Past Release Date, Justice Dept. Says
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You’d think it would take less work overall to release prisoners as soon as they can, but I guess the cruelty is the point.
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How much of this is private prisons being private prisons and how much of this is lovely red state governments being lovely red state governments (ignore for the moment that allowing institutional capture of prisons is itself lovely govt)
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cat botherer posted:You’d think it would take less work to release prisoners as soon as they can, but I guess the cruelty is the point. The fact that Black Louisianans are three times more likely than others per capita to be incarcerated in state prisons is also, I'm sure, not a factor.
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Staluigi posted:How much of this is private prisons being private prisons and how much of this is lovely red state governments being lovely red state governments (ignore for the moment that allowing institutional capture of prisons is itself lovely govt) They were state prisons. It wasn't even necessarily a "red state" thing because only Louisiana was doing it. cat botherer posted:You’d think it would take less work overall to release prisoners as soon as they can, but I guess the cruelty is the point. It's even less work to just attempt to fix anything and not care. It doesn't seem to be a case of cruelty is the point, but that they just really didn't care and didn't want to spend any time trying to fix their process because the prisoners' time wasn't worth it and "the majority of them are getting out on time."
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:It's even less work to just attempt to fix anything and not care. It doesn't seem to be a case of cruelty is the point, but that they just really didn't care and didn't want to spend any time trying to fix their process because the prisoners' time wasn't worth it and "the majority of them are getting out on time." Negligence is cruelty, too. It's why neglecting children (as opposed to actively abusing them) is a crime.
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Judgy Fucker posted:Negligence is cruelty, too. It's why neglecting children (as opposed to actively abusing them) is a crime. Yeah but "The negligence is the point" sounds weird
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Judgy Fucker posted:Negligence is cruelty, too. It's why neglecting children (as opposed to actively abusing them) is a crime. Yeah, but the "cruelty is the point" slogan is about going out of your way to inflict pain as a matter of intentional policy.
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Democratic messaging today is a bit different from yesterday’s boasting of record oil:quote:https://twitter.com/nrdems/status/1618681254836330496 There are many more of these, phrased identically.
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mawarannahr posted:Democratic messaging today is a bit different from yesterday’s boasting of record oil: They aren't opposed to the concept of drilling for oil. The Republican bill specifically requires: A) That the President is unable to withdraw from the SPR unless is comes from new American extraction. B) That the U.S. government has to act quickly to refill the SPR and can't reject an oil company's bid to sell oil to refill the SPR because the oil company was asking too high of a price. That is what they are referring to as the "give away to big oil."
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mawarannahr posted:Democratic messaging today is a bit different from yesterday’s boasting of record oil: Based on your post further up the page where you complain that White House staff tweeted favorably about increased domestic oil production, I suppose you think these tweets from different people are good and you're presenting them as an example of what Democrats should be tweeting? (also if energy usage isn't increasing, increased domestic oil production only means less is imported from countries that dismember American journalists)
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An auspicious start to the Presidential campaign by Rollan Roberts, a state senator from West Virginia. Good thing he didn't pull a muscle rushing to the aid of his wife! https://twitter.com/santiagomayer_/status/1618456994381467648?s=20&t=D3NXkHH5uUep8ZcKUGY0sg
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Adam Schiff has announced he is officially running for Senate in California for 2024. That makes two official non-Feinstein candidates. Diane Feinstein has registered a 2024 campaign account and still hasn't decided if she will be running for re-election.
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cat botherer posted:Turns out the Biden administration granted more oil and gas drilling permits on BLM land in their first two years than the Trump administration:
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:They aren't opposed to the concept of drilling for oil. The Republican bill specifically requires: Interesting, thanks for additional context. If Biden granted more oil and gas drilling permits in 2 years, is that new extraction? I found this October CNN story that blames oil companies for not exploring new places much, and says the GOP is intentionally ignoring this. I’m not sure what to make of this relative to permitting — so they’re getting the permits for new sites but holding off? https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/09/politics/us-oil-drilling-opec-gas-prices-biden-climate/index.html quote:. . . James Garfield posted:Based on your post further up the page where you complain that White House staff tweeted favorably about increased domestic oil production, I suppose you think these tweets from different people are good and you're presenting them as an example of what Democrats should be tweeting? https://twitter.com/senschumer/status/1618049694101344257 Personally I am opposed to any and all granting of oil drilling, and indeed, mass overturning of existing ones. I have some doubt this will happen though.
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Staluigi posted:How much of this is private prisons being private prisons and how much of this is lovely red state governments being lovely red state governments (ignore for the moment that allowing institutional capture of prisons is itself lovely govt) It's mostly the latter, with the caveat that even publicly-run prisons still have a certain level of profit motive. Here's what the Times wrote last month, which goes a bit more into the specific causes and motives: quote:NEW ORLEANS — The judge told Johnny Traweek he had served his time, seven months, for hitting someone with a saucepan in a drunken fight, then suggested he could be released from the Orleans Parish prison by midnight.
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Dick Trauma posted:An auspicious start to the Presidential campaign by Rollan Roberts, a state senator from West Virginia. Good thing he didn't pull a muscle rushing to the aid of his wife! Someone had already grabbed the wife, you can literally see his brain desperately trying to flip from "give speech" to "what is..." to "oh shiiiit."
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Well, it seems like we'll get to see which is a stronger force in the justice system: incarcerating black people, or letting cops go free: https://twitter.com/FOX13Memphis/status/1618684394411016193?cxt=HHwWgoCyxa243PYsAAAA
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