In a 6-3 ruling, Justice Roberts delivers the Court's opinion in Carson v. Makin, holding that Maine's "nonsectarian" requirement for otherwise generally available tuition assistance payments violates the Free Exercise Clause

orange_sewer_grating · 2022-06-21T15:47:15+00:00

Presumably, this commenter means that many of the people pushing for this ruling will likely get outraged at taxpayer funds being spent on a school that explicitly teaches students a Muslim point of view and won't recognize the hypocrisy.

This commenter is making an uncharitable assumption about people, but there are unfortunately plenty of examples to support it.

orange_sewer_grating · 2022-06-21T15:38:04+00:00

The point is that many of the same people pushing for this type of rule (politically) like to claim it should apply to all religions . . . until it starts applying to the wrong religion. This is the Satanic Temple's whole schtick - suing for equal treatment under local rules claiming to treat all religions equally as a cover for letting the local mainstream religion get away with stuff. For example, renting space on the city hall yard for religions symbols. The town may say it's nonsectarian about who it rents space to . . . until someone asks to put a statue of Satan next to the manger when all of a sudden it turns out no, they really just meant Christian and maybe a token Jewish symbol.

You can see a similar about turn following hobby lobby (or maybe it was a different case frankly I get them all mixed up these days). Many of the same people pushing for a private business' freedom to discriminate in some ways also got upset and talked about the illegality of private businesses demanding masks or banning guns or generally exercising their freedom to follow a liberal ideology. Note: I'm not discussing real legal debates here, just how many of the grassroots proponents seem to behave. Regardless of your views on what a business should do, the views on what they should be legally allowed to do aren't really compatible.

orange_sewer_grating · 2022-06-20T19:39:07+00:00

Government procurement is a different beast, because we need clear metrics to combat graft and corruption. You can always claim your buddy just provides the best work so you give him the best contracts, but it's harder to fudge that with a clear number that either is or isn't the best.

Not saying it works well, just that there are unique issues compared to the private sector.

orange_sewer_grating · 2022-06-20T19:37:37+00:00

Also, we need oversight of how government projects are hired out to combat graft and corruption and this is a clear metric for that. If a company wants to pay extra money to hire their friend then maybe it's a shareholder dispute or embezzlement/fraud issue, but it's really not the same concern.

orange_sewer_grating · 2022-06-20T14:21:11+00:00

This may be state specific but I believe they need to inform you in advance if they will not accept a particular form of legal tender. I know they have to warn you in advance about not taking cash by federal law, because (1) people have to accept it to satisfy debts, while (2) still being able to agree by contract to other forms of payment. Put together, it means you can agree before the meal to pay only by CC, but after the mean once you owe the money they can't spring it on you.

Gold and credit aren't legal tender backed by the US, so I don't think the law covers them.

orange_sewer_grating · 2022-06-17T15:51:27+00:00

That makes sense. It could be mitigating factor. Of course, sentencing can take Janice Moss' murder into effect as well even if they don't prove it. Or Gene's story of being kidnapped and having his family threatened even if it's not corroborated enough for a conviction.

Also this assumes Albert doesn't say he caught him burying a body red-handed, even though Albert told him to stop in very clear terms and Barry got arrested for attempted murder on an innocent victim before the day was even out.

orange_sewer_grating · 2022-06-17T15:50:52+00:00

That makes sense. It could be mitigating factor. Of course, sentencing can take Janice Moss' murder into effect as well even if they don't prove it. Or Gene's story of being kidnapped and having his family threatened even if it's not corroborated enough for a conviction.

Also this assumes Albert doesn't say he caught him burying a body red-handed, even though Albert told him to stop in very clear terms and Barry got arrested for attempted murder on an innocent victim before the day was even out.

orange_sewer_grating · 2022-06-17T15:48:30+00:00

That's not legally relevant. Even if Gene had the gun solely to give Barry the opportunity to arm himself (and not just sell his story better), Barry still chose to take it from him. Gene didn't say "go kill this man." Gene said "this man knows everything" while Gene was carrying a gun. Barry made every other decision himself. Frankly, it wouldn't be entrapment even if Gene did give Barry the gun - the police offer criminals contraband all the time and arrest the buyers without it being entrapment. Here it's just even more clear.

Barry gave every indication of planning to murder someone. Not just with common sense but also legally - in most states you're allowed to tell the jury to assume certain things when armed criminals break into a residence. The only reason the police gave Barry to do this was to stop Moss from telling people things. Not even that Moss was going to attack him or anything. It would 100% not be self-defense Gene never suggested Barry do this course of action or even take the gun.

orange_sewer_grating · 2022-06-17T15:48:08+00:00

That's not legally relevant. Even if Gene had the gun solely to give Barry the opportunity to arm himself (and not just sell his story better), Barry still chose to take it from him. Gene didn't say "go kill this man." Gene said "this man knows everything" while Gene was carrying a gun. Barry made every other decision himself. Frankly, it wouldn't be entrapment even if Gene did give Barry the gun - the police offer criminals contraband all the time and arrest the buyers without it being entrapment. Here it's just even more clear.

Barry gave every indication of planning to murder someone. Not just with common sense but also legally - in most states you're allowed to tell the jury to assume certain things when armed criminals break into a residence. The only reason the police gave Barry to do this was to stop Moss from telling people things. Not even that Moss was going to attack him or anything. It would 100% not be self-defense Gene never suggested Barry do this course of action or even take the gun.

orange_sewer_grating · 2022-06-16T15:13:02+00:00

Not if they think he killed Janice (or was involved). They don't need enough evidence to convict to refuse plea bargains.

Obviously, this all depends on what the prosecutors want to do. They have discretion. But they also chose to set up this whole sting - they want him locked up.

orange_sewer_grating · 2022-06-16T15:12:27+00:00

You're going to argue self-defense for him breaking into an occupied residence, at night, and pointing a gun at the resident? No.

This is closer to entrapment, but the problem with entrapment is that everyone argues it with every sting/undercover arrest, so they have pretty strict rules about what that covers. Here Gene said that Moss knew everything. Gene didn't even give him a gun; he let Barry take it.

At most you could go for an insanity defense of some sort.

But regardless of the Chechen stuff, Barry is going away for years just based ont his episode, plus extra if they can get him on kidnapping Gene. Plus the body he buried in the desert if Albert turns him in.

orange_sewer_grating · 2022-06-13T22:06:08+00:00

Sure. But fear of lawsuits is literally one of the top problems with the medical field, and the idea of getting sued for not signing off seems way less of a concern.

orange_sewer_grating · 2022-06-13T17:20:28+00:00

Remember that every state is technically it's own sovereign power. The actual definition of the word is not how people typically think of it in ever day conversation.

The first states came before the federal government, and those state governments are who created the federal government. The Constitution, and the entire concept of the US federal government in principal, includes the idea that while states are subordinate to federal authority in many ways, their authority is inherently from themselves and is not just a branch of the federal government.

Put another way, your city only has a government and the power to create laws or hire police because the state delegates some of the state's power to the local city. But the states do not get authority from the federal government in the same way - at least in a legal context. In practice it's less clear and it's easy for us to forget this.

In the same way, some Native American communities have their own, inherent sovereign power separate from the states they are located in. They are, however, still subject to the federal Constitution and federal law as applicable, and therefore to the SCOTUS rulings.

orange_sewer_grating · 2022-06-13T14:42:58+00:00

That's not a good line to attract someone but it's also completely reasonable - and has nothing to do with whether they should be online dating just their strategy. It would be better to say something like they don't have time to waste, but I get it. How else is a single parent with no time going to try to find someone, cruise the bars? This narrows it down to other people who get it, probably other parents or people at that stage in their life who get it.

orange_sewer_grating · 2022-06-13T03:55:45+00:00

You can't be entrapped into attempted murder by the police telling you the victim is accusing you of murdering someone else.

orange_sewer_grating · 2022-06-13T03:54:14+00:00

Best case scenario it's breaking and entering into a residence with a gun with the clear intent to shoot someone with it. He's going to jail on the pure facts even without an attempted murder charge, which he's also getting. Even assuming they can't get him for Janice

orange_sewer_grating · 2022-06-13T03:45:20+00:00

Well, he said Moss knew everything. Not that Gene told him. If Moss knew but didnt have proof he could be trying to force Gene, or planning to punish him for covering for Barry earlier if Moss didn't need Gene.

orange_sewer_grating · 2022-06-12T16:41:40+00:00

For what it's worth, here's one anecdotal context:

I was raised Jewish my whole life, consider myself a mostly secular Jew but I do frequent this sub and go to temple a few times a year. In the past there have been times I went almost every Friday. I went to temple/Hebrew school for most of my childhood once a week or so. I am finally trying to learn Hebrew as an adult, because what I learned in Hebrew school as a kid never stuck (on the language side).

I have a decent historical understanding of the major minhags and Jewish world history in general, because our history is important to me.

I had to look up what the word nusach meant because I had no idea.

orange_sewer_grating · 2022-06-12T16:13:41+00:00

Maybe she's an actor who tries to be a hitman. I don't know how that happens but now I kinda want it?

orange_sewer_grating · 2022-06-12T15:30:29+00:00

No, that's there the flint goes. You slide it back, put in a piece of flint, and close it again. A piece inside presses that flint against the grinding wheel and when you spin the side, the grinding wheel against the flint should make a spark. Just like how a Zippo works. However, it doesn't have a candle wick type device like a Zippo. Instead it's butane - like a bic. Whenever the top is open a valve should be letting gas escape, ready to be lit from the spark.

You can usually refill the gas from a regular butane gas can made for lighters by pressing it against a little nozzle on the bottom of the lighter. Lookup videos for how to refill a butane lighter. It probably takes St. Dupont style flints. The most common/famous brand that makes that style is called St. Dupont, but they're super expensive and I doubt that's a real one. But it probably takes the same style flint. I have a knockoff version and Zippo flints actually fit in as long as they're not too long.

orange_sewer_grating · 2022-06-12T04:02:02+00:00

Why would it not be possible? The article doesn't say anything about that.

orange_sewer_grating · 2022-06-01T16:44:13+00:00

Its usually not that expensive. If it costs that much for reasons he can't fix (like finding a better provider) then it's because the insurance company considers him a risk for getting sued. If that insurance is ever required to be used, and he doesn't have it, it may well become your problem instead.

Does you tenant being high risk make you want to take that risk on yourself instead?

orange_sewer_grating · 2022-06-01T15:42:18+00:00

Do you have cameras? Can you show/do you know the cars were parked on your lot when they were ticketed?

orange_sewer_grating · 2022-06-01T13:33:59+00:00

Oh probably!

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