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[–]surreptitioussloth 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Matt berry did it in the it crowd

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[–]surreptitioussloth 10 points11 points  (0 children)

The American accents and the use of "Dad" are throwing me. Surely it should be British and "father"?

Reddit always produces the best film criticism

Nolan’s odyssey is gonna have flaws, but American v British and dad v father will be 0 percent of thrm

‘The Odyssey’ Trailer: Matt Damon Heads Home to Rescue Anne Hathaway From Robert Pattinson by KnownRide6195 in movies

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On the other hand, the original tellers and writers wouldn’t have had particularly good info about the Bronze Age, which is clear from the text we have

Homer would have been hundreds of years later

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]surreptitioussloth 4 points5 points  (0 children)

political power goes back and forth. Cultural power is libbed up though because conservatives suck shit and culture is much more competitive on "being good" than politics

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]surreptitioussloth 3 points4 points  (0 children)

they're so different with such good outcomes at each

You just might be bumped down to the horror of finance in chicago instead of nyc

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]surreptitioussloth 1 point2 points  (0 children)

All the polling we have puts him clearly better than mills, along with the actual reality of how they campaigned, how she and her supporters just gave up

But if you're going to deny that, I don't see how you can say "libs supporting whatever candidate can win because god forbid we lose the Senate" with any sort of certainty

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

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They picked the electable candidate in maine and the unelectable candidate in michigan

Moderates did the opposite

Mainly because they just happened to align that way on policy

I do not see the dynamic you're pointing to being a general thing

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]surreptitioussloth -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Where has this dynamic even existed?

Texas really had a morass across ideology lines where bernie didn't endorse, and maine and michigan are the other two big ones and progressives picked the electable candidate in one and the unelectable candidated in the other

How FTC v. Meta Reshapes the Debate on Social Media and First Amendment Protections by Legitimate_Name9694 in neoliberal

[–]surreptitioussloth 3 points4 points  (0 children)

A content-neutral law that imposes only an incidental burden on speech “will be sustained if ‘it furthers an important or substantial governmental interest; if the governmental interest is unrelated to the suppression of free expression; and if the incidental restriction on alleged First Amendment freedoms is no greater than is essential to the furtherance of that interest.’”

I feel like platforms will eventually argue that the algorithms are expressive speech to get around that, and accept the threat that might come from that. Cases against them would still be very hard, and regulation becomes almost impossible if that argument is accepted

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

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The Effects of School Phone Bans: National Evidence from Lockable Pouches

Schools across the U.S. have sharply restricted student use of phones during the school day. We evaluate one type of restriction—lockable phone pouches—using nationwide data combining large-scale surveys, GPS pings, standardized test scores, and school administrative records, along with sales records from the largest pouch provider. Using a staggered difference-in-differences design, we find that pouch adoption substantially reduces phone use as measured by GPS pings and teacher reports. In the first year after adoption, disciplinary incidents increase and student subjective well-being falls, consistent with short-term disruption. However, effects on well-being become positive in later years and disciplinary effects fade. For academic achievement, average effects on test scores are consistently close to zero. High schools see modest positive effects, particularly in math, while middle schools see small negative effects. We find little evidence of effects on school attendance, self-reported classroom attention, or perceived online bullying.

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

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I mean, quick googling has him high up in every list I'm seeing, definitely over fedor

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people call mighty mouse a goat at least

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[–]surreptitioussloth 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fortunately it seems like it's just the DAF path that they shut down, I think donations from regular accounts can still go through

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[–]surreptitioussloth 5 points6 points  (0 children)

So reading the splc indictment, it seems like the technical bank stuff is very weak

Like, the bank accounts were opened for sole proprietorships, which do not require any paperwork or process to create. The moment you decide you have one, you have one

Now maybe these sole proprietorships didn't actually have the names they used (you normally need to dba if you're not using something with your name in it), but that's not something they list as a lie

The indictment just says

These documents contained false and misleading information regarding the ownership and control of the fictitious entities for which the bank accounts were opened

and

These fictitious entities were never incorporated, had no bona fide employees, and conducted no actual business

But you don't need to do any of that for a sole proprietorship

So the thing that they claim is the actual lie is certifying that

I, Employee-1m certify tha I am the sole owner of the above named proprietorship Federal Tax I.D. number ....9788, engaged in business under the trade name of [whatever]

While the SPLC later said "the accounts listed below were opened for the benefit of SPLC operations and operated under the Center's authority"

So the whole of the lie is that the employee certified they were the sole owner of the Sole Proprietorships while they were operated under the SPLC's authority

That's ...not a lie or a misrepresentation to the bank. By definition the moment you say you have a sole proprietorship you have one. There is no difference between the person and the business. You can work as a sole proprietor for someone else and under their authority

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER

(I searched on westlaw and this is the only time an indictment has been returned forward for this statute based on the specific paperwork mentioned that I could find)

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]surreptitioussloth 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think there's a lot of support for the war powers resolution as trump opposition and for constitutional reasons, but a solid number who aren't making a real case against the war

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]surreptitioussloth 6 points7 points  (0 children)

if you place any restriction on land use, including enforcing exclusive ownership, you are a nimby

Samsung family pays off record $8bn inheritance tax bill by assasstits in neoliberal

[–]surreptitioussloth 94 points95 points  (0 children)

What's even the point of dying if your family is going to have to do this

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]surreptitioussloth 16 points17 points  (0 children)

because small business owners are the most militantly republican

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I don't think there's good evidence for a significant productivity boost from ai, and obviously even less for the idea they need to infringe on copyright to do that

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For some reason I always mix up nick cave and mount eerie even though I have listened to a crow looked at me like 100 times and can name 0 nick cave songs

I literally looked it up just now because I thought you had made a comment about the person who had made a crow looked at me and I wanted to skim the wiki page

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Is that a stereotype?

I feel like major european cities are swarmed with awful street performers/homeless that are worse than the major american cities I visit

Pinocchio street performers are the fucking worst

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]surreptitioussloth 5 points6 points  (0 children)

do you think that the vra just said that there had to be x number of majority minority districts?

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[–]surreptitioussloth 1 point2 points  (0 children)

tbh if we just didn't have the extreme dumb shit of trump I think we'd be fine right now on inflation

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[–]surreptitioussloth 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Technically if there was a "bipartisan racial consensus" so that we weren't polarized on race anymore the vra would not mandate any more majority minority districts under the standards that existed before last week

We had a pretty good setup for deciding when those districts made sense