If knowing COVID causes infertility and erectile dysfunction wasn't motivating enough to get people to (still) wear N95s (bc COVID is still circulating and still causing these problems), I doubt pollution will change that behavior.
But maybe.
When someone talks about "freedom," my question is "freedom for whom?"
A slaver says that anti-slavery laws take away his freedom to enslave.
Any pro-freedom policy will always mean removing somebody's freedom to harm or coerce others.
Libertarianism is freedom for the few, chains for the many.
I'm interested in the legality of this - how it could possibly work that smoking will be prohibited for adults - but only the younger adults - without being age discrimination.
I agree that preventing ppl from ever being smokers is good. I just have questions about implementation.
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The cooking metaphor is a problem. Cooking is generally a one-way chemical reaction. There is no possible return to an uncooked state.
US is deeply imperiled. Neutralizing further corruption attempts are definitely a late-stage emergency effort to reclaim it from autocracy.
This is a FRAUDULENT paper, AI-generated. My name was used as an author and I had nothing to do with it, never saw it until today e-pubmed.co.uk/journals/dig...
The "Editors" Angelo Rossi Mori, David Mensah, and Zarnie Khadjesari and this "Journal" should be reported.
He's heard it endlessly as a critique of his own screeds, I'm sure. Or perhaps his personal LLM already associated "Trump" and "unintelligible".
Maybe even z-score > 4. He's really, very unusual.
Only the Oompah Loompas come close.
He *is* "extraordinarily brilliant"... in hue. Easily 2-3 standard deviations above the mean in orange coloring.
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Tim Cook donated $1M to Trump’s inauguration.
He fawned over Trump and gifted him a 24-karat gold plaque (as Apple lobbied for tariff exemptions).
Apple donated to Trump’s White House ballroom.
And it removed ICE tracking apps from its stores following a demand from the DOJ.
Remember this.
So it's much easier to dissuade less-confident, more credulous or cowed voters.
I happen to think it's the right choice, but it's easy to understand how the numbers are softer than you expected.
Not necessarily nefarious.
It's uncomfortable to pragmatically dispense w/ principles of rule of law to avoid unilateral disarmament. Anyone not totally confident about the long-term impacts and nuance of this particular circumstance would tend to disagree w/ it on principle.
Hard to vote this way w/o feeling icky...
3. Referenda are more easy to "buy" opinion for than elections. It's easy to muddy the waters w/ ads. (See #1)
4. Ppl most likely to vote yes here are the ones least comfortable with gerrymandering. GOP loved it for Texas - it was pure partisanship. Dems (mostly) want equity and rule of law...
Referenda are not the same as regular elections.
1. The 'default' position for all referenda is always "No". If ppl aren't sure, or feel confused, they vote "no".
2. Turnout for referenda are different than general elections. Those are *motivated* voters. Diff. demographic.
Even if all religions (and atheists, and agnostics) equally endorsed the list of rules codified in the 10 commandments - which they obviously DON'T - those rules are not suited to classrooms. It's absurd to use them as the basis for classroom rules. 8/8
No need to regulate human sexuality in marriage for little kids. And if your class rules limit violence to "not killing", then you have wildly failed to create a safe learning environment.
Besides, how are you proposing to enforce thought-crimes, like "covetousness", anyways? 7/
6. Making non-mystical, culturally-neutral classroom-centric rules of behavior is normal. There is no reason to proscribe certain behaviors on weekends in rules for class. No reason to promote honor to authority figures outside the class (who may not actually deserve respect, or even be alive). 6/
Removal of drawings and representative pictures (graven images)? Physical orientation based upon sacred directions, celestial patterns, or historical monuments? Room layout to ensure disability inclusion AND propitious energy flows? Ancestor reverence? Connection to spirit animals? 5/
5. Cultural referents for "goodness" vary & should not be used in ways that promote one group over another. That teaches bigotry.
Where are your wiccan rituals to preserve the planet? Buddhist meditations to end attachment (and thus, suffering)? Sattva teachings? Rejection of dogma for reason? 4/
4. Undermining equal rights and rule of law by granting theocrats *any* leeway or legitimacy only affirms and magnifies their power, while marginalizing minorities AND undermining the entire structure upon which the government maintains legitimacy (the rule of law). 3/
3. Conflating ethics and religion in schools makes ethics (which should be universal, rational, consistent & noncontroversial) an arbitrary, identity- & faith-based construct divorced from actual utility and goodness.
You think the Crusades were "good"? Me neither. So maybe don't link the two. 2/
So much wrong with your "compromise"...
1. Constitution prohibits privileging any religion over any other. If you care about rule of law, that ALONE is enough.
2. Ethics and morals exist w/o religion. There is no reason to include religion here to have ethical/behavioral standards. 1/
Looks like Virginia passed the referendum for Congressional redistricting. This means Virginians agree that Trump's plan to gerrymander control of Congress after the midterms is unlikely to succeed, having been countered by Democrats to maintain parity.
Correct. Most of the larger Red areas (except Hanover) already reported, but a few larger Blue areas are just starting to report now.
No is currently ahead by 4%, w/ 65% reporting, but the lead has been shrinking.
But some large "Blue" areas expected to report in, whereas much of the "Red" areas already reported.
He has a live stream right now on YouTube: www.youtube.com/live/OSj9gDO...
I don't know what service he's using to track results every couple of minutes, but the "call" is his opinion based upon reporting results & historical voting patterns.
It is not official. Indeed, NO is currently ahead.
It may not be the most elegant tool for every use case, but it *is* versatile, robust, and accessible for non-tech folks.
I know this is true of many facets of MAGA's admin, but...
knowingly committing blood libel to scapegoat innocent, vulnerable ppl *should* disqualify a person from holding office.
I'm intrigued that they now equate biological 'purity' with miscegenation. That's a backflip I hadn't expected.
