If someone is using it as a platform to get their message out to people obviously they'll care if they're banned from it. Can't just say that someone bad having the power to issue those bans means they don't matter.

How can any line that is on the surface of a sphere be straight rather than a curve?

I think you got it and effectively answered it, thanks.

How do you work the office only having space for 20% of employees? Makes a lot of sense but would be annoying to hot desk. My office only has us in two days a week but has not cut down on the number of desks at all, giving up the potential savings.

And that's why Jamie Foxx is cooler than Will Smith

Reason is consistently libertarian, so they're pro-billionaire but anti-cop.

I assume this won't swing many people's votes, but it is a nice insight into what's going on behind the scenes with Vance as he publicly claims to be this big anti-elitist populist

Yeah I'd say it's equivalent to any other inappropriate joke a kid might tell - a moment for a conversation but not anything too serious.

This was impersonation on the level of "hey look at me, I'm funkless_eck, I'm a pedophile! dur dur dur" not some attempt to make it seem like those teachers were actually pedophiles.

I mean everyone gets that it was in fact a joke right? What are we talking about here? People are trying to make it sound like the kids were harassing these teachers or trying to trick people into thinking they were pedophiles as opposed to passing around dumb memes about them between each other.

I'd say it's a lot more like the lunch table, or even like a table at a restaurant off-campus. These kids were not directing these jokes at anyone but each other, but were in a semi-public place where they could be overheard. It's basically equivalent to a teacher walking by a table full of students making jokes about their teachers by pedophiles and getting them in trouble after overhearing.

Again, how is it harassment if it's just jokes these kids are passing around between each other that are only discoverable by snooping in them?

Yeah I'm not really seeing the harassment angle when you have to track these kids down on TikTok to see the videos.

So kids are joking around with each other online and the school is monitoring their accounts and punishing them for mean jokes about teachers? Leave these kids alone

It's just sort of a non sequitur if it's about Trump - this is an article about picking a candidate to maximize Dem chances of beating Trump, neither side of the argument on who that should be wants Trump.

That sounds more like Trump than Biden. The trouble is Trump is probably what we'll get if Biden doesn't suck it up and drop out of the race.

The hope is that he steps down as the nominee for the good of the country and thus improves our chances of beating Trump.

This was just a better article than the CNN one, and there are no direct links to the interviews Campos did with the medical professionals here.

Yeah they're pretty reliable - it's the group blog of a bunch of professors. And of course the piece is filled with input from medical experts, and links to a CNN report on the same topic if that's more your speed.

Yeah even if you are pro-copyright as a way to encourage artistic creation there is no justification for how insanely long works stay under copyright. Or for banning free filesharing of copyrighted works.

If we did ever get away from copyright we'd have a very different funding model for artistic creation. More patronage, patreon, and tipping based and less payment per sale. Artists, or groups of artists, would create and share their work, and people would direct money towards those they enjoyed the most. Physical copies of anything would decline in importance with all art available for free download, and would be sold and costed more based on the effort needed to manufacture that physical object than anything to do with the original creator or creators.

As in you're implying Kamala is Hillary's protege? She is not, what gives you that idea?

You've got the wrong site, the "Intelligencer" here is a section of New York Magazine, not the Belleville Intelligencer that you linked to. Not sure how much credence I give to this media bias fact check site, but here is their page for New York Magazine (showing them to be on the left with a high level of factual reporting): https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/new-york-magazine/

Well in theory the idea is that it encourages people to create more by making doing so more lucrative. May have even made some sense back in the era before digitization.

Haha probably better to keep the tube closer to the surface of the Earth but otherwise yes.

If only we had a series of pneumatic tubes connecting all our homes, you could order something online and have it pop up right next to you minutes later.

This same urge for some kind of end to all existing problems via an apocalyptic scenario is also why OP made his post.

Well not always - this story is about how for years and years there was a deadlock between the two parties at the FEC that has now been broken by a Democratic board member shocking everyone and siding with the Republicans.

Ordinary Mexicans

What do all the people downvoting it based on the title assume it means?

Traditionally both parties had to agree to get divorced if there had not been some "grounds" for the divorce that could be proved in court. That's why the classic business for old timey private detectives was proving that their client's spouse was committing adultery in order to legally justify a divorce.

Yeah I actually came across this statistic in this article about those guys wanting to make divorce much harder, which linked to the study: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/05/no-fault-divorce-gop-republicans-mainstream-podcast-dudes/

From here: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/links-for-may-2024

Thanks. Alternatively with the NY Mag you can just paste the link into a private browser window and read unlimited articles - just make sure to close and then open a new private window for each one.

It will be nice when the energy density on batteries has gotten high enough and charging times have gotten low enough that we can move on from making cars so aerodynamic and experiment more with funkier form factors.

Trump may try to lie and cheat his way to the presidency in the face of an electoral loss, but he'd have even less luck with that in 2024 as a challenger than he did in 2020 as the incumbent president.

What do you mean the results of the election won't matter? They'll determine whether a deranged and vengeance minded Trump becomes president...

So trashy

Really? This article was written before the recent events with Biden limiting arms shipments, seems like it was pretty prescient.

Like you want the guest list in the title?