This is why judges and the judicial system do not deserve the automatic and unconditional respect they demand.

Just use AI to fill out the assessments. We are interviewing and only half joked that if the applicant didn’t use AI in some way they aren’t qualified. Just don’t try to hide it.

A generic version of what many people are saying… support the middle class and poor by making their lives easier. Same thing with teachers. Pay would be great, but actual support in doing their jobs would make a much bigger difference. Most poor and middle class people don’t really want a handout. They want less stress and more security about their future.

I think little things like this are good. It shows kids that work doesn’t have to be a relentless grind, that it can be fun and lighthearted. It also shows that the people running their government also live the same lives as them to some extent. Consider the opposite where they gave golden toilets and show blatant disregard for the average person. Even if they are faking it, they are saying they care enough about the people’s opinion to at least fake it.

I think the value of the phone ban is actually very simple. Banning it from school entirely makes it an administrative issue, not a teacher issue. So it takes “some” load off the teachers shoulders. That of course won’t manifest as better test scores though. But it might have a tiny affect on teacher retention.

Yeah, it’s hard to make a law that stops this, but doesn’t get used against actual journalists. And the way the news media is trending more toward being social media influencer isn’t helping. Maybe entitling the person to compensation based on what the influencer got might be possible. That would keep at least free journalists out of the picture. And the paid journalists can afford to pay people if something goes viral, or to take the time to get a waiver or something. Or maybe a combination involving secret recordings, since most of the regular news media is pretty obvious.

They have opened an obvious side door. By utilizing “presumption of legislative good faith” in their rulling, for a case where it is demonstrably obvious that the legislator was not operating in good faith, they give a future court a super easy out for overturning this, and a whole lot of other rulings.

Now overall, they have a tiny point. Proving intent is hard most of the time. And the reality is that the voting rights act is extremely tough to enforce. Soo much so that it probably shouldn’t exist. Further, without it, the current system can’t possibly be fair. So that leads to what seems obvious to all of us. The system where the state legislature decides the map needs to be abolished. They have neither good faith, nor intent to represent the will of the population.

The whole concept of districts just doesn’t work at the current scale. The idea was that the representative actually knew the people they represented, and could make decisions based on what those people wanted. But at the scale we are now, there is no chance of that. Nor that a given district even has a cohesive opinion on most subjects.

We need to do away with districts, and represent people opinions, not where they live.

I think you can ban using such recordings in social media posts and such. The line your have to watch for is news reporters vs social media influencers. But it would at least enable prosecution of the dumb ones who don’t even claim to be news reporters…

You are confusing media outrage with actual outrage. Even the media outrage wasn’t all that significant really. Billy bush was only out of work for a few years before he got a new hosting gig.

Yeah, my bad, I was aiming for who you responded to.

I agree it is not working. But the system is set up to prevent governors from being able to do what you want them to do. And since they are politicians and not real people. They aren’t putting in a lot of effort.

Or just put them in early access for 6+ years…

You forgot the /s. I am not talking about a personal choice here. I am talking about societal pressure. And you litterally contradicted yourself. Impolite is a societal construct. So in your country they at least pressure people to be whatever the current definition of polite is. And there is no way everyone’s definition is the same.
Maybe your country is the size of 1. That would track.

I ,itterally said generally in the text. Of course it was a generalization. But try reading any parenting group. Women are constantly talking how they are expected to cover multiple roles just like the ones I mentioned. It’s not really any kind of revelation honestly. It was just background for the final assertions.

Edit: Whoops responded to the wrong part of the thread.

You are confusing media outrage with actual outrage. Even the media outrage wasn’t all that significant really. Billy bush was only out of work for a few years before he got a new hosting gig.

-politicians Fixed that for you.

All in all, it’s the federal government’s job to police itself. So governors aren’t really supposed to be empowered to stop things like this. Anything they do try can reasonable be deflacted as outside their authority or retalitory.
That’s just the way the system is designed. It expected congress and the supreme court to keep the executive branch under control. That is where the failure is.

I don’t know about “wants them too”. The people in the camps are overwhelmingly democrat supporters, even if they can’t vote.
I think it is more that doing anything actionable to stop them would likely fail and that would make them look bad. So they don’t want to act because there is nothing for them to gain.

“… in that car with three men from the family that was supposed to be her circle of safety.” In that society, no, they are not supposed to be her saftey net. Men aren’t even the same species in that society. People ask how could they… They don’t consider women as people.

Even in the western society, women generally have to live multiple lives. In public they are supposed to be beautiful and smiling all the time. In the bedroom they are supposed to be slutty (but only for their man). With children they are supposed to be saintly. In the home they are supposed to have the managment skills few CEOs possess.

Men these days are supposed to have only two personalities. At work and mixed company they are supposed to treat women like people and respect them. In the locker room, with their buddies, or behind closed doors, not so much.
That is why in some places, unmarried women are not supposed to be alone with a man. Because the men want to remove the “at work and mixed company” part so that they can drop one of those personalities. This murder is the result of taking away the time when women are supposed to be treated like people, and letting the men lean into the worst personality they can have.

Yeah, those too. Though the one I heard of was more focused on woodwork and powertools than maker spaces usually are. But maker spaces should fit the bill as well.