The headline and the statement in the article are two different things.

This finding suggests that women with higher levels of subclinical psychopathy, characterized by impulsivity and remorselessness, were slightly more inclined to support Trump, irrespective of the specific electoral matchup.

Your Supreme Court says they’re children, and you’re pre-emptively saying you’re not going to prosecute crimes against children? For shame.

God has to blow the breath of life right up a woman’s vagina …

Good work if you can get it.

Should definitely report every public works department in the state.

I was unaware of that, good to know.

Not saying the original commenter is wrong, or that these media outlets are necessarily wrong in this case, of course.

I don’t find the distinction particularly useful. We seek to understand more accurately how our universe works, with disregard to whether it is direct reality or simulated reality. The increased accuracy that we discover may result in our knowing whether we are in a simulation, or it may not.

Either way, something is base reality, whether it is our universe as we observe and experience it, or some number of simulated levels “below” it. Our own state as simulated or real doesn’t change that. There is isness.

You can always do better than linking to the Daily Mail.

Arkansas Supreme Court is corrupt, got it.

New headline: Louisiana legislation poised to allow dueling between police and CCW holders.

Math time!

Let’s use nice round numbers to make this easy. We’re going to pay community mods a salary of US$100,000.00.

Now, keep in mind that the cost of labor to a business is much more than just salary. Employees need technology, 401K matching, health insurance subsidies, an HR department, management, company stock programs, training - all sorts of things. Again, to make this easy, we’ll say that each community mod costs the business another US$100,000.00, at least in the first year. (I would expect that kind of cost to diminish as an employee gains tenure, even if it never vanishes.)

This means that for every US$1M Reddit decides to spend on human capital instead of a CEO whose job appears to be largely centered around cuntery, you get five community mods. Since we are referring to diverting US$93M, that would give us 465 community mods.

This doesn’t work perfectly, since employees generally like to be paid in cash, while executives (who already have all the cash they’ll ever need) are much more willing to be compensated with stock options and other similar non-cash strategies. Huffman certainly got some kind of pre-IPO stock grants and/or options that make this IPO very personally rewarding for him, and which cost Reddit US$0.00. (One of the drivers of inflation is how public companies get to essentially print money by issuing stocks.)

All that said, you can keep that kind of math in your back pocket whenever you become aware of any executive salary. Every million dollars one dick swinger gets would employ five well-paid workers (or ten who can live independently with some level of comfort). That executive who gets $200M a year? Half of that would put 500 people to work, and not impact the quality of life of the executive at all.

You know, I’m perfectly okay with asking questions about what things in a contract mean.

Asking stupid questions in order to try and avoid actually paying for a car is a whole other thing.

Why the fuck isn’t one of his unemployed sons drive other people’s shit around for twelve hours a day instead of him?

And it’s really kind of not.

Bring a second bike along with you, and lock it with a $10 combination lock chain.

And I fully expect there is a higher ratio of “bad apples” among other groups, including “American citizens.”

Oh, sure - to be perfectly clear, nothing I said was intended to address that concern, and your position is absolutely sound. I was only referring to the tangent of “I rarely get an answer, but I do get told I support genocide,” outside of all that.

The state of Missouri appealed the decision, arguing that the jury selection process had been discriminatory on religious grounds. An appeals court sided with Finney, ruling the jurors had been eliminated due to their beliefs about homosexuality, not because they were Christians. Missouri appealed that decision to the Supreme Court, which declined Tuesday to hear the case.

Constitutional rights, as Alito must surely know, come into conflict all the time, and it is the courts’ responsibility to balance one right against another.

Yes, you have a right to your religion and its beliefs, but that right must yield when it infringes on other people’s rights. None of this amounts to the courts “labeling someone as a bigot and treating them as such.” I can label those people as bigots and treat them as such, because I am not a judge, and “bigot” is not a protected class.

c/SCOTUSJusticesWithPunchableFaces

All you have to do is think about this reasonably (I know, I know). Undocumented immigrants to the US want to come here so badly that they’re willing to do it outside of the law. They know full well that if they get caught just for that, they’re in a fuckload of trouble. It is clearly in the immediate, direct, and personal best interest of an undocumented immigrant to stay well clear of law enforcement. This means - wait for it - not breaking any other laws.

Undocumented immigrants have a very strong incentive to be absolutely well-behaved.

Maybe the lasers were designed to project an image on to a far away surface?

I’m not making excuses for anyone here –

I expect it is extremely confusing for many people when “Jewish” is a religion, an ethnicity, a nationality, a nation, and a political football. This leads to anything the Israeli government opposes to be construed in the same light, which is how we get people equating “Palestinians living in severe apartheid conditions inside the borders of the nation of Israel” with “Hamas.” And, of course, anyone who opposes the actions of the Israeli government is likely to get branded “antisemitic,” because if you oppose the Jewish nation you must also oppose the Jewish religion, ethnicity, and nationality, right? (Narrator: Wrong.)

Because of this conflation of so many different things being called the same thing, I try to make absolutely clear what I’m talking about (when I dare dip my toe into those shark-infested waters). Hamas fucking sucks. The Israeli government fucking sucks. What both of those entities do - and have done for a very long time - demonstrate that they are both genocidal shitbags. Supporters of either, be they Israeli citizens, Palestinians, or third parties, fucking suck right alongside them.