RickRussell_CA

\3. Asserting that their IT system is a “separate legal entity” and that they are not responsible for the accuracy of the system. They are eating legal loco weed.

Sure, I guess that’s a… very long term?.. solution to the OP’s problem.

I’d like a citation on the funding from Iran. Iran is mostly Shi’ite, and doesn’t generally get involved in Arab or Sunni affairs. And this article from 2021 (prior to the current conflict) points out that the bulk of Hamas funding comes from Qatar and Turkey, respectively.

FPTP

Can you explain in more detail? I’m unclear on what First Past the Post voting has to do with the OP’s concerns.

https://www.ynetnews.com/article/hyjgqqz11a

Your math is off somewhere. Wikipedia claims that NYC has 302 square miles of land, while Singapore has 283.

This article estimates that the cost of owning a car in NYC is $3000-$5000 per month. So, you pay for the privilege, perhaps not as much up front.

But NYC is surrounded by places you can drive to. Singapore is not. The mainland city of Johor Bahru is a relatively poor city of only 500K people, and beyond that it’s farmland until you get to the Malaysian captial, more than 4 hours away. So I wouldn’t expect the two cities to have the same preferences for car ownership in any case.

It is tradition.

Is this news? Singapore is a city of 6 million on an island that is only 45km across at its widest point.

The sentence makes sense in context of the article. Detained in Dubai is asking the US State Department to warn travelers of the risk of unjust arrest and extortion, even though Ms. Polanco’s ordeal has ended.

If someone is making you feel like you might be in danger, that’s a threat. It doesn’t matter their intent

That’s a risible argument. The standard is what a “reasonable person” considers dangerous.

Whether an action is criminal can’t be based on each individual’s personal opinion of their own behavior. The perpetrator believing that they are right does not make it legal.

RiffTrax Friends, The Gizmoplex, and Twitch Turbo give me everything I need.

There’s also a strong argument that the Indiana licensing board that censured Dr. Bernard were activists who were bowing to public pressure. Many external authorities who reviewed Dr. Bernard’s case do not believe that she committed any unethical disclosure.

https://www.statnews.com/2023/06/01/caitlin-bernard-indiana-abortion-10-year-old-advocacy/

https://www.npr.org/2023/06/03/1179941247/abortion-caitlin-bernard-indiana-doctor-medical-board

“Who could possibly be responsible for the catastrophic loss of value of one of the Internet’s most beloved brands? Could it be me, the owner, and the decisions I’ve made?”

“No. The Jews are responsible.”

So, when Rod Stewart sings, “Oh God I wish I was home tonight with you in my arms”… ?

This is about context, and in context, he’s clearly not meaning to imply that God is a 5-foot-3, 300 lbs welfare recipient.

“Well, God, if you’re 5-foot-3 and you’re 300 pounds… taxes ought not to pay for your bags of fudge rounds”

Perhaps I’m misreading it, but I took “God” to be an exclamation, not the 2nd-person subject for the following sentence. “You” is the fat welfare cheat.

the enemy is more defined, namely rich people

Well, rich northerners. That’s a very important distinction. Southern gentlemen – that is, Confederates – are excluded.

Richmond was the capital of the confederacy, so it’s important to point out that they were north of Richmond particularly.

To cope with the pain, they can tend to “kick down” on other groups, like obese people,

It’s a very specific appeal to a right-wing stereotype from the Reagan era: the urban “welfare queen”, refusing to labor, getting fat off welfare while country “working poor” starve.

Of course, the reality is the opposite: per capita, rural folk get larger government disbursements in the form of welfare and disability than city dwellers.

The execrable stereotype was invented to turn the poor on each other. The country, full of uneducated hicks, the cities full of welfare cheats getting fat off your tax dollars. And while the proles fight each other, the fat cats steal wages and get tax breaks.

I suppose it’s possible that Mr. Anthony is so far down the rabbit hole, having been raised with these ideas as “common sense truths”, that he doesn’t even realize he’s been fed a partisan line and he’s just repeating it like a good soldier.

I mean, I’m not saying the author is wrong, but they don’t even point to a hot mic confession or a conservative e-mail that says “we need to scale back humanities at public universities, because it’s teaching our kids the wrong things”.

The idea that Republicans are specifically targeting liberal arts academics sounds truthy, and on brand for them, certainly. But it would be nice to see more evidence than angry assertion.

Although I generally agree with the premise of the article, I don’t think the author does himself any favors when he points out many perfectly legitimate reasons that the cuts are happening (documented declining enrollment in humanities, a history of financial planning issues that affect all WVU budgets, humanities making up a minority of cuts, etc).

Are the humanities being cut due to political or ideological pressure? What is the actual evidence that the cuts are ideological in origin? After presenting lots of specifics around finances, the author is curiously nonspecific on that point.

Chip Wilson admitted that he chose the name Lululemon because he thought it would sound exotic and Western to Asian customers, and because he thought it was funny to hear Japanese people pronounce it.

When Wilson was CEO, he made comments in 2005 saying that it was funny that Japanese people couldn’t pronounce the “L” in Lululemon.

“It’s funny to watch them try and say it,” he told Canada’s National Post Business Magazine when asked about the Japanese pronunciation of his company’s name.

Wilson denies saying it, according to the New York Times.

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It’s not even generally true for appointed federal judges. There are no formal job requirements to become a federal judge.