Yeah I think people are too stupid on average to understand. Like how kids think pouring water from a short wide glass into a tall glass means there’s more water, people think one long line means longer wait times.
I feel like education could mitigate this but at least in the US our education isn’t a priority
Perhaps a universal icon for “pick language” would be helpful, like we have a icons for volume control and share. Good luck getting it adopted though.
For some reason getting a passport is like $200, plus whatever it takes to get the required supporting documents (eg: birth certificate, the photo). That’s not much by many metrics, but a lot of people in the US just don’t have $200 to spend.
That seems high, because I think the literacy rate today is lower. I guess it depends on how you define literacy, though.
Four in five U.S. adults (79 percent) have English literacy skills sufficient to complete tasks that require comparing and contrasting information, paraphrasing, or making low-level inferences—literacy skills at level 2 or above in PIAAC (OECD 2013). In contrast, one in five U.S. adults (21 percent) has difficulty completing these tasks (figure 1)
The right would immediately use that to disenfranchise blacks, queers, and women. “You need a degree from an accredited college to vote, and coincidentally women only schools don’t count, nor do historically black ones”
We can’t just kill all the conservatives but if you could somehow prevent them from accessing power, we’d be better off.
Fine needs to be much bigger. All the decision makers that approved it need to be removed and barred from working in the industry
It’s another manifestation of separate rules for the rich and everyone else.
I’ve been happy with Bandcamp, though they got sold so they’re no longer independent.
But the model is you can stream for free however many times the artist has it set to, and then you’re expected to buy it. Once you buy it, its yours DRM-free forever.
So if you buy an album or two a month, it costs similar to a subscription but you build up a library. After a while, you might find there are months you don’t buy anything, but just listen to what you already bought.
You said that most laws require intent.
I said that strict liability exists. This was admittedly, a nitpick.
You did an on sequitur about how the US has a police problem, and said “These aren’t normal laws in other countries fyi.”. I took that to imply the concept of strict liability doesn’t exist in other laws, but maybe you meant something else. Maybe you meant it’s not common?
I then pointed out that the concept originated in Britain. You said “If it originated there, why doesn’t Canada have it lmfao.”, which is factually incorrect as far as I can tell. Canada has a concept of strict liability.
You then said,
Not for sex offenders like pissing in public, of course it exists in other areas of law, but those aren’t applicable to all other areas.
Ignoring what feels like a moving goal post, maybe this reveals where we diverged. Maybe you thought I was saying all laws are strict liability? I wasn’t.
The most famous example of strict liability is statutory rape. This is off topic from guys pissing in a parking lot (though I wouldn’t be surprised if ICE goons do other crimes). https://www.findlaw.com/criminal/criminal-charges/statutory-rape.html
As most statutory rape laws appear as “strict liability” offenses, this limits the amount of legal defenses available to someone accused.
The link I provided was a wikipedia article is clearly not an exhaustive answer of all things on the topic. If you do click through to the criminal article, it does mention a case. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strict_liability_(criminal)
Anyway, this is a pointless, unpleasant, argument.
I’m not even sure what you’re arguing anymore. My point was strict liability exists. Also the most famous instance of strict liability is sex crimes, I’m told.
A 30 second search revealed that Canada has some strict liability laws.
The idea originated in Britain, per Wikipedia. This isn’t a uniquely American problem
You can make an argument that we shouldn’t have inherited Britain’s legal system, but that’s a pretty big argument
Most (proper laws) laws require intent.
Some laws are “strict liability”. I think some sex crimes are, for example
So many places seem to be run by idiots, if your metrics are other than “personal enrichment”.
Like, one of my old jobs, the CEO laid off almost everyone and is now banging hard on the “return to office” drum. Like, my guy, how is making people do a 2 hour commute going to help? It’s a small company, he knows most of the people live that far away. And then they go into the office, and they end up doing these like hour+ long lunches. Or they leave early for drinks.
It’s fucking stupid. It’s the CEO driving with his emotions. He wants to feel like a big business man with an office, and he wants to have fun socializing. Idiot. Fun guy to hang out with, but he’s making pants on head stupid business decisions. And there’s nothing any of us can do about it.
You have to remember it’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. As I always say, we’re all susceptible to that to some extent, but the republicans have it bad.
The video games in my house were downstairs, and one time I did a “Can I go downstairs?” instead of “Can I play video games?” when I knew they didn’t want me playing more games. Thought it was a clever loophole. Only worked the one time, but got jokingly referenced for the next ten years.
I do feel like protests need to transition from “We’re here with signs” to “No more labor until these problems are addressed,” but I don’t know how to get from here to there.
Are there protests? Are people lining up in DC? I feel like the left is just broken and disorganized and losing on every front.
I would prefer basic, subtle, black. I don’t want rainbows and lights. I’m very function over form.
I’d also rather play a game on medium settings where it runs flawlessly and doesn’t make the fans go hard, than at high settings with worse performance.