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- Comment on How would you evaluate having more pay vs an easier job? 20 hours ago:
law. you’ll notice it’s the complete opposite of my preference. it’s actually probably going to be both challenging AND low paying. but it has other aspects that suit me, like stability.
- Comment on How would you evaluate having more pay vs an easier job? 21 hours ago:
Definitely easier. I’m planning on marrying, so money will hopefully be fine.
- Comment on How would you evaluate having more pay vs an easier job? 21 hours ago:
At this point in my life, it’s more about growth and advancement opportunities. It’s ok if the job is hard if the experience can eventually be leveraged into a better paying job. But that’s because I am young. If you are just chugging through the last few years til retirement, then easier.
- Comment on Do you think that Trump is the most hated U.S. president? 1 day ago:
I’m pretty sure historians 30 years from now are still going to learn how to differentiate source quality.
- Comment on Do you think that Trump is the most hated U.S. president? 1 day ago:
I wouldn’t describe the American Political Science Association as a flash poll on CNN.
- Comment on Do you think that Trump is the most hated U.S. president? 1 day ago:
He is consistently ranked the worst president
- Comment on Why is so difficult to organize a strike 2 days ago:
The pay and benefits don’t need to be good or as good as possible. They just need to be the slightest bit better than the risks and effort of striking.
- Comment on Is anyone else apprehensive to down voting even if you're being down voted? 5 days ago:
Downvote if the person deserves it. You don’t know that the person is the one downvoting you versus someone else. Although if you’re in a conversation with someone who you feel deserves to be downvoted, you’re probably better off blocking and moving on.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
The price listed for tuition isn’t the price most students pay. You apply for financial aid and scholarships, and each family gets a different price based on what they earn. In general, local schools are less expensive than nationally ranked ones.
- Comment on Why it is that in the USA for most people the default color for a casual sock is white but in most other places the default is black? 1 week ago:
Black socks are for formal dress wear in the US. I wear black to work, because I dress in business formal at work. White is for casual wear. When I worked a business casual job, it didn’t matter whether I wore black or white socks.
- Comment on What can be done to prevent more dangerous heatwaves in Europe? 1 week ago:
The major pollutants are manufacturing, mining, oil production, and animal agriculture. not air conditioners. If we want the rest of the world to stop producing with manufacturing, you’re going to need to create agreements to share your wealth in ways that do not require the exchange of goods. That’s why people over-produce right now. For money. That’s why the world will continue to get hotter for the considerable future. Nobody wants to be the ones to give away our wealth for free. You need to take care of your people and install air conditioners like the rest of the world.
- Comment on "Take the medicine for one week" is monday-sunday or monday-monday? 1 week ago:
7 times. The week is done.
- Comment on Could the Supreme Court overturning Marbury vs Madison be a way to repeal the US Constitution? 1 week ago:
Marbury v. Madison established the right for the US Supreme Court to strike down laws that violate the Constitution. Overturning Marbury would turn the Supreme Court into a court of review, meaning they only apply the law as written. They would lose the power to invalidate statutes. Some countries with civil systems do have high courts like that. It wouldn’t be the end of the world. We just generally believe that adding checks and balances encourages a healthy government.
So, no. Overturning Marbury does not make the Constitution not the law. The Constitution is the law because the drafters signed it and the legislatures enacted it. The only way to get rid of it legally is to pass a new constitution in the same way.
- Comment on Do you think that Edward Snowden is a hero? 2 weeks ago:
It’s giving away our intelligence apparatus to every other nation. What do you mean how.
- Comment on Do you think that Edward Snowden is a hero? 2 weeks ago:
Of course not. He’s a criminal. What did leaking that data do to improve the lives of Americans? Now, how much more advanced did our foreign enemies become in attacking our intelligence? He was an extremist that made us more vulnerable to threats based on his own personal value system.
- Comment on How many donations worth of ten grains of rice does one need to live healthy for one day? 3 weeks ago:
50g is a 200 calorie portion.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Because the reasons to oppose AI are complicated and hard to understand, so they need to be explained. The only reason to like AI is if you just look at it and assume it works. Explaining why it isn’t answering your question accurately, why it isn’t “thinking”, why it doesn’t understand your prompt, why it’s a waste of resources- these are all complicated arguments that require explanation.
- Comment on Is there a word for people who will mess something up and blame the victim for it? 1 month ago:
That’s poor emotional regulation/lashing out. Anger issues. Short-tempered, belligerent, possible mental health disorder.
- Comment on how much money is there in total? 1 month ago:
up until yesterday i had assumed that the total amount of money in the world is zero ($0) because what one person has in bank account, another person has in debt at the same time, since money is literally nothing else than a codified form of debt.
Nah, money is constantly growing. Whenever anyone does anything of value, there is more money. People are alive and doing things every second of every day. Unless there’s a catastrophic bubonic-plague level event, the total value of money in the world is constantly increasing.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
The late 1800s/early 1900s was an era of technological progress. The camera, the airplane, the radio, new manufacturing enabled high rise designs like we’d never had before, high speed rail was redefining cities and towns. They were beginnings of the progress that we have today. I think they would be proud, not surprised.
- Comment on What's the difference between the UK justice system and the U.S. justice system? 1 month ago:
Not just judges! Also the coroner! Think about what kind of nasty shit goes down when the government lies about when someone dies. Many small towns across the US had that issue in the 1900s, so a lot of states replaced the position with a medical examiner (requires an actual medical degree to be licensed).
- Comment on What's the difference between the UK justice system and the U.S. justice system? 1 month ago:
That is more “something that happens” in rural areas than intentional by design. In a lot of the US, judges are elected positions. In the majority of states, non-lawyers are allowed to run, but in competitive districts it’d be difficult to win without the bar association’s recommendation.
- Comment on What's the difference between the UK justice system and the U.S. justice system? 1 month ago:
Generally, they’re struggling with the same issues of being severely under-staffed and under-funded to the point where they can’t really function without a “McJustice” style system. They recently stopped offering jury trials for sentences less than 3 years. You only get a judge. However, the UK has MUCH shorter sentences than the US (because American long sentences are outside the global norm and generally just irrational). The average length of a sentence to jail is under 2 years, so most people will never get a jury trial.
Unlike in the US, graduates require a “pupilage” position under someone else before they’re allowed to practice, and only about 5-10% of law grads receive them.
- Comment on Should businesses (big or small) be allowed to kick you out because of your speech? 1 month ago:
You can be banned from private property for anything. That is a basic right of owning property. If anyone can go onto your property without your consent, it’s not your property. If you want to go on someone’s else’s private property, you have to follow their rules. That goes likewise for your own property.
- Comment on When a judge tells the jury to ‘forget XYZ,’ how can the jury possibly do that? 1 month ago:
Keep in mind that statement is not allowed for a reason. Eg. One time a prosecutor implied that the defendant was in a gang because they were wearing a shirt with the color red. He wasn’t in a gang. If he was, the prosecutor would’ve had actual evidence. It’s literally just a manipulation tactic you to try to get a conviction, and that’s why it was objected to.
- Comment on Should hate speech be protected under freedom of speech laws? 1 month ago:
I think we basically accomplish the same thing with libel and criminal statutes. There’s a pretty clear line. It’s kept limited to a strict victim-perpetrator dynamic, where you’re not going to get arbitrary speech suppression where no one was harmed.
- Comment on If you could make a magic wish so that your crush liked you, would you do it? 1 month ago:
It’s much better to be with someone who picked you back.
- Comment on What's the deal with AI datacenters using water for cooling? 1 month ago:
still a proper closed loop cooling system isn’t exactly wasting water is it?
If you take good water from underground, it evaporates, and you’re in a drought-prone area, your area effectively just lost the water. Even if you’re not in a drought-prone area, you’re never going to have easy access to that clean, underground water again.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2304.03271
I found this, and it has a cool overview of water towers and such.
- Comment on How prevalent are cash transactions in the USA? 2 months ago:
It depends on your age and area. The elderly prefer cash and may not have access to cards. Gen-X (people in their 50s-60s) have cards but will still carry and use cash for things here or there. Young people in urban areas almost never use cash. We mostly use tap to pay with our phones. Poorer, rural areas don’t always bother to get the new card readers though, so when traveling in rural areas it’s best to bring a physical card or cash.
Personally I only carry my phone in daily life. My bus pass, student ID, credit card, etc. are all on my phone. The last time I used cash, which was many months ago, the cashier verbally said to me “It’s been so long since anyone has paid cash” and had to ask his manager to show him how to operate the cash register.
- Comment on Part of internet most harmful to teens? 2 months ago:
Anything could be harmful. They haven’t been taught how to discern whether a source is credible. They’ll just believe what people tell them if they see no reason to doubt. I do think that just because misinformation exists, that doesn’t necessarily mean your teen will buy into it forever. I think being misled is part of the process of learning how to identify trustworthy sources. Rather than controlling access to information, reinforcing your kids’ understanding of logical and evidence-based reasoning will pay off in the long run.