I remember that and tried to find him, but it looks like there are whole law firms doing it now. Probably worth it if you have a good backlog of records. Also, now that I think of it, the guy I remember did spam faxes, which were outlawed before do not call. He worked on other people’s behalf, too, pocketing some of the payout.
I think you make an important point that some of your differences of opinion are due to different experience–the fact that your friend has more contact with people who are suffering and more dependent and have less ability to express themselves. The important thing is to keep an open mind, as it sounds like you are doing, so that as you meet people in different circumstances you don’t ignore the possibility that what’s right for you is not right for them. You don’t have enough information (maybe no one does) to come to a final universal conclusion about this, so it’s ok to disagree. If you want to gain understanding, maybe find a way to have more contact with people more severely impacted than yourself.
I thought it was the same person but that part of her deal was to try to make it look like multiple people had her same idea. Probably for the best it was all fake.
I see it all the time I think, but maybe my standards are low. Often what I see the traffic isn’t quite equal in both lanes, so it’s not abab, but people see the guy ahead find a space and they pick a space behind the next car and so on. It’s there more to it? Like if someone doesn’t get it, you just continue the zipper behind them, right?
It allows the city to suspend a landlord’s rental license if police answer four or more “nuisance” calls in a year. Before that, a landlord can be fined up to $500. This is in the city from this article, but across the us apparently there are lots of different limits and definitions of nuisance. In general I don’t want landlords making health and financial decisions for the elderly.
this article describes the law more completely.
the city gave landlords weekly reports over five years revealing personal medical information of renters who received multiple emergency calls to their homes.
In at least 780 cases, the city also shared details about mental health crises and even how people had tried to kill themselves,
train hoppers come to mind.
No. So maybe this is state of the art, but I hope someone who does will tell me it’s not.
Ok, the article is written badly, but the source is not much better, at least the intro you can read for free.
I propose that Machiavellianism is positively related to environmental activism. Forming alliances and leadership are likely effective strategies in the context of environmental activism, which involves convincing other people to change their environmental attitudes and behaviors
So like, the dysfunctional extreme of a behavior is positively correlated with the high end of a normal functional behavior. Is that news?
No comparison with activism for other causes. The author still strongly supports environmental activism.
Also it was literally a questionnaire given to a few hundred people in one town in Germany. It’s hard to believe people are wasting their time peer reviewing this high school science fair level stuff.
63% of Democrats, and Pelosi and Biden still think it’s a fringe. I guess everyone lives in a bubble these days.
Me too, but I didn’t honk because there were merging and I didn’t want to throw them off.
Yeah, I wonder, too. I’ve done the same for $15 copay through Kaiser (individual, marketplace) and Blue cross (employer).
We have a 2013 Leaf. Cost us $8k seven years ago, battery’s as good as it ever was, great around town or commuter for a 50 mile round trip commute (longer without defrost the whole way). Seriously the most fun car I’ve driven since our old manual bmw. The newer ones have bigger batteries if you drive more each day.
My kid prefers to be texted for dinner. Knocking is iffy because of the ear buds.
That’s awesome! So much more flexible than group text or whatever.
They’re all entertainers. I don’t see the difference except Taylor Swift has a day job.
I thought the same as you, but it seems it’s not so bad. You can vote after a felony sentence in the US, but maybe not right away and sometimes you have to settle court fines first.
Guns take longer and maybe never if your crime was violent or involved gun laws.
For passports, it seems most certain to be a no if your crime involved trafficking, smuggling, or anything to do with another country.
I think this guy can expect these rights restored after his sentence. But you’re still right that the conviction will likely be a continuing problem in other ways. I doubt he could be hired as CPA or anywhere else involving confidential records.
500 million tweets per day in 2013 So, yeah, that’s only 10,000 per minute per moderator for an 8 hour shift. I’ve doomscrolled pretty hard, but not that hard.
What my boomer dad doesn’t get is that so much of corporate enterprise, like even the thing they are ideally making or doing in the world, not just the working conditions or profit sharing, is not unquestionably good for us. He’s an engineer from a time when it looked like technology would save the world. My zoomer kid feels conflicted just starting a hobby thinking of the consumption and waste it requires. If they could believe the companies they work for shared their values I think it would go a long way, but i don’t see that happening very quickly.
This is what I’ve heard, that basically if we were stomped back to single celled life today, evolution would not have time to bring back visible plants and animals before the earth became uninhabitable. So there’s no starting over. I admit it kind of depresses me.