Union organization support of a party or candidate usually doesn’t mean anything.
Here in Canada I’m with the NDP and I’ve gone to a few party conventions… my early ones I met lots of great people but they also taught me a bitter truth.
Union people are often easily manipulated and are fairly narrow with their views.
Even when their entire organization shows support for the NDP, the members will often vote for conservative or liberal and never NDP.
Wish Biden had stepped aside, regardless, I like many, would vote for a piece of lettuce over Trump. Don't get me wrong, Biden has been better than expected, but he is so old!
Yeah I’m curious about that. My interpenetration was that they could keep drawing crap maps right before elections, get denied, but there not be enough time left to fix. That they could keep this up to get their bad maps to be used during elections.
For reference: South Carolina is about 60/40 with Republican advantage. They currently hold 6/7 house seats. In other words they hold 86% of the seats with 60% of the vote. This proposal would give them merely 70% of the seats with 60% of the vote. The closest split would be 4/7 which is 57% of the seats.
There is one blue district in the state, which includes parts of both Columbia and Charleston. The rest of Columbia’s and Charleston’s populations are split among four other congressional districts.
does it matter where the immigrants come from? What makes them illegal immigrants? They are immigrants fleeing for their lives a lot of times. If they want to come over here and start the process of becoming legal that's great. If they want to work illegally no skin off of my back. There are no social services for illegal immigrants it doesn't cost you anything and don't pretend they are taking your jobs because we both know you aren't going to do the jobs they do anyhow. Idk why I'm even commenting.
naw man. jesus has always been about believe in me and alls good but fuck those poor, they be that way from sinnin and grab anything you can while you can because its all about properity.
Did you read the article? The economist interviewed specifically said it isn’t because of price gouging, but because they anticipated future costs will be higher than they actually were.
Normally, Andrew says, profits contribute less than a third to inflation. He found that in 2021, corporate profits could account for about double that, nearly 60% of inflation, meaning it was not costs driving inflation. It was corporate profits. Now, some economists hear this and think this is proof that companies were just using inflation as an excuse to gouge customers. Andrew does not think this. He thinks companies likely raised prices not because their costs went up in 2021 - because they did not, really - but because they were anticipating that their costs would go up a lot in 2022. And by the way, costs did end up going up in 2022, although companies still made record profits.
Law enforcement doesn't publish (not sure if they even collect) data on non-criminal incidences of gun violence. The CDC is helping states get a holistic understanding of gun-related violence, which is inclusive of any and all gun inflicted injuries that check into hospitals.
Correct. Misleading wording like this is how they manage to trick ignorant people into supporting hateful laws like this one - assuming they're not supporting these laws precisely because they're hateful.
The LGBTQ+ community (including drag queens) absolutely and unequivocally does NOT support pedophilia in any form. This includes exposing children to pornographic material. That's fucking canon and you can quote me on that shit.
There’s some videos floating around of drag shows with sensual dancing with children present. I’m not saying all Drag presentations are like this, but maybe the law should’ve been more specific to these kinds of situations.
Because teleportation is murder. Whatever comes out on the other side may look and act like you, but isn't you, because you're now dead for having been disassembled by the teleporter.
Teleporters are interesting because when you think about it long enough, you realize the person on departure end died.
You think about it more... and if the person that comes out the arrival end is an exact replica -- down to the atom -- and, further, has internal continuity of experience... You realize that if you accept they died then you kind of also have to accept that the "you" of any given instant is constantly dying and giving way to the "you" of the next instant. That person living that experience at that exact moment will never exist again; they're dead.
So you're kinda back to transporters being business as usual again, but with a fun new existential crisis on the side.
In practice, I agree with you. The transporter scans, disintegrates, and reconstructs the thing being transported. But when the thing being transported is reconstructed at a subatomic level it is effectively identical.
I can imagine the society we see in startrek having already worked through the moral and philosophical implications. I would have loved to see that addressed in an episode tho.
Is one carbon atom the same as another carbon atom, philosophically? Can you keep your identity when all your atoms are replaced by other atoms of the same kind? It’s the ship of Theseus problem
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