The term "third party consent" is deceptive. The father is the second party- unless their considering the fetus to be that, which would undermine the argument that it's not a person.
I'm positive the term was chosen on purpose since a third party is usually regarding as having diminished rights in disputes as their interests are separate and diminished in comparison to the primary parties.
Just to clarify: this isn't ASU proper, but the Air Force. The Air Force contracts out its distance learning to ASU's Canvas platform. You can see the Air University logo at the top left. The students that received this message are all in the military, and that's who the Executive Order applies to.
Hawaii Supreme Court: “The spirit of Aloha clashes with a federally mandated lifestyle that lets citizens walk around with deadly weapons during day-to-day activities.”
Makes sense, since HI also ruled that the "spirit of aloha" nullified the Second Amendment.
Let's see them enforce this.
Oh, there were irregularities to be sure: they didn't even attempt to collect votes for seceding states, despite claiming that they didn't actually leave the union. By this time, Louisiana and Tennessee or under Union control and held the election, but they didn't count their electoral votes either.
The Union freely flipped from considering Confederate states to be "in rebellion" but still a part of the United States to treating them as a separate country as it suited Union needs, which is a whole separate topic. For example, they extorted them into ratifying the 14th Amendment as a condition of rejoining the Union- which makes no sense as they spent the entire War claiming they never legally left it.
My point being, Lincoln at least held the election to maintain the veneer that the country was still a democracy, and presumably would have stepped aside if he had lost. The narrative that Ukraine is a democracy heroically resisting an invader collapses if they simply turn off elections because they're afraid they won't be happy with the results.
Just a reminder that even Lincoln didn't try and suspend elections during the Civil War.
do all foreigners randomly get attacked with glass bottles or what?
No, just the ones who get grabby and commit crimes. The Japanese are known for their politeness and restraint. It takes a special kind of asshole to provoke them into violence like that.
This. The left in America ran roughshod over all the rights it claims to champion during the Biden regime, and it continues to do so in the countries with leftist governments.
The fact that these fuckers will jail you for speech they disapprove of when given the chance should tell you everything you need to know about their belief system.
This actually looks more fun than UBIslop's game.
Hey now, I see two people that were present before independence. Let's honor our founding fathers instead of vilifying them.
I know this is that new shitty Spider-Man cartoon because people posted the horrible artwork here, but I didn't know that anybody was actually watching it.
I'm not a fan of reddit. Their horrible moderation structure aside, I blame it at least partially for the demise of all the niche forums that used to be scattered across the internet. These forums often had experts in the topic, and included shit that reddit bans like WTB/WTS forums for guns.
Regarding the idea of paid subreddits specifically, it's just part of the further enshitification of things. "Hey this free thing is popular, how can we monetize it?" Is the epitome of rent seeking behavior that characterizes this era of capitalism.
In this case though, I think it's doomed to failure. Unless they're going to aggressively stamp out free subreddits that cover the same topic as the paid ones most people are just not going to go somewhere and pay to get the same thing they're getting for free. The only people this is going to interest are those who hate that their own personal echo chamber is periodically invaded by strangers who don't share their beliefs.
If it's worth their money to pay so that they don't have to periodically ban the newcomers they don't like, then whatever.
suppository of information.
I agree that it induces shit.
“This shoe cost me three bands. All because of Trump. Now I like him lesser!”
This creature doesn't seem to fully grasp the English language.
That's an impressive sense of self-importance to think anybody values a score you gave a video game that highly.
I have a $50 watch with an automatic movement. Even though it was designed during a time when you would have a watch serviced annually and repaired if needed, it would cost far more to perform even routine maintenance then to just let it run until it fails and then buy a new one.
Labor costs have increased to the point that things like tailored suits are now only for the rich, when they used to be commonplace. Do appliance repair stores even exist anymore? It's a perfect storm of things made as cheaply as possible and engineered to fail as soon as they're out of warranty and the end of those skill sets they used to maintain durable consumer goods.
I've heard of people buying shitty sub $1000 beater cars and then performing only the cheapest and most rudimentary maintenance on them like oil changes, and when they break down they just buy a new one.
I've reduced the price of my Canadian RPG...
It's just some asshole trying to drum up sales and using current politics to appeal to some "nationalist sentiment".
However, that also would be counterbalanced by the increase in government roles. For instance, there were zero federal employees managing airport security in 1940 vs. the 58K working for TSA today. Now multiply that by all the other new programs we have. Which isn't to say I agree with the government doing these things, but simply an explanation for why technology wouldn't decrease the size of the workforce.
My point being that it's popular to point at the number of federal employees and say "look at all those lazy assholes doing nothing and sucking off the government teet", but the reality is that we have roughly the same percentage of people in the federal government doing a great many more things than their counterparts in 1940. Even more so when you consider that the Defense Department has absolutely grown, so proportionally the other agencies have shrunk but have more things to do than ever.
The size of the federal workforce is ultimately a red herring. The question should really be: "what are the things the federal government is doing that are unlawful, or we just don't want them to do?". If you eliminate those functions, the employees doing them will be eliminated as well.
The real question is what are they as a percentage of the population? Just the number 3 million sounds like a lot, but it was considerably worse in 1945 when the US population was only 133M compared to the population now of 340M.
That's 0.88% of the population currently employed by the feds, and looking at that chart it's not terribly far off of the 0.71% in 1940, prior to the massive expansion, which was probably due to WWII. There's a valid argument that the government is too big, but there isn't one that it's grown since World War II. We're basically back to pre-war per capita staffing levels.
Oh, and WTF is almost 1/3 of the federal workforce doing in DoD? It's even more if you include the VA.
I mean they were offering full pay and benefits and no work through 31 Dec if you were retirement eligible. So, anyone already retiring this year could take the offer and stop working now and get the same pay they would have had for working the whole year. Likewise anyone already planning to resign before 30 Sep- it's just free money for them.
I wonder what percentage of the 40K those were.
The 2005 movie is a guilty pleasure of mine.
Chris Evans was fun as Johnny Storm. The scene where he first gets his power skiing was amusing. It was so weird seeing him play the straight man for Captain America after FF.
I've also liked Ioan Gruffudd since he played Horatio Hornblower in the old A&E series. Not a great casting for Reed Richards though.
Oh yeah, I forgot about that. I thought I read that they found some cover sheets and laid them out to make it look like there was a whole bunch of classified under them but there was either nothing there or unrelated documents that weren't classified themselves. The cover sheets are not controlled and are not classified themselves.
At a minimum, I'd say it's a form of slander, because they were clearly trying to imply that the photo was of actual classified information they found.
They also do this sort of shit to everyone they arrest. Every criminal case I've looked into is full of puffery and little things blown out of proportion, regardless of any actual crimes committed. They just forgot to turn this behavior off when dealing with someone that was going to result in them getting called out for it.
I like the whole 50's/60's aesthetic, but it reminds me of all those short films we've been seeing that are AI generated. It's definitely got that same filter trying to make it look like older film stock. I wonder if the whole movie is going to be that way.
Also, if they really are from the '60s I'm curious how they're going to explain their absence in all the previous Marvel movies and how they're going to integrate them into the main continuity. More multiverse nonsense?
In any case, I won't watch it. Disney has ruined Marvel for me, and I'm not willing to put money in their pockets to reward them for it even if it's something I might otherwise enjoy..
LoL, I had to look him up:
In January 1988, Snyder was fired by CBS after he made comments suggesting that breeding practices during slavery had led blacks to become superior athletes.
It's not something talked about in polite conversation, but it's true. The strongest survived transport from Africa, and then for 200 plus years the strongest among them were selectively bred by slave owners.
To deny that this affected the genetics of the black population in the United States would be the same as denying the obvious effects selective breeding has had in the fields of agriculture and domesticated animals. There's no scientific reason that it works differently for humans.
A gilded cage is still a cage, and wrapping an iron fist in a silk glove doesn't change what it is.
Western governments trumpet their freedom, but just because their form of oppression isn't as brutal as a dictatorship doesn't make free. The UK being the worst offender in this regard.