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having spent time as a juror, the US justice system is indeed a joke. no one is laughing:
there are disturbing indications that a non-trivial number of prosecutors—and sometimes entire prosecutorial offices— engage in misconduct that seriously undermines the fairness of criminal trials. The misconduct ranges from misleading the jury, to outright lying in court and tacitly acquiescing or actively participating in the presentation of false evidence by police.
this is trolling on the level of the putin editorial in the NYT. it’s effective because they have a point:
in 2014, the US, a self-proclaimed human rights defender, saw no improvements in its existent human rights issues, but reported numerous new problems. While its own human rights situation was increasingly grave, the US violated human rights in other countries in a more brazen manner, and was given more “red cards” in the international human rights field.
the F-35 is demonstrably inferior in a dogfight with the F-16, which the US Air Force first acquired in the late 1970s.
this is what over $1T of crony capitalism gets you: a pile of junk.
the Unix systems administrator for the project was in Argentina and his co-worker was physically located in the People’s Republic of China. Both had direct access to every row of data in every database: they were root
you don’t really need any cloak & dagger theory with rampant incompetence like this
Most Arizonans take exception to the Daylight Saving Time observed by the rest of America. Arizona tried DST for a year (1967), but decided the extra hour of daylight was not necessarily a good thing. The desert summers were already too friggin’ hot. But then there’s the Navajo Rejection of the Arizona Exception: the northeast corner of Arizona is part of the Navajo Nation (which extends across 3 states) and in an effort to keep the same time on the entire reservation, they observe DST. However, the Hopi Tribe doesn’t agree with the Navajo DST decision. Yes, the Hopi Reservation, which is completely enclosed by the Navajo Nation, has declined DST… resulting in the Hopi Repudiation of the Navajo Rejection of the Arizona Exception. Finally, there’s Tuba City, located in the western reaches of the Navajo Nation, just east of Arizona’s palefaces, just west of the main Hopi Reservation and just north of the Hopi Reservation’s exclave (not enclave) containing Moenkopi. Tuba City is caught between the Hopi and a hard place. Navajo tribal offices and schools in Tuba City observe DST, but most businesses don’t (“so as not to confuse the tourists”). In Tuba City, it’s possible to walk next door and enter a whole different time zone. The community of Jeddito, Arizona, southeast of Tuba City, lies within an exclave of the Navajo Nation, which is surrounded by the Hopi Reservation, which is surrounded by the Navajo Nation. If you decided to drive the 144 km from Jeddito to Tuba City on Route 264, you would start in DST (Jeddito, Navajo exclave), switch to standard time (Hopi Reservation), switch back to DST (Navajo Nation), switch back to standard time (Moenkopi, Hopi exclave) and switch back to DST (Tuba City, Navajo Nation). And if you began your drive 32 km east of Jeddito, in Steamboat Canyon, you could add 2 more time zone changes, to visit a grand total of 7 time zones during your 176-km trip on Route 264 (actually, you need to drive only 154 km to get the full effect).
destroying the protectionist housing policies in NYC would raise incomes by 8k.
Housing-supply constraints in New York, San Francisco, and San Jose add up to a loss of more than 10% GDP.
We have ideological biases that say, “we shouldn’t be meddling with nature” In China, 95% of an audience would say, “Obviously you should make babies genetically healthier, happier, and brighter!” There’s a big cultural difference
As of 2021-07-01, things are even worse:
Probably the biggest mistake was not intentionally infecting vaccinated volunteers. This could be done in 1 month, vs 6.5 months for the ecological trials that the entire world did out of misguided PR ethics. (2.5 is probably more realistic given signups, approvals, and big pharma’s slow data analysis and reporting. That’s still 100K of lives.)
1DaySooner wrote a letter. The world’s foremost consequentialist signed. The world’s foremost deontologist signed. 2 of the most prominent bioethicists in the world signed. 15 Nobelists signed. 10s of philosophers who otherwise agree on extremely little signed. But they’re unethical.
Rarely do I so strongly feel the boot of others on my neck, and humanity’s neck.
The one distinctively courageous thing about the UK – the human challenge trials which got 40K volunteers – actually eventually started!.. In January 2021, with n=90.
This Confederacy nonsense should have been snuffed out when the civil war was won. Instead it was allowed to fester into the 21th century. Absurd.
Holder’s Justice Department struck a series of deals: cash for secrecy. The banks paid big fines, without trials, only secret negotiations that ended with vague, quasi-official papers called “statements of facts,” which were conveniently devoid of anything like actual facts.
turns out the change we can believe in was not what you thought when you naively cast your vote in 2008, and again in 2012.
The Department of Homeland Security revealed that David Nieland, an investigator leading the internal review of the Secret Service’s 2012 prostitution scandal quit in August — because he was caught in a prostitution scandal of his own.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 