“all students and staff will receive a message conveying a “zero tolerance” policy for harassment of Jewish and Israeli students.”

Will there also be a statement about a zero tolerance policy for harassment of Muslim and Palestinian students? What about a statement about a zero tolerance policy for harassment of peaceful protestors?

I have no idea on the first question, but the second question was answered in the story. The French police are being paid by the UK government to stop the immigrant boats.

No shit. It’s called exaggeration.

This is an interesting one. The old law allowed ANY challenge to delay building construction, as long as it had a basis in environmental protection. It was primarily used by NIMBYs to block apartment buildings near houses, or by businesses to protect their service area from competition. It would cause builders years of paperwork headaches just to get where they would have been at the beginning. It isn’t even setting rules for what studies need to be done to protect the environment, just that if someone challenges your project based on environmental rules then a judge has to put a hold on it while studies are done to show things are fine.

Ultra-orthodox anything is going to be filled with nutjobs like this. They feel anything that slightly inconveniences their chosen brand of religion is an attack on religion itself. They want to have their stupidly large families but don’t want to pay for it themselves, either through work to wash dishes or through the tiny tax on their plastic forks. Same shit happens with Christians here in the US.

That’s awesome. Good for you!

I hate when companies throw away good employees just to chase a slightly higher profit margin, so it’s nice when it works out better for the people they treated badly.

The difference between a layoff and a RIF is that a layoff means they can’t afford to pay for specific positions right now and that if they can in the future then they will reopen those jobs, while a RIF means they are changing the structure of the company and all those jobs are going away permanently.

There are so many levels of fucked up in this story.

First off, the other police rammed a dude and pinned him to a wall with a car because they thought he was a criminal. A) Who the fuck thinks treating a suspect that way is OK? B) Why would you continue working with the people who think that is OK?

Secondly, four cops beat a man nearly to death because they thought he was a suspect in a crime. Same two questions as before. How can they think it’s totally cool to beat a man nearly to death simply because he MIGHT have committed a crime?

Nothing says, “we’re definitely not corrupt” like hiding all the communications of your elected officials.

It’s not time in traffic. It’s time NOT in traffic. Traffic is slow and not often deadly. Driving for an hour at 70mph is much more dangerous than an hour at 25mph.

And blue states often have bigger cities with slower traffic and shorter commute distances.

From the linked source, #1 is miles driven. You can keep copy/pasting the same thing in response to people hypothesizing miles driven is the biggest cause, but it won’t change the fact that you are wrong.

Massholes were particularly bad drivers, but I think the speeds are typically lower and the quality of car higher than some poorer and more wide open states.

14 missing states, including South/North Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, Nebraska, Alaska, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Delaware, Rhode Island, Hawaii, and West Virginia. Most of those states barely have 100,000 people.

What does race mixing have to do with this story?

I grew up in the suburbs of a midwestern city, where we could run into the woods to play army or ride bikes in a closed neighborhood (not gated, just no through traffic) or walk from yard to yard with no fences except for houses with pools or walk to the next neighborhood over. We were free to explore as long as we didn’t cross certain streets and came home by dark. We walked to the bus stop to go to school.

Contrast that to where I live now in a major metropolitan city where kids never see “the woods”, can’t safely ride bikes anywhere but bike paths, have tall privacy fences blocking both socializing but also blocking multi-yard sports areas, have no “neighborhoods,” and have to be driven by parents in a car directly to school (where they have to wait in a line of 100 cars to pick up kids everyday). How can kids ever become self sufficient? They have to be parented every minute of their lives until they are 16. It’s wild.

But that is in the US. When I visit Europe there are kids by themselves on the subway going wherever a 10 year old needs to go.

I’m wondering if it is just following the downward trend of murders since the 90s, meaning if COVID didn’t happen the murder rate would have also gone down to this level.

This is the most important thing, in my opinion, that the fucked up Trump court has ruled on. Saying a president can’t be prosecuted for crimes that were performed as part of his job was wild but unlikely to actually occur. This is both wild and already occurring on a daily basis. This is so unbelievably asinine.

To sum up: if a judge rules a law or action is obviously unconstitutional, the only person it is unconstitutional for is the person who brought the case to that specific judge.

Rather someone with a silver spoon than a golden dick in their mouth.

Yeah, let’s parse that out in real terms:

Need to have completed trade school or 2 years of apprenticeship, neither of which they are willing to pay for.

12 hour days, including many weekends.

SAP experience for an electrician?

Extreme physical danger from being an electrician, especially in a commercial environment that is more likely to have high voltage work.

Pay tops out at $67k…

Let’s repeat: pay tops out at $67k for an experienced person working a dangerous job with long hours and weekends. I’m shocked they are having trouble finding people!!

There’s not enough skilled talent because the jobs are not paying enough when considering the physical risk and pain involved compared to what the execs make. I grew up surrounded by factory workers who made an OK salary in Indiana, enough to have a small house and 2 cars, but who always seemed to be on the verge of a strike. Constantly fighting with management to get basic benefits and decent pay, then having their bodies wrecked after years of a hard job. It was a thankless, hard job that was only made palatable by the wages and benefits unions had to constantly fight for. It’s no wonder young people look at that life and decide it isn’t worth all the specialized training to spend your life being dehumanized by the corporations who are making so much more money than you. At least in the skilled trades like construction and electrical you can go it alone and get most of the money for yourself. Not much of an option for that for factory workers.