Religiosity is entrenched in the history of schooling. I think there is a place in the world for religious schooling. I just don’t think such places should receive direct governmental funding unless the religious part is optional.
I’m not sure I agree because religion in school means children get little to no sex education. I think one could certainly study world religions and such, as an academic topic, but having gone to publicly funded Catholic school I’m personally very not in favour.
Key word being history. Slavery was entrenched in the history of society and we successfully separated the two (although society still needs to work on the second order effects, sadly). Just saying it’s been that way in the past is not a valid argument for why it should continue. That’s basically an appeal to tradition fallacy.
I have one of his (Mushrooms of North America?) that’s about an inch and a half thick and gives a comprehensive, more or less academic introduction to the field. Read it 10 or so years back and I’m not dead yet, so.
A lot of people are totally unwilling to pay for digital services, especially those that were originally free to access. Like yeah, it feels good to to call people on fb idiots I guess, but that’s not really an argument for their willingness to pay for fb.
Being an outside observer I am kind of excited for him to flee the country and attempt to run for president of the United States from somewhere like Russia or North Korea.
The way publishing works, it is easy for Amazon to just check who is responsible for those books. Odd that they are not, I thought the US was a more litigious place.
Thats honestly not as true as some would have you believe. I think it stems from a case where a woman got third degree burns on her legs when a cup of mcdonalds coffee from a drive thru spilled. the company called the case supurflous, and used its vast megaphone to paint the woman as the one who was at fault. it worked. as a pre-teen I recall other kids talking with assurity about how the woman who spilled her coffee was absuing the system- coffee is hot! americans will sue over anything! The woman needed skin grafts and settled for 20k. ABC news called it “the poster child of frivilous lawsuits”.
I moved to Ireland in 2007. Insurance here is shockingly high- if you get in a car accident, the chances people put in “a claim” are HIGH. The bass player of a band I was in here had a €3,500 bass and didn’t work at age 29. He tripped on a paving stone while running downhill on a sidewalk/footpath and sued the farmer who lived next to it. The house I’m living in now has an extention that the previous owner was able to put on with money from “her claim”. Not sure what happened, but she worked for an insurance company. She’s living on an island and “is an artist” now. My friend visiting from the US backed into a car and dented the door panel. When she went to talk to the car’s owner’s, the wife of the family went out and got into the car and said she was in it when they hit the car and her neck hurt and needed to go to the hospital. There were 7 of us there, inculding the irish home owners of the house we were staying in and the cop believed us over her.
These are anticdotal stories from my personal experience here in Ireland. There used to be an Oktoberfest event down on the water on the docklands, it was nice. I asked one of the organizers a year or so ago why they stopped and they said “they were losing money because of the insurance premiums”. My car insurance here first year was €1600 annually, when it was $185 annually in the US (2006 or so).
I lived in the US a lot longer than I’ve lived here, and I never knew anyone who sued anyone else there.
To back up your point but also clarify, the woman with the McDonald’s coffee initially offered to settled for 20k, but McDonald’s wouldn’t offer more than $800. The jury awarded her $3mil. It was later reduced but then settled confidentially. McDonald’s did (as you point out) produce a major smear campaign against her and completely downplayed her injuries. iirc, her the injuries included third degree burns, fusion of labia to her thigh, and multiple skin grafts. The more you learn about it, the worse it gets. We were all brainwashed into thinking it was poster child for frivolous lawsuits. www.caoc.org/?pg=facts
Yes, it’s wrong. It’s understandable to want retribution, but it doesn’t help improve the situation. We need to be better than that, even when our gut reaction is, “to hope these goon fucks get what’s coming to them in prison?”
sports and factories ain’t need no math by god! USA! we got to the moon first everyone else gets our sloppy seconds MURICA! Jesus didn’t heal with fractions
living in the us is like watching Rome burning albeit slowly
Another benefit of protecting gun rights over everything. Now the police can say they were worried that the suspect had a gun and had to fire first. The same people that claim to support the police also make their jobs harder every day by wanting every American to be armed…well every white American.
British cops don’t even have guns. And yet they’re capable of dealing with organised mass shoplifting lbc.co.uk/…/police-descend-oxford-street-tiktok-m… I can imagine American cops machine gunning the crowd in this scenario.
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