I mean, if you want to have access to all of the court opinions interpreting a law (which is arguably more important because some decisions completely change what laws actually do) you’re going to be paying Thompson Reuters or somebody else like that a monthly subscription fee for the privilege pretty much everywhere in the US. Being able to know in a really detailed and specific way what is and isn’t legal is absolutely paywalled in this country.

[says that out loud in American English]

Yeah this all checks out

Another comment in this thread has a link to a source confirming the die is real, doesn’t mention the pillar tho

I am sort of amazed that between Charles Dickins and other serialized writers’ zeal for selling stuff and the Goths’ tendency to love superstitious parlor games somehow nobody in 1800s era ever managed to come up with a tabletop storytelling dice game (at least that I’ve ever heard of)

Now there are two “culturally homogeneous” groups

Hard to know where to begin with all of the history that you’re ignoring or just flat wrong about, but I guess one place to start would be pointing out that the US’s federation of colonies blew up in a civil war like a generation after its founding

I was about to say something about how Brexit must have really messed up municipal governments’ budgets in order for a town to approve something this obviously shoddy, but down in the middle of the article

It remains unclear who is behind the shoddy artwork. A source familiar with the situation said the decoration had been put up by the landlord, not Côte Brasserie or the Bill’s Kingston Restaurant. Futurism has also reached out to the local municipality for clarification.

That headline is misleading

Also basically every chapter of Habitat for Humanity has a home repair program people can apply to

“Everyone should be able to make their voice heard in truly democratic processes.” - good populism

“We should form an angry mob and go burn the houses of [minority group].” - bad populism

“To hell with the doctors, this old folk remedy totally cures [communicable disease].” - also bad populism

Populism is always going to be a force in politics imo, trying to stop it just leads to more bad populism than good populism

I bet the actual research has some interesting things to say, but this article feels like it’s vague on purpose so it can get positive reactions from both the people who define “populist” and “divisive” as “fascists” and “bigoted nonsense” and the people who define those things as “anyone who complains about wealth inequality” and “talking about global climate change or Israeli genocides”

That for profit company would appreciate people doing their advertising work for them for free I’m sure

Has it actually been reported anywhere that the sandwich in question came from this restaurant chain?

Actually, it’s even stupider than that I’m pretty sure, two grand juries refused to give them an indictment for a felony charge, so they brought a way less severe misdemeanor charge because you don’t have to get a grand jury to sign off on those, and that’s what we’re wasting this time on

The meetings, known as “audencias publicas,” or public hearings in Spanish,

NYT really thinks its readers are this stupid

In this tech-savvy age, when many get their questions answered online by swiping a phone or clicking a mouse, the consulate sessions are a throwback to another era, when problems were addressed face to face.

“Cliche factory on line two, something about overtime pay?”

Do things that demonstrate how shameful they are to the large group of people who don’t pay attention to the news or politics until that large group gets fed up with fascists’ bullshit

In addition to that reference, I bet this is a pandemic era joke about public health guidance

I think there’s also a bit of rationality behind that system, because

a) Trolls will just lie and declare an article says something it doesn’t to “win” an argument or waste people’s time making them read their bullshit article (usually something hosted on a website you don’t want to give traffic to)

b) Some people on those forums might have tightly constrained time-frames for looking at things because they’re students or they’re working in a restaurant or retail shop or some other kind of closely managed service job where they can get yelled at by a supervisor for using their phone

c) There’s a lot of content to get to on the internet

So, I think it’s kind of a dick move to get mad at other people for not reading the article, and it’s definitely a dick move to do that if you don’t take the time to quote the specific part of the article they’re claiming contradicts someone else

I came here to say both of those things about the Internet Archive, but I also hope both of those orgs get tons of donations regularly because I wouldn’t want to live in a world without them

Surprised they haven’t called these children super predators yet. Long long history of law enforcement be extremely reluctant to treat children like children when they’re brown children.

Ever since Biden pulled funding from UNRWA most American news orgs just forgot it existed

Ah yeah, that would make a lot more sense