I guess, providing someone time to pray, and that person placing "I AM MUSLIM" On their official correspondence as a public servant/employee representing their department are two different things. I am not defending anyone here, just curious how it applies.
As for this situation, it seems if the memo said "you can't put your pronouns or tribal affiliation on your signature" vs "Please use this official template for your email signature" would make all the difference in how a lawyer could defend it. And it sounds like they did the latter. But we all know the reason they did it.
Devils advocate, because it is my nature... I work in government. My department has a policy with the formatting of my email signature sent from my work email. My email states my name, rank/position, department, and contact information with the department logo. Nowhere in there does it state my sex or race. And it shouldn't, it is irrelevant. It serves no purpose in a professional capacity.
However, this situation apparently has prior issues. It was apparently fine to do until they made discriminatory statements then shortly after cracked down on it.
Unfortunately I don't think the 1st amendment defense would apply when you are acting in an official capacity. You don't get to say whatever you want while you get paid by the government. On your personal time that is a different story.
Can we just ..... not keep going down the brain rot rabbit hole we are going down as a society? 24 hours in a day doesn't allow enough screen time? We need to just... funnel this shit straight in somehow?
I used to be excited for this kind of stuff, then I saw what we've done with the technology we have. People are "auto" driving their cars while they wear their apple vision pros, that's what we do with it.... Pretty soon tiktoc titties will be streamed straight to our frontal cortex.
Maybe I am just old, or maybe it would just be better if it was a different company doing it. But maybe a giant meteor should take us out ASAP.
Isn't this the lady that exonerated Adnan Syed? I don't remember the specifics, but I remember her reasoning being overly politial and questionable. Just random that I recognized her as someone who lives on the other side of the country.
As much as I am a skeptic of everything this administration pretends to try to do, but making it legal for medical purposes is what started the legalization process in every legalized state. Biden doesn't make malicious moves, he just does half measures on everything that usually result in nothing but a show.
There would be a market for adenosine in prisons if this held up. Usually stops the heart for ~10 seconds when slammed in the IV. We use it to convert supraventricular tachycardia back to a normal sinus rhythm. But there is a few seconds if terror most the time.
Would you like the officer to take a second mortgage out on his home and build her a room on his house? The system is broken, the cop did his best to not make it worse.
It would be political Suicide for an active republican. Even if only 10% of Republicans jump ship because of that comment that's enough to never get you elected again. In reality it is likely a lot more than 10%.
I guess it is hard to imagine an internet company lasting that long mostly because the hasn't been around that long, it's only been 31 years since it went public. A year later Amazon was formed. I would bet money Amazon and Google easily make it to 50. Along with many many others. A small, not overly commercialized company like slack would be crazy. I wouldn't be surprised if they get gobbled up by a mega Corp as the enshitification continues.
Yes, varying people have different opinions on subjects. It is easy to think a comment with upvotes is the way the hivemind goes, but the hivemind has multiple factions.
I, personally, have no opinion on the matter. The dude was septic and had a stroke. While it seems unlikely that was murder, I guess it is possible if you have infinite resources to make it look natural. But that is one HELL of a coincidence to have two whistle-blowers die . .. like. .. pretty fucking insane. Watch these next ten all die and no one important bats an eye.
If I was sleeping in a strangers home my door would be shut regardless of the dog. And either locked or with luggage/ furniture in front of it. Just in case Kevin wasn't a dog. ..
Maybe future people knew about his supposed ties to Epstein and didn't want to show up...