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From the article:

On Tuesday morning, The Liberty Hotel said it has finished an investigation into the incident and "the security officer is being suspended from their position." It said all staff are being retrained "on inclusive practices and guest interaction protocols." The hotel is also making a donation to a local LGBTQ+ organization.

I know that this is an ongoing thing between these 2 countries, but it always makes me nervous when I remember that they both have a nuclear arsenal.

The title is missing a key point here:

US Supreme Court let's Trump's transgender military ban take effect | while appeals continue.

This isn't a final decision if you took it that way.

Some judges are allowing people to request to attend Zoom hearings because of these interruptions.

We want people to attend their hearings, but getting arrested for showing up is sending the wrong message. Especially so for for those who have a good case.

They should just make it so that whatever they announce as their "earnings" to their stockholders should also be the amount that they are taxed for.

This is why you don't take on odd jobs from people contacting you remotely.

If your only job is to forward packages/letters/money sent to your home address (or to pick up packages from nearby addresses) and you get a cut of the money, you're probably a mule for money laundering.

If your only job is helping others from another country (they will like about where they're actually from) get through interview/hiring processes, you're probably working with countries like this.

If they want to use your name for a job application, you don't have to do any work, and they will send you most of the paycheck, you're probably working with countries like this.

It's "constitutional" because they're accusing the "money" of being used illegally. There's no actual person being accused here, but if you want to get your money back you'll need to prove it's innocence in court.

It's ridiculous. At least the Institute for Justice has been winning court cases against this, but there's still a long way to go: https://ij.org/issues/private-property/civil-forfeiture/

Edit: typo

It's not something unique to capitalism. In communism you can easily have tons of monopolies as well.

Regulation is definitely a good thing. Competition among companies is a good thing.

A friend from Italy told me that they keep the best cheese for themselves and export the rest.

Relevant xkcd:

Direct link to the study:
https://alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/alz.70072

Lemmy.world takes the official stance of blocking VPNs:

https://lemmy.world/comment/12079632

The maximum age for the President, or someone in the Senate/Congress should be based on a percentage of the average livespan of everyone in the country.

It's adaptive and also incentivizes them to make choices which will benefit everyone's health, rather than the health of the elite.

While shadow banning is an option, it's also a terrible idea because of how it will eventually get used.

Just look at how Reddit uses it today.

The easy solution is to just disable overdraft protection, and that's exactly what will happen.

Well, sounds like you're admitting that their removal reason was entirely accurate.

What's considered the "worst" vs "best" news source will always be an opinion for any individual user. You can't expect everyone else to share your same values.

Some users may value their privacy more than others.

Some users value news sources based on how much information their journalists are able to provide.

Some users hate clickbait titles and so they avoid those.

Some users prefer smaller news sources that most others haven't heard of.

For some users, the first thing that comes back in a search result is the best source.

Some users take the time to compare the information on the various sources through something like ground news and they try to pick the one that captures an interesting bit of information.

Well... I can tell you who didn't do it.

To be fair, what we specifically have is a republic, although we do have democratic voting to elect our representatives.

Some of those representatives take the stance that they can choose whatever they want best, regardless of what their constituents want, because they were voted in.

Other representatives take the stance that they should vote for whatever the majority of their constituents want.

This wasn't touched on in the video, but another bad side to making sub minimum wage is when the restaurant has the servers do "side work" at the end of the night before they can go home.

Basically it's "Free labor" for the restaurant, because you're still going to get a 0$-$2 paycheck at the end of the pay period.

This work is done after all your tables have gone, and typically involves things like pulling up the seat cushions and cleaning underneath, rolling/folding up napkins, filling up salt/pepper shakers, collecting all of the condiments off the tables, etc.

One restaurant in particular even had us doing some kitchen prep work (in addition to the side work listed above) like dumping whatever was left in the ketchup bottles into a larger container for sauces, stripping herbs off their stems, etc.

Usually this took about 20-30 min, but you couldn't go until it was done and someone had to sign off on it, or else they would pick up the slack if someone else didn't do everything.