VikingHippie @ VikingHippie @lemmy.wtf

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Wasn't this the cover story of Well, Duh! Magazine way back in 2021?

Me when I pet a dog and my watch thinks I'm going for a run 😄

My name would be Søen, which is Danish for "The Lake" 😄

This is Deep Gnome erasure

Do beware of the caveat that up until quite recently, the Democrats had a substantial minority faction of anti-abortion politicians from the south.

"Before you criticise our dear leaders, take into account the anti-choice people who the leadership actively supported and promoted!"

Every time a conservative democrat runs against a progressive or even a further left liberal, DNC leadership supports the conservative.

The last anti-choice Dem representative, Henry Cuellar, was losing to pro-choice progressive Jessica Cisneros until Nancy Pelosi and Jim Clyburn endorsed him and personally showed up to speak at his rallies.

you think Santa looks stupid

As someone who's not a fan of Christmas but IS a jolly fat man with a big beard (dark brown with gray in it, though, not white), that's not my FAVORITE reason...

So basically he wants an American version of the Iranian "Morality Police" torturing and killing people for not adhering to their archaic dogma.

And they thought "Y'all Quaeda" was a joke..

Stuck man! Put on the sled light!

Even public sector versions that ARENT working would be a much better situation. The only thing worse than a secretly corrupt cop is an openly for-profit private "security force" paid for by and therefore OFFICIALLY beholden to the rich and their interests above all.

Sure, let's replace the bastards with worse bastards that are only there for profit and would make less profit if crime were to go down! That'll fix it! 🤦

And my point is and has always been that any tiny advantage of misleading their readers like this is multifold overshadowed by the many negative consequences.

Even if they DIDN'T have a fixed amount set aside for making frivolous lawsuits go away (again, a publication the size of Forbes definitely do), the cost of having the lawyers draw up paperwork saying "fuck off, you don't have a case", only more professionally, is trivial to Forbes.

You can keep yammering on about how not saying "alleged" about a legal certainty would have them sued to bankruptcy all you want but that doesn't change the fact that it just isn't true.

It really doesn't. Lawyers on retainer are on paid no matter whether they have anything to do. That's what being on retainer mean.

It costs nothing to ignore an unlawful legal request, at least not when you already have lawyers on retainer to do exactly that. A publication the size of Forbes ABSOLUTELY do.

There's no legal or economic downside to ommitting "alleged" and it still sends the misleading message that she might be innocent, which could feed into her false martyrdom scam and actually help "earn" her a lot more money than the fine cost.

In conclusion: there's no potential downside to NOT spreading false doubt like that and there's a ton of potential downside to doing it.

It doesn't cost any money to defend against a suit that no judge would accept.

To allow a suit based on the assumption that the FEC was wrong and Forbes must have known so is the kind of insanity that gets a judge removed from the bench in even the most conservative jurisdictions.

So no, there's absolutely no valid excuse for Forbes to use the word in this case.

Yes yes, I know. What I'm saying is that there's no way they're going to be sued based on going by the determination of the FEC that anyone is guilty, least of all a politician who's known to be a serial liar.

On the other hand, using "alleged" when she HAS been declared guilty by the government agency implies that they may have gotten it wrong and/or that their ruling isn't legally binding. Either would add fuel to her and the rest of the GOP's martyrdom narrative.

If anything, the FTC should begin to fine every instance of a media outlet using "alleged" when someone has legally been found guilty.

Maybe the only way to finally fix the system is to stop tipping

No. The livelihood of servers is not an acceptable sacrifice to help servers. Defeats the point completely and there's no guarantee that it'll work.

so servers will go elsewhere until pay comes up

Go where? It's not like they all live in areas that have even a single place that pays servers a living wage or can afford to mo.

serving is usually a “job” not a career.

To paraphrase Matthew Perry (RIP): could you BE anymore condescending towards people with a career in the service industry?

I claim that many minimum wage jobs are easier to switch among

And you'd be wrong. People work minimum wage because it was the least bad job available. Unless you're part of a union, employers have all the power and afford none to workers.

If a job requires special skills and knowledge, it deserves pay as such.

Every job does. There's no such thing as unskilled labor.

Far from it, dude.

Or his identical twin brother

And then culminating in Clinton

Is not a succession of words I particularly like in an article about Trump..