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There is also a fundamental misunderstanding of Roe vs. Wade in this question.

Roe vs Wade did NOT establish a woman's bodily autonomy. Roe vs. Wade established that women had a right to an abortion because their existing right to PRIVACY allowed them to consult and make medical decisions without government intervention.

Yes, that is an exceedingly weak and cowardly ruling, and followers of the court warned people for DECADES that it was a weak ruling, and it made it precarious since the beginning.

But that's also your explanation for why it wouldn't cover prostitution. Commerce is not covered by the right to privacy.

Don't you realize you're speaking to the main character?

They're far from the only country to do this. Japan is the same way. Driving after even a drop of alcohol is illegal. It's technically even illegal to operate a bicycle with any alcohol in you.

My Nvidia card won't properly resume the display after suspend with the default suspend script, but if I correct the script file, every time aptitude updates the nvidia drivers, it restores the bad version of the configuration file. If you set the file immutable with chattr, aptitude throws a fit and goes into a broken state when it can't overwrite the file on a driver update.

So I keep a good copy of the script file in the directory, and in my pre-suspend script file I overwrite the main suspend script with the good version. Every single time.

"I like Eastern Europe as a whole because corruption is far more accessible," Tate said. "I find it offensive that a police officer in England will stop me and refuse to take a bribe."

Bet you're missing that guarantee of a speedy trial, huh?

Don't let the door hit you on the way out!

Huh... turns out I'm a vampire.

...I can't even say that sarcastically without throwing up in my mouth a little.

The real trick is going to be when his campaign starts AI manipulating photos and videos to make his crowds look bigger, and how they will likely do it badly, and the mockery that will follow.

Of course, he'll just deny it and his followers will accept his denial, but it's business as usual at this point.

For the athletes, it's a not a waste of time and effort.

For the hosting countries/cities?

They cost a TON of time and money, and it's a dubious proposition that the host cities ever recover that investment. Olympic villages are also rarely the best possible use of prime land, and often involve buying up and gentrifying entire neighborhoods for the purpose of building the facilities, and for the duration of the event, and the planning leading up to it, your city basically gives up autonomy to an organization that spends your resources as if they were their own in order to create a platform to sell advertising rights in the guise of sportsmanship. For the Olympics to be more sustainable and less corrupted by commercial interests, they should focus less on spectacle and expenditure and rely more on existing infrastructure.

Furthermore, while sport is an important and noble endeavor, it is by no means any more important than any other human endeavor, and every four years we have to be exposed to the intersection of sports and politics in discussions about nations that, for example, allow medalists to avoid conscription or escape poverty in various countries in exchange for bringing national prestige, and rarely do we take the opportunity to discuss what this says about our priorities, simply accepting the elevated prestige we place on this particular sporting event without question.

In short, I don't agree their cancellation would cause NOTHING of value to be lost, but the Olympics as an event in its current incarnation has PLENTY worth reevaluating, and we could all benefit greatly from reexamining its scale and role.

You're right of course, but you're also wasting your breath.

In 2024 the business sociopaths have so many people so twisted and screwed up in the head that they can't even CONCEIVE of the idea of a person or organization focused on delivering a product sustainably rather than "MONEY MONEY MONEY, NOM NOM NOM!" for eternity.

If they are shit at communicating it will affect share prices which could end a company. They have to say the right things at the right times or they could potentially break laws by saying the wrong things.

I notice, very glaringly, you didn't mention a SINGLE thing about the company running efficiently, being profitable, producing something of value...

It's not that the company could end if it doesn't do well at what it does. It's that the company could end if fickle, short-term focused asshats aren't happy, and to keep them happy, you need a head fickle, short-term focused asshat at the helm.

God, I wish every company could just be private.

Don't be silly.

Parents writing that letter, while misguided, is still them trying to protect their child, and so has an element of selflessness, and their hearts are in the right place.

This is like him PERSONALLY threatening people for not being friends with him, which is way creepier and unsettling.

Maybe don't insult the people you're trying to represent at ALL, asshole.

Oh, absolutely. There are good reasons why that wouldn't be an option.

But those would get in the way of the joke, so I'm choosing to ignore them.

Possibly, but you know who has a history of surviving things that would kill any other crew member and has exhibited at least incredible radiation resistance even in that very same episode?

Also, it's very un-starfleet to consider one member of the crew more irreplaceable or valuable than any other, even if it is true.