Are they the same standards?
Claudine Gay came under scrutiny because of *her* actions.
His wife came under scrutiny because of his actions.
Can you not see the difference?
Direct accountability vs guilt by association.
Neither Claudine Gay nor Ms. Ackman intended to commit plagiarism,
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Claudine Gay had a rather lengthy history of plagiarism *starting* from her PHD thesis and continuing through her later career.
I know nothing of Ms Ackman, time may show similar or different, however your dishonest lumping of the two together at this stage is well... dishonest.
At some point, intent is clear from actions, not words.
and if asked if they had beforehand they'd honestly answer they never had committed plagiarism.
OJ Simpson will also tell you he didn't kill his wife and doesn't know who did... and will seem rather genuine when answering.
Guilty people lie, and sometimes lie so well as to fool themselves eventually.
The Catholics may disagree⦠as they have a Bishop of the Moon: https://web.archive.org/web/20...
Have you looked into what it takes to become an electrician? 4800-16000 hours of work (California-Iowa) as a journeyman. Yes, there may be added demand, also a rather high bar to pass to be able to do such work.
Know what happens when electricians are hard to come by? People do the work themselves, at least residentially. Perhaps the answer isn't maintaining the current incumbent protectionist licensing regime.
Congratulations, you lucked out and got a good government car, not all drivers/owners are so lucky. I've had enough friends try them and run screaming back to ICE vehicle's that my anecdotes outweigh yours.
That's how this works, right?
I'd wager also you're not in a northern state, up here, trading range for heat is not a compelling sell. I had to do an emergency clean-up of a seat in my truck earlier today, and now going to leave it running all night to make sure the wet spots don't freeze and dry, a natural (though slightly expensive) byproduct of an ICE vehicle, where I can be confident that if I am stuck in a ditch overnight, I'm not going to freeze based on how I was driving earlier. 36 gallon fuel tanks are amazing.
Another disadvantage of gold is that it's dead wealth: it earns no interest and is a poor long term investment.
It earns no interest but inflation serves the purpose of interest for a precious metal.
I just go back to the example of the 1964 silver quarter.
In 1964, the minimum wage was $1.25 per hour. If you had 5 1964 silver quarters today, they'd be worth over $21.
That's just under 5% annual return over the past 59 years.
By no means is that exemplary but it's also not just a dead asset either.
LK
Examples of such factual information?
Hunter Biden's laptop.
LK
Some people have a real problem with "congress shall make no law".
LK
There is, as there should be, a concerted effort to ensure the information they have available to them isn't factually incorrect, particularly information made available for malicious intent.
If this was what was happening, few people would have a problem with it.
What was happening is that factual information, that ran counter to the approved narrative was being squelched via collusion between the public and private sectors. That's a problem.
You may not mind when you agree with the censors but the day always comes when people with whom you disagree get the reigns.
LK
And most cartoons were designed to sell something.
GI Joe, Transformers, He-Man, She-Ra, Jem and the Holograms... All of those shows were long ass commercials intended to introduce kids to their newest toys so that we could pester our parents to get them.
They were still fun to watch.
LK
I want to see more of this kind of thing.
Companies have gotten too used to fucking people over and facing no more severe a backlash than some angry emails or an ineffective boycott.
I want executives to be afraid that some unhinged person will show up on their back porch, à la Paul Pelosi, if they screw people over too badly.
LK
My guess is that the patient has permanent brain damage but things stopped getting worse.
Sounds like she might be the next Presidential candidate. I know she's in Australia but is she an American citizen?
LK
No, it's not extortion.
But it absolutely is.
Using the power of government to compel someone to pay money is extortion.
If we really want to break it down, it's more like this.
Facebook/Meta was telling people "Hey, there's an article over there about this subject. If you want to know more, you can go read it.", people go to the original source (the website) to read the article, the website gets ad revenue from the visitor and everybody gets something.
Now, Facebook/Meta is like "What newspaper? I don't know about any newspapers." People aren't being referred, the website isn't generating the ad revenue and Trudeau is bitching because the reaction to his policy wasn't what he thought it would be.
LK
Canada attempted to extort money from Facebook.
Facebook denied it.
Canada is crying because in the course of avoiding their extortion attempt, Facebook cut off important news to Canadian users.
Get fucked Trudeau. You caused this!
LK
Company makes stupid UI choice and fixes it, story at 11... wait you already have the whole story.
Perhaps it's news because the company was willing to fix it. Microsoft and Google never do.
LK
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
