On the day Alphabet sends Congress a letter admitting the Biden admin was exercising prior restraint over YouTube

There are no norms, and standards of practice and there have been none for decades now.

Anyone who accuses someone of violating norms is basically just BSing, it amounts to I can't make legal or policy argument, for why they can't do this but I don't like it. Its stupid, because we know the both our guys and the other guys are were doing morally and practically equivalent things just months ago, and both will do it again the instant they think anyone isn't looking.

"Norms!" the battle cry of political losers everywhere!

consider there are only 10 (ten) trans U.S. college athletes

Even if that is the case...that's 10 too many, especially if they are taking scholarships and records away from real biological women.

I thought liberals were all in about womens' rights?

I mean there's solid evidence that Republican voter suppression prevented 17 million Democrats from voting. That's a wide enough margin by far to have given Haris the win.

LOL..ok, you keep telling yourself that, rather than do a lot of retrospection and look inside to see what a poor candidate with a poor message you ran....and the republicans will continue to clean your clock.

Yep...SO much voter suppression with a Democrat president and senante during the election....not to mention the wins in DEM controlled states.....yes, keep telling yourself whatever makes you feel better.

I assume by "The Bible" that you mean some version of the Christian Bible that can be traced to the compilation defined as the Canon of Scripture at the Council of Rome in 382.

Texts recorded over a span of a few thousand years, but traced back to oral history much further. From a large library of what was available at the time, scholars discussed and compiled various sets in order to represent their own view of Christianity. With the Old Testament living heavily from Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) and Greek translations of the Hebrew Bible (Septuagint). Really, it took centuries of development before a consistent Bible ever appeared. With older editions containing rather interesting apocrypha that cannot be directly tied to either Christianity or Judaism origins but nonetheless included in many texts.

Almost certainly discouraged according to the text for Christians. Probably sacrilegious for Jews. Christians are not bound by laws in the Old Testament; being replaced by the law of Christ (Galatians 6:2).

P.S. I'm not a Christian. I amuse myself by studying their lore like I might any mythology. But let's be honest folks, the Olympic pantheon is way more entertaining.

Motivations and evaluation criteria.

Most employees are evaluated negatively if they spend a bunch of corporate money or invest a bunch of time and human resources in an activity or asset that proves to be a failure.

The top level decision makers though are evaluate on their 'vision' and being able to take advantage of opportunities in the market place.

Look at it this way, how many people are still talking about how much MS wasted building Zune's nobody wanted, vs their early Internet, and mobile phone misses? Which are the subjects of business school seminars? If it really proves the case the case that AI lets you replace half your workforce and rocket ahead of your competitors, but your the CEO who decided to pass, you are done for professionally. On the other hand if you spend a few million on AI investments and nothing comes of it, a quarter or two later its all forgotten.

If I spend a few hundred-K of my bosses money on some wiz-bang new tech-toy, and it proves to be useless or harmful to the business I am either getting laid off or at least my stock and future in the organization are probably a lot lower. If I wait to pitch him on something until it is more clearly a win even if it costs more than getting in on the ground floor might of I probably do alright. If wizbang turns out to be a dud or harmful, I end up looking smart because boss see's my advice to wait and see having been wise.

-The folks your c-suite may or may not be smarter than you or I, they probably are stupid either, they are just playing a very different game with a risk and reward structure that isn't like the one we are playing.

Another one for Godwin.

Okay facist!

See you can't write that and seriously believe in government by the people, for the people. Our Constitutional system more or less always described a spoils system. It has the President appointing his cabinet etc. The drafters did not have to do that, they could have written congress selects those positions or they could have made them elected positions as well, but they did not. The States did not have to ratify the the thing either but they did.

It is just strait up lying to say the intent was not have the executive chose a staff friendly to him and his agenda, presumably the agenda supported by the majority who elected him/her.

Progressives had congressional majorities, often significant one for most of the later 20th century, you know that era where modernization started happening far more rapidly and all those "gentleman's agreements" were used to run the country. They certainly could have tried to create some more Amendments and codify those but they did not. It is almost as if these oh so brilliant advisors and minds did not see this coming.

Elections SHOULD have consequences. People should get what they vote for, that is not compatible with a parochial group of Ivy Grads making all the important policy decisions without any real direct accountability to voters.

Fear of bullets. Anyone time someone poses a credible threat to the Federal reserve system, they tend to end up dead!

Are they new lenses bodacious bokeh monsters!?!?!

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(The photographers here should catch that one...)

Come on man, Obama did litterally whatever he wanted as far as military force, drone strikes on civilians, health policy, social policy implementation via the DOE, expanded subservience that would have made even Dubya blush, forced mergers of private entities, interference in bond holder credit disputes with automakers, etc.

The Court did nothing to check executive power in the Obama. The ONLY difference was the approach taken at the time. The Court rather than deal with a precedent, just side stepped the most consequential issues and time and again ruled nobody had standing to sue the government for basically anything. Remember the NSA can rifle thru all your personal communications secretly and as often as you like because you can't prove they did!

If anything the current court is at least generating decisions about the *real* issues before them rather than kicking the can down the line and ruling on legal minutia. These decisions can be debated argued and intentionally over turned by a future court. You might not like the outcomes but this court is serving the country better than it was in the Obama years.

As far as Biden goes, the Biden administration cases (besides perhaps student loans) larger were about individual liberties, Given the pandemic and social conditions that is what the country was focused on at the time. This court has been entirely consistent there too, see some of the losses its handed Trump on things like bump stocks. The court isn't partisan, it just appears so because because the left's political platform is less aligned present courts 'black letter' views.

Save it for the undergraduate sociology class. NASA picked the best candidates, end of. If there are no brown people there its because they weren't good enough whether that meets your ideological approval or not. There have been a number of black astronauts in the past so your claim of some conspiracy is just BS and if Trump had an issue with brown people he wouldn't have picked a VP with an Indian wife!

Obvious in your conspiratorial woke mind maybe. If it had been 10 black people I doubt you'd be posting asking where the white candidates were.

Oh sure, in theory they *could* be frontline but none of them ever pass the strict physicals so they tend to be back at basecamp on guard duty.

Careful - you're getting stuck in bipartisanship as well. Look, I totally think Obama was a far better president than Trump (and a decent human being to boot), but as someone outside of America, what really annoys me about Obama is that he just papered over the cracks from the global financial crisis and refused to burn political capital to actually take on the banks and wealthy elites.

The same thing happened in most other countries, but there was a time when a leader would sacrifice their popularity in order to push through unpopular but necessary change.

In some respects, Trump became possible because at least he is going around smashing things up. Not in a good or coherent way but, like Brexit in the UK, when people keep voting for leaders who make big promises then continue the status quo, they eventually just start voting for anyone who will do anything different.

These people get stuck in a self-fulfilling bubble though. They don't realise that anyone who is a decent grad and comes across well in an interview isn't going to be apply for their minimum wage grad job at their no-name engineering firm. I find, especially with engineering in the UK, many companies haven't figured out that the top engineering grads just go into finance, management consulting or FAANG where they get paid decent starting wages. These candidates are filtering out grad jobs advertised at year 2000 salary levels.

The applicants engineering companies then get are increasingly the bottom of the barrel. They then complain that the quality is so low, so ironically, try to reduce salaries even further.

I know plenty of very good engineers who would return to the traditional industries if the pay was anywhere close to what you can get elsewhere. Meanwhile the lament about lack of talent continues...