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Comment Duty to affirm the truthfullness of court filings (Score 1) 43

The attorneys involved have under state bar regulations a duty to vet the accuracy and truthfulness of documents filed with the court.

Asking a LLM, well known to produce inaccurate results, and then filing them with the court without verification goes against that.

Comment Re:How about prohibiting display advertising? (Score 1) 25

Mostly common guidelines. It's also social media rewarding people with exhibitionism as their primary purpose.

A few of the restrictions per different fan conventions.

- Harassing or offensive behavior will not be tolerated.
- The Costume Props Policy is subject to change at any time and final approval on costume props will be at the sole discretion of our Prop Safety Officers.
- Realistic cosplay of first responders and/or security is not permitted.
- No Handouts - No distribution of any materials—including flyers, stickers, cards, or any promotional item—is allowed in any area inside
- Selfie sticks, GoPro poles, stilts, or any device that extends your camera or phone away from your hand or body are not allowed at Comic-Con. I

https://www.newyorkcomiccon.co...
- heavy cast iron pans
- The use of makeup, including prosthetics, to change your natural skin tone or features to those of another realistic race has been a contentious topic for a number of years in the global cosplay community.
- Nudity is not permitted, nor are exposed costume or prosthetic genitalia.
event suggestive lingerie/boudoir costumes and Adult ... attire
- Skimpy costumes are permitted though concessions to accuracy are needed if skimpy to the point of negligible coverage i.e. less than typical swimwear.
profanities or sexual acts
- Most cosplayers will be happy to have their picture taken unless they are busy but respect their right to say no

https://fanexpohq.com/fanexpos...
- All costumed attendees are required to have opaque fabric of some type providing complete coverage of ...
- Opaque bodysuits that simulate nudity are not allowed.

Comment Injustice, Inc. by Daniel Hatcher law professor (Score 1) 104

A good book explaining the economics and government profit motive in the family court system

https://theappeal.org/injustic...

Injustice, Inc. - How America’s Justice System Commodifies Children and the Poor
by Daniel L. Hatcher - Professor of Law in the University of Baltimore

Essentially, there are multiple federal government programs which give grants to state and local governments to split families apart, put children in foster care and how those programs are a financial profit center for county/state family courts.

Comment Agree (Score 1) 104

I'd agree, motivated persons will work harder and are more likely to climb the economic ladder.

There is a link between divorce and lower education rates.

"Children whose parents divorce tend to have worse educational outcomes than children whose parents stay married"

Parental divorce is not uniformly disruptive to children’s educational attainment
Jennie E. Brand, Ravaris Moore, Xi Song, and Yu Xie yuxie@princeton.eduAuthors Info & Affiliations
March 26, 2019 - 116 (15) 7266-7271
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1...

Comment Re:Reading the article/21.2% on mental health meds (Score 1) 88

Another class of medicines. Doctors, hospitals and medical staff will eventually require witnesses in the room to prevent accusations.

https://theconversation.com/an...

Anesthesia can cause disturbing sexual hallucinations, leading to lasting psychological trauma
Published: May 24, 2023 8:17am EDT

Some patients can have vivid and detailed sexual hallucinations during anesthesia with sedative-hypnotic drugs like propofol, midazolam, diazepam and nitrous oxide. Some make suggestive or sexual comments or act out, such as grabbing or kissing medical professionals or touching themselves in a sexual way. Others awaken erroneously believing they were sexually assaulted. ...
Reports of sexual hallucinations

Sixteen of the individual cases we found in our review involved patients reporting sexually amorous behavior or perceived sexual assault. In these cases, observers like health professionals or family members were also present during the procedure,

Comment How about prohibiting display advertising? (Score 1) 25

https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueU...

"I truly think the rise of female influencers have ruined comic-cons and cosplaying in general. They have turned these spaces into hyper-sexual places where they can wear tight clothing and film content. You can barely bring kids to these conventions anymore. Cosplaying used to be about artist dressing up as their favorite characters and is now turned into “how can I make X characters look as sexualized as possible”. "

Comment $700,000 for MBA & declining jobs market for t (Score 1) 82

Top business school MBA programs used to be a quick fast-track to executive management of large corporations. Apparently, that's less likely to happen.

https://timesofindia.indiatime...
Job offers for MBA grads from top US schools drop sharply in 2024.

A few maybe ideas:
- This may also be related to the large drop in huge multi-year federal contracting projects by Deloitte and other consulting firms.
- The decline in MBA graduates willing to put in 100 hour weeks at investment banking jobs
- The changing of the 60 year post-WWII economy from the last generation to spend their entire careers climbing the corporate ladder exiting the workforce and letting the 15 year long "keep things the same, buy back stock a little each year, cut costs as a long-term business plan" be retired.

Comment Social costs (Score 1) 41

The social costs happen during times when both political parities have held office in the US.

It's not just one party, the out of power political wants an angry disaffected group to appeal to and get votes from.

The long tail voting demographic is that people who do not work for wages, work part time, or have their living expenses paid for by a working spouse/partner are much more likely to vote for feel-good programs, government social handouts, and more accommodation of whatever social behavior people want to pursue.

People who work and pay taxes vote more on economic policy than on social programs or positions on social policy.

Comment Question for the UK (Score 1) 41

Question for the UK:

What is left of GDP when you remove:
- Producing, transporting, selling fluor, bread, milk, eggs, butter and other basic foods
- Shuffling financial paper around in the stock and bond markets
- GDP related to heating, lighting, and providing water to government funded housing
- GDP related to operating, maintaining, and administering government funded housing
- GDP related to operating prisons and jails
- GDP related to operating, maintaining and staffing historic government buildings

What is that as a percentage of total GDP?

How much GDP per person is there per year for this, is it declining, increasing or staying the same?

About 17% is in public housing per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

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