It was closed due to budget - yes, it means it was too expensive to pay staff and cover costs. That’s because (a) they can’t hire enough staff because they don’t want to work there and (b) the insurance premiums are sky-high because they have to account for the higher risk. The article basically ignores the fact that…

What should happen? A major hospital in every small town, staffed by nurses and OBs who are forced to practice there?

The fatality rate on trains loaded like that is insane.

People routinely die subway surfing and have for ages. It’s a miracle that kid survived at all.

If you want to argue effectively, you have to engage with the real arguments of your opponents. You can’t just pretend they don’t exist, or engage with only the weakest and easily dismissed. You may be aware and very familiar with the various counters to your analysis, but by ignoring it you make that impossible for…

It’s bad design that they did it, and bad testing that it wasn’t caught. So, bad design is still accurate, not sure where you’re coming from that its the ‘wrong conclusion.’

That’s fucking rude, are you a game designer? If not, does that mean you’re ruled out from ever offering any design criticism?

That a game is good doesn’t mean that every element of it is beyond criticism. This is obviously a flaw, if a minor one. Not something people should get amped up about, but also worthy of some mild criticism (i.e. that its an example of bad design).

It’s not some crazy discovery - it’s explicitly intended. It’s a way to make you buy more than you really want to by giving you that ‘its such a better deal’ feeling. Marketers understand psychology, and it works all over the place - on Amazon they’ll run a sale, and cut the price of something (or pretend to) to catch…

What duty does Subway - or any company or any organization or individual - to tell person B negative information about person A so that person B can use that knowledge in deciding whether to have a romantic relationship with A?

I don’t think that’s true. You can’t claim money because someone else was “inspired by” your song to write their own song. You get a legal judgment in your favor for damages when a court finds that another person illegally appropriated your intellectual property for their own commercial use - meaning you own it, they…

If you pay cops more, better people will become cops instead of taking other jobs that also pay more than cops currently get. It’s not really complicated.

Don’t give second or third hand legal advice. The standards for a search without consent are defined by United States Supreme Court precedent, not state law. Any officer, in any state, can perform a search with probable cause.

Just to let you know, Salma Hayek’s husband and his family have about $50 billion. That might be hard to top...

It looks like they are actually in the LMTV and using it in one of those videos... Might suggest it doesn’t actually belong to the NG or wasn’t being used by the NG at the time.

Why are you just making up bullshit?

It seems like USA Gymnastics and athletes could resolve complaints with a contract without involving a court system at all, in a way that could be described as ‘settling’ with victims. Which is apparently not legal in California, but would be one way that a judge might not have been involved in the process. If they…

“settled out of court”

I knew Dan, he was my ski instructor when I was a kid and I went to school with his daughter.

Haha, best post on this collection of sites in quite awhile.