Also thanks to GRETA (Council of Europe’s monitoring body for human trafficking) for pushing Romania to strengthen its anti human trafficking legislation and policies.

What makes it unenforceable to you? There’s plenty of behavior that is regulatable but isn’t for various reasons, and while difficulty of enforceability might be one of those reasons that isn’t necessarily the case in this instance. This isn’t an issue of what the law is, but what the law could be, and if it’s…

doubled down on Cuomo’s mistakes immediately after her first actual election.

NYT coverage on the nomination: “Hochul Taps First Latino Judge To Head ... Top Court, LaSalle, a moderate ... , could anger Democratic lawmakers who wanted ... a progressive.”

Pretty much, though I think it’s worth pointing out that there might also be separate constituencies of independents here, where some of them, hell, even some Democrats, are perfectly fine, maybe even personally better off with Republican control. Parts of Wall Street were anticipating to take off if Republicans won…

But government does have real control over it; Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, and Nixon all exercised some form of price controls over certain goods and services, gas and oil among them, as a way of dealing with demand spikes and profiteering. While the economic consensus is adamantly against their use in the United…

We’ve done two years of these guys and not only is my life not better, it might just be worse, so let’s go with the other guys. There, that’s the thought process.

It’s how best game ever or best stories in games ever lists constantly skew to the last decade of releases.

The guy supplied small nation states and jumped-up militias using Soviet, Eastern European, and Russian materiel, and he’s been out of it for more than a decade. The idea that Russia desperately needs Bout because he’s the only person with the contacts and sanction-dodging knowhow to enable the Russian army to rearm…

I read the comic, there are a couple visual similarities involving something like 2 or 3 panels of art and a minor setting similarity none of which I’d call unique to the comic. That said, the plot, the characters, really the bulk of everything else is different.

70 is a fair price from the developer’s perspective. For players, who have finite attention and time, have to earn that money to spend it, might want to play many games during the year, and have a history of preordering or buying games that end up released in an unfinished state, 70 might not be that fair. In fact,…

Nah, just shows where America’s two political parties have gotten to on the left-right continuum. Or, rather where their prominent politicians happen to be. Biden’s political leanings are pretty squarely in Rockefeller Republican territory. 

If they fall into the same percentages where are you getting 300 and 600 from?

If .5-1% of all teens make a suicide attempt with no prior history, then that number would be 10-21000, if you use people aged 15-18 as the definition of teen. I don’t get where you’re coming up with 300-600, which would be 5-10% of the suicides in 2020.

It’s a lot in the sense that one is tragic, but the number of people aged 15-24 who committed suicide in 2020 was around 6000, so your .5-1% turns into about 30-60 people, which isn’t really that high. That’s ~30-60 out of ~6000 out of ~43,000,000 15-24-year-olds living in the U.S. in 2020.

It’s because antitrust regulation is administration dependent, and both Democrats and Republicans have basically been willfully asleep at the wheel for a good long time. Neither Disney-Fox nor AT&T-Time Warner, nor TMobile-Sprint should’ve been approved, from a healthy competition perspective, yet here we are. The…

He was interviewed as part of PBS’ coverage of Dobbs back in June, where he discussed why he changed his views on abortion. Broadly-speaking, he realized that the society he lives in doesn’t support parents and their children once they’re born, and saw that the anti-abortion movement had shifted from a moral, Christian…

As you pointed out, the United States engaged in chattel slavery for hundreds of years—I don’t find that a compelling reason to refrain from investigating, fighting, prosecuting, and punishing modern practitioners of slavery (e.g., human traffickers; ISIS re- the Yazidi; etc.)

Was the 9 year sentence outside of the sentencing guidelines/norms of the Russian Federation? Honestly asking.

Can I vote Monaco?