I honestly don’t think it’s a problem at all. Anti-SLAPP was written to stop powerful and wealthy people and individuals from abusing the courts by suing the media or individuals. If you try to silence someone through the California courts and you lose, you’re likely to have to pay their legal costs. Her lawyer would…

The courts have generally been very deferential to the first amendment in cases like these. I suspect that if you made, “publishing naked pictures of someone without their permission,” criminal, the law would almost certainly be overturned as violating the first amendment. The revenge porn laws have tried to be narrow…

The west coast is generally abysmal for bagels. LA had some decent bagels. Now, finally the Bay Area is getting some. In about 20-50 years, they should be available in Portland and Seattle.

Yeah, the problem with this is just that we really don’t know how good natural immunity or the vaccine is. For instance, the mRNA vaccines I believe use one specific antigen, which is going to trigger a specific immune response we know is effective at fighting current strains of COVID-19. A real infection has the real…

I mean, the level of antibodies doesn’t really matter for long-term immunity. Generally, vaccines can be tailored for maximum immunity based on data whereas with natural infections, you get what you get.

Immunity always fades after an infection/vaccine. The only real question is how long it lasts before you need a booster shot for the vaccine to remain effective. For some vaccines, it could be every few months, for others, every few years, for some, every few decades.

The thing is, not everyone knows if they have a compromised immune system. Like, maybe I have the vaccine, but I’m working long hours and not getting much sleep and I pick up a couple of infections that my body is fighting off, then you give me COVID-19. The infection isn’t necessarily dangerous to me. It might not…

I mean, people with medical conditions who are vaccinated and who are wearing masks have to be able to live their lives. They’re relying on everyone else getting vaccinated and wearing masks to protect them, because even with the vaccine and even with a mask, someone with a compromised immune system can still become…

  Experiments establish that elevating heart rates predict elevated metabolic rates and elevated metabolic rates predict elevated heart rates. They’re logically equivalent. Also, every single measurement of energy expenditure is correlative. There’s no way to directly measure energy expenditure. That’s how energy…

Yeah, because what I wrote was actually backed by science. Some people’s hearts are more efficient than others, either because they’re in better cardiovascular health or they’re smaller people with less blood to move. Changes in heart rate are still strongly correlated with energy expenditure, even allowing for…

Heart rate is a statistically-significant indicator of energy expenditures and is used by biomedical devices and fitness trackers as a way to model energy expenditures without having to use more accurate, cumbersome methods such as measuring oxygen intake and CO2 expenditure.

I mean, like all training, that really depends on what you’re doing and things like your body composition. For a morbidly obese person in bad shape for whom walking 3 mph on flat surfaces for 30 minutes will easily get him a cardio workout, he’ll probably be able to burn more energy through walking versus strength…

Legs are your biggest sets of muscles. Not only can leg exercises burn a lot of calories, but building leg muscle is a good way to burn calories long-term. If say, you add ten pounds of muscle mass to your legs, that’s hundreds of extra calories burnt just sitting and watching TV. And that probably works out to about…

Yeah, good luck arguing that in court. I’m sure a jury is going to be really sympathetic if you’re prosecuted and sued. 

Prosecutors have an ethical duty not to pursue charges unless they believe they can be proven in court. Federal prosecutors generally have manuals that instruct on when it is appropriate to pursue charges. Local prosecutors have more latitude to act like cowboys, but they shouldn’t, because that’s ethically-dubious.…

 As already discussed, there doesn’t seem to be any compelling evidence of misdemeanor assault and battery here. So which specific charges do you think a prosecutor could prove, beyond a reasonable doubt, based on the story?

I mean, there’s no criminal case against the teacher based on the article unless the local law is remarkably different than it is in California. Criminal battery generally requires proving, beyond a reasonable doubt, that the teacher’s mental intent was to cause physical harm (like pain or discomfort) or to cause rude…

I can’t speak for every state, but in California, it’s battery if you cut into someone’s hair with the intent to physically harm them (like you rip someone’s hair out of the roots and cause them physical pain or you intentionally stab shears  into their scalp to hurt them). It’s also battery if it can be proven that…

Yeah, that’s a great idea. Then you can risk a lawsuit or criminal prosecution, but at least you mildly annoyed an underpaid public servant in the process. 

I mean, you’re comparing an adult assaulting another adult to a seven year old assaulting a classmate. No sane prosecutor would pursue charges like this against someone 12 or under.