This actually isn’t completely accurate. The Contract Clause was mainly implemented to prevent states from nullifying the contracts (usually of powerful individuals) via legislation, a practice known as “private relief.” Also, prior to the ratification of the Constitution (i.e. under the Articles of Confederation)…

There are ways to get out of contracts, mainly if they were signed under duress. But there’s a high burden of proof for that kind of thing, as there should be. It’s not just an ancient and paternalistic idea that society would crumble if contracts weren’t enforceable. Literally everything obligation anyone has beyond…

Generally that’s true. You can’t make someone -personally- perform on a contract because that could possibly create indentured servants and slavery and that’s pretty much not okay with the 13th Amendment.

this is the take I came here to watch unfold

what if...I was realized that and I was talking to other commenters to facilitate discussion in what is always an echo chamber anyway? And what if I said outright I wasn’t referring to Stassa or criticizing her at all?

All prescriptions are exempt so also BC, morning after pills, OxyContin, and every other perscription medicine in the state.

In our early twenties my friends and I used to try to outdo each other by pretending to believe the craziest, most out-there stories and theories we could come up with, and doing the weirdest things we could dream up (interpretative dance fights in the middle of downtown, bocce tournaments on inclines in parking…

ABS has worked for decades no reason any other sensor can’t. A sensor is literally hundreds of times faster then a human no reason to believe it won’t stop in time

That’s because mostly failure stories get reported since they bring in the clicks.

Personally I am still waiting for someone to ask Carly Fiorina to comment.

You can’t actually “SEO crap out of something” and have it be the top search on Google. You can follow basic guidelines that Google provides, but you can’t manipulate Google into giving you top-ranked images, because Google is way smarter than that. For a generic search term like strawberry, it takes a lot to be…

I can’t tell if you are a white supremacist, a radical Islamist, or paid by the Kremlin.

“Lies spread by you and assholes like you, a.k.a. Israelis.”

you could say it’s gotten out of control

Someone here with an engineering background will know more than I, no doubt. Pretty sure it all has to do with statistics, specifically those concerned with load & failure analysis.

This is a high profile attack on civilian targets in a place that typically does not see such slaughter. Yes, Charlie Hebdo happened earlier this year but this was the deadliest attack on French soil since WWII. That’s a very big deal. Suicide bombings in Baghdad are, unfortunately, not uncommon. Beirut is also known…

So many young people were killed. They picked a really popular part of town. Punishing people for having fun, at restaurants, a rock concert, a soccer stadium.

must’ve sucked having to hold a pose for two weeks. I can see why she quit

Yeah, internal marketing from Sukhoi and lack of transparency for what actually exists on the production planes don’t match up. So that’s where the misinformation comes from. Here’s the image of the APU in the stinger:

Except that Russians have been very happy to use American space pen, once it became available. Pencil shavings and graphite dust are quite dangerous in zero gravity.