The exposed skin argument doesn’t really hold up. Her clothes could have been made from linen, which you can easily breathe through. The past couple of years of mask wearing have also proven that there are a number of fabrics that we can breathe through.

I have always taken issue with the discourse around Quiet which always just sounded to me like slut-shaming.

slut shaming is something done to actual women, not oversexualized female characters made by and for men. criticizing quiet’s design is criticizing the men who made her, not quiet herself

Exactly. My immediate thought about what the biggest difference would be is that the show had an ending and the books will not.

And it shouldn’t have ever been given to the voting public. This Supreme Court decision is woefully incorrect and decided purely on emotional and religious reasons.

Unless pregnancy poses a risk to the life of the female, how is abortion “health care”?

It’s a medical procedure. It’s health care.

A threat is a threat. It doesn’t have to be a full blown manifesto to be serious.

None of those people want their employers to be in charge of their health care (including reproductive care). They want universal health care and a constitutionally protected right to bodily autonomy.

This isn’t about a “game company” being a parent. This is about an employer performing their basic duty to provide the health services to their employees. I will forgive you for being ignorant if you’re not an American, but in this country the state has ceded any and all responsibility for the health of its citizens…

Gorsuch shouldn’t even fucking be there. Mitch McConnell made the game clear when he refused to give Merrick Garland a hearing in 2016, but too many people didn’t listen or believe or care, and so here we are.

You’re assuming there will still be elections in 2040.

They literally have emails of this asshole’s wife talking about preparing the Jan 6th coup. She even calls it a coup and that sack of shit Clarence Thomas knew about it. He should step down, but instead he’s planning what rights he can take away next from Americans.

Electric Sheep referred to the full juror quote, which was that he didn’t physically abuse her. Yes, we can say he emotionally abused her (and many of us feel he physically did, as well), but the case was really about accusations of physical abuse. That’s what he was suing over.

Your “belief” is wrong in this particular case since it was Depp who sued Amber because of the WaPo op-ed piece. The burden is on her to prove to the court and the jury that everything she was saying in that article was true. She counter-sued, so that put even more burden of proof on her.

There’s nothing unusual about a juror trying to evaluate a witness’s credibility -- that’s a major function of the jury.  The juror here isn’t saying, “Amber Heard was sad, and I don’t like people being sad, so I punished her.”  He’s saying that the way she appeared upset, then suddenly not, over and over again, was…

Except witness testimony and behavior is part of the evidence. It’s why we have live testimony. The jury is able to see how the witness behaves in response to questions.  Body language makes up a large part of human communication, so it’s not to be discounted. If we didn’t think it was important trials would consist…

Unironically the least interesting feature for me ever since they first introduced it in skyrim.

So, just to preface what I’m about to say: those emails sound like a nightmare boss scenario, and that second email sounds like elon musk needs to lay off the coke and definitely legal massages. I’m not pro elon musk by any means and think that the whole tesla situation is fucked up.

Trains refute most of Musk’s public works projects. He’s not wrong that American cities need more trains, subways, streetcars and commuter rail. That’s a real problem, but it’s a solved problem.