The article I quoted actually discusses that link and the responses of people who study the issue to its argument. Basically, their response is that those underreported crimes come from people who haven’t been caught (which seems intuitively true), and that once people get caught, they’re much less likely to reoffend…

Okay, that was a law I wasn’t familiar with and you are correct that it bars employers from making content regulations on stuff like political buttons.  I still think that most states don’t have laws like that, but as far as California and other similarly situated states, I concede the point.

Where you are wrong is that once someone is hired they are granted many more protections against unfair treatment as compared to their coworkers. Specifically you cannot discipline or fire an employee for expressing themselves in the same manner as you are allowing other employees to express themselves. Labor laws are…

My understanding of California law (assume that’s what you’re talking about) is that it only protects off-duty political speech from regulation - on-duty speech still is subject to whatever rules the employer wants (absent NLRA-protected discussion of working conditions, or speech which constitutes some kind of…

I always think this article provides a helpful roadmap for “how should we handle sexual predators in society” whenever that comes up. Basically the idea is that a person who does something wrong needs to face some kind of punishment for it, use that as an opportunity to fix whatever problems caused the bad behavior in…

What do you mean by “so damn high,” though? People like to quote an extremely unsupported number (80%) as an argument for harsh laws on the topic, but other studies have put the number at 5-15%. Which is still definitely “too high” in an absolute sense, but I don’t think it’s high enough to justify “no second chances…

Cheeses rode around on a dinosaur!

This isn’t true. Only government entities are required to avoid discriminating based on political views. Private employers are totally free to do so. Burgerville can allow “Abolish ICE” buttons and ban “I hate Mexicans” buttons, just like it could allow “I love Burgerville” buttons and ban “McDonald’s rules” buttons.

It…

This was an interesting interview about the latter problem:

http://www.vulture.com/2018/02/how-facebook-is-killing-comedy.html

I’m sorry you chose “digial media” as an income source, but that job sucks, and it has nothing to do with Facebook.

Favorite part of that was, in the original pitch Mr. Peanutbutter was Bojack’s agent, and is described as being similar to Shaft.  That would be a very different show!

I think there was a mismatch between the format of this show and the content. The format is the one that Netflix and other networks are increasingly using: 10-13 episodes, with heavy plot serialization and sharp character changes, designed for maximum binge capacity. The content is the one that…

I think the problem is that Futurama took time to establish its characters and get the audience emotionally attached before it started jerking around like that. Even if it denied us the plot catharsis of, say, Leela finding out about Fry and Nibbler’s adventures, it still gave us the emotional catharsis of Fry getting…

That was a great line, but I just do not get Luci’s deal at all.  Why is he sad about Elfo dying?  He’s been consistently antagonistic toward Elfo for the entire series.  And why does he care if anyone dies?  He’s a demon, he’s constantly trying to get Bean to kill more people.

The timeline on the hermit immortality stuff didn’t scan to me. He warns them about immortality being a curse because when you live so long, everything is monotonous and repetitive. But he was also married to the witch, who is still alive despite not having taken the immortality potion. So it can’t have been THAT…

It felt cut-off to me.  There were only two jokes (scorpions, avalanche) and I was waiting the entire episode for a third which never came.

To me it reads more like “she’s trying to avoid talking about it in hopes that it will go away”, but that’s still pretty boring.

Dolphins are rapists.  Look it up!

this tweet, 3 months ago, is simply a statement that no unionized automaker has stock options as part of compensation, and hence, that would be lost if the Tesla Factory was unionized. I see nothing wrong with this statement. 

This is false. The employer is allowed to express their opinion or make one-sided arguments; they’re just not allowed to tie them to threats against employees. It’s the barely veiled threat (‘go union and I’ll prohibit you from buying stock options’) that’s the illegal part here.