Eh, I think it is useful in the medium and long-term, if only because half of our problem is that standard Democratic procedure is to hem and haw and “trust the process” rather than play strictly tit-for-tat. You screw with us; we screw you right back. In the long term, game theory tells us that tit-for-tat is the…

Nobody needs to live like this. 

The woman can be heard shouting, “But I’m going to hit you, you know why? Because you beat me up yesterday, you left me here alone, you slut!”

There’s a lot of mind reading/hearing happening, flashbacks to show why the characters do what they do, and sometimes the characters are unnaturally talkative.

Just gonna sayfrom a cultural standpoint Japan doesn’t seem to hate the Nazi’s as much of the rest of the world seeing as how idols have inappropriately worn Nazi uniforms because they thought they looked cool. That’s a huge reason as to why they wouldn’t enjoy Captain America because of the cultural disconnect. It’s…

Awesome how judgey you are. Are you a straight edge? Yes. I have plenty of fun without drinking, and usually spend it with my family. Every few months or so my wife and I like to get away and have a drink. It's nice to have a safe option to do that. Thanks for your advice mom.

Different insomuch as one is expressly for interest and the other is for non-interest miscellaneous payments to non-employees (the IRS’s words, emphasis mine). Different because they reflect a different source of non-employee (again, their words) income. Otherwise, not so different.

The whole point of the post was to point out that Uber is correct. Like eBay (you could even add Twitch and YouTube to this), they are services, not employers. They provide a platform for users to peddle their wares and services, they do not actually employ those users.

It’s like if people who sold stuff on eBay formed a union and demanded better pay.

I mean, they’re legally, in every sense, independent contractors, but if it fits your narrative better to call them employees then go ahead. Because apparently words don’t have meanings anymore.

100% agreed. Many companies with franchises operate this way as well.

Yeah, I wouldn’t exactly call putting your career in jeopardy and risking arrest and incarceration “doing the bare basic.”

“At the heart of these proposals to better protect the accused, however, isn’t an agenda to actually protect the accused. It’s an agenda to further discount survivors...”

It can take years for an harassment, assault, or rape case to make its way through our legal system. In the meantime, a school may wish to protect their students.

Speaking as an actual western lawyer, this is badly incorrect. For one thing, hearsay has nothing to do with this - most sexual assault cases boil down to one person’s testimony against another’s. This is the opposite of hearsay (a statement which happened outside of the hearing, and is unreliable because we can’t…

If someone is sexually assaulted, there are two tracks for redressing the problem. The first is criminal - report it to the cops, it goes through the normal system (or too frequently the cops/prosecutors just ignore it). The second track is civil. Under the Civil Rights Act, employers and schools have an obligation to…

I’ve never understood why the process is to have the schools deal with any of this anyway. If I got raped at work I wouldn’t let my manager and HR sort it out, it’d be the police. 

Meh, an appeals process and cross examination without obvious bs to it sounds reasonable to me. If not, then shouldn’t we be remodeling the entire judicial system. (of course we should but not based on possible appeal) I only read this article but seems like you’re assuming the accused has to be present during a cross…

The current Title 9 Guidance from the Dept of Education office of Civil Rights is not good. There is not sufficient due process for accusers. I work as a psychologist in university counseling centers (have for 10 years) and it is far too easy for sanctions to be levied on an accused perpetrator solely on the basis of…

What you have here is the Title IX versus the foundations of the 6th Amendment. Essentially the legal opposition to this centers around due process and the right “to be confronted with the witnesses against him” (aka Confrontation Clause). There have been state and circuit court rulings on this topic, but nothing that…