It’s some strange bias that lets people get worked up about this one already-convicted dealer but pass over in silence the pharmaceutical companies that designed these opioids to be so addictive and marketed them so aggressively so that doctors would over-prescribe them.
I don’t know anyone who is ignoring their culpability. There has been an enormous amount of litigation against pharmaceutical companies in relation to opioids, resulting in tens of billions of dollars in settlements.
He also covered an article a while back about a Target in (I believe) Brooklyn allegedly closing because of OCR only to reopen three blocks away. Yep, that’s gonna stop the alleged hordes of roving gangs of shoplifters.
It’s hard to make any conclusive claims without more evidence, but both retailers and police seem reticent to give any hard numbers.
You made an investment decision (allowing hotel guests to legally become tenants) and it ended poorly for you. Why should the government bail you out for “almost no cost”? The legal system doesn’t exist to insulate you from risk.
It did not use to take 6+ months to evict a non paying tenant. This is a post Covid phenomenon. That is an insane amount of time to prove that someone did not pay you. How can anyone trust in the legal system if such a simple thing takes so long to get resolved?
The legal system should exist to remedy legal disputes, for everyone, in a timely manner. Whether it be a big business or a small business or a personal dispute.
A clogged legal system where simple disputes take an inordinate time to resolve is a sign of decay and corruption. You end up with people losing trust in the system, so now you have an incentive to take advantage, because others are going to take advantage of you. And then it becomes a game of who you know (more than it already is), or taking matters into your own hands.
We did react once we had the information. Do you expect businesses to monitor how long court cases take on a regular basis?
Now, our many long term hotel guest have to pack up all their shit after a certain number of nights and go stay at a different hotel. So society inconveniences productive people, and conveniences a scammer. Does not sound like a net win for society.
I don’t know if you are trolling, but if you are not, trust is worth a lot. Trust is what makes businesses in the developed world so productive, and lack of trust is what makes business so costly in the developing world.
I’m not trolling. I’m treating your business no different from any other business. You don’t deserve even more special treatment from the justice system merely because you’re a landlord.
One company I partly own sued a customer for nonpayment several years ago. Customer declared bankruptcy. Sucks for all the same reasons as your relatively tiny tenant dispute. At the next board meeting, we didn’t waste our time bemoaning the existence of bankruptcy protection—after all, we may benefit from it ourselves someday. Instead we developed plans for how to mitigate the risk of nonpayment in the future.
You run a business; act like it. Accept the inherent danger of swimming or get out of the pool.
> You don’t deserve even more special treatment from the justice system merely because you’re a landlord.
I never wrote that I did. I merely provided an example showing the consequences of not having properly functioning courts.
I am not bemoaning protections for tenants. I am bemoaning not clearing the dispute for inordinate amounts of time. Which leads to discrimination.
> Accept the inherent danger of swimming or get out of the pool.
I would rather not see my country become the developing country my parents moved away from, hence spreading an opinion about this issue (which is broader than just tenant laws).
Qohelet was most likely compiled by multiple authors well after the Babylonian conquest. The presence of loanwords in the text makes a date in the 10th century BCE highly unlikely.
Solomon the Biblical personage probably never existed. No archaeological evidence, as far as I’m aware, has been found.
She had the humility to admit she knew little about ancient Chinese and the courage to go ahead and venture a translation anyway, striving to touch something deeper than language.
Her success is extremely laudable for this reason.
It's great that you've found something you like, but if you are interested in staying close to the text, a translation by a person that deeply understands Classical Chinese literature and philosophy is worth a read.
The way is empty,
used, but not used up.
Deep, yes! ancestral
to the ten thousand things.
Blunting edge,
loosing bond,
dimming light,
the way is the dust of the way.
Quiet
yes, and likely to endure.
Whose child? Born
before the gods.
9: Being Quiet
Brim-fill the bowl,
it'll spill over.
Keep sharpening the blade,
you'll soon blunt it.
Nobody can protect
a house full of gold and jade.
Wealth, status, pride
are their own ruin.
To do good, work well, and lie low
is the way of the blessing.
For 4, some of the concepts don't even appear in the original (quiet?)
For 9, it feels like there's a lot of overstepping and blank-filling.
“The Bible is the only education you need” is a very common meme among evangelical Christians.
> and in most states you need to file a curriculum every year that gets reviewed and approved.
Most states have almost no recourse to reject submitted curricula, no matter how specious they are. One influential homeschool association has a 24/7 legal hotline specifically for subverting these mild attempts at accountability.
Contrary to your claim, the linked page implies nothing about the Bible being the "only textbook". It simply offers a set of Bible lessons for homeschoolers ("This exciting curriculum contains homeschool lessons that cover the entire Bible chronologically in four years…").
While you only wrote that that website provides the "tools" it would have been very reasonable to infer from your comment that you were also implying that they agreed with Bible-alone teaching.
I have no idea what you are talking about. I already pay via my tax dollars $25k on average per student. I’m suggesting reducing that spend, for those that want it for non-special needs kids, and giving the reduced amount to parents to spend on any school they want - or staying in their public school they already have.
The problem is the local public school where everyone in my neighborhood is forced to go (unless they are rich) is dangerous and ranked bottom 5%. That is extremely racist, inequitable, and unfair to people who are forced to attend.
