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So I think a thing often missed is that “everybody knows this already” can be dissuasive to victims coming forward. If everybody knows about it, why has nobody done anything about it? Will they do anything if you speak up or is this a man too powerful to touch?
Scott BryanNew BBC investigation. Four women accuse Jared Leto of criminal sexual conduct www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Hey we even had a whole industry dedicated to answering this sort of question through experiments and quasi-experiments and cost-benefit analyses until Trump destroyed it.
paul khruangbin (Dan Lehner)if there’s anything I would want to drill into the public consciousness it’s that there are almost always like a dozen ways to approach any given problem and some of them will be more effective than others and we have to stop acting like the questions around it are against fixing the issue
one old the other things is that apart from the trauma, WFH was both good and bad for us in a lot of ways, coming back from WFH was often done in an intentionally abusive way meant to assert the authority of the bosses, and in the immediate aftermath the layoffs began
The Fig EconomyOne of my Crank Theories of Everything, at least of Everything in the Recent Past, is that we are dealing (badly) with COVID trauma we’d mostly prefer to pretend never happened.
the hyperfixation on drones may have led everyone to overlook an interesting fact: the world is entering an unprecedented age of ballistic missile proliferation (a free link for you, the people) www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
A New Dawn of Missiles Shapes Battlefields From Ukraine to IranThe world is on the cusp of a third missile age, with conventional ballistic weapons proliferating at unprecedented speed in the wake of widespread, battlefield-warping deployment in Iran and Ukraine.www.bloomberg.com
I don't know how many different ways I can say "jack reed voted against cloture on a NDAA"
GOLIKEHELLMACHINEif you've been watching cspan in the last few months, you can already see a number of congressional dems getting into training for televised hearings and investigations. they're not going to have the votes to beat a veto even if they take both chambers. what else do you think they'll do.
