From the article: "(t)he(sic) Biden administration sued Texas on Friday, July 30, 2021 to prevent state troopers from stopping vehicles carrying migrants on grounds that they may spread COVID-19, warning that the practice would exacerbate problems amid high levels of crossings on the state's border with Mexico."
I do not understand this. How does stopping the vehicles exacerbate the spread of COVID? Wouldn't infected people moving around be more of a factor in spreading the virus, rather than stopping them?
A child could hurt themselves on any piece of furniture simply by falling off of it. 'Think of the children' is not a compelling reason to not build a simple bench.
There may be other culturally appropriate explanations. Strange lights in the sky were reported as dragons in Northern England a 1000 years ago, for example.
I have a few feet away from me a newspaper from 1943 (the Wichita Kansas Sunday Beacon). I recognize that all stories have slant, but the older publications lack the breathless emotional manipulation that seems to pervade every news outlet nowadays.
This comes down to reputations largely. I'm sure that 1943 paper tried very hard to keep their reputation. But there is a whole term for thteh sensationalist style of newspapers called Yellow Journalism that's been around for a VERY long time.
And that's just that one term. Before that, wealthy people literally made newspapers to try to push their own points of view onto the public. Heck, the USA was arguably founded on propaganda newspapers. They certainly weren't regularly fair and objective representations of truth, and rarely even tried to be.
If you can de-incentivize a behavior, you can prevent it. But just 'banning bribery' has already been done. Banning any and all perverse incentives from the justice system is actually very difficult to the point of near-impossibility. Hence the current system.
This kind of thinking is so unhelpful. You are complaining that she is being bullied by keyboard warriors. Easy mode/Hard mode? What are you talking about? Fundamentally, the only question here worth considering is whether the idea of turning plastic trash into building bricks a good idea or a bad one. This question isn't altered the inventor's genetalia or skin color.
Yeah...because income inequality goes by %s. When America's 0.01% has so muuuuuch wealth, the lower class is still going to be FAR different from the upper class, but still have higher net wealth than other countries.
I don't see Iran on that list. Seems like mainly developed countries. Also, the US has a large amount of geographic cost-of-living disparity, and I am having trouble identifying whether these numbers are controlled for that.
Income inequality isn’t the problem. Poverty is. [0]
I’m not automatically worse off because someone else is better off. That’s fallacious nonsense (the zero-sum fallacy). And it definitely does not meaningfully translate across countries, if what you’re interested in is human welfare.
