Seenso

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by Seenso 7y ago
> Read 18 U.S.C. § 6002 it does not grant blanket immunity. If I testify truthfully and reveal perjury in the past I can be tried for that perjury now. I think you're reading it wrong. It doesn't grant immunity for perjury com
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by Seenso 7y ago
> When is your workplace ever certified disease free? Never, but taking these actions in this situation is definitely negligence at best . It's like running a hospital forcing people to work without providing soap or hand sanitize
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by Seenso 7y ago
> Facebook is not telling them they have to come into the office. Rather, it’s the contracting companies that these people actually work for. Though that's one of the benefits of outsourcing: you get all the benefits of squeezing
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by Seenso 7y ago
> Scumbag judges should be thrown off for this. > Completely bullshit. They held her in prison for a year with no charges and now they want her to pay a quarter million in fines? Fuck off. It's not bullshit. Manning was basicall
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by Seenso 7y ago
> The country is pretty much shut down. No, it isn't yet. I'm in the office right now, with thousands of my colleagues. > And you aren't going to be able to test ~60 _million_ people who will ultimately be infected wit
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by Seenso 7y ago
> There's no cure. Bodies will pile up regardless. There's not cure, but there is treatment. Many deaths will be avoidable if we can slow down the spread, to spread out the load to avoid overwhelming the medical system too m
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by Seenso 7y ago
> more debt to pile up... So, lets pile up bodies instead?
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by Seenso 7y ago
> Was it the people saying to remove all the extras, or the people who put the extras in? What extras?
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by Seenso 7y ago
> There is a lot of FUD currently going on. This podcast by Joe Rogan is great. Listen to an expert and then make your decisions. Joe Rogan podcasts are approximately forty hours long, on average. You need to summarize it, with text.
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by Seenso 7y ago
> Politicians should not take advantage of emergencies by tacking wish list items on to bills that address the emergency. What exactly are the unrelated wish list items here? Everything I'm seeing here looks on point and directly
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by Seenso 7y ago
> "Hey, it's an emergency, pull out your wish list for the past four decades." All the proposals listed in the article makes total sense in the context of this crisis. Sick time for people to quarantine, food assistance f
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by Seenso 7y ago
> Because if we do react strongly, and it does largely contain the virus, that will also be "proof" (quote-unquote) that it wasn't anything we needed to be so proactive about in the first place. Even if every other country
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by Seenso 7y ago
> A pardon is not possible because she has not been convicted of any crime. Is that true? Wasn't Nixon pardoned for his crimes without actually being convicted of anything? He didn't even manage to get impeached, since he res
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by Seenso 7y ago
> And my ears are asymmetrical. It does show up in photos from front on (though perhaps not to the extent in this article). Yeah, I was surprised the article made such a big deal about that. My ears are also a little asymmetrical, and S
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by Seenso 7y ago
> COVID-19 doesn't mean there aren't regular flu / colds going around, too. Which is exactly why everyone with those symptoms needs to be tested. One of the most important things we need to do right now is detect the peop
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by Seenso 7y ago
> Amazon has not done anything to combat counterfeit items on their website before now, I don't expect much from them now. I think they have, but their efforts are usually spastic and reactive, so they don't do much good. I rem
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by Seenso 7y ago
> Perhaps Amazon should manufacture masks/sanitizer/etc via its house brand, and churn them out by the billion. Where would they do that? China is still pretty locked down, and I think they're still struggling to supply d
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by Seenso 7y ago
> Sounds incredibly inefficient Just like having redundant servers for your applications and backups for your data.
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by Seenso 7y ago
> The supply chains that you rail against have successfully delivered the greatest levels of prosperity to the largest number of humans in all of history. And they've delivered that by building a fragile system with too little safet
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by Seenso 7y ago
You also have to take into account that China probably took the right actions, but their big failure was in timing them poorly. If they'd implemented travel restrictions before Chinese New Year, we probably wouldn't be talking ab
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by Seenso 7y ago
> This argument has been applied to many rights in the Constitution, and the courts have consistently held that any right that can be cast aside just because the government asserts an "emergency", regardless of type, is effecti
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by Seenso 7y ago
> No, this is not correct. There are only allowances for non-discriminatory "reasonable restrictions" such as closing roads during unsafe road conditions. There is no general "public safety" loophole that enables the
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by Seenso 7y ago
But there's a nuance there that I think needs clarification: is the right to not be discriminatorily singled out or a right to be provided access to infrastructure in all circumstances ? I think the right has to be the former, and
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by Seenso 7y ago
> Also covered by the Commerce Clause, since 1937. So you're saying the commerce clause requires states to keep intra -state transportation infrastructure open, regardless of the public safety risk? That's unbelievable, since
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by Seenso 7y ago
> The authority to restrict travel into a state (from an adjacent state) unambiguously lies with the federal government, under even the narrowest possible interpretation of the Commerce Clause. Honestly, the scenario I had in mind was in
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by Seenso 7y ago
> Or just reroute off an interstate onto a different road between states, which is a lot more likely. If you're implementing a lockdown, you'd close more than just the interstates for that exact reason. At a minimum, you'
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by Seenso 7y ago
>> Ultimately, Seattle’s experience shows the futility of travel bans > Is there a word or phrase for the act of poorly implementing an idea, then using the failed result as a way to discredit the idea? It's like a straw man a
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by Seenso 7y ago
> If they closed airports and put up some checkpoints on the interstate to only allow select traffic through, I imagine that would cut travel pretty dramatically. > Courts tend to believe that the Privileges and Immunities Clause give
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by Seenso 7y ago
>> Better than who for example? Better than Iran? I'd certainly hope so. Other than Iran, I'd say it's too early to tell. > China? At no point we're we arresting people for spreading the word about it? I'm
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by Seenso 7y ago
> have to go to work sick because they don't have sick days Personally, I think sick people who don't have paid sick leave should be paid to cough on people who oppose requirements for paid sick leave.

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