birdofhermes

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by birdofhermes 3y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Bill_of_Rights See the historical notes under proposal and ratification, in particular the table of article revisions approved in 1789. The order of ratification was contin
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by birdofhermes 3y ago
It would be nice to see folks who take such a rigorous stance on the First and Second Amendments (not in this article, but in author’s book _Battlefield America_) adopt similarly rigorous and detailed readings of the other twenty-five.
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by birdofhermes 3y ago
Market forces? It was the Haber process and subsequent innovations around nitrogen-fixing. It was scientific progress that saved us from Malthusian collapse. On the other hand, market forces do explain why 40% of the American food supply is
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by birdofhermes 3y ago
If you need to read the last sentence of OP with “. . . at the time of the framing,” added to the end, then I’m fine with that.
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by birdofhermes 3y ago
The 13th Amendment belongs to a different document than the Constitution proper and was ratified about eighty years later. From the standpoint of the dominant school of constitutional interpretation, the distinction matters.
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by birdofhermes 3y ago
The 5th, 8th and 13th Amendments and their various interpretations in court opinions: this is a good place to start learning about prisoner rights. Some argue that prisoners do not enjoy access to any constitutional rights, or perhaps only
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by birdofhermes 3y ago
They’re Ivy schools; that money was already going to the ruling class and their political causes (e.g., as Supreme Court clerkships, civil service appointments, and etc.). As tax dollars, it will at least serve the useful goal of keeping th
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by birdofhermes 3y ago
As other commenters have pointed out any given introductory chapter in a book on Bayesian statistics, including Jaynes’, is better exposition than this. I found _Probability Theory: The Logic of Science_ very easy to follow and very well-wr
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by birdofhermes 3y ago
> The experts noted that arms transfers to Hamas and other armed groups are also prohibited by international law, given their grave violations of international humanitarian law on 7 October 2023, including hostage-taking and subsequent i
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by birdofhermes 3y ago
Happily, you don’t have to trust what some UN experts (listed at the bottom) are saying about Israel in this article; IDF’s own casualty numbers are the only evidence needed for the thrust of this article to be true.
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by birdofhermes 3y ago
I assumed they were talking about genital reassignment surgery for infants born with ambiguous genitals.
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by birdofhermes 3y ago
> A child cannot goddamn consent. And yet, somehow, children across the United States get the exact same gender-affirming treatments (including but not limited to hormone therapy, cosmetic surgery, and yes, even genital mutilation) with
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by birdofhermes 3y ago
Conservative legal minds will argue that the laundry list of topics covered under 102.A includes a duty to censor, e.g., “information on transitioning”. They already believe any and all forms of transition (including calling a child by a ni
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by birdofhermes 3y ago
Not to mention the Federalist Society and their attack on constitutional law over the past twenty-some years.
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by birdofhermes 3y ago
Folks have been translating Homer for centuries, any modern translation is going to be adequate.
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by birdofhermes 3y ago
Author is a libertarian, not a socialist.