My entire family is maga, which is awful, but it’s literally just them. Otherwise I’m in an urban city, in an educated and liberal profession, and dating an awesome guy with a very sweet family. Being surrounded by normal and healthy people really makes my interactions with my family feel that much worse. :) Sometimes I’ll bother to tell them they’re wrong, but it doesn’t matter. They’re not acting out of reason. They’re acting out of hatred and avarice.
I’m familiar with it through Circuit City Stores, Inc. v. Adams, which is about employment arbitration. The majority argued that it was the “natural reading” that the Federal Arbitration Act intended to cover employment arbitration agreements. The dissent goes through the legislative history of the Act to establish that no one in 1925 intended the federal arbitration act to cover employment agreements. There is probably a lot more caselaw to this Act than just employment arbitration, but that’s what my 1L paper was on.
Dissent quoted below:
The history of the Act, which is extensive and well documented, makes clear that the FAA was a response to the refusal of courts to enforce commercial arbitration agreements, which were commonly used in the maritime context. The original bill was drafted by the Committee on Commerce, Trade, and Commercial Law of the American Bar Association (ABA) upon consideration of “the further extension of the principle of commercialarbitration.” Report of the Forty-third Annual Meeting of the ABA, 45 A.B.A. Rep. 75 (1920) (emphasis added). As drafted, the bill was understood by Members of Congress to “simply provid[e] for one thing, and that is to give an opportunity to enforce an agreement in commercial contracts and admiralty contracts.” 65 Cong. Rec.1931 (1924) (remarks of Rep. Graham) (emphasis added).2 It is no surprise, then, that when the legislation 126 was first introduced in 1922,3 it did not mention employment contracts, but did contain a rather precise definition of the term “maritime transactions” that underscored the commercial character of *1315 the proposed bill.4 Indeed, neither the history of the drafting of the original bill by the ABA, nor the records of the deliberations in Congress during the years preceding the ultimate enactment of the Act in 1925, contain any evidence that the proponents of the legislation intended it to apply to agreements affecting employment.
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The irony of the Court’s reading of § 2 to include contracts of employment is compounded by its cramped interpretation of the exclusion inserted into § 1. As proposed and enacted, the exclusion fully responded to the concerns of the Seamen’s Union and other labor organizations that § 2 might encompass *129 employment contracts by expressly exempting the labor agreements not only of “seamen” and “railroad employees,” but also of “any other class of workers engaged in foreign or interstate commerce.” 9 U.S.C. § 1 (emphasis added). Today, however, the Court fulfills the original—and originally unfounded—fears of organized labor by essentially rewriting the text of § 1 to exclude the employment contracts solely of “seamen, railroad employees, or any other class of [transportation] workers engaged in foreign or interstate commerce.” See ante, at 1311. In contrast, whether one views the legislation before or after the amendment to § 1, it is clear that it was not intended to apply to employment contracts at all.
++Cir. City Stores, Inc. v. Adams++, 532 U.S. 105, 125–26, 121 S. Ct. 1302, 1314–15, 149 L. Ed. 2d 234 (2001)
Here’s the thing. In the US, it isn’t the law. When they passed the federal arbitration act, it was written to apply to businesses who mutually agree to arbitration. It was meant to stop companies that agreed to arbitrate and then sued after they didn’t like the arbitration results.
The supreme court one day just randomly decided it applies outside of that context. Even though it wasn’t written to do that and hadn’t done so for decades.
So in my personal opinion, it is outlawed, our court is just evil extremists. Thanks for coming to my tedtalk.
Withdrawing from the UN, illegal and random murders in the Caribbean, deleting decades of scientific data that the public paid for because it’s not in line with the party’s propaganda, withdrawing funds from our scientific agencies for personal corruption, shutting down public services that global organizations relied on, causing chaos and thousands and deaths, permanently damaging public trust in science by putting in alt-right vaccine truther, also just the billions of dollars he’s made just from selling off our government.
overall 0/10 in every fashion. like you occasionally see those questions like, “name one good thing this administration has done” and there literally isn’t one.
To be fair, we’re overall a very friendly and helpful penal colony.
Yeah, the Russians are not supposed to like it. They’re supposed to want the war to stop.
They’re good soggy when they’re soaked in something flavorful, like gravy. But like just overly oily, no thank you.
Grogu is cuter than Paddington. I have in fact had arguments about this.
Not inconsequential. Dark mode is unpleasant to read for people with astigmatism. That’s 1/3rd of the US.
I was Catholic as a child. Some people say they were a religion just because their family dragged them to church, but they never believed. No. I was Catholic. Confirmation meant something to me. God meant something to me. I went through a faith crisis in college through the age of 23, because I learned religion is actually not real. It was a proto-state building tool.
Before the internet, before most people could read, there was no central body of human knowledge that you could cross-reference and analyze. People only knew what the people around them told them. People could make up stories about faraway krakens, dragons, giants, and nobody could say that it was or wasn’t true. The only person who saw it says it’s true. Religion gave people a reason for the unfairness of human society, for order, for structure and rules, for that particular person being in power. Religion is people making up stories to establish the social order, to justify the social order, or to challenge the social order. That’s it. It was a necessary tool of control before we were organized enough to establish an independent, cross-referenced body of knowledge.
Now that we have that, we know that sirens aren’t real, giants aren’t real, dragons aren’t real, magic isn’t real, ghosts aren’t real, and no god is real.
I would also recommend looking up more of the formal writings on atheism over the past 200 years, particularly explaining how the Christian god is a logical fallacy.
Ask your probation officer if it’s ok. If your probation officer says no, consult your defense attorney about asking the judge for permission.
The thing is that we created the UN to stop doing this stupid nationalism thing. We wanted to create an organizational structure to facilitate work with other nations to develop advancements together.
For me, it’s literally a coin flip whether it’s accurate or not, so there’s no point in reading it at all. If you have to verify everything it says, it’s a waste of time to even read it.
I just think it’s crazy that there are people who need to be told, “No, AI information is not helpful. No, I did not want to read that. I asked this question to receive responses from real people. No, that did not answer my question.”
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people generally don’t like moving abroad because they get lonely and frustrated. but yeah you can skip debt by moving abroad.
There’s a really weird billboard by my house that always shows religious alt-right stuff. The one I’m thinking of in particular is the ‘abortion undo pills’.
I think it’s necessary for reproduction. Once we’re no longer automatically reproducing like plants, but need to interact with each other, then we need consciousness to make that happen.
To be clear, other options are not different. The majority of college students don’t find work in their degree. In 2023, less than 60% were employed at all within 6 months after graduation. Do your best, don’t take out a lot of debt, network in person as much as possible. Finding a job is about talking to people and being likable, not having a skillset.