Is there any legal precedent for acknowledging a non-physical addiction?
I now realize there must be a great corpus of knowledge about addiction, and I know practically nothing about the subject.
Maybe all addictions are "physical" since we live in a material world. In almost all cases, physical exertion is necessary, to use a phone or a PC. Dopamine is a chemical, so anything which stimulates dopamine product has a physical factor.
When I was a student at the University of Texas, I fell in with a bourgeois bunch who nevertheless dipped tobacco. I tried it myself, on occasion. Then I had liked it enough to buy my own can. That unopened can I put on a dresser in my bedroom and I sat on my couch in the living room. And a hunger stirred my limbic system. As a hunger for food, except that it was unlike the deep, dull pang for a nutrient—this was an alkaline sensation, spare and bright. I hungered for the dipping tobacco! I'll never forget. It was a heady taste of physical addiction. I threw away my tobacco and have left it ever-shunned.
I find nothing in the Wikipedia article to contradict the quoted post.
If the alleged idea is that "Americans have rejected seat belt use, and car makers have used airbags instead" then some incorrect inferences have been made.
Americans did reject voluntary seat belt use, but I reckon that they usually obey the law. With no law, seatbelt use was at about 10% if I remember correctly.
If a person doesn't "like science" then how do they earn a postgraduate degree in a scientific field? I was a liberal arts major and I was required to learn the rigors of the scientific method and to take an upper-level course in statistics. I graduated with a firm understanding of scientific inquiry and the principle of the standard distribution. How did Tom Cotton get admitted to Harvard? How did he graduate? The man is a dunce. I understand that no system is perfect. But I expect borderline cases to slip through the cracks, not idiots earning Ivy League doctorates. Yes, these are anecdotal evidence. It's just frustrating when gatekeepers fail.
Your idea that a reporter ask Why is a sweet nostalgia.
When I studied journalism, I learned the power of the five Ws (and their cousins). They're very strong, yet light in the hand, and they aim true. Adam's rib alone made more from less.
The news articles that I read today are content to answer two of those Ws. An especially diligent reporter may uncover a third.
Thou'rt kind to imply that Trump's conservative lackeys once had the knowhow to parse a written news article. You cannot underestimate their intelligence. May justice be served.
So long as people keep doing business with them they have no reason to change,
You seem to imply that it is the responsibility of members of the general public to control the behavior of a corporate entity. The American body politic has delegated—to its three branches of government—the responsibility of making and enforcing laws and dispensing justice.
As an individual consumer, I have neither the resources nor the inclination to assess what degree of risk that I undertake when I bring my custom to a supplier of goods or services.
We rely on our institutions to regulate the behavior of the players in the marketplace. It is not incumbent that any private citizen must do the work that would be necessary to bring a company such as Hertz to heel.
Society is much as a jungle. We elect zookeepers to defang the commercial beasts who go to and fro seeking whom they may devour. Our duly elected representatives have committed their lives to that fight for the sake of our benefit. Fie upon the notion that I should have to exercise my own mettle to tame some outrageous beast.
You show me where it says Hertz can’t define a mile as an three and half inches.
It's in every dictionary on millions of bookshelves, under the "mile" entry. Hertz can't unilaterally assign arbitrary definitions to frequently used words.
Paxton...will willfully misunderstand a clear-cut (and unanimous!) Supreme Court decision
That assessment is kind. The reality is that Paxton is a goddamn liar, and he knows that the people to whom he lies are too stupid to figure out the truth.
Got to love the article headline "Texas Attorney General Kicks Ass!" posted at texasattorneygeneral.gov
Utterly devoid of self-awareness and far beyond farcical.
A related argument by supporters of the Pro Codes Act is that the SDOs provide a valuable service, and therefore they deserve a revenue stream
The people who support the Pro Codes Act should consider that it is a privilege to be involved in the determination of the regulations that define the characteristics of our society's infrastructure. And they're already bending the rules in their own favor, when they make those rules. Now they want to get the public coming and going? There ought to be consequences visited upon folks whose behavior is motivated by naked greed.
Is there any legal precedent for acknowledging a non-physical addiction? I now realize there must be a great corpus of knowledge about addiction, and I know practically nothing about the subject. Maybe all addictions are "physical" since we live in a material world. In almost all cases, physical exertion is necessary, to use a phone or a PC. Dopamine is a chemical, so anything which stimulates dopamine product has a physical factor. When I was a student at the University of Texas, I fell in with a bourgeois bunch who nevertheless dipped tobacco. I tried it myself, on occasion. Then I had liked it enough to buy my own can. That unopened can I put on a dresser in my bedroom and I sat on my couch in the living room. And a hunger stirred my limbic system. As a hunger for food, except that it was unlike the deep, dull pang for a nutrient—this was an alkaline sensation, spare and bright. I hungered for the dipping tobacco! I'll never forget. It was a heady taste of physical addiction. I threw away my tobacco and have left it ever-shunned.
I find nothing in the Wikipedia article to contradict the quoted post. If the alleged idea is that "Americans have rejected seat belt use, and car makers have used airbags instead" then some incorrect inferences have been made. Americans did reject voluntary seat belt use, but I reckon that they usually obey the law. With no law, seatbelt use was at about 10% if I remember correctly.
Are seat belts good for safety? Yes. Am I pleased by seatbelt laws? Yes. Would I have ever worn a seatbelt without a law? No.
If a person doesn't "like science" then how do they earn a postgraduate degree in a scientific field? I was a liberal arts major and I was required to learn the rigors of the scientific method and to take an upper-level course in statistics. I graduated with a firm understanding of scientific inquiry and the principle of the standard distribution. How did Tom Cotton get admitted to Harvard? How did he graduate? The man is a dunce. I understand that no system is perfect. But I expect borderline cases to slip through the cracks, not idiots earning Ivy League doctorates. Yes, these are anecdotal evidence. It's just frustrating when gatekeepers fail.
If you can't create something original, then respect your betters. And don't pollute the infosphere with your pitiful cashgrab garbage.
The idea that a sex worker lacks integrity or morality is the most bourgeois notion I've heard in the past hour.
five double yous
Your idea that a reporter ask Why is a sweet nostalgia. When I studied journalism, I learned the power of the five Ws (and their cousins). They're very strong, yet light in the hand, and they aim true. Adam's rib alone made more from less. The news articles that I read today are content to answer two of those Ws. An especially diligent reporter may uncover a third.
I left this comment on the wrong article, please move it.
animalized
Who's zooming whom?
Words havemeanings
That's not for me to say...
Where you from, Congressman?
Oh brother where art thou
The love of money is the worst vice. Whosoever is fain to sacrifice magnanimity for cash is worthy of the ultimate punishment.
Yas!
Podunk Station! That's where I live!
his struggle
Funny Animals
The creator of Fables is still working in funnybooks? That's some old school— Oh, Fables— Not Frisky Fables.
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If that's how the Intelligence Community wants to surveil me, then they're going to need a bigger camera.