@GnomeSlice They don't link to the study, but they say it's a survey of medical marijuana patients, so it's not a blind study and it's probably skewed both by self reporting and by the fact that some people who don't have success would stop taking it and would therefore no longer be medical marijuana patients.
Also, note the sources: herb.co referring to a study by Care by Design (cbd.org)
@Elva Nope, Supreme Court is the highest court of law in the UK, apart from laws that involve the EU, which can go to a special EU court for such decisions
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (JCPC) is the highest court of appeal for certain British territories and Commonwealth countries. Established on 13 August 1833 to hear appeals formerly heard by the King-in-Council, the Privy Council formerly acted as the court of last resort for the entire British Empire (other than for the United Kingdom itself), and continues to act as the highest court of appeal for several independent Commonwealth nations, the Crown Dependencies, and the British Overseas Territories.Formally a statutory committee of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, the...
yeh i think that's the one my Uncle was talking about
My prediction: Bojo Jojo will soon find himself out of a job, UK parliament will discuss a bill for a confirmatory referendum to see what the British people want and use that as leverage for a 3rd extension to A50, and we'll find that parliament will revoke their invocation of A50
Ugh, I'm arguing in the politics stack with a guy who thinks all grassroot movements, including the one started by Greta Thunberg, are secretly astroturfed
The Liberals are promising to push Canada to net-zero emissions by 2050, joining other countries and the European Union that are making the same pledge at the United Nations in New York City this week. cbc.ca/news/politics/…
> The plan, to be announced in full Tuesday as the parties continue their campaigns leading up to next month's federal election, is to set legally-binding, five-year milestones to reach net-zero emissions in 30 years.
> The Liberal Party says the path forward would be based on the advice of scientists, economists and other experts as well as consultations with Canadians, but few details have been provided so far on how the targets would be met.
> Net-zero means some sectors could still emit carbon pollution, but those emissions would be offset by other actions such as planting trees.
> The climate change plan would include bringing in a Just Transition Act to give workers in affected sectors access to training, support and new opportunities to adapt to the transforming economy.
I didn't learn from the Greta Thunberg crackpot and am apparently arguing with a different crackpot (2 actually) who think the Mueller report did not find evidence of obstruction of justice
@Nzall to be fair, conservatives think young leftists are all paid and heavily coached is because they actually pay and heavily coach young activists on the regular
@Unionhawk Except for the fact that there is significant historical evidence that going over a 2 degrees increase compared to the preindustrial era can cause a number of natural processes that naturally release greenhouse gasses to snowball into each other and trigger heatings up to 6 degrees
Right? Like put some effort in, there's already pretty significant support and it's extremely annoying that the bulk of the holdouts are likely just doing so because of election reasons
Reassure them and kick things into motion already
How much worse could it possibly get at this point?
And I think the whole "need to wait until public opinion supports it" or "wait until we can be sure of a conviction in the Senate" both miss the point (in different ways)
1. The agenda/messaging of the House leader and her caucus can shape public opinion, if done right
@BradC The Nixon impeachment process gained public support as the proceedings continued, and Nixon resigned once it was found that he lost all support from the republican party
Right, and they're certainly not going to speak against him when there's absolutely no reason for them to. Most if not all will probably not do so even when there is, but I don't see a point in not testing it
Like if you're just going to let him and his lackeys get away with everything it's not really a convincing stump speech for the general election anyway
No one except checks notes Bret Stephens will wake up the next day if the Senate fails to convict and go "Ah, well, I guess everything Trump has done is actually fine after all" if they didn't already think that
@TimStone Exactly. GOP has been doing their absolute best to ignore or "no comment" anything Trump does; they won't be able to do that in an impeachment vote
> Throughout all modern history, when we humans see a problem coming from far away, we have a 100% success rate in solving it. Climate change is no different.
Meaning, what, we haven't yet blundered ourselves into extinction, so don't worry! We'll be fine!
> If you are worried about rising sea levels, don’t be. The smartest and richest people in the world are still buying property on the beach. They don’t see the problem. And if sea levels do rise, it will happen slowly enough for people to adjust.
He is right that we need to be considering nuclear technologies, but we don't need to bet the bank on nuclear solving all our problems, because it won't.
Subtitle is a bit less click-baity: "Mislabeling what the president has done could make impeachment more difficult to achieve."
> If what Trump is accused of doing is true, it is a kind of corrupt conduct that the criminal system is not equipped to handle. Labeling his behavior with criminal terms such as bribery and extortion not only misunderstands the statutory language, it gives Trump and his supporters ammunition with which to defend themselves, making impeachment—the proper constitutional remedy for presidential corruption—harder to achieve.
> What Trump is alleged to have done is not a garden variety crime; it’s worse. It involved misusing $250 million in aid appropriated by Congress for his benefit—the kind of gross misconduct that easily clears the bar of high crimes and misdemeanors set by the Constitution when impeaching a president. Which means the best way to hold Trump accountable for that misconduct isn’t a criminal trial; it’s for Congress to impeach him.
Good article, and I think illustrates one of the problems with how the Mueller investigation was viewed/discussed
In a similar way, I think it is far more useful to say that Trump has "betrayed the country for his own benefit" rather than try to say he "committed treason" or something that could easily be factually rebuffed
Even if, at least from a rhetorical perspective, I wouldn't strongly disagree
^ This is insane, the tl;dr there is that because he'd need to know if he was on the list for the case, and the list is secret, he can't have a case to get himself off the list
@TimStone So... not just a letter affirming the imminent beginning of talks that could lead to the creation of a subcommittee to consider whether to open an investigation that might or might not lead to a vote concerning whether we ought to draft articles of impeachment that may eventually be allowed to be presented back to the main committee who can then carefully debate whether to allow it to be voted upon by the House?
@Unionhawk umm, I get that United Steelworkers is (was) big in Pittsburg, but I'm not sure that's the best union to represent the interests of Google contractors.
@MBraedley "is" is right here, and I mean, that's really the main argument in favor of choosing USW
And it's not terrifically unprecedented for the big business unions to step outside their named industry, UAW represents graduate assistants in many universities for example
They're headquartered in pittsburgh and membership seems steady from what I can tell, though that may be in part due to some mergers as well
I don't disagree that CWA or something like that may have more intimate knowledge, but honestly, at the end of the day the folks in the shop are the ones with that particular subject matter expertise, joining up with a business union is just a way to gain access to some additional resources
(I'd have to look but I believe USW also does Pittsburgh graduate assistants)
Yeah USW in particular has merged so many times, so their full name is "United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers International Union"