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Either the government does it or you join a union. I am a member of a large construction trade union and it's written into our contract that we cannot be denied time off and can't be forced to be available during off hours or made to work overtime.

The catch is that if you want to advance in the company it really helps if you can make a little extra effort. You absolutely will never be penalized for sticking to the minimum requirements, but you also will never move up into management, which is perfectly fine with a lot of people.

Paid?

Apples and oranges. The difference is that in only one instance did the losing candidate refuse to concede and peacefully transfer power to the winner.

It's for public consumption. They don't actually expect it to carry any weight in court.

Hard disagree. Far more than anything else, this is about audience capture and the failure of Burke's "fourth estate." What it shows is the efficacy of segregated information ecosystems that have near total audience capture. None of this would be even remotely possible if all Americans lived and swam in the same information ecosystem.

But we don't, and we are seeing what this means for the health of democracy and the rule of law.

Conservatives, having the luxury of an unquestioning audience that's fully captured by an information ecosystem that's fully on-board with anything they say, are not constrained in any way by the truth.

The Press, with a capital P, no longer serves as a check against conservative lies because, due to the nearly complete segregation of information ecosystems, any facts that run count er to the conservative agenda can simply be ignored or twisted, and will accordingly never be seen by a conservative audience at all.

All of which is just to say that while our justice system is imperfect, the real problem is the corruption of Burke's fourth estate which was always conceived of as necessarily existing in opposition to, or at least as a check against, governmental and private commercial power.

It's called the clinch and is a huge part of the sport. There can be a lot happening in the clinch that casual observers won't necessarily see or appreciate. Some of the all-time greats were masters at working the clinch.

You what now?

No, objectively it doesn't. You are projecting your own strong feelings and aren't being objective at all.

It's a normal human tendency, but you should be aware of it.

Nobody said that, you corn dog.

Right, but that's not really the point.

That escalated quickly.