Drake's hat, Brooks Brothers polo coat and OCBD, Ben Silver cable knit sweater, scarf from Johnston's, my dad's old CK jeans, and ALD x New Balance Ranier boots (the only thing in this fit I bought new)
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It calls for (but doesn’t actually define) a durability standard.
And yet, you rejected the undefined standard because of your specific strawman of any hypothetical idea of what a standard might be.
How do you figure it wouldn’t just raise the price for clothes across the board and do nothing for the laborer or the environment?
Hang on, do you not understand what the environmental concern is here? Durability is, like, most of the environmental issue.
The liberal in me wonders whether clothing should be considered a necessity and not taxed at all, or else at the very least public nudity should be legal.
Lol, the liberal in you should go down to your local mall and see if they charge you sales tax on a pair of Levi's. In NYS, at least, clothing purchases are only subject to sales tax if the total is above a certain amount (it was $120 a while back, it's more now).
Most of your objections are super trivial to solve, you realize that, right? If you want to get into public policy, and not just baseless calls for anarchy, try to actually study public policy for five minutes.
Here's an obvious and easy regulation you could envision—not necessarily the right one, not without issues, but resolves most of your objections right away. Create a private right of action, effective four years from now, for clothing that is not reasonably durable. Give whatever guidance you might give in the law creating the right of action, also allow some FTC subgroup to bring actions, let the courts work out the details at common law. Companies other than Shein and the like will probably have nothing to worry about. Parties would need to arrange a class action with mountains of evidence to ever enforce the law, so tiny companies will have especially little to worry about, and certainly never bother with any sort of compliance-checking regime. Shein and friends will change their US offerings to be somewhat less shoddy so they can avoid litigation. Big companies hate getting into this kind of litigation. They'll find the most cost-effective way to improve their own manufacturing processes. Shit, even my libertarian friends would think that sounds like a pretty good solution.
To me it reads as “the commoners shouldn’t be able to afford so much ticky-tacky with so little money, we need to make it expensive so they can’t buy as much”. Despicable elitism on its face
you mean in your head, right? That's obviously not what the article said at all, you literally just made that shit up and then pretended you were criticizing the argument "on its face."
These are just some practical effects. If you actually care about fashion as an art form, you might worry how restricting the industry could stifle innovation and trends in ways that reach your ivory tower.
Again, it's not at all difficult to write the regulation to have exceptions for cases where the lack of durability makes an artistic statement, or where it's not feasible to achieve a desired artistic effect with a more durable garment.
If this half-spun idea ever leaves the loom,
Then maybe you'd finally find something about it worth criticizing?
You're trying to "correct" the correct usage of vernacular English because you feel like reinventing the language to suit your personal idea of what it should be. English is bigger than you. The phrase "private messaging" has meaning, and it's not up to you to decide what that meaning is.
nobody thinks discord is e2ee. "private messages" usually means the same thing as "direct messages" -- messages between a defined set of people as opposed to an open group. You know and understand this term, you're just being a dick because you think that's an effective way to convince people to stop using proprietary software without basic features like e2ee. You're wrong.
So what then, clothes must cost at least $xxx? And the government gets to decide what that is, either directly or through a labyrinth of new trade regulations?
Nobody suggested any of that. Where did you see anybody recommend anything like that?
A durability compliance requirement would increase the cost to enter the market and reduce competition and therefore consumer choice.
People are aware that per unit costs will go back up. I'm actually not sure why you think cost to enter the market would go up—fast fashion is produced at extremely large scale, and durable clothing is usually produced at much smaller scale.
And laws like this usually have exemptions for smaller companies. Your objection has a trivial solution, you just felt like whining.
Fine if you’re rich and can afford to have your clothes custom made, not so great if you have a job interview and $25 might buy you a nice enough shirt at Express.
Thrifting aside, you can get perfectly well-made shirts from Charles Tyrwhitt or Spier & Mackay for around that price. They'll be much better than the garbage you get at Express or Zara.
How many people are going to buy a Halloween costume if it costs $200 because it has to meet a minimum durability rating even though it’s going to be worn for ONE day?
Halloween costumes didn't cost $200 before fast fashion, they won't cost $200 if we suddenly start regulating fast fashion. Even if they did, you don't need to buy a readymade costume, lots of people do DIY costumes and they tend to come out better.
The whole concept is elitist nonsense. Why can’t people buy bullshit clothes? God knows fashion magazine editors have their fair share.
It's not because the clothes are "bullshit" in the abstract, it's because of the extreme environmental disaster caused by the norm of buying garbage en masse.
And fast fashion also regularly violates safety standards and labor standards. They break every forced labor law they can. And it's not an either or situation, there are companies that do none of that and still provide a solid product. And laborers tend to make shoddier products when they are forced to work, or when their piece rate is dramatically blow a livable wage. Shit, garment workers in the US working on piece rates are paid well below minimum wage in practice.
They seemed like not-quite-right latkes, which is part of the reason I bothered to comment. Maybe a proper latke recipe would help OP see potato fritters from a new perspective, and it does seem like he would enjoy an ashkenazi recipe here.
I was referring to the comparative death tolls over the course of Israel’s decades long
alright I'm going to ignore the rest of your antisemitic bullshit and just focus on the ratio you picked, probably also out of made-up numbers (and I doubt you included all the Israeli soldiers killed in wars started by surrounding Muslim nations pretending to act on Palestinians' behalf), to frame the issue without ignoring what actually happened.
Over the past few decades, the Palestinians have started every damn war they could against Israel, including two intifadas, suicide bombings, rockets aimed vaguely at civilians (historically, roughly 1/3-1/4 of the rockets fired from Gaza since 2001 landed in Gaza). Hamas has built plenty of tunnels in Gaza, but no workers, because it prefers to see its civilians die because it makes the statistics more gruesome and keeps their control of the gaza strip going.
Meanwhile, Israelis invest billions into not only technology like the Iron Dome to defend Israeli civilians, but also in warning technology like roof knocking tech, medical tech that it used to save Palestinian lives, including that of Yahya Sinwar, and... Oh yeah, remember the thousands of greenhouses they left in Gaza in 2005 when they unilaterally withdrew? Gee, what ever happened to those?
So Palestinians:
I had no idea about the eastern-european origin and the particular relevance of potato fritters / latkes in jewish Hanukkah cuisine. Very interesting, thank you for the hint! Is having them with salmon and dill-sour-creme a particularly jewish way to serve them? I also very much like the name “lox” fo salmon because it sounds almost like the german word for salmon “Lachs”, so I would guess it is from Yiddish.
We usually serve these types of latkes with either sour cream or apple sauce, and dill in general is common—either we put dill on our lox, or sour cream, or we make dill pickles... I'm Mizrahi (a Persian Jew), my family does plain yogurt with dill a lot.
I think "lox" and "lachs" and "gravlax" share the same root, but they're all technically a little different.
I'm not sure if they are all Yiddish, I don't speak Yiddish, but they're either that or more direct loan words from some other European language.
It doesn’t matter what Hamas agrees to or doesn’t,
So you don't want a ceasefire, you want Israel to stop unilaterally and then whatever happens to it next is fine by you, right?
Don't call it a ceasefire if you don't know what a ceasefire exist.
up to this point the ratio of Palestinians killed to Israelis has been 25:1.
Really? 1200 Israelis murdered on October 7th, you're really telling me that over 30,000 Palestinians have been killed?
You wanna maybe try that again?
what you quoted only makes the Hamas facility the target. Civilians inside that hospital are not valid targets.
Right. So Israel targets the Hamas facility. Sometimes, civilians in the hospital die as a result of attacks targeting the Hamas facility and Hamas individuals. This is what is commonly known as "collateral damage." It is a tragedy that should be minimized.
Glad we're in agreement.
lol, sorry to disappoint.