Citizens United at least had some hand wavy group rights derived from each individual’s rights going for it.

This is basically buy your way to vote in any local election.

<s>Because as a business owner you have exactly as much say in a locality’s government as someone who actually lives there. Or even more of they don’t fix the “each LLC gets a vote not the owner loophole”.<\s>

In other towns where this is allowed, a representative of the entity, not the actual owner, was able to cast the ballot for the company after signing the necessary affidavit. Delaware allows for the owner of the LLC’s identity to not be public.

Yep no way this doesn’t-

In a Newark referendum election in 2019, a property manager was able to vote 31 times because he was in control of 31 LLCs, which owned 31 parcels of land. The city then changed its regulations after this became public.

Ah it already did cause problems.

Why in the world would you put business on the same legal basis of actual citizens?

Paywalled

Pretty much what the article says.

The alpha radiation that DU emits is not strong enough to penetrate human skin, so just being near depleted uranium is not a health risk. But it may become a health hazard if it is ingested or inhaled, or shrapnel fragments are retained in the body.

It’s really just one more hazard a former battlefield can have. If I was in or around a former battlefield that had DU rounds used, I would be more concerned about unexploded high explosives.

Very informative article.

DU also has nonmilitary applications. Its high density makes it useful for stopping radiation in medical, research and nuclear facilities.

I find it funny a source of radiation, admittedly safe alpha radiation as long as it is outside of you, is used as radiation shielding.

It’s really location dependent. Some places you’ll see the birds in seconds and others never. You’ll need to know the climate, local weather, soil conditions, what else is growing in the area, time of year, etc. to get an accurate answer.

It would be whatever is negotiated in the personality rights contract. I think voice actors have a union so I could see a standardized contract negotiated by the union.

“Oil deliveries to Pakistan have begun. There is no special discount; for Pakistan, it is the same as for other buyers,” Russian state media quoted Shulginov as telling reporters on the sidelines of an international economic conference in St. Petersburg.

That’s not what economists are usually talking about with discounts in this context. When talking about oil, or any commodity discount, it typically means against a baseline product. For oil you compare to the price of Brent. Think of it as the price difference between buying generic vs name brand at a grocery store.

There’s no details on the actual trade in the articlebut comparing Urals vs Brent shows it’s still trading at a roughly 20% discount today vs the ~2% discount preconflict.

I actually think the article titled misses the bigger part of the story.

agreed to accept Chinese currency as payment

I would expect increased trade between the three countries of this becomes the norm.

I’m not seeing any serious suggestions of that there. Looks more like hypothetical talk.

I actually had a similar thought to that yesterday. Could moderators be classified as employees for the work they do?

However, the Supreme Court has made it clear that the FLSA was not intended “to stamp all persons as employees who without any express or implied compensation agreement might work for their own advantage on the premises of another.”

I think you would have a massive uphill struggle to argue Reddit’s moderators are employees in court. Without that no back pay and no union.

“I refuse (voiceover) work that states they’ll take my voice and make an AI model from it,” voice actor Brad Ziffer told CNBC. “The best way to protect myself is to just stay away.”

As you should. There is a big difference between narrating and giving away personality rights.

But the article kind of negates the title.

However, experts say seamlessly replicating the way a human talks with AI is still a ways away. Human beings offer unique intonation, cadence, and emotion when they speak.

Voice artist narration for big title releases isn’t going away anytime soon. And if it does the job is going to be replaced with technical/artistic jobs fine tuning the generated narration.

What I actually see happening in the short term is it becoming profitable to do generative narration of smaller authors and books that would be profitable using traditional voice work.

In time I could see this working it’s way up the budget ladder into larger projects but that’s still a way off.

I just reread the article and still not convinced it’s a definite joining.

Momen said the BRICS Bank had invited Bangladesh as a guest, adding that in the future it would invite Bangladesh to join in.

and

BRICS, which stands for Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, is actively considering its first enlargement in over a decade.

and

Countries such as Bangladesh, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Indonesia are making progress toward joining the bloc.

Bangladesh is definitely invited to the summit in South Africa in August. But for the rest of it all I can say is it seems Bangladesh and BRICS are aligning towards each other. The goal of this alignment could be Bangladesh joining but countries are very deceitful on the international stage.

This could be posturing by either side for a variety of goals. Such as trying to get a lesser agreement by starting with with a large proposal and walking back slowly in negotiations, attempting to get concessions from a third party by threatening to take an action they dont like, shaping perception the relationship between the countriesnor something subtle and not as obvious.

Overall my opinion is countries do a lot of posturing and talk with no intention of actually following through. Until I see actual concrete action towards a goal I’m not going to trust countries to state their goals.

The president, a self-proclaimed “gaffe machine,” has been known to make some statements that leave people scratching their heads

Sounds a lot like Bush and his Bushisms. I want to see another “Fool me once, shame on…shame on you. Fool me—you can’t get fooled again” moment.

No idea. I can see not up voting it. I think it’s a bit of a non-story. Country looks to maybe join a group containing it’s some of it large trading partners. This group might or might not do something on the future. Only interesting bit is it’s the BRICS.

But a down vote just feels unnecessary. The story is factual. The source is fine. It might be relevant to someone.

Meh. Lawyers represent unsavory clients all the time. I think Trump’s treatment of his lawyers is the issue for most. Using them as political spokespersons and his reputation of not paying.

My guess is it’ll go like this:

Trump: Judge, I can’t find a lawyer with the skills to represent me.

Judge: Give me the list of people you tried to get to represent you.

The judge looks over the list see someone they knows.

Judge: Mr. X is appointed to Trump’s lawyer team and will be paid 1.2 x [standard rate]. Trump will put Y amount into escrow to ensure payment.

Add some rules about what exactly the appointed lawyer will do and done. Trump can’t argue for improper representation later.

I think that is an actual threat if he can’t find an expert. The judge might assign someone if he can’t find one himself just to avoid that.

He does have a pair of lawyers already.

top former federal prosecutor Todd Blanche and the former Florida solicitor general Chris Kise, according to people familiar with the matter.

What he’s struggling with is finding someone who is an expert in national security law, can get a security clearance and is willing to represent him.