Technically, the police are correct! ;-)
Readit Newspravda commented on French fathers will now get 28 days of paternity leave vogue.com/article/french-... · Posted by u/karimford
> Still only 2% of men take the leave, while 42% of women do [1].
> I can only speculate as to why.
To give a context of the culture and legal system, as of today, unmarried fathers don't get legal custody automatically, and if they apply and the mother refuses, they need to go to court. This is even a recent change; until 2009, if the mother refused, there was no chance, and until 2013, the father had to go to the European Court of Human Rights.
Germany has a very surprising family culture in the Northern Europe context - the surrounding countries are considerably more progressive. An educated guess is that the Nazi regime promoted the father provider/mother educator model, and it's taking a very long time to move on.
>unmarried fathers don't get legal custody automatically,
Interesting. Do unmarried fathers have any financial responsibility for the child?
pravda commented on Trump’s Taxes Show Chronic Losses and Years of Income Tax Avoidance nytimes.com/interactive/2... · Posted by u/Anon84
Agreed about the apprentice, that’s quite a bit.
I was wrong, he only earned $197.3 million from the Apprentice.
There was $230 million in "Endorsement and licensing deals that followed the show’s debut"
So it is not like NBC paid him half a billion. It was only 1/5th of a billion.
pravda commented on Trump’s Taxes Show Chronic Losses and Years of Income Tax Avoidance nytimes.com/interactive/2... · Posted by u/Anon84
Maybe I exaggerated a bit but for me they rob the impact of the story when others can be concerned about how the information was gained. Also it sets a bad precedent for when the dems are in power. * depending on how the information. Was gained *. And at the end of the day the information really is t anything that is all that shocking - it’s what I have (and many have) expected all along
I am reminded of the joke, "Other than that, how was the play, Mrs. Lincoln?"
I know how the information was gained: someone leaked it! I am surprised it took this long.
Was it an IRS employee who leaked it in violation of federal law? Was it someone at the accounting firm Trump uses? Maybe we will find out some day, maybe not.
To me the most amazing revelation is that he got paid nearly HALF-A-BILLION for the Apprentice! I really think we should start taxing our OTA networks for their use of the public airwaves, if they have that much $$ to throw around.
pravda commented on Trump’s Taxes Show Chronic Losses and Years of Income Tax Avoidance nytimes.com/interactive/2... · Posted by u/Anon84
I’m more concerned about how this information was sourced. Did it get leaked from the IRS or an accountant? It feels like that part of the story is the bigger deal. I love the NYT but this feels kind of like doxing and makes me very uncomfortable.
>It feels like that part of the story is the bigger deal.
You think that is the bigger deal? I suppose it is a variant of doxing, but it doesn't look like the NYT is going to post the actual returns, just their interpretation.
pravda commented on The fresh smell of ransomed coffee decoded.avast.io/martinhr... · Posted by u/zdw
Lets just hope the heating pad has a temperature cutoff independent from the software, otherwise this turns a lot more scary.
I think UL requires two thermal cutoff switches for coffee makers.
Even my $15 el-cheapo coffee maker has two thermal cutoff switches.
https://www.electrical-forensics.com/Coffeemakers/CoffeeMake...
John Adams and George Washington believed a two-party state was a major threat to democracy, and it's pretty easy to see why.
The reality is Democrats and Republicans are about 6 inches apart on every single major issue. Compare the platforms of the "left" and "right" here to other major democracies worldwide, and you'll see.
Things are a little different with the current administration, but even that, the concrete policy and substance issues aren't all that far apart.
- Neither side supports socialized medicine.
- Neither side supports free or cheap college or doing anything about student debt.
- Neither side supports decriminalization or legalization of narcotics.
- Neither side is interested in reducing defense spending.
- Neither side is interested in immigration reform (as evidenced by the Obama administration having, for a long time, controlled both houses and the presidency and changing literally nothing).
- Neither side is interested in reforming the intelligence services or closing GITMO -- remember that?
- Neither side is interested in prison reform or policing reform. Police in America kill 10X as many people per capita as Canadian police kill. The only leader to actually implement any form of prison reform in decades was Donald Trump, credit where due. And that's likely only because he's not really a Democrat or a Republican.
- Both sides persecuted and prosecuted Asange and Snowden.
Really, what are the major points of policy differentiation? A 2% tax hike on the wealthy?
Gore Vidal pointed this out many years ago:
"There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party … and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. Republicans are a bit stupider, more rigid, more doctrinaire in their laissez-faire capitalism than the Democrats, who are cuter, prettier, a bit more corrupt — until recently … and more willing than the Republicans to make small adjustments when the poor, the black, the anti-imperialists get out of hand. But, essentially, there is no difference between the two parties."pravda commented on Online Shopping Makes Suckers of Us All theatlantic.com/magazine/... · Posted by u/haltingproblem
Offline shopping works the same way!
The price you pay at Home Depot is influenced by how far away the nearest Lowes is.
And don't get me started on airline fares!
I’d lay odds if he ever steps foot in an unprotected setting, a slip on a banana peel and a fatal head injury wouldn’t shock me.
He’s a traitor. I’m as liberal as it gets and even I think he went too far.