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> Can someone from the US explain

I want to describe it as Americans arguing with Americans and others about American things. These details under discussion we share with England (incl. Wales if you recognize the Laws in Wales Acts as including some separate place).


Municipal corporations ("cities") are not in all things the same as the government. Such as with property.

See the W3C Linked Web Storage (LWS) work on what could be apropos data ownership and transfers.

https://www.w3.org/groups/wg/lws/publications/


One, not a US thing. Two, the US Constitution is, despite the hyperbole.

Ignorance is bliss. Americans know because we can access our US court decisions, unlike any other country in the world. (Thanks be to CourtListener and other predecessors.) The "North Koreans have more rights, look it's right there in black letter law" is laughable, despite being repeated nonstop by cough some sectors of society cough since Soviet times.


> Americans know because we can access our US court decisions, unlike any other country in the world.

This is not a uniquely US thing?


It is. From long, long ago.

I can access court decisions just fine and I'm not in the US, so no. It's not.

The chances are not very high that you are well-versed in how all the other countries in the world work. Whenever you think something is unique, it is quite likely that you will be wrong.


>Whenever you think something is unique, it is quite likely that you will be wrong.

Can you tell that to ask the Europeans that constantly cry "only in America" about every little thing?


A bit of a weird tangent? You can tell them yourself. You are free to reuse my sentence if it helps.

You seem so sure. But provide nothing.

I'll go first, and you can match me. Here are several hundred court case dockets over the last 1.5 years or so related to one man.[1] Please provide court dockets for some relative number from your country of choice. Not selected documents: ANY document must be accessible from ANY docket.

I'd say Brazil is your best bet, I'd go with that. We'll wait.

Alternatively, we can explore your excuses on why you cannot. That's also a fun part of this conversation, exploring various national indoctrination systems around their lack of access to their courts. They are usually very different from the United States'.

It's always weird to see people go from "it's not true" to "it's true and it's a good thing" and repeat the government line.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_affairs_of_the_second_Tr...


> Companies will now have to sue

Yes, that is covered by Annex A titled "You have to sue". Which is interesting because longstanding law says the US cannot normally be sued. Surely you're not be hyperbolic.


Disease effects versus vaccine effects. Propaganda consumers ("news" viewers) seem to be generally clueless about one side or the other, which informs their balancing decision.

But you're right, a baby getting Hepatitis B versus the HepB vaccine. For the 0.15% of babies with perinatal HepB (2022 CDC cohort[1]) it's easy to say give them the vaccine after infection.

What about the other 90% of babies without HepB getting the vaccine (yes, they do)? Are our hospitals and elementary schools some version of Epstein Island? Are the hospitals competent enough to give the vaccines too incompetent to screen? What are population-level downsides to giving vaccines at such young ages before there is a reasonable risk of infection? I don't know, but I believe my preferred propaganda networks refuse to tell me, which makes the balancing decision harder for me in such cases than it is for you in your preferred case.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/hepatitis-surveillance-2023/perinatal-he...


Calling a sentient living thing "a common good of humanity" is pretty dark. Putting those concepts together like that is an oversight.


What does the AMA have to do with the Clinton-era cap on federal DGME and IME residency payments? New York spends billions every year, California spends none. These are choices that Congress and California make every year, not the AMA.


> spent 2 hours, had my blood pressure taken 4 times ... cost me $2,000.

I'd hate to see what they billed your insurer.


> legal

> don’t tell you

As a Wikipedian who has edited primarily on US legal systems but also Germany's ... I seriously doubt more than a handful of non-attorneys have any clue about the actual workings of the German legal systems.

The biggest issue is of course the lack of codified laws and regulations. (Note that collections like the Gesetze im Internet are more like US Statute Compilations. If you don't know what the Statute Compilations are and have never heard anyone mention them, case in point.) The Swiss SR is odd man out of course, even though it's unofficial it's still usable. US states and states like Germany do however follow similar court reporting practices, e.g. court case decisions are only selectively published, so we have similarly little insight into how laws are actually implemented in practice. (The US federal government is better, but its impact on everyday people is incomparable.)


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