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Attorney arguing against the OSHA mandate points out the 100-employee line-drawing was based on expedience rather than evidence that COVID-spread is worse in businesses with more than 100 employees.
Justice Barrett getting some concessions here from counsel opposing the OSHA mandate, who seems to agree that there are some businesses where a mandate might be appropriate. She mentioned meatpacking plants and the dentist.
The next attorney opposing the OSHA mandate is up now. He's arguing remotely bc of a covid diagnosis. (His symptoms have abated.)
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Not gonna say who I'm subtweeting but philosophy twitter continues to deliver an endless stream of unintentional self-owns of an entire discipline. I honestly think their guild should step in & w/ a #NeverTweet policy.
There are many fields that people already had low or mixed opinions of, like economics. But philosophy as a discipline was obscure enough that I think few outside academia had an opinion on it, until the rise of larger philosophy twitter accounts changed that for the worse.
Of course, the current sorry state of things is really just reversion to a very ancient mean. Back when philosophers plied their trade in the agora, their insular cluelessness was roundly mocked by playwrights like Aristophanes. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_cuc…
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I've seen this on my timeline three times in the last hour, so I guess I'll point out that it's a (stupid, racist, sexist) vanity project by a guy who has 14K Twitter followers and no IMDb credit more impressive than a one-scene role as "husband" on a 2017 Modern Family episode.
It's got no release date and no distribution info. The "production company" behind it has no other credits, and the casting director who worked it appears to be the guy who wrote and directed it using a fake female name.
Oops. I spoke too soon about that last part. It turns out that Jeremy Saville does in fact have a wife—named Jeryldine Saville—who helps him make his weird unfunny movies.
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The followup tweet is, if anything, even better.
(And now I'm going to feel vaguely regretful and discombobulated all day because the original joke doesn't quite work because the characters in The Grifters were actually smart and savvy and good at their jobs, mostly. #nevertweet)
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