orcrist

Clearly the nomadic lifestyle does not work for everyone. Many people try it for a couple of months or a couple of years and then make a change. If you're enjoying it, great, and if you enjoy it for years or decades to come, great, but don't pretend that everyone does. And this is important because social workers cannot predict your future. They can only play the odds and make reasonable preparations for possible future badness.

You want certainty, but I think the many high-profile cases this year have shown that there is corruption in prosecutors and police and judges, and that often overlaps. How do you possibly think you could create a justice system that would prevent it from ever occurring?

I understand you're speaking casually, but in fact many of us do not say that. It's always a risky proposition when you conflate an organization with individuals in it.

Let me give you a related example that should shed light on their stubbornness...

If someone gets in an accident and hits their head, they might have a concussion. How can you tell? Basic first responder training says to ask several questions. What we don't ask is, "Are you OK?" because the patient will say "yes" even when they aren't OK. It's answers to the other questions that give us enough information to get a sense of whether our help is needed.

It's quite possible that some social workers are acting in a similar fashion to first responders here. They want the details because their checklist is longer than yours. (There are other reasons that social workers might be annoying, as others have explained, too.)

That doesn't negate your frustration, but maybe it helps you understand one cause.

Can you explain what you felt was harsh?

The DOC will be responding to it in future lawsuits. At least one of those 1300 people definitely didn't do anything to justify their reaction, they certainly have the time to file pro se, and discovery will tell us what we need to know. Sadly, that will happen years from now.

Finding out people's salaries is a good thing. It's how you prevent your bosses from screwing everyone over. Of course that information might be sensitive so don't go around inquiring willy nilly, but it's definitely a topic that you can and should sometimes visit.

(I know this is a s*** post so it's all good but some people don't realize the value in discussing salaries, and they think it's something that has to be super secret when that only hurts you, the employee.)

If you get on the internet and go find a comment section that has a couple hundred comments, you can always say that it's a dumpster fire. Some people are lazy, some people are trolling, some people are addressing concerns that you don't understand because they didn't frame it with enough background.

I think you have several options in a situation where it seems like the comments are a disaster. You could download and walk away, you could comment about how it's a dumpster fire and walk away, or you could throw in something a little bit constructive. I recommend the first or the third, unless you feel like you're in a trolling mood, and then do whatever you want.

No doubt various TLAs have compiled dossiers on various very important people. It would be irresponsible of them not to. People who have so much power and access are intrinsic security threats, and that's no secret to the spy agencies.

Of course they might frame it differently. They might say that they compile information so that they can make sure that the powerful person doesn't get blackmailed, for example. It's easy to try to phrase things in a way that suggests you're protecting them, when the actual theoretical goal is protecting us from what they could do if things went sideways.

The two people are just two people, as you say. What we're actually talking about is how thousands of relatively famous Republicans and tens of millions of other Republicans react to the actions of those two.

Will the courts shut this down? If so, which ones might do so?

Please don't use the passive voice when you're talking about knowledge and accountability. Millions of people knew what was happening around the time it was happening.

Of course many other people didn't know, or didn't believe what they heard, if they heard anything. But you don't get to put everyone in the latter group.