A quotation from Bierce, Ambrose
CONSULT, v.t. To seek another’s approval to a course already decided on.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) American writer and journalist
“Consult,” The Cynic’s Word Book (1906)
#quote #quotes #quotation #approval #consult #consulting #CYA #decision #decision-making #rubberstamp
Sourcing / notes: https://wist.info/bierce-ambrose/66280/
Chief Nerd
@TheChiefNerd
🔥 BREAKING: Federal Judge Orders CDC to Release All V-safe Free-Text Entries to the Public
"A federal #judge in an incredible 29-page #decision has now issued an order requiring the #CDC to make every single one of those 7.8 million free text entries available to the public over the next twelve months. Every month they have to produce a few hundred thousand of them...It will be an incredible opportunity to actually see what was being told to the CDC by the public...I think this is gonna be the death blow to this #cover-up. It is clear that they've been hiding something and #now the #world is about to see what #people wrote in after getting the #vaccine."
#vaccinescam
https://twitter.com/Kevin_McKernan/status/1745639111476617628
At least some Americans are unwilling to put up with Jones's shit
Far-right talk show host Alex Jones should pay eight families of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims and one first responder $965 million in compensatory damages, a Connecticut jury decided Wednesday, capping a wrenching weeks-long trial that put on display the serious harm inflicted by the conspiracy theorist’s lies.
With its punishing award, the decision could shrink or even doom Jones’ Infowars media empire, which has been at the center of major conspiracy theories dating back to former President George W. Bush’s administration and was embraced by President Donald Trump.
[But Jones, like Trump and the rest of their ilk, is determined to cheat his way out of the verdict.]
... It’s unclear when or how much of the money the plaintiffs will ultimately see. Jones has said that he will appeal the decision and during his Wednesday broadcast said that there “ain’t no money” to pay the massive figure the jury awarded the plaintiffs.
#AlexJones #SandyHook #Jury #Decision
https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/12/media/alex-jones-sandy-hook-damages/index.html
A quotation from Goethe, Johann von
But heard are the voices,
Heard are the sages,
The Worlds and the Ages:
“Choose well: your choice is
Brief, and yet endless.”[Doch rufen von drüben
Die Stimmen der Geister
Die Stimmen der Meister:
Bersäumt nich zu üben
Die Kräfte des Guten.]
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) German poet, statesman, scientist
“Symbolum” (1815) [tr. Carlyle (1843)]
#quote #quotation #choice #choosing #consequences #impact #long-term #decision #commitment
Sourcing and notes: https://wist.info/goethe-johann/55474/
https://twitter.com/StellaMoris1/status/1484505652227682304
The #judgment will be read out at #10.45am, #London time
#RoyalCourtsofJustice
#TheStrand
WC2A 2LL
(Opposite Australia House)
The judgment will either:
1) Certify that the point(s) of #law raised by #Assange are of #general-public-importance--thus giving him #permission to lodge an #application with the #UKSupremeCourt; or
2) #Deny such #certification, in which case the #extradition order will pass to #UKHomeSecretary
to authorise or deny #Assange's extradition. The #judges making the decision about whether to #permit the #appeal to proceed to the UK Supreme Court are the same ones who heard the #HighCourt appeal, #LCJIanBurnett and #LJTimHolroyde, and who #reversed the #magistrate's #decision #refusing Julian's extradition to the #US.
#julianassange #stellamoris #dropthecharges #freeassange #wikileaks #journalismisnotacrime #weareallassange
source: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/19/the-great-resignation-why-people-are-quitting-their-jobs.html
“A number of people have made the #decision, ‘I need to make a change.’”
It is probably the best known ethical #dilemma.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOpf6KcWYyw
The jurist would not intervene.
Intervention would be permissible with impunity only to save a close relative. Otherwise, depending on the legal system, one must answer for involuntary manslaughter or #murder.
The Christian would not intervene.
Let God decide and God's ways are inscrutable.
Most people would set the switch so that fewer people die.
#Utilitarianism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilitarianism
The hacker would block the switch so that it stops in the middle, causing the trolley to derail.
The #moral of the #decision is that 10 passengers on the trolley die in the derailment and everything is far worse.
