Far better excuse is: It's a bit shitty, but it's a prison. Why are we spending so much time fretting over this?

I don't use it consistently because it's too expensive. It's not a viable commute option, so it's for 3 summer rides.

You've ended up making way more work for yourself than necessary. Link 2, that you casually dismissed, is a comprehensive analysis by the DOE.

10% of kids get sexually abused at school.

>As a group, these studies present a wide range of estimates of the percentage of U.S. students subject to sexual misconduct by school staff and vary from 3.7 to 50.3 percent (Table 5). Because of its carefully drawn sample and survey methodology, the AAUW report that nearly 9.6 percent of students are targets of educator sexual misconduct sometime during their school career presents the most accurate data available at this time.

Approx 4% of Catholic priests pre-2002 were abusers, and vast majority abused one child. Add in those who abused more than one, and you're getting closer to parity.

But they idea that the Catholic church is some outlier and you're not sending your kid into a same level of danger - particularly in today's classrooms - is just silly.

>The pedophile priest defender has arrived

The pedophile public schoolteacher defender has arrived.

I'm out.

E-bike costs are already insanely priced, and the regular bikes are often janky and fucked up.

If you're concerned about abuse by priests, you're going to shit when you see the abuse rate by public schoolteachers: https://external-preview.redd.it/6dwMJYlFL7bPd8pw2TBb8u31wO7HmQ6_7JUPH90qNZM.jpg?auto=webp&s=538d4dbae2af19174aa61d56f09b3d29f39c2f00

Spoiler: It's almost double.

Edit: Over the target...

Of course not. But an uncomfortable fact is that the murder rate remains 40% above 2013-2015 lows for third straight year.

Covid will disappear if continue to act like it's the bubonic plague. Like it did in China.

>Law Firms make business decisions (e.g., which cases to take on and who to sue) based on the lawfirm's commercial interests and the needs of the clients, not the personal interests of the attorneys.

Yes, and among those commercial interests is wooing potential clients. MSG is a big one because it's a premier venue.

Checked Zocdoc and earliest available is Jan 13.

Bit longer at three weeks, but still a fraction of how long you'd wait in UK.

Meanwhile availability for cardiologists, gastroenterologists, etc all abundant. I could go today, even.

>Dermatology is up to over a month on average. OB is as well. Cardiology is just about a month.

Yep but you're looking at 2/3 months for those in the UK.

Covered by your insurance, in your city, and available next week.

I'm sorry to say, but if that isn't good enough for you - you'd fuckin hate the NHS.

100% legal. Don't sweat it.

Ran it through Zocdoc.

Dr. Andrew H. Maran, MD

Dec 27, 9 appts available.

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For Primary Care there are hundreds available today alone.

What insurance do you have?

I live in NYC. Have done for years. Can see a PCP this afternoon if I want, could probably see a top 10 specialist within a week. Pretty standard work-based insurance.

Try Zocdoc. You shouldn't be waiting til Feb in NYC man.

I thought this was a given? If I give tens of millions to a hospital I want priority treatment.

Presume the donations over the years have had a major net benefit to others.

Object to politicians skipping the line though.

I'm from one of those countries.

The downsides would stun the US middle class.

"I'd like to see a PCP" - cool that'll be two weeks.

"The PCP has referred me to see a specialist, he's worried about this strange tumor" - that'll be 10 weeks, at 7am in the morning, on the other side of town. If you cancel it'll be another 10 weeks.

"I'd like to see a dentist" - Sorry, no.

> I think the ban will not stand up to legal scrutiny.

I'm sure it will? It's a private business. Can admit who it likes.

Yeah I'm a Nets fan. Just think that big part of law firm stuff/being a partner is schmoozing clients. And I can imagine there are some quite annoying downstream effects of a ban.

>But a blanket ban of entire firms is so petty. Where does it end?

Surely this is the point. You ice out dozens of powerful lawyers from the most iconic venue in town.

Even if it doesn't make this firm drop their litigation, it's something other legal firms will see and think twice about taking him on.

Evil genius move, tbh. If I'm a partner at a midtown firm, I'm not risking it if it means I lose my Knicks season ticket, can't take my kids to see Harry Styles, etc.

I don't like the guy. But it's such an evil genius move.

Can imagine there's a fair bit of internal pressure in these companies to drop these cases. You don't want to be a partner who's gotta woo potential clients and be iced out of the most significant arena in town.

People keep saying this but I don't see it. He's worth $2bn. He can afford a few frivolous legal challenges.

Her whole Substack is incredible and worth following.

Feels a little bit like EV Grieve.