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andrewducker) wrote2022-11-13 12:00 pm
andrewducker) wrote2022-11-13 12:00 pm
Entry tags:
- advertising,
- archeology,
- death_penalty,
- doom,
- games,
- germany,
- history,
- holocaust,
- iran,
- italy,
- language,
- lgbt,
- links,
- materials,
- mathematics,
- meteor,
- ohforfuckssake,
- pizza,
- protest,
- sexism,
- space,
- technology,
- transgender,
- twitter,
- viaswampers,
- women
Interesting Links for 13-11-2022
- 1. A material normally only found in meteorites has now been made artificially, and may solve our issues with some rare earth metals
- (tags:materials meteor space technology viaSwampers )
- 2. German transphobe also a Holocaust denier
- (tags:Holocaust transgender Germany viaSwampers LGBT )
- 3. Iran Votes to Execute Protesters (there are 15,000 in prison right now)
- (tags:Iran protest death_penalty OhForFucksSake )
- 4. English people encounter pizza for the first time
- (tags:pizza history )
- 5. Discovery of bronze statue rewrites Italy's Etruscan-Roman history
- (tags:history archeology Italy )
- 6. Why do so few women excel at maths? Sexism, of course
- (tags:sexism women mathematics )
- 7. Major ad firm Omnicom recommends clients pause Twitter ad spend (clients include Apple and McDonalds, and 5,000 more)
- (tags:Twitter advertising Doom )
- 8. How "Wordle editor" became a real job at The New York Times
- (tags:games language )
Re: 2
I do think there is a role for studying law in the abstract. I think any properly constituted legal system ought to have a great deal of internally consistent logic in it and be amenable to prediction. You can be a useful legal technician without knowing why a particular law is the law. But a legal system isn't dealing in spherical cows *and* I object to the notion that one *ought* to separate the law from its function in human society.
(And some of the same thinking informs my scepticism about block-chain as a contractual or monetary tool - some of this stuff is very messy *and* the legitimacy of decisions might actually rest on them being made by a human. )
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I agree that predictable law is good - if you can't make a good stab at telling both whether you are breaking the law, and how close you are to a legal grey area then it makes life vastly more risky. But yeah, law is a tool for making society better, and we need to keep that in mind.
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Condictio causa data causa non secuta being a type of legal action one can raise in Scots Law and known - at least in my Unjustified Enrichment class as the Condictio Cows and Ducks and Cows and Sheep.
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