This rational easily applies to sales positions as well, yet were all capable of having empathy with the woman in the video, regardless of the merit of her job.
can also +1 pdf24. I use it near daily at my job to merge and embed fonts on pdf files at work. also supports OCR etc, which isn't fast but works just fine.
> What I never see in any of these articles about justices getting favors or gifts or this and that is any link that influenced the outcome of a case.
Ethical guidelines are established not just to prevent bribery and corruption, but also to prevent the appearance of bribery and corruption. Public faith in institutions, especially ones as powerful and far-reaching as SCOTUS, is important and shouldn't be brushed aside.
As to the rest of your point - it's hard to disprove a negative. There have been justices that have 'evolved' or grown throughout their tenure - Roberts is a current example. The kind of social leverage that providing round trip flights on your private jet to view the unveiling of a portrait of yourself[1] can absolutely be applied to ensure adherence to 'predicted' outcomes of opinions. Kavanaugh has been the swing vote on several recent decisions, and the early leaking of the Dobbs draft opinion strongly implies the application of this kind of social pressure to a Justice like Kavanaugh.
You may think this kind of herd-mentality extreme when it comes to such a vaunted position but the absolute requirement that conservative scotus nominees belong to the Federalist Society is just another example of this sad reality.
> Kavanaugh has been the swing vote on several recent decisions, and the early leaking of the Dobbs draft opinion strongly implies the application of this kind of social pressure to a Justice like Kavanaugh.
A left-wing radical attempted to assassinate Kavenaugh because of that leaked decision. It seems far more likely that the leak was a form of stochastic terrorism designed to scare the court into upholding the status quo.
Because higher education is objectively not a meritocracy. The mere existence of legacy admissions proves this.
Of course those with degrees from Ivys and other selective schools don't want to acknowledge this - it devalues their degree. Same for those who aspire to attend these schools - whether they have an 'unfair' advantage or not.
Users are also part of the content-generation algorithm. Youtube uses my view history in their recommendation algorithm to others. YT uses my interactions the same way, whether it's engaging with the creator in the comments or providing feedback for other viewers or just simply giving it a like.
Yes, I'm consuming the service, but I'm also contributing to it. Less users = less engagement, and maybe that's good for YT's bottom line but it's harmful to the ecosystem.
Using words like 'theft' to describe visiting an openly-accessible webpage with a browser extension that modifies the presentation of that webpage is a bit extreme.
Gonna go ahead and plug https://www.givewell.org/ here, since they do an obscene amount of research to verify the cost-efficacy and trustworthiness of all the charities they funnel money to.
