Section 1 of the amendment was badly written. As proposed, it reads, "The Congress shall have power to limit, regulate, and prohibit the labor of persons under eighteen years of age." But the power to regulate includes the power to limit or prohibit. It did not need to be explicitly stated. To write it that way was likely pandering to supporters, or assumed supporters, with no recognition that it would be chum thrown into waters infested with the sharks of opposition.
This, I think, is why the Supreme Court majority in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Org. didn't completely shitcan substantive due process. They wanted to leave open the possibility of bringing back the old school economic substantive due process/"freedom of contract" cases from the late 19th and early 20th Centuries to shoot down wage, hours, and workplace safety laws.
Justice O.W. Holmes clowned economic SDP so completely in his brief dissent in the 1905 case Lochner v. New York . . .
. . . that it just kinda dried up and blew away after that. But it's not difficult to imagine a jerkoff like Flag Hag's Spouse bringing back the doctrine as a basis for holding that some state or municipality went a bit too far in restricting the freedom-of-contract rights of "job creators" and the parents of 8-year-olds.
What child labor laws we do have are at best inconsistently enforced. I've had too many 15 and 16 year old students who can't stay awake in my class because they were working until 2AM, and current students who have opted for our new online program because they have a full time job.
My younger cousin has hearing aids in both ears after years of driving tractors and semis. OSHA rules are unlikely to ever cover small family farms like his.
JFC Mr. Goat was a sound man for 20 years. He's as deaf as a beanpot without hearing aids. And he's had great success with some $300 OTC ones that he bought like 2 years ago, so that's a good thing.
I saw Sabbath (right after RJD took over) and BOC when I was a freshman in high school. Seats near the stage and the stacks. Was deaf and had vertigo for 2 days.
When I was young in the 1950s, a neighbor who had emigrated from England said something derogatory about the Irish to my mother at a women's club meeting.
My mild-mannered mother, the daughter of an Irishwoman, politely objected. The Englishwoman replied, "Well, someone had to pick the potatoes!" and I never forgot it.
Not completely OT:
https://cruelery.com/uploads/34_stew_chunks530647481.jpg
Only because I could not read all of this today,
I give you this,
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gbljPQbxtTQ
I'm finally done with all the Pinguicula-bog-making, but now my phone is out of juice and I can't take pictures. -___-
Fear not. A.I. will never be able to harvest potato's.
Plenty of jobs.
And they're off ...
𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗲𝗿𝗿𝗼𝗿 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗲𝗻𝗳𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘀𝗲 𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝘃𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗧𝗲𝘅𝗮𝘀
https://therealnews.com/processing-error-could-disenfranchise-tens-of-thousands-of-voters-in-texas
Feminism isn't a philosophy, it's an activity. (Not mine, I just heard it.)
https://bsky.app/profile/blue-rosary52.bsky.social/post/3mwh54mkilk2q
One of these
is not the same
The young girl in the photo's face says decades of hardship to me.
She looks middle aged.
Exactly. Her body says 8, her facial expression says 48 and 'I know already that I have no escape from this life.'
Section 1 of the amendment was badly written. As proposed, it reads, "The Congress shall have power to limit, regulate, and prohibit the labor of persons under eighteen years of age." But the power to regulate includes the power to limit or prohibit. It did not need to be explicitly stated. To write it that way was likely pandering to supporters, or assumed supporters, with no recognition that it would be chum thrown into waters infested with the sharks of opposition.
This, I think, is why the Supreme Court majority in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Org. didn't completely shitcan substantive due process. They wanted to leave open the possibility of bringing back the old school economic substantive due process/"freedom of contract" cases from the late 19th and early 20th Centuries to shoot down wage, hours, and workplace safety laws.
Justice O.W. Holmes clowned economic SDP so completely in his brief dissent in the 1905 case Lochner v. New York . . .
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/198/45/
. . . that it just kinda dried up and blew away after that. But it's not difficult to imagine a jerkoff like Flag Hag's Spouse bringing back the doctrine as a basis for holding that some state or municipality went a bit too far in restricting the freedom-of-contract rights of "job creators" and the parents of 8-year-olds.
What child labor laws we do have are at best inconsistently enforced. I've had too many 15 and 16 year old students who can't stay awake in my class because they were working until 2AM, and current students who have opted for our new online program because they have a full time job.
Working for shit wages when you're young builds character. The character you'll need to work for shit wages the rest of your life.
How many Boomers are wearing hearing aids today because of no ear protection requirements for too much of their working careers?
My younger cousin has hearing aids in both ears after years of driving tractors and semis. OSHA rules are unlikely to ever cover small family farms like his.
Count me in. I stood next to a roaring printing press for 12 years. Ear protection was just unknown then.
What say there?
Does being in a rock band count?
JFC Mr. Goat was a sound man for 20 years. He's as deaf as a beanpot without hearing aids. And he's had great success with some $300 OTC ones that he bought like 2 years ago, so that's a good thing.
See just below. Heh.
How many Boomers are wearing hearing aids today because their older brother took them to see Sabbath live, when they were 12?
I saw Sabbath (right after RJD took over) and BOC when I was a freshman in high school. Seats near the stage and the stacks. Was deaf and had vertigo for 2 days.
BOC played up here so often in their day, they may as well have been a local band. (I mean, it is NY, after all).
This was immortalized on their 3rd (!!) live album, with the Spinal Tap-esque rallying cry "Are you ready to rock, POUGHKEEPSIE??". (cringes)
Or had their own geetar amp.
Raises hand.
What?
That moving photo of the girl picking potatoes is by Lewis Wickes Hine, and is titled "Child Labor on the Farm" https://www.artic.edu/artworks/23355/child-labor-on-the-farm
When I was young in the 1950s, a neighbor who had emigrated from England said something derogatory about the Irish to my mother at a women's club meeting.
My mild-mannered mother, the daughter of an Irishwoman, politely objected. The Englishwoman replied, "Well, someone had to pick the potatoes!" and I never forgot it.
And potatoes were not invented in Ireland.
Indeed they were not. They filled the bellies of the poor around the world for centuries, though.
𝐏𝐀𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐎𝐅 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐃𝐀𝐘:
https://substack.com/@oneyieldregular/note/c-346620902
Zhang Daqian, "Mountain and Water Landscape," 1960's
Wow, me and PAB disagree on pretty much everything.
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@atrupar.com
Q: Barack Obama just said 'if you put women in charge of every government for two years, things would be better.' Do you buy that?
TRUMP: It's ridiculous. I love women. I think they're great. But what a ridiculous statement that is.
And Trump certainly knows from ridiculous statements...
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Xi was gonna bid, but after he's seen it, he's no longer interested.
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