bill_joy_fanboy

You said something interesting: "... modern life requires accidents like this."

This is a completely baseless claim. It is entirely possible to have both a technologically advanced civilization and simultaneously one that doesn't have catastrophic industrial mistakes like this.

This whole thing is bizarre.

I don't fully understand the details of the case, but if someone were to kill a family member of mine in a fit of road rage, I would be furious if the sentence was a paltry 10.5 years.

Victims or victims' families pleading for leniency always puzzled me. Where is your iron?

Saying that labor in America doesn't have a right to protect itself from undercutting by foreign labor pools is classist and eliteist.

Don't you want working Americans to be able to afford the cost of living without having their employment/wages undercut by programs designed to benefit big business?

YOU should look in the mirror.

When I see a comment like this, all I can say is that I don't believe you. You are a liar.

Of course, full accountability belongs on the man for the failure of the parenting partnership.

The assumption that being a father is easy denies the lived experience of fathers. How would she know whether being a father is easy or not? She's never been one.

I just love how you assume being a father is easy. Grass is always greener and what not.

Being a father comes with its own responsibilities and subjection to judgment by the community. The phrase "deadbeat dad" is in the common vernacular, but you rarely hear about "deadbeat moms" (trust me, they exist).

> full brunt of the responsibility and expectation once the baby is born

This is simply not true. If this were true, child support laws and requirements would not exist.

You actually don't have full responsibility once the child is born. Even then, you can give the child up for adoption.

You do have something that men don't have, which is full control over whether a birth happens in the first place. Men don't have this.

UK has public/socialized healthcare.

If you are a smoker, you are much more likely to be a burden on this system.

Makes sense to ban these types of activities if the costs of them are socialized rather than individualized.

Yep. A bunch of unemployed and "unempowered" men sitting around leads to them thinking things like: "Maybe we shouldn't be so cooperative anymore."

No one believes anything the NYT says.

As if "policy makers" in the U.S. care about anything other than getting re-elected and continuing to deceive and scam the public.

Yeah, like how does the collective mental health and well-being of society affect you in any way, bro? Mind your own biz... /s

the word you're looking for isn't "panic"; it's "indignation" ;)