You are correct that there is an agreement signed beforehand. There is also usually an escape clause covering what happens if the surrogate refuses to give up the baby.
Nollij
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Ahh, sweet pity. Where would my love life have been without it?
Thank you- this is exactly the sort of critique I had been expecting/hoping to find
I agree with you, and would go further.
A while back, there was a study (IIRC) from the UK that recommended against gender transitioning for children. No surprise, it created quite an uproar before it was retracted.
At no point in any of the media coverage or comments on Lemmy, etc, did I see any discussion of the study itself. To this day, I have no idea if there was an issue with the methodology. It seems that no one, neither supporters nor opponents, bothered to read past the headline. Many of them were very fervent in their beliefs, but that wasn't enough to get them to look at the details.
This is also very bad for science - there are countless headline-grabbing "studies" that fail basic requirements. I'm sure you've seen things like "Is coffee/chocolate/etc good for you? A new 10-day study of 23 people suggests that...". Which of course should get picked apart.
If we aren't following the science, then what are we even trying to do?
(As an aside, I suspect that study was flawed, but I can't confirm. It goes against the conclusions widely agreed upon, and would require significant rigor and evidence to support the claim)
The difference is the center of power and control. Michigan sets most of their own rules and administers it within the state.
Ohio does the same, following its own internal standards. The process and results might look similar, but they really don't have to be.
Which means that Trusk can't dismantle it from the inside. They have limited power to tell each state what to do or how to do it.
Love the sentiment, but it needs to be workshopped to create the right product. There's definitely something there, though.
There is something to be optimistic about on that front- there is no federal election. Instead, there are 51 state elections (inc. DC) that are mostly independent.
While I'm sure that Trusk will try their damnedest to corrupt the whole process, there's not much requiring states to listen to the feds.
That said, election security will need to be paramount. Not just the integrity of the voters (but that too), but all of the staff, the election machines themselves, outside attackers, intimidation, and so on.
There's a report going around of voting machines reporting a red shift once a certain number of votes have been counted. If I were trying to hide that sort of attack in the code, that's exactly how I would do it. Which means audits will need to be very thorough.
This is exactly why, for many years, there was no percentage on the label. They were concerned that people would try to get it to 100%.
Fast forward a few decades, and it's extremely rare to find Americans consuming that little sugar, so the concern was no longer valid.
You can try, and probably even win, but people that stab other people tend to not pay court judgements.
While I appreciate that rule in many communities, there's nothing stopping them from posting a summary or even editorial in the body.
Something I found very eye-opening was the Wikipedia editing guidelines/style guide. Specifically, they had (have?) section on weasel words.
Once you see these types of manipulations laid out, you start to see them everywhere.
If you were to ask what is the largest, most powerful air force in the world, it should come as no surprise that the answer is the US Air Force.
But what if you were to ask what is the second largest air force in the world? You might expect the answer to be China, maybe Germany, etc. But you would be wrong. The second largest air force in the world is the US Navy.
This is why it's so important that every other country view the US as a threat. It gets even worse if the US were to ally itself with another threat, such as Russia.
Fortunately, all of the developed countries could start a military buildup under the guise of "pulling their own weight"/independence from the bloc without raising alarms among the US fascists.