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LawProf for Torts and Employment Discrimination. I love thinking and learning about rhetoric/persuasion, food, veganism, sustainability, nature, history, & research. I follow kind people.
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Except if the problem is too widespread you risk losing significant parts of your customer base.
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Well, that's mortgage-backed securities. But if a sector of the population can't get a mortgage because the risks of flooding or hurricanes are too excessive, then there is nothing to securitize. At some point, climate change hits them financially.
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I have long thought about the effects of climate change on insurance and mortgage markets, and had hoped that players in those industries might come to care about climate change in the sense of advocating preventive action. I'm not seeing that.
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Same.
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The PDA's rejection of Geduldig is one reason I'm so startled to see it invoked. I thought its nonsense had been debunked; apparently, that's not so for at least 6 people.
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What world is she living in?
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BREAKING: Supreme Court upholds Tennessee ban on gender-affirming care for trans teens. The vote is 6-3. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
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Exactly.
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It's also a way to make an insanely unhealthy salt bomb. I, too, prefer my spuds as nature made them.
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Tort fact patterns defy limits. As my children were growing up, I was constantly telling them "you can't do that." They'd say, "why?" I'd reply, "because mom teaches Torts and I know all the ways you can be injured."
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Our vet's office also does that. Since our cat's passing in 2017 and my experience with our dog this March (2025), our vet's office has vastly and empathetically improved its approach to this aspect of its practice. It seems to be a movement in veterinary practice. It's a welcome development.
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Put into the context of what the judge actually ruled and said, he seems to be saying that the desire to uphold the law is a partisan position.