You mean how, immediately after someone went out the door, it was possible for someone to go in the same door? That’s called “being a door”. That’s how they work. The way you make a door secure is by putting another one on the other end of a vestibule. Like they did here.
A “15-second window when the doors didn’t click shut after a parent left the building” seems like a very long time, unless it was the handicap door. I guessing that’s what happened
It’ll be extra fun if the judge or prosecutor is named Karen.
We may have a problem though. In general the EEOC files suits against businesses for violating Title VII. There’s a separate civil cause of action for the party discriminated against, but that’s a much larger uphill climb.
I would expect that the current criminal regime has all but shut down the EEOC. It isn’t a crime if there’s no police department to enforce it. I would not be at all surprised to learn that this is exactly the thinking of that store manager and his regional manager boss.
Chili’s US-based stores are a mixture of company owned and franchised. So we’re not sure whether this is a rogue franchise owner, a rogue corporate regional manager, or orders right from the top. It’ll be fun watching this come out. If the EEOC still exists in functional form to sue over it.
I bet you’re right.
And going into a locked door after someone else uses it is called “piggybacking”, and is very common. They even train us at work to be vigilant about it.
It’s an elementary school. You’re dealing with kids who drop things, forget things, suddenly need to pee, etc. I’m guessing the lag was set after enough parents complained about having to reenter their code/scan their badge/wave at the attendant/whatever.
Of course, as most Dopers agree, the actual answer is a society where schools don’t need to be run as high-security prisons, but that boat has sailed and seems unlikely to come back to the dock.
I’d guess that the lag in inherent. You want a door that shuts automatically, otherwise people will forget and leave it open. But it’s not going to teleport closed or to slam shut immediately. That would be a safety issue.
Measure a few automatically closing doors in your life. I’ll bet 15 seconds isn’t particularly slow. Much faster and there would be bruised arms and broken fingers.
They’ve tried to tell students at my school not to do it, too, but in practice, the only way you can stop it (at least, at high-traffic times) is via entryways with doors on both ends, continually monitored by security, who only open the door when there’s only one person in that entryway. There are some places where that level of security is justified, but schools aren’t one of them.
“Tailgating” is the term I use.
I’ve heard that too.
A Times of Israel reporter has been receiving death threats from gamblers who want him to change the wording of an article he wrote about an Iranian missile strike so they can win a bet on Polymarket.
Maybe betting on news events is not really a great idea in the first place. And doubly so for war events.
Can’t help but think that other bettors in that book, and the runners of the book themselves, can’t really be appreciative of another player trying to use extortion to falsify the factual event that was bet upon. Or at the very least now that it has been published that the extortion was attempted I’d expect the house to void the bets.
If they are really such a Big Powerful Force, the other players who stand to lose if they win would probably be also Big Powerful Forces themselves and have ways to “take care” of them if they can be identified.
One can debate the morality of allowing gambling in general. But allowing gambling on wars is absolutely, clearly, unambiguously immoral, because it invites insider trading, market manipulation, and the like, in a context that gets people killed.
It’s gotten relatively common for professional and even college athletes to get death threats after they had bad games, which resulted in online gamblers losing $$.
Threatening journalists because they accurately reported war news is a whole new level of sleaze, not counting reporters who might be tempted to fudge or make up their stories to win bets or get kickbacks from big-time bettors.
Welcome to the modern internet age. People can’t be angry or hurt anymore without sending death threats.
Obviously I don’t men everyone, but a large fraction of the anonymous people online seem to think that the only way to express sufficient rage is to make threats of violence and rape and death to the person, their family, and any random strangers standing in the vicinity.
Maybe at should normalize hyperbole to ludicrous levels. Instead of threatening to “kill you and your whole family, burn down your house, and rape your dog!”, we can take it to “I’m going to smite your town with an asteroid. I’m going to send a plague of nanobots to hunt down anyone with more than 50% of your genes. I’m going to send s stampede of buffalo being chased by a dozen velociraptors to your mother’s house.” People can build their ego with how vicious and creative they can be while insuring that the threat is really performative.
Two random thoughts, here:
1: What the betting site is doing is probably already illegal, when you put the right interpretation on it. They’re literally offering to pay people for attacks against Israel. I’m sure that violates Israeli law.
2: I hope that reporter keeps on digging, because now I’m wondering which side of the various bets Netanyahu is taking. Because would he really pass up an opportunity for corrupt profit like that?
Insider trading has a long and sordid history. Most of it not written down, since the victors write history, and they’re the ones trading successfully.
Maybe we have different views of humanity, but I don’t know if I’d even say “significant” or “substantial” (in place of what I bolded). Given that the vast majority of posters online are anonymous, to begin with, my own experiences have shown little interaction (or observation of) such misanthropes.
Unless if farts are threatened in a general direction possibly.
The state of Arizona certainly thinks so.
Goddam Overton window has moved again.