‘That statute prohibits state officials from “corruptly” accepting “anything of value from any person, intending to be influenced or rewarded” for an official act.’

This is quite literally the ‘textualists’ ignoring the text of the law. Creatively redefining what ‘rewarded’ means. Jackson’s dissent is basically ‘Did you read the text?’, ‘Do you think Congress knows what words mean?’, and ‘Do you own a dictionary?’

It takes a lot of education to make a ruling this stupid. It should be impeachable.

An Uber will never pick you up and tell you “My credit card reader is broken” at the end of the ride after driving you in circles.

Up front pricing is almost always going to be more attractive than metered pricing.

If you offer me metered pricing, I’m going to assume you’ll charge 20% extra.

And a transparent price up front.

It’s annoying enough to get in a vehicle and not know how much it’ll cost by the end of the trip (would you do this on a bus? Would you let an airline change the price of a ticket mid-flight?), but there’s something viscerally galling about watching some asshole take a longer route just to pad out the fare. Last I checked, when Lyft or Uber gives you a price, that’s the price.

Everyone has stories like this.

The hero we need rn tbh

It is kinda weird that real estate gets taxed just for existing and being held, but stocks, which supposedly represent a fraction of a mass of real wealth too, don’t get taxed while just being held.

I mean, I suppose, but at that point it really hits the level of abstract principle rather than plausible policy. Kind of up there with “no more war”, “ending hunger”, or “socialism replacing capitalism”.

And while I do believe that a better world is possible, I really wanted to speak to things that are plausible in the existing political and economic climate in my lifetime.

Yeah but there’s no real international authority for that, and how am I supposed to get my national government to join a treaty organization for that purpose when neither it nor any lower level of my government offer anything similar?

GOG is good too.

Right? Call it what you will, changing terms of sale or use after taking someone’s money is wrong.

Also nationwide lead removal fund.

Copyright should go back to 14 years.

And forced arbitration should be invalidated.

Haiku, but honestly I’m just happy to see the conversations here

Dogs working contribute to society, but don’t talk. I don’t know why being able to talk would suddenly change things for cats.

No. Some of the worst politicians are young. Some of the best politicians are old. Age isn’t a problem. Undemocratic systems and bad politics are problems.

Looks like it’s written by AI.

I’m sure grit + wealth is far better than either alone. It’s really probably grit + wealth + connections + luck.

Xavier, Renegade Angel, biblically accurate? Maybe.