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Cake day: June 4th, 2023

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  • Yeah, there’s two problems with this.

    1. Congress is non-functional and can’t act as a check on the executive branch or the courts. In the past they’ve passed fuck you laws where they initially passed a law saying X, the supreme court interpreted it to say Y and then they passed a clearer version of X. This hasn’t happened in a long time.
    2. The supreme court likes to reinterpret the constitution. This means if you want to correct the supreme courts interpretation you have to pass a constitutional amendment. Even if Congress functioned properly this would be difficult.

    The idea we’re talking about wouldn’t work anyway. The problem is, many of the state supreme court judges are also batshit.

    The only way round this is to copy other countries that have functional judicial systems and stop making judges either political appointments or directly elected. They need to be professionals selected on merit, and firable, or at least replaceable after a term, if they’re incompetent.



  • Yeah as someone that lives in a city with mass transit, you change your habits.

    You shop two or three times week at somewhere in walking distance. You walk to the vet, and you order lumber online with next day delivery.

    If I genuinely need a car, there’s one parked in the next street I can rent with an app.

    On top of that parking here is a pain in the arse, and the average traffic speed is something like 7mph.