Before there is talk of expansion, let's talk about pruning Thomas from the tree. His ass is explicitly corrupt. In the normal way, not the "let's visit atrocities on women and minorities" way the other conservatives on the court are.

The funny thing is that there is no paradox. Tolerance is a social contract. Contracts only protect people who are party to them. If you are bigoted or intolerant, you are not party to the social contract, and thus are not protected by it. There never was a paradox, it is just another thing that bigoted asshats use to try to muddy the waters.

As an aside; safety, tolerance, inclusion, and peace are all social contracts. These fuckers are not part of any of those contracts and thus deserve none of those things.

Honestly, I have thought long and hard about how to handle the situation where a company commits crimes as a result of their decisions and how to remove the concept of the corporate veil in a way that provides just protections.

Essentially there would need to be an affirmative defense wherein the board and executives must admit to the wrongdoing, but prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that the actions were taken by employees with malicious intent against the corporate leadership, either as a whole or against a subset. This means it cannot be weaponized to take out a boss you don't like, but also it makes it very hard to get out of someone being held criminally liable.

Unfortunately the Corporate Veil exists in the US (and most other) legal systems. I personally believe that this is a major root for all of the bullshit we have to deal with on a daily basis. You kill someone, you go to prison. A company has shitty safety intentionally to save money and someone dies, nobody sees prison. CEOs always say they deserve the money because they take the risk... Let's make that very true.

John Malkovich has always been based.

Cycling like the Dutch would cut the world carbon footprint by far less than replacing our entire power supply with renewables like the Dutch.

Except, from the description above, the use of slurs in public has long been held to be "Fighting Words" under 1st amendment law. His initial actions were not protected speech and are considered an act of violence.

Also, her walking over to confront him was not an invitation for assault. He provoked her, assaulted her, and she threatened to defend herself if he continued his assault. This is how these sorts of cases have been adjudicated for a long time. We will see if this one is, but it is how it should be.

I don't personally hate on Apple's 30%. I hate on Apple's predatory licensing practices which demand an upfront expenditure before the first unit sells at all.

Can we go for upcharges on food items for modifying them next? If you are going to charge me $0.30 for adding tomatoes to a sandwich, you better damn well reduce the price by $0.30 when I remove tomatoes from a sandwich.

This is getting so out of hand in the USA.

I have been making sure my newly or soon to be 18 year old stepchildren and nieces and nephews all understand that voting is not just who is in Washington, but also who is deciding what happens right around us. Local elections are so much more important than I ever really understood at their age.

Anything to stretch it past August 4th. Literally anything. Guarantee they will announce his death or retirement on August 5th.

I had AT&T Gigabit symmetric fiber once and it was glorious.