If we’re taking about a portal situation, most people who ended up back in the Middle Ages would get put into work as a clerk/scribe once their literacy was established. Though there would be confusion over the fact that these strange literate people had terrible penmanship.

Update: We're out the damn $14K. The city withheld our building permit because they argued that our new threading tenant would use a lot more water than the previous market/grocery tenant. The problem is, the city only has a "salon" category, meaning they see a threading salon as using the same amount of water as a hair salon. There is no separate category for threading, which uses barely any water at all. Nevertheless, they insisted on a $14K sewer impact fee unless we were able to show them another threading salon's water bill for reference. So our team sprung into action. I posted a $500 bounty here, and my team started calling threading salons like crazy. Not surprisingly, the common response to "hey, we're random people who need to see your water bill" was an abrupt hangup. The other problem with this logic is that small retail tenants don't commonly have their own water meter. We shared this with the city, and the general response was: "hey, we totally get it, but we answer to the Dublin San Ramon Services District, and there can be major legal consequences if we don't bill this sewer fee. You need to talk to them." So the team tried like mad, but it's nearly impossible to get ahold of an actual person who can help with this. And of course, nobody is going to go out on a limb and try to fix the situation. There is no competing sewer or water provider. So here we are. The clock is ticking, our tenant needs to open for business, and every day we lose costs us money too. Of course a threading salon is not a hair salon, but also, nobody cares. $14K gone. Sometimes you really can't fight city hall, no matter how nonsensical the argument is.

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Third Circuit just published United States v. Berger. Machine guns are Arms at step one. Then the panel used “not in common use for lawful purposes” to uphold § 922(o) at step two. That test is not in the founding. It is a judicial construct from Miller, later adapted in Heller. Prosecutors will try to paste the war-weapon language onto AR-15s. Do not let them. A converted automatic is not a rifle in common civilian hands.

“Look at my incredible new factory!” Yo that’s cool, what do you make? “It’s highly optimised, fully automated, zero tolerance for defects and with a continuous feedback cycle” Cool cool, so what do you actually make? “I can interact with it on my phone, laptop, messenger, completely async, and the shared context means it’s always learning how to get better” Very impressive, but what do you make? “Every agent has full context, can spawn other agents, review their work, fix defects, and ship continuously.” yes yes. WHAT DOES IT MAKE? “Software.” Oh nice. What software? “Well right now we’re mostly using it to improve the factory.” Improve it to make what? “Anything!” Such as? “…a better factory.”

BREAKING: Canada’s Mark Carney says Canada is now ‘at war’ with US over trade, per FT

if your town has more than 25% on SNAP, nobody in that town should be allowed to vote.

Have you ever considered just what it means that the Feds still did not adopt a single arms restriction even in the wake of the Civil War? Federally, you could still buy a cannon, a gatling gun, or whatever else you wanted, without restriction, after THAT. The US would not get its' first Federal gun law (under the Confederation OR the Federal government) until 1927, with a prohibition on mailing concealable firearms via post. To put this in perspective, virtually EVERY other power had dramatically expanded by the time of the Civil war EXCEPT the power to restrict arms which remained unchanged and unmolested for over a century.

Ghost guns are old news. The battlefield of the future belongs to additive artillery.

So why not make it legal to give birth THEN kill it? Or if it gets mouthy at 17?

I disagree. If I were made AG tomorrow, I'd have to defend many gun laws I disagree with too. Because that is the fundamental job of an AG. With rare exception for stuff that is obviously indefensible, the AG fulfills the Ptesident's constitutional role to see that the laws are faithfully executed. It's not for the President to belatedly "veto" laws by claiming they are unconstitutional absent a high degree of confidence in that conclusion. That said, the NFA taxing power one seems pretty clear cut! I think a formidable argument may be forming there that it should not be defended further, especially if the other district courts agree.

A Brady violation is actually not a big deal. Otherwise we would see every prosecutor who committed one face disciplinary charges.