I have a personal stance on doing professional work for friends.

If they offer to pay me for my services, they get discounts and maybe even a few freebies. If they ask for me to do it for free, they pay full price forever.

I’ll also proactively offer free work for friends sometimes when it looks like they could really use it, with the understanding they’re getting “much better than amateur, but nowhere near my best” when it comes to quality.

If every American who was being harmed by this admin moved to Canada you’d be amazed how quickly Canada would be come anti-immigrant.

Half my University students weren’t alive for Halo 3.

I teach at University and half of my students weren’t alive for Halo 3’s release.

The number of justices isn’t the reason for 18 years. It’s the length of Presidential administrations. A single administration is normally limited to 8 years, so the length of the SCOTUS term has to be more than double that to prevent them from nominating half the justices.

Bad justices serve for life now. Bad Presidents can stack the Court with bad justices with terms shorter than 18 years.

And the terms aren’t based on the number of justices, but how long a President serves. A President can usually serve up to 8 years. No matter how many justices you have, having shorter terms would allow a President to stack the court. If you have 100 justices with 16 year terms, an 8-year President would get to change 50 of them. At 18-year terms, they could only nominate 4. And more importantly, they’d automatically get to nominate 4. So you can’t have this bullshit situation where we’ve the majority of the electorate vote for a Republican President twice in the last 34 years, but somehow have 2/3 of the justices appointed by Republicans.

Nerds talk about both, but as far as most people are concerned they’re just imaginary concepts?

I can’t use my account anyway since they’re insisting that I used an authenticator app for account verification when I absolutely did NOT, and they won’t give me access to my shit now.

Because we’ve never had a case where the most-unpopular President in history was able to rush judicial nominees through the Senate and stack the Court with political hacks who have been credibly accused of sexual assault and drunkenness. The Senate has totally saved us from that.

If we had 18-year terms, we’d have 4 Obama appointees, 2 Biden, and 3 Trump right now. So it would still be 6-3, but the other direction, and it would represent the medium-long term political viewpoint of the American people, not the newest short-term reactionary position that a 6-year term would provide.

The US has a weird mix of big emplty spaces, really fucking expensive existing underground utilities and roadways, and private property (easements ain’t free) that makes new underground utilities stupidly expensive to run.

You have to buy big easements, negotiate utility contracts with local and state governments (to use the public right-of-way), dodge existing infrastructure while repairing what you break, and lay a fuckton of cable.

I work on the municipal side, and despite Google Fiber having a utility agreement with us for years they still have yet to lay a single foot of underground fiber because we won’t allow them to cut across roads that we just replaced in the last year, require their microtrenches to follow engineering standards, and they need to show existing underground water, gas, wastewater, and electrical services on their plans because they’re famous for just running a trench and making it the water district’s problem when they cut 7 public lines in an hour.

With 6-year terms an unpopular President could appoint a majority in the period of their first term, then cancel elections with their backing.

6 years is a terrible idea. It would allow even 1-term Presidents to select a majority of the justices and get whatever they want, and a 2-term President to appoint every seat.

18 years is correct. It’s the shortest term that doesn’t allow a 2-term President to appoint a majority of the justices (resignationsand draths notwithstanding).

They probably have a stronger claim and higher-ceiling on their portion of any judgment suing individually.

Yeah - these are crazy preppers. Inknow a few of them, and they’re the kinds of people who you very much do NOT want to share a bunker with.

Don’t throw it away. Give it away for free to someone who was going to buy one.

At will employment isn’t a magic trick, and this case demonstratesit clearly. It means employees can be terminated without cause. But if employees are terminated without cause they get to claim unemployment. That’s why they manufacturered a reason here - to keep him from being able to claim unemployment.

It also allows them to term employees for illegal reasons. An older employee making more money and approaching pension can’t be fired and denied pension for being old. But if they steal a cookie? Absolutely.

Specifically Civil contempt, since that can’t be pardoned away like criminal contempt.

That rule ain’t gonna stick any more than the lining in th reflection pool.

That actually sounds pretty dope. Make the pitch round with walls (kinda like arena soccer), and that could be fun. You could even do something cool where each goal actually gives points to both the opposing teams so there’s a more strategic dynamic to it.

Bad dress shoes feel awful. When I used to wear them at a dresser job, I loved my Bostonians.