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I can't imagine a scenario in which that doesn't end up with them losing their seats. If they're in a competitive district, they're not going to pick up a lot of independents, and their campaign funds from the party will dry up. If they're in a deep red district, they probably get primaried out from the right.

And then we have a democratic Speaker in a house with a Republican majority, who doesn't have a coalition that agrees on much, and could easily turn on him like we saw with McCarthy.

If only that was viable. It's going to be a wild next 13 months.

Specifically, the thing that is wrong is the idea that the only way to uphold their fiduciary duty to shareholders is to maximize profit. They have a legal obligation to put their shareholders' interest first, and maximizing short term profit is not the only way to do this. Benefit corps give some of their revenue to a cause, sometimes companies invest in long-term stability or profitability.

Don't threaten me with a good time

By the standards of its day, I'd even say Windows XP was good.

It all depends what the judge is willing to do about violations. If they really threaten the administration of justice, fines are probably the first step, but imprisonment is on the table though it seems unlikely to go that far. A new judge may treat these differently, or take previous gag order violations into account.

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It's also an exit condition. When it no longer serves as a channel to reach enough people, they leave, and more leave as a result.. the interesting question is there that threshold lies

As someone on the left, the school presented by that article sounds like a laundry list of anti patterns that make schools ineffective education. Teachers should be leaders and partners in education, not arbitrary authorities punishing deviation from strict expectations. Kids should learn to respect people helping them to set and achieve their goals, not to fear authorities. Really, they should learn to question arbitrary exercises of authority.

They should learn how to think critically, solve problems, and work with their peers to do more than they could alone. Not just to test well.

Having a diverse set of teachers is neat, but doesn't make up for the other claims.

Around the time the majority of our lawmakers learned about the Vietnam war in a history book.

And it was.. me. It's always me.

That's exactly what I'm expecting would happen. Trump submits paperwork trying to appeal, it gets rejected for not being valid grounds to appeal, and he cries persecution in the media.

Since when has something being legal or not ever stopped Trump from trying it?

The city King of the Hill's Arlen is based on is Richardson Texas, which is the next city over from Garland. It's close enough it's an easy mistake, and probably not a coincidence.

I dunno, he also clearly wants federal pardons to maximize his chance of staying out of jail. In a fight between Trump's ego and spite against his self preservation.. I'm not sure which side wins

Only Nazis could ruin punching Nazis.

Even a database with no licensing fees costs money in terms of wages/salaried employee time to use, so while that cost advantage is real, there are costs on both sides. If MS has products you want to use that are much easier (read: cheaper) to use with their paid database than some free alternative, that's certainly a good reason to consider it.

The longer you use it, the less likely it is to pay off, but execs focused on short term profits don't weigh that very highly.

I think the biggest issue is titles; what people expect of mobile games, perpetuating itself into a weak catalog of original titles, with a few good ports. Mobile games are largely designed to be heavily-monitized, Games as a Service, and/or gacha titles.. profitable design choices, but not because they make games better.

Having a more standard control scheme would help get more ports of console games, but I'd love to see more mobile games that use the existing interface/formfactor well. Pokemon Go circa 2018 was a good game that only works on mobile, and I'd love to see more of those.

Maybe that's just because 132 is a rude number.

My concern was around situations where someone buys keys with a stolen credit card, and sells them as a form of money laundering.

That feels nefarious, and not participating in marketplaces with a high likelihood of participating in money laundering seems like a good method of harm reduction.

Pre-sanitized, with garlic.