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David Binnig
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Closely adjacent to the “Former Monkee Stephen Stills” universe.
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Portlander. Transportation & housing hobbyist.
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David Binnig
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Closely adjacent to the “Former Monkee Stephen Stills” universe.
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David Binnig
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But because Jesus ascended bodily into heaven, if you tried to reassemble him from relics it would literally all be blood and foreskins.
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David Binnig
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Could be that I made this up but he does mention a keg-worth of nails from the cross.
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David Binnig
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I think somewhere in “Innocents Abroad” Mark Twain said that if you put together all the pieces of the True Cross you could build a battleship.
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David Binnig
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Honestly my feeling on a lot of big Supreme Court days is that people should (1) read the opinion and (2) try to chill out a little bit, and I realize social media is not really the place for either of those.
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David Binnig
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But Chevron itself was a decision to defer to the Reagan-era EPA in taking a looser approach to pollution rules; the Natural Resources Defense Council in “Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council” was the environmental group that *lost*.
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David Binnig
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People have obviously legit concerns and the Kagan dissent is (as usual) very persuasive but also, like, *I* am older than Chevron deference. I don’t remember the Carter administration but my sense is that it was not a demon-haunted Dark Age of judicial necromancy.
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David Binnig
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“Malarkey” making a bonus appearance in the Kagan dissent in Loper Bright, if anyone’s still drinking:
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David Binnig
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So I think Louisiana tried to make all Protestants happy by splitting graven images as a separate commandment (Reformed-style) and *also* splitting “neighbor’s house” from neighbor’s wife/servants/livestock (Lutheran-style).
But that gets you eleven commandments.
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David Binnig
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The real answer is that Catholics, Lutherans, and Calvinist-derived Protestants take different approaches on lumping or splitting the commandments on coveting your neighbor’s wife/house/ass etc. (And the Catholic Church for obvious reasons de-emphasizes the “no graven images” thing.)
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I looked up the Louisiana law and went through the process of • noticing it wasn’t the Catholic enumeration of the Ten Commandments • trying to figure out which Protestant version it was • realizing it had eleven commandments.
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David Binnig
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People leap from “MLK was unpopular with the public ” to “MLK did not care about public reaction [and neither should I]” and it’s a wild misreading of King. King and the SCLC repeatedly delayed demonstrations in Birmingham because they didn’t want a backlash to help Bull Connor’s mayoral campaign.
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I’ve followed this closely enough to be very confident that isn’t the case here, but also & more generally the presumption that our local protesters would consistently exercise thoughtful strategic judgment or self-policing is not at all supported by the past few years’ experience.
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David Binnig
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Reading Herzl’s “Der Judenstaat” and it has one of the earlier descriptions of induced demand I’ve come across:
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David Binnig
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Incredible sentence.
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I’m not even religious but c’mon man, does “not one jot or tittle” mean nothing to you?
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A surprising thing about the Bible is that the commandments Moses chisels on stone tablets are not “The Ten Commandments” but a different set of commandments that are like:
• Observe Passover
• Don’t marry Hittites
• Don’t cook young goats in goat’s milk.
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They get deep fast if you keep answering questions! Currently she likes to ask me at bedtime why we can’t feel the earth moving.
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David Binnig
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Teaching her ROY G BPUVXγ.
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David Binnig
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My 4-year-old always wants to know what the *next* color in the rainbow is so we talk about gamma rays more than I would have expected.
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David Binnig
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And most of the direct zoning and permitting barriers to creating adequate housing are at a *city* level; given the political demographics of West Coast cities that really is an intra-progressive issue. It’s unfortunate that the GOP is making hay off Kristoff’s column but the problem isn’t made up.
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Oregon is making some progress, thanks in part to leadership from Kotek—but Oregon Democrats have been divided; the 2019 zoning reform bill would have failed without bipartisan support.
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David Binnig
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There’s a lot I find frustrating about Kristoff but the specific policy diagnosis here is not wrong?
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Yeah moderate is not the word but my impression from oral arguments is that Barrett (maybe more than anyone on the Court?) asks questions with the intention of eliciting information and listening to the answers.
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@tinysnekcomics.bsky.social on this:
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Worth noting in this context that the original Chevron case was about deferring to the Reagan-era EPA’s reinterpretation of the Clean Air Act to reduce oversight of pollution.
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Like I said … maybe? I get the appeal of savvy doomcasting but I guess I feel like there’s enough to say about the Supreme Court’s actual decisions without making up a Court to get mad at.
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David Binnig
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Maybe, but Thomas and Alito each specifically suggest here how Congress could prohibit bump stocks, either by amending the existing law to explicitly include them or by framing a law in terms of rate of fire rather than trigger function.
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David Binnig
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And one consequence in this case is that leaning more toward parsing the text or more toward assessing the intent/outcome will tilt the interpretation in different directions. But I don’t think either reading should be seen as outrageous.
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I feel as though people want there to be a single obvious answer but (as with a lot of cases that reach the Supreme Court!) there’s some degree of ambiguity/indeterminateness to this application of the law.
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David Binnig
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“I am pulling the trigger one time” and “the trigger is functioning multiple times” are both reasonable descriptions of bump-stock operation, I think.
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David Binnig
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Unironically a lot of protesters in this space could benefit from reading Noam Chomsky.
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God: On the day you eat this you will surely die. Serpent: You won’t die, your eyes will be opened. People: [Eat fruit, don’t die, eyes are opened.] God: Crap now they know too much, they need to die.
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David Binnig
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Technically my first computer was a Texas Instruments model that connected to a cassette recorder for storage.
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Imo the serpent did nothing wrong — it gives accurate information about the fruit, which is more than you can say for Yahweh.
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But as I guess you’ve said an underlying issue is that the Biden administration does not particularly want to highlight the asylum-seekers who will still be let in.
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David Binnig
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To be fair, the reporting basically follows the structure of the EO, which reads as very sweeping and you have to get down to like §3(b)(v)(D) to get to an important exception.
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I wonder if part of what’s happening is that reporters are using “at the border” in a sense that means “not at ports of entry”? Which is not very helpful in making this clear to the public.
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David Binnig
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Any sufficiently deterministic magic is indistinguishable from technology?
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Good time for public radio!
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More often people want the opposite: people are also mad when service fees are added in addition to the listed food price.
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I think they are saying “instead of showing me the approximate out-of-pocket cost, show me a lower sticker price and then add additional fees”? But I agree that this is a weird thing to want, let alone care about.
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David Binnig
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Really the purpose of the cat is just to dramatize the decay of the radioactive material.
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David Binnig
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At least Google AI isn’t taking Randy Newman as authoritative.
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David Binnig
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Yeah, I think California has seen some perverse outcomes but it does more or less work. Probably I’m annoyed because I feel like support for jungle primaries comes from losing track of what primaries are for.
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It seems like in effect this replaces the primary with a runoff. But then you really need parties to have some pre-“primary” caucusing process or you can fail hard on independence of clones.
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“Boorish” is in the same pattern.
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Need to recruit bandmates for Los Tigres de Númenor.
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Catholic Bible scholars are great though, I’m still pissed at John Meier for dying without finishing the “Marginal Jew” series.
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