How do these people live with themselves?

They dedicate their entire lives to upholding this one thing, then seem to have no qualms just completely tearing it apart… Their one job is to interpret what is already written in the Constitution. That’s it.

I’m not a fucking judge or an expert on jurisprudence, but I can tell you that the powers they are giving the executive are completely unconstitutional. It is plain as day to anyone who has ever read the document, let alone Supreme Court Justices.

It’s shameful… I’m serious though, why are they ok with doing this?

Neil Gorsuch? Didn’t that dude side with Native Americans in that one case about upholding some old contract with them? Mr. “Fulfill your duty/obligations” has no qualms completely abdicating his one responsibility of upholding the US Constitution when it really matters. Shame on you.

Edit: https://www.scotusblog.com/2024/06/supreme-court-rules-u-s-must-pay-more-for-native-american-tribes-health-care/

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/15/us/politics/neil-gorsuch-supreme-court-opinions.html

This was the one I was thinking of:

In 2020, Justice Gorsuch wrote the majority opinion in a 5-to-4 decision declaring that much of eastern Oklahoma falls within Indian reservations.

It began with a memorable passage: “On the far end of the Trail of Tears was a promise. Forced to leave their ancestral lands in Georgia and Alabama, the Creek Nation received assurances that their new lands in the West would be secure forever.”

Yeah, I’ve found myself wanting to use the word in comments here as it was the best fit, but deciding against it because musk

You said it was exactly the same. That’s just wrong. It’s so much worse, and we need to be talking about this.

That’s why I’m speaking to you the way that I am. I don’t know if you live in the US, but this is extremely important for me, as I do. And when someone comes in and says, “this is the exact same thing he did last time, why is the media reporting on it,” then I feel compelled to shut that down.

It’s not the same, and the media needs to be reporting on it.

Buddy, this is econ 100. This applies to nearly every business.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supply_and_demand

If you look at the chart there, the equilibrium price is where the supply line and the demand line cross. Assuming supply remains the same, if demand decreases, the equilibrium price will decrease.

If supply increases, and demand decreases, price goes way down.

Wiki probably explains it better.

Yes, he’s doing many of the things he did last time. Also, it’s worth mentioning that there degrees, and everything on that list has been ramped up by at least 10x. Or are you not paying attention to the unelected billionaire that’s gutting our federal workforce?

In addition to so much more, far worse, things. Do you really need me to enumerate them for you?

How about putting an alcoholic Fox News host in charge of the DoD. And having a podcast host with no military or intelligence experience as the Deputy Director of the FBI? Or a billionare wrestling corporation owner’s wife with no educational experience tasked with literally dismantling and eliminating the Dept. of Education entirely? Or how about putting RFK Jr., an antivax moron who looks like the most unhealthy human on the planet, in charge of Health and Human Services (who btw is already fanning the flames of a measles outbreak by literally disseminating dangerous disinformation to parents that Vitamin A is a good replacement for the measles vaccine).

Should I go on?’

Last time he at least had some people in his cabinet that were interested in maintaining the status quo for the most part. That is completely gone now. There is no voice of reason.

I was giving you the benefit of the doubt that you meant just the golf. If you think everything else is “the exact same fucking thing he did the first goddamn time,” then you either have a really shitty memory, or you are not paying attention.

And…?

For a lot of things, they’ve just stopped even bothering with the pretext. They don’t even try to justify or rationalize anymore.

I don’t know how you reason with that.

For fuck’s sake he’s doing the exact same fucking thing he did the first goddamn time. We had a website to track it. Damn news needs to stop acting like this shit is new.

I think this is the first, or maybe second, article I’ve seen about Trump golfing since Jan 20. I don’t think they’re acting like it’s new, they’re just reporting on how much hit has already cost us.

I mean maybe technically (I’m sure it varies depending on country). But I’m not aware of any cases where they’ve ever pursued anyone for that.

It’s definitely a grey area in the US, I believe (again, no precedent set), and someone with a good lawyer could actually get a good ruling here, which would set the precedent. Which is probably why they never pursue it. I think that happened with VHS when people were taping shows in the 80s/90s (could be misremembering that).

The concept of “fair use” in general (not referring to specific interpretations of the term) definitely allows you to do this. At least how I interpret it. I am not a lawyer.

So if it were me, I’d only be concerned with the ethics, and I see nothing ethically wrong with it whatsoever. But that’s just me.

If you own the physical DVD, fair use allows you to own a backup copy, so torrenting it in that case would not be unethical nor illegal.

No, that’s not how it works. You’ve provided a chart that shows average prices for a specific point in time. That’s it. They are constantly fluctuating, and the price is based on supply and demand.

You don’t get to charge 3x for an egg just because it’s 3x the size. I mean, you can try, but people will not buy it unless that’s the equilibrium price. There is no rule stating that price must increase by the same amount as the size of the thing. That’s silly.

A thing is worth what people are willing to pay for it. Goose eggs simply aren’t as popular as chicken eggs, therefore the demand is lower. Assuming supply remains stable, that means price goes down.

Because religious people don’t think they are inherently good. And the fact that they need something like this to do the bare minimum required to be human, is quite telling.

They want to pay less than three times the cost of a chicken egg, even though geese only lay during the spring and only lay every other day.

That’s not how markets work though…

Capitalism. Next question…

I remember back when that referrer thing happened and people on reddit were tripping over themselves to justify it and explain why it’s actually ok… What a joke.

His face looks like an old catcher’s mit.

It looks like he hasn’t had a drink of water since his dad died.

He looks like Vincent D’nofrio in Men in Black.

He looks like what 40 year old actors looked like in the 40s and 50s.

(Just gonna keep adding to this as I think of them)

He looks like a Dick Tracy villain.

Sounds like some shit you’d see in Morrowind