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Constitutional law is wild. It’s legal to ban stun guns because tasers did not exist when the constitution was ratified (Caetano v. Massachusetts).
But AR-15 style “assault weapons” have full constitutional protection, even though the machine gun wasn’t invented until 1884.
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I have a CEQA solution that CEQA lawyers and consultants will love. Anytime you want to challenge an EIR, you need to complete an EIR regarding the impact of the challenge. This will slow if not eliminate many lawsuits, and give the paperwork aficionados mountains of new work!
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And I would remind everyone again that this has allowed the *probable* cover-up by the Chinese government - the conditions of, and ownership in, the live animal trade that they were supposed to fix after SARS - to basically go completely unremarked
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Lab leak discourse is pretty useless — no one (even the experts) agree. But there was a brief period of time where the mere suggestion of a lab leak was taboo, which was really bad, but also very weird
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UC Berkeley, which has banned affirmative action, is only 19% white in its incoming Freshman class. Conservatives are going to get what they asked for good and hard if SCOTUS actually overturns AA nationally lmao.
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Nate Hochman @njhochman
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An important reason behind urban flight out of cities: it's hard for families to find affordable large units in urban areas
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Joe Weisenthal @TheStalwart
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One reason older buildings tend to be more beautiful is survivorship bias: the ugly and poorly-designed buildings got torn down decades ago.