You can't indemnify for criminal activity though right?

Totally fair. Just was in my head as "what if they couldn't (securely) get a copyright?"

Also can AI stuff be trademarked? I'd think so since creativity isn't really a factor there, as many marks are not original in a copyright or patent sense.

If the image was AI generated, would it not be copyrightable at all?

That could provide an interesting driver behind some future trademark/patent filings if you're trying to protect art that isn't human made and therefore has no copyright.

More fruitful and straightforward I think is to just fine tooth comb their financial disclosure forms. We already know from ProPublica that Thomas' were riddled with falsehoods.

A Dem House in 2027 could subpoena financial records from Thomas and Alito for impeachment proceedings.

My partner with OCD had no appreciable change when starting a GLP-1 so there's always a secret third option of 🤷

The problem is that this ends up selecting for people who are independently wealthy, who want power because they already have money.

That's how you fill positions with rich people who don't care about the salary at all and just want it for power.

I don't think it really is. It's an 85th percentile household income* for DC. It's good, but the people qualified for it are almost certainly taking a pay cut.

*gotta consider household with the ethics restrictions on spousal income.

Supreme Court Justice (and other super senior roles like Congress and the Cabinet) are pretty distinct from normal public service careers. It's not a job you get promoted into from a civil service path.

The actual impact on the public fisc is tiny and the anticorruption benefits are huge.

I want to get rid of the power and secrecy perks, but I think it's important to have the job be financially comfortable. A big cash salary so they can pay for their own vacations, home, dinners out etc is quite appropriate for a high level position where you want very talented people.

I think to go with this you offer quite a large pay jump. Relative to what they can get in private practice the salary is quite low (especially with the constraints on spousal income).

Cars? Like in the 1910s/20s they were mowing people down with astounding regularity and they did whole campaigns to make up a thing called "jaywalking" to blame the people getting hit.

Trump/D Senate is gonna be some wild ass attempt to jam someone through during the lame duck.

OK but why set the meeting and then cancel? If you don't want the meeting don't schedule it to begin with.

The last two periods of price deflation in the US were 2008-9 (the great recession) and 1929-33 (the great depression).

That was your whole point right? That higher prices are the core driver of negative consumer sentiment.

If that's correct, then Will is right that deliverism can't work. The government *can't* deliver lower prices except by inducing a deflationary recession. Which is... bad.

Will: Voters' economic demands are irrational and can't be satisfied by deliverism.

Elliott: Voters' economic demands require the delivery of price deflation only seen from 1929-33.

If "bring prices back to 2019" is the actual demand, Will is right: deliverism is impossible.

I don't actually think there's a core disagreement here. Will's original point was that there's a disconnect between what voters say they want and the measured economy. And Elliot is saying what voters strongly seem to want is massive deflation.

In both cases, voters want a pony.

Yeah a lot more firms have gone in a price discrimination direction. Fast food definitely comes to mind.

Coupons can be an awareness advertising strategy sometimes, but not generally in grocery. People know about the local grocery stores. They are offering coupons as a pricing strategy.

Mfg coupons are much more likely to be awareness building / brand switching driven than flyer/app stuff.

The point of couponing is for it to be difficult. It's a price discrimination strategy to charge less to the people who care about price first and are willing to do something annoying for a lower price, and then charge more to people who don't.

Appropriation rider that any department who hires anyone employed by DHS from Jan 21 2025 is ineligible for any federal grant applications.

OK but downside of this is we got a toaster from them and everyone who comes over to our house giggles at the name.

All appliances in a kitchen should have exclusively physical analog controls. Knobs, dials, buttons, and switches yes. Electronic touch controls never.

It's just for your bird HIIT!

Main thing I can think of is that McD is sometimes literally the only deliverable open food if you're like 11pm to 11am in a lot of places.

I don't think it's actually what will convince many people, but it provides a very convenient mental offramp for people who are experiencing dissonance / buyers remorse. And if so, good!

A guy on the pier here appears to have some kind of seagull based HIIT workout (he’s in athletic clothes and looks like he started a workout on his watch) where he attempts to stop them from eating several piles of birdseed (?) that he put out at intervals.

I could see someone doing a Mamdani style "literally every executive action by Trump is rescinded" move on day 1 that does it.

Oh yea no seltzer makes it very tricky :/