I have to imagine that’s where his money comes from (and he must know it) post-Fox

I don’t live in Maine and it isn’t, but I wouldn’t.

there is roughly no reason at all to think infrasound is harmful to human health. sunlight is more provably harmful than infrasound. the entire claim is complete bullshit and studies on infrasound generally should start with a more plausible hypothesis.

you are responsible for defending your own rights by *fucking voting* and *yes you have to do it a lot* and *no there isn't a magical third option where you have rights and no responsibilities*.

the person who retweeted this into my feed knows better; I am sure of it.

I bet a high-enough amplitude, sustained infrasonic wave underwater could probably hurt you. just hit that thoracic cavity resonant frequency hard enough.

not really relevant to air pressure waves though

yeah I'm not really too picky about whether it's a revenue-raising tax or an industry-destroying prohibition—whatever you can get the votes for.

Makes sense. If you take the same view of these things that I do (that these things contribute absolutely nothing of value and at best provide a means for insiders to take money from gamblers), then missing on the economics doesn't matter so much because destroying the industry is a net good.

they can require withholding by the operators. if activity disappears entirely within a state as a result of the taxes, that's fine. there's no legal requirement that an activity must remain profitable after taxation before a tax can be imposed.

not really persuaded by most of the points in this. this one I find somewhat compelling as to "ideal policy" but not necessarily preemption.

as for lack of definition: legislatures can just write definitions. they can impose taxes on purchase/sale of event-based payout rights and income.

"Part of the reason the weaponization work has been difficult is that you need people who are MAGA and who are really competent," said Chad Mizelle, former chief of staff for Bondi. "Many career prosecutors are not interested in this kind of work. It's a very small group of people."

Bondi's former chief of staff Chad Mizelle: "Part of the reason the weaponization work has been difficult is that you need people who are MAGA and who are really competent."
From @paulareidcnn.bsky.social and other @cnn.com folks:

For himself?

Genuinely people this far down the “enforce gender stereotypes” turbocharged online variety are not people I’d want my kids to be influenced by. Our philosophies about how to teach kids to be good people are just fundamentally incompatible.

It’s a sign that, in the same way we have exhausted all the easy military targets, they must have exhausted their easy digital targets.

I’m sorry did you put your name on an *email list*? Learn the first thing about opsec, dumbass, like me, who posts crazy shit on social media all the time from my home internet.

Don’t see them out there protesting Donald Trump do we

Yeah. She was a substantively good candidate and would have been a good president. The wing of the left that did not believe that is small and loud, and as we can learn by observation they are best quieted by telling them to go fuck themselves.

Well, I don’t.

I don’t mean it in the sense of “he will hurt electoral chances”; I mean substantively he is a bad person and he will bring substantively bad things to bear

If he gets in that office he will be an albatross around our necks for much longer than Donald Trump’s remaining years on this planet

Maine can do whatever they’re gonna do. I don’t live there and I don’t vote there. I can respect their choice but I won’t have much respect for them if this is their choice.

That guy is a threat to the things that make democrats better than republicans in the first place.

In the past four years in online discourse I have only ever seen VBNW used as a cudgel by leftists who do not actually believe in it at all.

I’d vote for a Mamdani or an AOC or even a ro khanna or Joe Manchin against any Republican but I wouldn’t vote for Platner for senate, even against Collins.

I would like a Secretary of Defense who has read one (1) book on the history of warfare; preferably one that discusses the impact of disease on armies.

I have invented a fast food burger I can say is healthy. The secret ingredient is lies

Some of those objections have varying degrees of merit but none of them are the animating force behind opposition at this point

Their opposition isn’t based on any of this stuff though; they fear the possible social effects and work backwards from that to all manner of frivolity. “they don’t work; they use water; they use power; they steal; they emit 5G; etc etc”

They can’t embrace the power argument because it’s basically solved by using solar and batteries to provide new power needs (which also has the benefit of being more rapidly deployable near term). You might still need something else—people are trying to get modular nuclear off the ground.

Democrats had a big push to ban gerrymandering at the federal level and republicans en masse opposed it! If they wanted to, they could still pass that same bill.

The problems w the court are downstream of the problems w our politics—a big contingent of one of the two primary factions just straight up doesn’t believe the constitution is anything other than a means to win an argument, fit to be discarded the second it doesn’t serve that purpose.

We don’t really have control over that, though; immigration is at least a possible solution for at least the next 50-100 years.