No, it just means that as something that is inherently unfalsifiable, it’s not worth caring about. I mean, there is no way for me to absolutely prove that you’re not a space worm that has burrowed into my brain and made me think that I’m reading about crazy conspiracy theories on the internet to distract from the fact…

Yup, that is absolutely a correct take. Funding the government is the same thing as giving Trump everything he wants. 

I honestly don’t think the average swing voter who cares about ethics but hasn’t made up their mind that Trump is unethical is going to be convinced by an impeachment trial involving complex ethical issues of possible conflicts of interest between Trump the businessman and Trump the President, like the Air Force…

Impeachment is, to a large extent, a political trial. The Republicans could have impeached Obama for wearing a tan suit if they really wanted to. But there was no political will to do so.

That’s quite a conspiracy theory you have going there. 

How would voting on articles of impeachment do either? Impeaching Trump will not stop him from pushing through the parts of his agenda that are still viable with a Democratic House, like issuing executive orders or appointing judges. It also would not give the Democrats any special extra power to “expose his…

LED bulbs don’t produce a natural, single continuous spectrum of light and probably never will. This is simply due to the fact that they don’t produce light through creating a single, continuous source of blackbody radiation.

At this point, I imagine press offices have some sort of a pool going, winner take all, to predict how long before Trump badmouth’s Bolton in public and whether his incoming nickname involves his mustache.

Maybe on the inside. On the outside, pretty much everyone who showed it publicly is retired or retiring after the 2020 election. Only the public sycophants are left in prominent positions. 

I mean, this is a Presidency that started with Trump bragging about crowd sizes, being rebuffed by the media, then going to the CIA memorial wall (which is like Arlington for civilian intelligence officers) and instead of taking the moment to show reverence for where he was and the lives that were lost by CIA officers…

Before September 11th, the Coast Guard was part of the Treasury Department (because Alexander Hamilton founded it to prevent tariff-runners) and then the Department of Transportation (because ships are transportation?).

He’s also failed to immediately and to the full extent necessary mobilize the US military and National Guard, which is actually in the position to offer relief to people on the islands by providing food, water, shelter, power, and medical care and to assist with search and rescue and emergency engineering projects.

The courts based their ruling on existing law, so that implies that Uber and other companies were violating the existing law prior to the 2018 ruling confirming their violation.

The courts, especially in California, have generally ruled that most taxi drivers are in fact employees.

Well, to start with, it is a creative profession. The tests for contractor versus employee generally make it a lot easier to classify someone as a contractor if they’re doing something creative requiring rare professional skills like consulting about network security, coding an application, painting a picture, or…

Illegal or unconscionable clauses in contracts are unenforceable. Based on the State Supreme Court ruling in 2018, it is pretty clear that a contract which categorizes ride-sharing drivers as contractors and not employees is illegal. That is one of the big reasons that the State legislature is clarifying the issue…

Such a contract would be illegal in California, so my guess is no. Obviously, Uber can prevent its drivers from working for Lyft while they are on the clock for Uber, but they cannot control or penalize their employees once they unpaid and off the work site so long as the employee is not doing anything illegal. 

I mean, by that logic, we wouldn’t have any labor regulations.

1. Whether or not it is a full-time job has nothing to do with whether someone is an employee or a contractor.

Interestingly, it’s not the case. One of my parents moved out to the middle of nowhere. He’s too far from town for DSL, but he still gets two papers delivered, one from a big city and one from a small suburban area of about 500K people.