You don’t get it. I know the other side will do it, BECAUSE THEY DO IT CONSTANTLY AND ALWAYS GET AWAY WITH IT. I’m saying my side shouldn’t hold back from the same tactics, because that’s how you lose.

Do you know why people on the right feel so comfortable calling for civil war? It’s because they assume they’re the…

It’s not theoretical. Look at Charlottesville. The cops tolerated violent right-wingers and even egged them on right up until someone got run over by a car. They got far less pushback than, say, a BLM protest does. Or look at Rittenhouse; he shot three people, killing two of them, and was allowed to just walk away…

So if I rig a shotgun to shoot at anyone who pulls into my driveway, I shouldn’t be liable if it shoots some poor sap trying to make a three-point turn?

I mean, they’re dead whether they were stealing or not. Traps don’t discriminate.

Meanwhile the trucker convoys break the law with impunity because the cops are on their side.

It’s more that I know they’re not gonna stop, so why should we unilaterally disarm?

As a recent convert to CarPlay, being able to control my podcast player on the dash screen is really nice. So is having up-to-date maps without relying on manufacturer updates, and having my map app know my search history, contacts, etc.
I have yet to drive a Tesla but every other in-car nav system I’ve used was…

Insurance will almost certainly pay for it.
This isn’t quite analogous, but a friend was once sued for medical expenses after an accident where they rear-ended an SUV. The driver of the SUV declined treatment at the scene, but a couple years later sued.
My friend’s insurance company handled the entire lawsuit. Their…

Workman’s comp is fundamentally an insurance system. Employers pay in premiums, and in return workers’ injury claims are handled by the workman’s comp system instead of everyone having to sue everyone else. Most of the time it works out well for everyone involved; the injured worker doesn’t have to spend time and…

No, this is why you have insurance. The whole idea is the insurance company is the one on the hook, unless you do something to invalidate the policy. It’s literally the service you pay premiums for.

What if the person who gets killed wasn’t a thief, but was a firefighter responding to a fire, a law enforcement officer doing a welfare check, or a power company lineman doing an inspection of the lines in your back yard?

In reality sexual harassment law is way more complicated than that, and winning that type of suit is pretty hard. You have to prove the employer knew about the objectionable behavior and willingly allowed it to continue. Successful suits are rare and are almost always the result of really egregious conduct.

“Clear” and “unambiguous” often don’t go together. When legal language seems overly-complicated it’s often because it’s trying to be extremely precise. Being insufficiantly verbose can really bite you.
Example: A university a friend worked at negotiated a contract with its TAs and their union. The contract had a clause…

My favorite is referring to a video clip as “footage,” because movie film used to be measured in feet.

This also leads to the occasional bizarre situation where someone appears to be suing *themselves*.

A big part of it is the unintended consequences of graduated licensing. Because so many teenagers were getting killed in car accidents, most states eliminated the old system where you could get a full license at age 16 after passing a course. Now there are requirements for spending a certain number of hours under the…

Getting a car for a road test can be a real problem. I actually know someone who doesn’t have a license for that reason — their old license expired, to get it renewed they need a retest, and they have no local family who can loan them a car.

Point is if we don’t keep pushing back we’ll lose our democracy. It was about time the left stopped shying away from conflict.

If the Trumpers stop doing illegal shit the counterprotests will stop too. In the mean time I’m glad to see that for once the left is actually bringing some force and not just showing up to gun fights wielding butter knives. We’re going to lose our democracy if we don’t keep pushing back.

I currently live there and it’s my favorite of any of the places I’ve lived so far. Housing prices are correspondingly high, of course (although maybe not compared to the Vancouver area.)

I’ve no desire to leave, although given the direction the US seems to be moving lately, and the fact that my wife and I are both…