Caleb Alexander

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[Caleb Alexander @readingcabbage]

@Neoncookies111 There is a switch in front of you. If 50% +1 of humanity flip the switch, everyone who didn't flip the switch dies. If 50% +1 don't flip the switch, nothing happens. Do you flip the switch?

[Caleb Alexander @readingcabbage]

@Lixue_tunapish Controversial opinion but, while I liked the improved character animation, I think the over the top race visuals detracted from the experience compared to Pretty Derby.

[Caleb Alexander @readingcabbage]

@Kitabit_

[Caleb Alexander @readingcabbage]

@ReganCoda Bought a car with a 0% APR loan some years back. My insurance company would not shut up about refinancing with them and showing me rates. What are you gonna do, pay me to own the car?!?

[Caleb Alexander @readingcabbage]

Realizing this is even dumber. Seems like the article and some other comments are equating the talking filibuster with "Republicans vote down every amendment until Democrats stop offering them."

[Caleb Alexander @readingcabbage]

It's so stupid we use the same word ('filibuster') to refer to two very different Senate rules. "Use the talking filibuster to pass legislation" is a nonsense phrase if you understand the process.

[Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur]

Just now: THUNE weighs in on the "talking filibuster," saying leadership has thoroughly examined it (much as Democrats did when they were in charge) and he finds it "very hard to see" it working. "And we can't find a piece of legislation in history that's been passed that way."

[Caleb Alexander @readingcabbage]

The "House's incumbent GOP majority" plays no role in seating the incoming House. That is simply not how it works.

[Eric Levitz @EricLevitz]

Over the past three weeks, the "nightmare scenario" for November's midterms has grown more plausible https://t.co/4eZNLzgjSX

[Caleb Alexander @readingcabbage]

@moseskagan @Sturgeons_Law No. You need to demonstrate by clear and convincing evidence that valuing your ownership based on your voting control results in an overvaluation. It's in the screenshot.

They are just trying to promote good corporate governance by aligning ownership and exposure!

[Caleb Alexander @readingcabbage]

@son_ofa_car @Sturgeons_Law Subparagraph (C) (mentioned in my screenshot) is the one that taxes then based on control.

[Caleb Alexander @readingcabbage]

@Austen Have you read Subparagraph F?

[Caleb Alexander @readingcabbage]

@ChekovsScream @patrician_tv He killed another person.

[Caleb Alexander @readingcabbage]

Naturally.

[Governor Bob Ferguson @GovBobFerguson]

Violence is never the answer. There is no place in our democracy for political violence, and I condemn the murder of Charlie Kirk in the strongest terms. My prayers are with his family.

[Caleb Alexander @readingcabbage]

@ilan_wurman If the state's demand for legiance and obedience can create the social compact necessary for jurisdiction (as your Reason piece says it does for freed slaves) why isn't that also true of illegal immigrants? Does the state *not* demand legiance and obedience from them?

[Sarah Longwell @SarahLongwell25]

At the time, everyone, including Republicans, understood how bad it was. Then, brick by brick, they built a foundation of lies to justify doing what they know, deep down, to be wrong. Trump betrayed the country. And so do they.

[Caleb Alexander @readingcabbage]

@LittleMammith The guy you're reposting this from had his own (third!) marriage annulled because he lied to his wife about a ton of shit (including alleged physical abuse of their kids and theft of a truck from her business).

https://t.co/fioDHT3EKV

[Tom Dreisbach @TomDreisbach]

As Donald Trump prepares to pardon people convicted for their role in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, it's worth looking at what leading Republicans said in the immediate aftermath of that day's violence.

A thread:

[Caleb Alexander @readingcabbage]

@mavradagaming Possibly. It depends substantially on other market factors. Are those newer houses pricier because they are newer (have better amenities, etc)? Or because there's still a bunch of unmet demand? Why the new prices are higher informs what may happen to existing housing.

[Caleb Alexander @readingcabbage]

It's pretty easy to envision how "rising prices" need not displace anyone. If you add 50 units of housing, who all cost above the present average, but no prices change for existing residents, then prices will (on average) have risen but no one will have been displaced.

[Caleb Alexander @readingcabbage]

@SwiftOnSecurity Famous Justice Jackson quote in Brown v. Allen: "We are not final because we are infallible, but we are infallible only because we are final."