"why you might not want immigrants to leave as much as you think you do" "why you might not want tariffs" "why you might not want vaccinations eliminated" "why you might not want billionaires to pay less in taxes" "why you might not want gerrymandering" I mean the format is ok just the dumbest issue

I used to be jelly of peeps living in states with referendums and the ability to call for statewide votes but it turns out none of that matters much anymore. I wonder if my young kids will remember the Before Times when laws mattered.

This is what I don't get. What kind of country do the ultra wealthy think they're going to live in?

Shops, restaurants, cute little towns will shutter if people are chronically ill or too poor from medical debt to live near those nice places & work those "small" jobs that keep our country running.

Right? What world does he live in where he goes straight to specialists? Oh yeah the billionaire world where a $12k deductible wouldn't matter either.

You have no idea how many of us are out here just running the odds. It's insane. My husband has worked at the same store for 20 years but they got bought out and he no longer qualifies for insurance. Our rated plan is cheaper than anything we could get today anyway.

My kids haven't been to the doctor since then either. We get vax at the health dept. My daughter had a perforated eardrum and we took her to the Kroger clinic for liquid abx. I have prepper style supplies bc fishkeepers know how to get things but she won't swallow pills and we needed liquid

We have rated insurance because the ACA unsubsidized was 15% of our income years ago. We're terrified to use it. I'm 52. I haven't been to the doctor once since I gave birth 10 years ago. Not once. And I won't go. I got this rate with zero preexisting and damned if I'm going to lose it. Reality.

This is amazing to know and not anything I would think of as a ground level litigator. Would a background in sciences help with that possibly? Tho tbf I'm not sure he's interested in us law school, his cousin has already gone to the UK and he's waxing poetic about rain now building his case I think.

Of course you're right. Pilot twist: lawyer jobs training AI to replace lawyers pay better than my sad little remote litigation gig. There were 2 accredited law schools in my state when I graduated in 1996, now there's something stupid like 8. It's as bad as pharmacy.

Yes and no. AI is really bad at briefing things and I'm not sure it will get better anytime soon. Strong tendency to make sh* up makes for terrible lawyering really. This assumes the law holds tho. If we're heading toward vibe law, AI will be all you need.

Ok as a lawyer with a science smart kiddo I need to know more of what you mean about this? I rarely recommend law school but he'd be good at it. Being a lawyer right now is just such horror tho. Knowing what all this means eventually legally, just ug.

Mainly they refused to promote kids who didn't pass the test in third grade. That's the whole pedagogical scheme.

They used a skills competency test in a way not intended, to retain students in 3d grade until they scored better. It was no miracle and was debunked almost immediately. My son was in the first year of implementation of the same program in Tennessee and it's the worst thing ever.

Anyone they pursued would have discovery rights tho?