meanwhile it seems like they accidentally found an alchemy-level panacea with the Covid19 vaccine, with all the weird side benefits they found.

An ounce of prevention really does seem to be worth a pound of cure.

I suspect the people running the webinars aren't actually reading those books. They're just props. Thats why you can see them, and why they're making sure you notice them.

Its very hard to starve to death, but it can piss people off.

Its hard to see whose suffering medical conditions in the long term, but its very easy to die of lack of medical care.

But your math only involved what made your job easier, so you felt the least amount of pressure.

We're in that season, with odds increasing the closer to the winter holidays we get.

Pleasantly imagining riding my scooter along the canal-edge to keep pace with your boat.

amoral (by their own standards) behavior in order to feel any kind of novelty. It's pretty much a compulsive disorder at that point, unchecked and unmitigated because nobody says no to the wealthy until its too late and someone gets hurt.

Pretty much why they all end up in massive trouble for breaking social taboos. If not in their lifetime, history tends to speak poorly of the wealthy and what they get up to in private.

Ultimately the boredom of having nothing to work for and nothing out of your reach means many of them turn to

I'm not sure I could identify brand name jeans if I'm honest...

certain magnitude, if nothing else to protect themselves from a massive amount of work that would follow along with certain decisions. As long as this is Robert's court, it won't be the one to make anything so earth shatteringly disruptive.

were to retain the legality on their own constitution, the questions that come with interstate travel still make it a threat to *Every* marriage legalized under Obergefell v. Hodges.

This court is many things, but largely its biggest sin is sloth; It will not upset the order of things of a

I suspect a big motivating factor is the bureaucratic hell that would unfold if the SC just snaps their fingers and undid nearly 600,00 marriages, many of which I imagine have long since had their financial, medical, parental rights, and power of attorney intertwined.

Even if a state-

the system. They build coalitions around ensuring the next wave continue to have those advantages, on the understanding that the incumbents and those they care most about are well taken care of long after they've left office one way or another.

Power is never shared, only bartered or taken.

no possibility that so long as we operate on an economic system that rewards acquisition of wealth and capital, the temptation to abuse the power of office will always draw bad actors to all three branches, and those who have already been established will ensure that the ability to exploit

I feel like if we ever reach the point where those who hold the power of office would even consider reducing their own strength, we'll be so much more ethically advanced that it wouldn't be a necessary consideration.

Ultimately the failing of our current form of government is that there is