All this really means is that the life insurance companies won’t be able to transfer their financial liability to the power companies.

They will if he argues his constitutional rights were violated by the process.

Even if they are perfectly fine, we shouldn’t bother trying to sift the corn and peanuts out of the shit.

Republicans have a similar stranglehold on both Kansas and Ohio, but the party has a significant split on abortion issues. An awful lot of Republicans see it as a personal freedom issue rather than a “baby murder” issue.

Hardliners like Ken Paxton really aren’t helping the “pro-life” camp.

When this sort of thing happened in Kansas, Kansas enshrined abortion rights in their constitution.

When this sort of thing happened in Ohio, Ohio enshrined abortion rights in their constitution.

Texas politicians want to fuck around, they will find out.

What, like he gets sent to prison and has to dictate “My Fight” to a fellow prisoner?

Pretty much the same way that Europe’s GDPR works: they fine the business operations within the covered jurisdiction. If you don’t do business in their jurisdiction, you are perfectly free to tell them to shove their regulation up their ass.

Wikimedia collects donations from Texans. If these laws survive a legal challenge, Wikimedia would either have to stop collecting donations from Texas or comply with Texas law.

I said they should be paid better.

Customers pay better than employers.

It’s easier to “quit” an underpaying customer than an underpaying employer.

Millennial here: what’s a “savings”?

Always have.

The principles of bodily autonomy support the moron, unfortunately. Forcing something into the body of another against their will is generally considered a deplorable act, and makes the forcer criminally liable for any harm that arises.

I’m certainly not anti-vax, but I can’t find a philosophically sound justification for forcibly vaccinating an individual.

Unfortunately it is a brain defect with no treatment except for public humiliation.

That’s not completely true. Antoine Louis, a French doctor, has developed a revolutionary protocol for treating this defect. It showed highly encouraging results in its first round of human testing.

They aren’t rioters. They are part of the Occupy Prisons movement.

out of his skidmarked whitey tighties

FTFY. Just wanted to complete the scene.

“Elector of the President or Vice President” is an office. Even if this ruling means that Trump himself can’t be disqualified from running, his electors (as in: the electoral college) can be disqualified for providing “aid or comfort” to an insurrectionist by voting for him.

It may not matter for the presidency, but it absolutely matters for the Electoral College. Read the 14th amendment again: even if it doesn’t apply to the president himself, it explicitly applies to the electors of the president.

Trump was declared an insurrectionist. If an electoral vote for Trump can be considered giving him “aid or comfort”, any elector intending to vote for him is unqualified to serve as an elector.

Technically, we don’t elect the president. We elect the electors who elect the president. Those electors are required to swear an oath, under 5 USC §3331.

Any elector who intends to vote for Trump is giving “aid or comfort” to a known insurrectionist, which disqualifies them from serving as an elector. They can only be an elector until they try to cast a vote for insurrectionist Trump.

I just thought of something. Every officer of the US except the president is obligated to take an oath to support the constitution. 5 USC §3331

Read the 14th amendment again:

No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.

Trump was found to be an insurrectionist.

Every member of the electoral college is obligated to take an oath to support the constitution. Any of them providing “aid and comfort” to insurrectionist Trump is barred from serving as an elector. They can’t cast a vote for Trump, because doing so would be giving him “aid or comfort”.

So even if Trump can’t be barred from service, all of his electors can be. With no members of the electoral college able to vote for him, he can’t be elected.

By the same argument, if he is elected, any state or federal civil or military officer who follows his orders would be giving “aid or comfort”, immediately disqualifying themself from their position.

Using gas to heat water is considerably cheaper than using resistive electric. Especially when the electric was historically provided by coal or gas anyway.

Burning gas to heat water into steam to turn a turbine to turn a generator to pump electricity to a resistive element inside a dishwasher is not nearly as efficient as just burning the gas inside a water heater and sending it to the dishwasher. The heat losses incurred while passing the water from a gas heater to the dishwasher are a tiny fraction of the losses incurred in the convoluted processes involved in traditional electrical generation.

It may be 50 years out of date now. It wasn’t 50 years out of date when dishwashers became common and the standards were established.