‘That statute prohibits state officials from “corruptly” accepting “anything of value from any person, intending to be influenced or rewarded” for an official act.’

This is quite literally the ‘textualists’ ignoring the text of the law. Creatively redefining what ‘rewarded’ means. Jackson’s dissent is basically ‘Did you read the text?’, ‘Do you think Congress knows what words mean?’, and ‘Do you own a dictionary?’

It takes a lot of education to make a ruling this stupid. It should be impeachable.

An Uber will never pick you up and tell you “My credit card reader is broken” at the end of the ride after driving you in circles.

Up front pricing is almost always going to be more attractive than metered pricing.

If you offer me metered pricing, I’m going to assume you’ll charge 20% extra.

And a transparent price up front.

It’s annoying enough to get in a vehicle and not know how much it’ll cost by the end of the trip (would you do this on a bus? Would you let an airline change the price of a ticket mid-flight?), but there’s something viscerally galling about watching some asshole take a longer route just to pad out the fare. Last I checked, when Lyft or Uber gives you a price, that’s the price.

Everyone has stories like this.

The hero we need rn tbh

It is kinda weird that real estate gets taxed just for existing and being held, but stocks, which supposedly represent a fraction of a mass of real wealth too, don’t get taxed while just being held.

Depends. Are you a Louisiana Republican legislator?

It’s so stupid. Like, if the protesters do something illegal (actually illegal that is) then even if they have a mask on you can arrest them and make them take it off for mugshots. Also medical masks don’t really cover enough of the face to prevent identification.

So many folks at or just over the bottom of Maslow’s pyramid that even Forbes can see them.

Yeah, I don’t know that it would work well in these particular protests.