IntlLawGnome

I don't know. There seems to be some openness on Mastodon to bots that are properly labelled as such, in my experience. I'd say open a bot account here and use it to give the crossposting a shot. Anyone who doesn't like it can easily block the bot account and move on with their day.

Yeah yeah. My only point is that this is messy as hell, and not about to get any tidier.

The two student loan cases from Feb. 28 are going to be interesting from a standing perspective. I'm not putting money on anything, but I think a finding of standing in Biden v. Nebraska is a stretch under the Court's last 4-5 decades of standing jurisprudence. But they may bend over backwards for the litigant who's ineligible to have his loans forgiven in DOE v. Brown. If there's standing for anyone in either or both cases, the loan forgiveness program is probably toast.

Don't forget to hit the CTRL button when clicking on any external links so they open in a new tab. Basically pretend it's 2012 again.

This whole thing has become such a mess. It made sense to me to keep RCMP to begin with, but either way, at this point I'd just love for the whole mess to be over one way or the other.

Right on. Want me to delete this one?

Gorsuch is a mixed bag at best on a lot of issues, but he has been as good as anyone could expect on Indigenous issues. Check out his concurrence in this case (starting on PDF page 43), which straightforwardly grapples with the history of forced family separations and residential schools.

For sit-down or coffee, generally 20%, as I've done for years. Not going to go up to 25%, and it'll take bad service for me to dip below 18%.

Slightly different for delivery - I'll usually do a flat $5 if they're nearby and I'm just ordering a meal for me and my partner. If we're getting a lot of food, I'll add to that.

If I order takeout food (not coffee), I don't tip at all.

There's a pretty good YouTube video from this guy out of Toronto (I think) who talked about these a week or so ago.

Ah, I see. I mean, I don't know that you really need to create it on this instance. Though I get why this would be a natural home for it!

I have an ebike that comes with a rear light affixed permanently to the rear of the frame. I think it would be more trouble than it's worth for a thief to steal, since it's wired to the electronic components and the connector is not situated in an obvious spot.

But I still get nervous about leaving the bike unattended for too long, lest someone get any ideas. Heck, someone actually broke into my storage locker a couple of weeks ago and just broke the affixed front light off my bike, not to steal it but just to be a dick. (They'd probably have taken the bike itself if I'd left the battery on it.) So now I use an old strap-mounted front light.

All this to say, I think the advantages of strap/clip-mounted light outweigh the advantages of an affixed one. But YMMV.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

(I'm partly kidding -- there are a ton of communities I'd like to see carry over from Reddit to here, but I don't bother because I don't have bandwidth to be a mod. So I get it. But if you have time, feel free to make the communities yourself!)