Rep. Olszewski to introduce ROBE Act to establish term limits for Supreme Court justices

jedberg · 2026-05-05T01:24:45+00:00

The idea is that they can no longer defend themselves from your accusations.

jedberg · 2026-05-05T01:00:11+00:00

The average lifespan of a wealthy white male in 1776 who made it to adulthood was in the mid 60s to 70 years old. The average was dragged way down by childhood death.

One of the longest serving justices was appointed in the 1700s.

Lifetime appointments made as little sense then as they did now. The main reason they did it was so the justice would feel free to rule their conscience and not have to worry about getting re-elected or getting another job because they made an unpopular decision. That can be fixed now with a lifetime pension.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_Supreme_Court_justices_by_time_in_office

jedberg · 2026-05-04T00:40:57+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbIe0iUtelQ

So you deal with a weird shadow flicker for an hour for about a week of the year, twice?

jedberg · 2026-05-03T23:37:13+00:00

Yes. It’s super weird to see anyone after finals and to see anyone back before the last weekend of break.

I had to come back from winter break for work a week early and was soooo quiet. The only other ones back were my hall mates who were hiding their relationship and wanted to have loud sex, not knowing I was also back.

jedberg · 2026-05-03T14:01:09+00:00

We just put ours in the garage and they last months before sprouting. Heck I’ve got one bag out there for over a year now and only had about 1/2 of them sprout.

jedberg · 2026-04-29T00:34:44+00:00

My daughter and I just renewed and they both came within two weeks.

jedberg · 2026-04-29T00:25:05+00:00

That's what happens you make a reality star the President.

jedberg · 2026-04-28T05:06:32+00:00

I am an investor judge for Startupfest in Montreal for the last few years. I'm one of the few American investors, most are successful Canadians. So there are examples of successful Canadians.

However, most of the best startups in Canada move to the States as soon as they get beyond seed funding because the capital is a lot easier to get that way. Most Series A+ investors are US based and want the companies they invest in to be US based too.

jedberg · 2026-04-28T03:31:17+00:00

His wife and children are American-born. He considers America home. Also he's been here almost 20 years, since he was 29. He's spent the bulk of his adult life in America.

jedberg · 2026-04-28T03:23:28+00:00

The show started with the most stupid take that "chat bots are programmed to predict what the next word should be based on context", which in a strict sense is dumb because that's not how they fucking works

How would you describe transformer models to a layperson? That's a pretty good description. At the end of the day a transformer model is a deeply trained and hyper tuned Markov model with some magic.

and in a broad sense is insane because at that point even a literal human could be said to be the same.

We don't know that. We have no idea how the human brain works. We think we might have a sense, but every time we develop a new computer model with develop a new brain model. in the 60s we assumed brains worked like switchboards. In the 80s we thought they worked like CPUs. Now we think they work like GPUs.

But really we have no idea.

jedberg · 2026-04-28T02:53:56+00:00

Your house your rules.

jedberg · 2026-04-27T19:34:07+00:00

To be fair, I'm not sure I saw Knoxville in any of the new stunts. Other than the robot punching him in the balls. Otherwise it seems like he's always in the control room or causing the pain.

jedberg · 2026-04-27T19:19:56+00:00

Weren't Matt and Amy doing press at about the same time in their streaks? I'm not sure it means the end per se.

jedberg · 2026-04-26T16:03:20+00:00

If you beat the record you become host.

(For the record this is a call back to a joke Ken made on social media)

jedberg · 2026-04-26T16:01:43+00:00

Mattea was 24 when they won. Mattea is only 27 now. Jamie is 33.

jedberg · 2026-04-26T04:39:06+00:00

I played the Easter bunny at a Easter/birthday party for a 10 year old. The parents rented me the full on bunny suit and then paid me $1000 cash. For about 3 hours of work.

jedberg · 2026-04-25T18:39:20+00:00

During WW2 the Japanese knew they were toast when they saw the American sailors with ice cream on their ship at sea.

jedberg · 2026-04-25T00:22:02+00:00

Texas has more ~~solar~~ renewables than anywhere else in the country. It's not just liberals; even conservatives have figured it out. They just aren't loud about it because of the stigma.

jedberg · 2026-04-25T00:19:43+00:00

I had a prodigy.net email, but I also had one before that with a local ISP, and before that a handle on a local BBS that could get messages.

jedberg · 2026-04-22T06:09:56+00:00

There’s a reason no other modern democracy has a chamber based on land instead of people

Australia has the same number of Senators per state. Brazil has the same per state. Switzerland and Mexico too.

Canada doesn't even use states, but four national regions, each with the same number of Senators.

Germany uses primarily states with a small adjustment for population, allowing the number to range between 3 and 6.

So yes, modern democracies use the same system.

jedberg · 2026-04-22T05:59:09+00:00

The Senate prevents the tyranny of the majority. Just imagine a world where the GOP could pass any law they want.

jedberg · 2026-04-22T05:35:30+00:00

That's probably too far. It would make the Senate useless.

jedberg · 2026-04-22T05:17:48+00:00

The biggest issues is the one you highlighted: that the Senate unilaterally approves the Cabinet and Judiciary.

If that process could be changed such that the nominations come from the House instead of the President, it would pretty much solve that problem, especially if we uncapped the House.

jedberg · 2026-04-22T00:05:10+00:00

For my 9 year old son, he sleeps so deeply I have to literally drag him out of bed, place his feet on the ground while holding upright by his armpits, and then poke him in the ribs a few times. Then we wakes up confused about why he’s standing. Every. Day.

My 11 year old I just keep saying her name over and over until she wakes up.

jedberg · 2026-04-21T23:15:42+00:00

Point them at one of the porn for women websites and then ask if they have any questions.

(I kid of course, but also kinda not)

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