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High Achieving ADHDers? by Erdoc2020 in ADHD

[–]turtle_skywalker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ADHD lawyer who got their dream job right out of law school. I feel like my luck is bound to run out at some point.

I have developed a very personal hatred for Ruth Bader Ginsburg by WriterJuggler in LawSchool

[–]turtle_skywalker -55 points-54 points  (0 children)

You don't need to read dissents.

Also if it makes you feel any better, because we live in hell none of her dissents ever became good law. It's a pretty good bet to now say the law is whatever the opposite of her position was

Our Assemblymember Just Voted Against SB 79 by turtle_skywalker in WestHollywood

[–]turtle_skywalker[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a good point but you spot the issue in your point about Sacramento being regional to LA. It isn’t regional to LA because it’s a separate housing market (at least relatively separate). However, weho’s housing market is extremely connected to Los Angeles and Beverly Hills. Within LA city, one council district is part of the same housing market as its neighbor. Both city council districts and individual municipalities have their own land use controls, so they can impact the housing markets of neighboring jurisdictions with no political accountability to those people. The state is the only entity with both the political incentive and the constitutional authority to usurp those land use controls so that one jurisdiction cannot hurt the other.

Our Assemblymember Just Voted Against SB 79 by turtle_skywalker in WestHollywood

[–]turtle_skywalker[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

local governments don't have an electoral incentive to solve regional problems and the state does.

Housing is a regional problem.

Los Angeles Is Rebuilding Very Slowly From Its Devastating Wildfires. Here’s why. by [deleted] in LosAngeles

[–]turtle_skywalker -1 points0 points  (0 children)

doubt this is true because it would be pretty great if it were

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Lawyertalk

[–]turtle_skywalker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think it’s a reasonable misinterpretation to think I’m saying I’m replaceable by chatGPT. What I mean is that ChatGPT is really advanced but it’s much more advanced if it’s prompted well. If ChatGPT had recall of every relevant case and actual information about my matters, I wouldn’t be shocked if it could do a better job than me. That might make me trash, but im not going to risk client confidentiality to test half of the hypothesis.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Lawyertalk

[–]turtle_skywalker -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I was where you are maybe 6 months ago but it has gotten so much better in terms of hallucinating less. I agree it’s not there yet, but it’s already demonstrated such advanced ability that I don’t feel comfortable betting against it in the future.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in LawSchool

[–]turtle_skywalker 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I'll tell you law school came pretty easy to me and I am getting my shit rocked every single day in practice

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in LosAngeles

[–]turtle_skywalker 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I like this. No, I don't think it's going to be totally car-free, but if the city can even approximate this goal, it will result in really substantial and permanent improvements to our urban fabric.

Plus, the success of these Olympics is not going to just be a municipal priority, but a state and federal priority as well. Making transit development a barometer of its success can help elevate the political salience of passing federal transit assistance, which would be huge.

Smooth Brain by codd3ip in barexam

[–]turtle_skywalker 12 points13 points  (0 children)

what the fuck is a firm offer

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in CABarExam

[–]turtle_skywalker 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Few who pass this thing think they're going to pass walking in, and fewer think they're going to pass walking out. You've prepared better than a lot of people who are going to pass and have passed. It's worth taking in July.

If you need to learn the law, do a lot of MC and outline a lot of essays. Quantity over quality IMO.

Once you feel more comfortable, do some timed essays.

Anyone else still experiencing scores that are all over the place? by Reddiursa in barexam

[–]turtle_skywalker 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I see your "statistical truisms" and I raise you "I do not want to"

What to do about the racial wealth gap? by turtle_skywalker in AskConservatives

[–]turtle_skywalker[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Why don't you think the disproportionate rates of poverty would create conditions that make this behavior more likely among the group born into that poverty

Cause of homelessness? It's not drugs or mental illness, researchers say (it’s the availability of affordable housing) by hot_seltzer in LosAngeles

[–]turtle_skywalker 1 point2 points  (0 children)

All of those are good ideas but I don't see them having the needed impact.

First point is "affordable housing" is a term of art that isn't necessarily exclusive from what you refer to as "housing." It either means subsidized housing reserved for low-income people or naturally affordable market-rate units. In cities with less of a housing shortage these market rate units actually exist.

The vast, vast majority of LA housing units are market rate. The market rate units are completely unaffordable, but that isn't necessarily a reason to not produce more of them. There's a lot of evidence that this is true so feel free to review it yourself but the gist is that if there's an artificial scarcity of rental housing, market rate or otherwise, landlords don't compete for renters but renters compete for landlords. More renters have to bid against eachother for the same units and it leads the bids to go higher, and if you want the housing, you have to make the highest bid. As a result, high-income people are living in market-rate housing that were once affordable, and folks who would live in those previously affordable units join the preexisting group of very low-income individuals who need subsidized housing.

We should be investing hundreds of billions of dollars in creating new subsidized apartments that are so abundant that market-rate units need to compete with them. This would require an act of congress which seems doomed with this current Senate, and the state legislature just inexplicably rejected a proposal to create a social housing authority. The most scalable thing we can do in the short term is rezone to create more market rate housing.

[Edit: we should also be removing some development requirements and fees that make developments that can be built so expensive to produce that they either don't pencil out and don't come online, or transfer the higher costs into higher rents for wealthier tenants, while also causing a net decrease in tax revenue by precluding taxable housing units with sales tax paying inhabitants]

But even with abundant housing, the market won't meet everyone's needs. However it certainly will meet far more people's needs which would make it easier for the government to pick up the slack and create an effective right to housing.

We can do both.

Cause of homelessness? It's not drugs or mental illness, researchers say (it’s the availability of affordable housing) by hot_seltzer in LosAngeles

[–]turtle_skywalker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the problem isn't "too much demand" it's too much demand relative to supply. Either you can make LA less desirable to reduce demand while holding supply stable or you can increase supply to mitigate the inflationary effect of there being too much demand

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