Blackmail variant – 2024-07-05
Sometime last year, I moved my mail hosting to Proton, deciding to get rid of the self-hosted mail server for a variety of reasons – spam filtering being ...
Author: Kenneth Ballard
Risk perception, or why women are choosing bears
Now that the party has somewhat died down around the recent social media phenomenon of women saying they’d rather run into a bear in the wild than a rando...
Chevron had to go
During the Reagan years, the Supreme Court decided Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., 467 US 837 (1984). And yes, it’s named...
How NOT to assert your rights – “Florida man” edition
Thankfully I don’t really see these much. I last addressed a similar concept about 7 years ago, so let’s revisit since this one is calling out speci...
Sales taxes and shelf prices in the United States
One of the many complaints the rest of the world has with the United States, and it’s one on which I share some sentiment, is with a particular part of ou...
Bump stocks and automatic operations
So according to the ATF and Sotomayor’s dissent in the “bump stock” case, Garland v. Cargill, these two operations are identical: and Yeah, ob...
Challenging a repeal
So a UNANIMOUS decision by the Supreme Court in FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine quashes the entire lawsuit several pro-life groups brought against the ...
About that Hope Woodard video
If you have no idea who Hope Woodard is, don’t fret. I didn’t either until Courtney Ryan’s video on the matter showed up on my YouTube feed: N...
Lavazza and the point of diminishing returns
One concept I feel a lot of people in the espresso communities need to learn, or re-learn, is “point of diminishing returns”, sometimes also called ...
Revisiting Trump and the Fourteenth Amendment
So the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that States cannot exclude former-President (and current Republican front-runner) Donald Trump from their Republ...