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conditional_soup ,

Day 30 of being fucking bewildered that I, a non-voting member of my city’s bicycle commission, have stricter ethical laws binding me than those for judges and politicians.

rc__buggy ,

If you can get the street sweeper to get the bike lane near my house I’ll give you a half a can of chamois butt’r

conditional_soup ,

I’m trying to secure wholly separate bike lanes, or at least flexi-posts, anything but a sharrow or a line of paint. Tbh, I dunno how that’ll work with a street sweeper.

rc__buggy ,

They need the small ones, that’s for sure. I would work that into my plan if I were you.

conditional_soup ,

Edit: disregard. I thought you meant lanes, you clearly mean sweepers

rockSlayer ,

There are little sidewalk sweepers about the size of golf carts that get used by colleges, it would work perfectly for a bidirectional bike lane.

Sauerkraut ,

Can you get narrower car lanes? Trying to cross an 8 lane stroad that has 12ft wide lanes in the middle of town is hellish.

conditional_soup ,

I don’t know if I can; it’s not, well, in my lane as a bicycle/pedestrian committee member. I still show up and advocate for lane narrowing and traffic calming at the city council meetings.

grue ,

it’s not, well, in my lane as a bicycle/pedestrian committee member.

Yes it is!

halcyoncmdr ,
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It’s because the politicians make the laws. And they want their judges on the bench to rule in their favor. Laws forcing judges to recuse don’t help the politicians ignore the laws they find inconvenient.

Telorand ,

Gotta love that Conservative mantra:

  • I get to do what I want.
  • You have to do what I say.

The judge doesn’t have to recuse himself, because <insert specious reasoning> and fuck you. Also, he’s the big, bad judge, and he’s going to chide the plaintiff’s attorneys in a show of dominance.

Texas is basically a Conservative rubber stamp, at this point. I hope we get Kamala/Walz, because we desperately need judicial reform.

OlinOfTheHillPeople ,

Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

skozzii ,

Right wingers in the US have decided to collectively do whatever the hell they want.

PrincessLeiasCat ,

This is fucking bullshit.

I review science proposals for the government that come from private companies responding to an announcement about grants for specific kinds of technology.

I have to submit a financial form every year disclosing stock that I own to make sure there are no conflicts of interest.

The fact that is guy is allowed to shrug and say “nah” and just keep going blows my mind.

LEDZeppelin ,

Papa Clarence would be proud

drdalek ,

We should’ve let them secede.

EatATaco ,

Can someone explain the conflict they see here? X and Tesla are 2 different companies.

BambiDiego ,

Same owner, pretty simple.

“If you help my X then your T goes up in value”

EatATaco ,

If you can show me some strong correlation between x and Tesla stock, that doesn’t also correlate with the market as a whole, it would go a long way to proving that point. Other than that, it’s just speculation that it might influence the price of his own stock, which seems like an extremely tenuous claim as to why it’s reasonable to believe he should recuse himself.

kn0wmad1c ,
@kn0wmad1c@programming.dev avatar

Here’s the conflict a to b: fortune.com/…/elon-musk-tesla-stock-sale-twitter-…

archive link

EatATaco ,

A strong point for sure, thank you.

Khanzarate ,

The issue here is because they’re linked by the owner. If one stock goes up/down, the other does too. This has happened repeatedly with these two companies specifically, even.

So although they don’t own stock in the company in question, they still have a stock in seeing it succeed. Its success will bring about their own financial gain.

The fact that this issue was voiced and they specifically took the action that raises questions about authenticity also means we must question if that’s even the goal. If this went to a different judge, after all, one with no bias, then if this judge is unbiased, he should expect the same outcome. Of course, if he were biased and intended to give a biased ruling to take advantage of the chance to directly increase his wealth, then we’d expect him to be reluctant to let another judge rule on it. He could miss his financial opportunity, after all.

EatATaco ,

If one stock goes up/down, the other does too. This has happened repeatedly with these two companies specifically, even.

This should be easy to prove that their correlation to one another is significantly more than to the market, or maybe more accurately to tech stocks as a whole. do you have these numbers or is it just speculation?

The other poster makes a much stronger argument, pointing out how some investors in Tesla are concerned about musk having to sell stock to support x, which could lead to a fall in x prices.

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