Skip the psych exam. Restore the “public servant” aspect.

1. All assets are sold and the cash is placed in a trust that earns 1% interest. When you leave office you get your money back.

2. 24/7 audio and video coverage of your life as long as you are in office. The toilet is not filmed unless someone goes in with you. Other than that, your life is an open book.

3. After you leave office, you can teach classes as long as your compensation is no more than the lowest-paid professor at the school that employs you. You can write books. Or you can enjoy your pension. No corporate jobs or partner positions at fancy law firms.

I like swapping them out but I wouldn’t do it all at once and I’d implement term limits that put them outside of a two-term president’s reach. I like 13 year Supreme Court terms because it’s a prime number and it would keep any one president from naming more than one or two justices.

Biden should appoint Cornel West and Bernie Sanders as two of the additional 4 justices.

My hot take is that a public life should mean a much reduced expectation of privacy. If you want to make decisions that affect millions (or billions) of people, those people should be able to see and hear everything you do outside of the most intimate necessities of life. E.G. you can poop without someone watching, but not much else. Don’t like it? Quit.

The headline is missing “again.” Chiquita, AKA the United Fruit Company, has been abusing Latin American nations for the entire time it has existed.

What’s your bachelors in?

Very cool that the Minneapolis PD I’d just outsourcing forensics to <checks notes> discount retailer Target?

What’s next, the state of Arkansas outsourcing public education to Walmart?

Or, you know, a school. You know, where there are children? Maybe children who have physical limitations who have been called gimps?

Oh well, who cares about the educational environment and getting kids exposed to FOSS options instead of commercial software?

Pretty much everyone who’s discussed it agrees The Godfather (film) blows the Puzo novel it adapted away.

Runner up is Adaptation, an adaptation of the novel The Orchid Thief that expands its scope significantly.

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That really sucks. I know you don’t want nosiness but sharing your location (only as specific as you feel comfortable with) could help people point out resources you may not be aware of.

Is it because Zionists engaged in brutality and repression at every step of the project to create Israel?

Do you a) Own a property b) that you don’t live in c) that other people who are not family members live in d) and those people pay you?

If not, you’re not the subject of that comment. If so, congrats on being in the very narrow overlap of the Venn diagram for waiters and landlords.

Depends on how you define “nametag.” I work at Amazon in an office, and we all have to wear badges, from the drones like me to the senior VPs. Same thing will be true at a lot of companies.

They said “do you own” a property that other people pay you to live in. That’s the upper-class part.

This is according to Dan Harmon (or more precisely my recollection of what Dan Harmon said about it on his short lived podcast Whiting Wongs.) At the beginning of the season the showrunner has a general timeline for the episodes. Writers will take on the job of “breaking out” (writing the basic skeleton of the episode and the progression of the A and B stories) a few episodes each before the whole room adds their input. Typically the writer(s) who broke out an episode are the credited writers for that episode, WGA rules state that only two writers can be credited for the episode for awards eligibility. Sometimes the showrunner is one of the credited writers but because they are also a producer and therefore eligible for other awards that’s not always the case.

Also, the credited writer is typically on-set to make in-the-moment adjustments when needed.

No, one example you gave was of revealing someone’s alt account, and I was making the point that for that and some other pieces of information, whether someone is a public figure is relevant.

Another example where who a person is matters is libel: generally accepted precedent is that you cannot libel a dead person or a person whose reputation is already so damaged the libel could not damage it further.

One aspect you didn’t mention is whether the person is a public figure or not. If I know that “@milton23789” is a secret alt account for Taylor Swift, it’s probably fine to state that in public forums because Swift is a public figure. If that account is actually an alt for just some dude, it’s not as okay.

50? Or as young as 40 if you grew up in one of the tobacco states.

You’re 47 and grew up upper middle class, likely in an affluent suburb on one of the coasts.