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ToaKraka
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7d ago
I'm imagining a situation where one person owns an outright majority of the property and each of the other 9999 owns only a minuscule proportion, so that the majority owner has more than enough wealth on his own to conduct maintenance unilaterally and to thwart a partition action by buying out the objector.
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7d ago
Nothing obvious. But what would stop a natural person from splitting a property between 10,000 natural people in the same manner?
Bloomberg link to opinion
Non-Bloomberg, official link (though it's still one of those infuriating "secured" PDFs that forbid copying text out of them)
The Elections Clause of the Delaware Constitution states, in its entirety: "All elections shall be free and equal." The clause is eloquent in its simplicity but lacks specific direction in application.
Under Delaware's Home Rule statute for municipalities, the State of Delaware defines "qualified voters" to mean "those persons who, under the terms of a municipal charter, shall be authorized to vote in elections within that municipal corporation".
Laws enacted by the Delaware General Assembly, such as Fenwick's Charter, are presumed to be constitutional. To overcome this presumption of constitutionality, Plaintiff must provide "clear and convincing evidence" that there is no set of circumstances under which the contested status could be constitutional. Plaintiff argues that I should subject Fenwick's Charter to "strict scrutiny" review. However, Plaintiff framed its Complaint not as an equal protection or due process claim, but rather as a declaratory judgment action. Under Delaware law, courts apply a "sliding scale" in voting rights cases. Where the state's alleged burden on voting is not severe, the state's intervention need only have served a legitimate interest. Indeed, Delaware courts have found a rational basis for expanding the voting franchise.36
36See Dupont v. Mills; see also Del. Op. Atty. Gen. 09-IB05 (finding the precedent of cases applying rational basis test to nonresident vote dilution cases to be "overwhelming").
The Delaware General Assembly has expressly authorized, by way of charter, voting on behalf of entity property owners in several jurisdictions other than Fenwick.37 [Ditto for special elections of annexation in Wilmington.] While this is not dispositive of this case, it does show that the General Assembly's treatment of Fenwick is not unique, different, or unusual.
37See, e. g., Town of Henlopen Acres, City of Rehoboth Beach, Town of Dewey Beach.
Plaintiff's ultimate argument appears to be that voters who are human beings are being deprived of their rights, or at least having the impact of those voting rights diluted, by the votes of artificial entities—or, put more bluntly, such artificial entities should not be entitled to vote. In its Answering Brief, Plaintiff devotes a significant amount of its argument to emphasizing the words person, people, humans, citizens, popular, and the like. In my view, even if those words as used in statutes and cases are acknowledged to be people-centric or person-centric, that does not support a legal argument that the Elections Clause of the Delaware Constitution supports Plaintiff's expansion of traditional vote dilution law to encompass what it calls the "debasement" of "the right of human voters" through "artificial entity voting".
Trusts, partnerships, limited liability companies, and corporations are expressly recognized as "persons" in the Delaware Code.…
I need not rule in this case as to whether entity property owners are constitutionally required to have their votes count or constitutionally precluded from doing so. Rather, I need only rule whether Plaintiff has met its burden of providing clear and convincing evidence that there is no set of circumstances under which Fenwick's Charter, as adopted and amended by the Delaware General Assembly, could be constitutional. It has not.
I appreciate that Plaintiff may disagree with Delaware's policy of authorizing certain municipalities to allow voting on behalf of entity property owners. Visions of faceless large corporations, or even HAL, controlling a small town are frightening and the stuff of science fiction. However, plaintiff has not demonstrated that this policy violates the principle of one person/entity, one vote. Plaintiff points to no other persuasive independent authority than the Elections Clause of the Delaware Constitution itself. And matters of policy are appropriately left to legislative bodies, not the courts.
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7d ago
I'm just not sure how far the word "consent" should be stretched.
(1) When I grant my consent to sex, I mean that I understand that this woman wants me to repeatedly insert my penis into her vagina until I achieve orgasm.
(2) …and subject me to a small but nonzero risk of disease, fatherhood, and child-support payments (as outlined by this stack of legal rulings).
(3) …and subject me to a small but nonzero risk of lasting psychological harm (as outlined by this stack of scientific studies).
(4) …and subject me to a small but nonzero risk of stigma as a statutory-rape victim.
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7d ago
How did you manage to conclude that I didn't know what intercourse was?
You said:
In the moment, I didn't really know how to interpret anything and wasn't sure.
I wasn't fully sure about what was happening.
I was, mentally and spiritually, very much still a child who didn't exactly understand what was going on.
(posted before edit adding three additional sentences, but probably still partially a valid response)
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7d ago
Climate map of Washington State
There's a large amount of "cold semi-arid" in the vicinity of the Kennewick and Moses Lake urban areas, with a negligible patch of "cold desert" near the latter. However, satellite photographs indicate quite a lot of agriculture in that same area, so "cold semi-arid" possibly should not be considered to count as "desert".
It's hidden/removed. (IIRC, the moderators have said that all standalone posts are removed by default until approved.)
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8d ago
To clarify, my mother used to make these boring-lump-of-dough dumplings, and she is from the hot Caribbean, where the houses need no central heating at all. So your theory does not explain the facts.
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8d ago
My Chinese coworker laughed at me when I told him about those.
But maybe if you have not started constructing your home yet you can widen the entire house just for the laundry door.
(1) Construction already is underway.
(2) The house already takes up the entire buildable width of the lot (34′2″ vs. 35′).
If you and your roommate live in the unit together, eventually someone will be exiting the laundry room at the same time someone is entering the home. Or someone will forget something in the house and step in quickly to retrieve it (keys, wallet, credit card, etc.) and not communicate the entry as normal to the other person, knocking him senseless in a rush.
I do not assign much probability to this hypothetical event. If you disagree, you can join the betting pool with @orthoxerox. (Come on! Are you people in the habit of opening opaque doors with all your strength? I certainly am not. People can be standing behind doors unbeknownst to you even if those doors don't swing into other doors.)
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9d ago
"this spelling is wrong" (no, it's because I'm not American)
You can go into Word's spell-check settings and change it from American English to BritishNon-American English.
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9d ago
In this design, it is not intended that a bathroom will ever have both doors unlocked at the same time. Rather:
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99 percent of the time, each bathroom will be in "private mode", with the door to the living/dining room locked from the bathroom side.
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On the rare occasion that a guest is present, at least one bathroom will be in "guest mode", with the door to the bedroom locked from both sides.
Also, it's my understanding that sliding doors are very bad at blocking sounds and odors, so using them on bathrooms is ill-advised.
Regarding the laundry/utility-room door, I could have used a sliding door there, but I saw no reason to. IMO, having eight swinging doors is simpler than having seven swinging doors and one sliding door.
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9d ago
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10d ago
Q: We have the court file showing that your ill-fated high-school crush was on a girl, not on a boy.
A: If you have my court file, then you should know that that old crush was Indian as well, just like my husband.
A paper that I gave to an unrelated acquaintance (in which I fantasized about kidnapping the crush, trapping her in a cage of sonic stun guns, and making her play Scrabble with me) somehow fell into the hands of the school administration, was misinterpreted as a "terroristic threat" against the crush ("zero tolerance" for """guns""" even if they're nonlethal), and was reported to the police.
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10d ago
I'm of the opinion that the current LLM hype is starting to hit the second knee of the S-curve, both financially and technically.
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10d ago
My mother claims that I received a (now-technically-outdated) diagnosis of Asperger's syndrome at age 16 (as part of my defense against a frivolous criminal investigation). However, she doesn't actually have the records to back that claim up, and I personally do not recall being informed of any diagnosis at the time.
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10d ago
Flashback to ABC notation
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11d ago
Someday, I will finally finish my bootleg HTML/EPUB version of For Want of a Nail (currently available for purchase only as a used physical book).
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11d ago
Do any popular games other than the Splatoon series and Super Mario Odyssey use that fancy gyroscopic-aiming stuff? I thought it was mostly dead.
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11d ago
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11d ago
To be clear, I was just pointing out the fact that at least some people seriously hold this view, not actually endorsing the view.
ToaKraka, you are a wise man.
LOL.
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11d ago
One prominent sex-education website claims that masturbation should be considered a form of sex.
Sorry, Wrong Question
So first of all the question is wrong for three reasons. Sorry about that.
(1) Masturbation is sex and so if something is a thing it can’t be better than that thing. This is called philosophy.
(2) The question implies that the only kind of sex that is real sex is sex with another person, which is wrong. Solo sex is sex.
(3) It also makes out that masturbation itself isn’t sex and that only penetration is ‘real’ sex. There is no ‘real sex’, just sex. I think that if we start to see sex as what may or may not be enjoyable to us, rather than what is ‘real’ or not, then we might find it easier to enjoy.
Solo Sex
Some people just prefer not to have sexual and/or romantic relationships with other people. It doesn’t mean that they don’t like sex, they just want to do it with themselves. Maybe they have had difficult relationships in the past, or just don’t really feel very connected to many people. Perhaps they’ve had sex with other people and it was crap, or non-consensual and just don’t want to go back there. There are many reasons why people just prefer to have sex with themselves – and it’s totally totally okay.
That isn't how tenancy in common works. You own a 1/10,000 share of the entire 10,000-ft2 property, not a single 1-ft2 piece of that property.
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