This morning SCOTUS ruled that once you buy a physical thing, it's yours to play with. I'm watching patent lawyers lose. their. damn. minds over this bit of common sense and it's delicious.
Good news!
@ElectricMink Indeed!
This joins the two court rulings today that helped incrementally advance trans rights as well, making for a pretty decent day.
@ElectricMink I see this one: https://thinkprogress.org/transgender-win-wisconsin-542c6fea92f8 . What's the other?
*and* gay conversion therapy ban upheld!
@ElectricMink Oh, outstanding!
Cool, no? :)
@ElectricMink Very! I've been explaining to my kids that while some things are very goofy right now, on other fronts we're making a lot of progress. There's good news and hope to be found!
Another area for hope right now - the push for single payer health insurance is gaining headway, not just in California, but states like Nevada are starting to make "single payer" noises.
@ElectricMink I think it's inevitable at this point. My company ran a lot of "what if" articles showing what would happen to prices under Trumpcare and it's not pretty.
The only good thing about the AHCA is if it becomes the law of the land, there's going to be a *lot* of anger directed at the people who passed it....might finally be the straw the breaks conservatism's back.
@ElectricMink And I admit a certain amount of schadenfreude that the people hurt most are the ones most likely to have voted for Trumpcare's proponents. I know this is bad and I shouldn't feel this way, but I do.
"Haha, we'll teach those West Coasters a lesson! Wait, what do you mean 'black lung' is a preexisting condition?"
@ElectricMink Yeah, that's terrible and things like that temper my gloating. I don't want anyone to go through that, even if I disagree with them. But a small part of me thinks that if someone brings around the situation where it's going to happen, I hope they're the one it happens to.
I hear you.
@tek
Anytime I start feeling a little schadenfraude about that, I suddenly remember *I* have a pre-existing condition that's already resulted in over half a million dollars being dumped into my chest and will, over the remainder of my life, cost hundreds of thousands more in the best case scenario. If I ever lose insurance, I'm hosed, big time.