> As the 5 p.m. cutoff to pass bills approached Tuesday, Sen. Shelly Short, R-Addy, launched an unusual bid to bog down the Senate process. She demanded Lt. Gov. Denny Heck, a Democrat, to have the chamber’s secretary read all 39 pages of a bill focused on electrical transmission infrastructure. Usually, the clerk reads the first and last line of legislation into the record. Heck agreed.
> This maneuver killed the transmission bill, as well as several others Senate Democrats were hoping to vote on before the deadline. One of those looked to address surging theft of copper wiring. Senate Bill 6190 would’ve imposed new recordkeeping requirements on scrap metal businesses and made destroying “critical communications infrastructure” a felony.
Additional context: That state senator represents Washington's 7th legislative district, which is one of the most rural areas in the north-east corner of the state. [0]
SCOTUS has an unassailable majority unless Democrats grow a spine and pack the court or multiple conservative members have serious and unforeseen health issues. Neither seems all that likely.
In this case, I don't know that the result will be increased prices necessarily. If landlords are forced to show people honest prices (as opposed to now where the advertised price is at least a few hundred under the real price, but those are mandatory "fees" instead of rent), they may have to bring prices down to compete. It's possible that the currently "honest" landlords will raise rent to match the new higher prices with fees lumped in, so we'll have to see how it plays out.
Yes, there are people insisting that this will make things impossible for tenants because "no one will want to be a landlord anymore" if they can't charge junk fees.
I think this might help small landlords out a bit. Big corporate landlords can easily add nonsense fees to make the rent look low. Small landlords wouldn't bother charging you to use your own mailbox and usually don't have common areas to charge you for access to. With things made transparent, the small landlords can simply offer a price, and be on a more level playing field.
A restaurant here (Seattle) has a "Shabbat lease" where the business is operated and staffed by a separate group for part of the week. I'm not sure on the details, but I think they had to word the contract in a very specific way (and even then I'm sure different authorities would have differing opinions on how acceptable it is). I'm used to it meaning "we close early Friday, don't open Saturday".
There's legends of rabbis with golems that go both ways. The famous Golem of Prague was turned off for the sabbath. The less famous Golem of Drohitchin was specifically made to do work that Jews would not be allowed to during the sabbath, which resulted in a fire when its instructions weren't clear enough.
>which resulted in a fire when its instructions weren't clear enough.
Hold on they may be on to something. The issue here is that the jewish laws are also liable to cause trouble, but Judaism would ascribe a holiness to them that precludes them from incorrect interpretation, as opposed to man written law/codes.
However, as long as men are doing the interpretation, catastrophe can also arise out of the imperfect interpretation of the finite instructions.
Furthermore what if a Golem were set to follow the holy laws? Would then we be free from all catastrophe risk? Save for the risk of imperfections in the automated holy law following mechanisms of the Golem.
We can only be left with Holy Laws that can only be followed by humans, because it is for humans that these laws were written. And any imperfections in the interpretation and manifestation of the law are only so insofar as the empirical practice reveals them to cause catastrophes, with the surviving jursiprudence being as holy as the law themselves, having survived extintion events and thus proved their fitness for human flourishment.
Yes, a lot of bills are introduced in one chamber and die in that same chamber. This case is referring to it being introduced by "Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), and Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), along with Representatives Val Hoyle (D-Ore.), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), and Suhas Subramanyam (D-Va.)", presumably there's a companion bill for the house, since the links seem to only have the Senate version.
Samsung is already building another fab (which was originally suspended due to low memory prices years ago). Hopefully when it goes live in a few years it's not all dedicated to HBM for AI.
> As the 5 p.m. cutoff to pass bills approached Tuesday, Sen. Shelly Short, R-Addy, launched an unusual bid to bog down the Senate process. She demanded Lt. Gov. Denny Heck, a Democrat, to have the chamber’s secretary read all 39 pages of a bill focused on electrical transmission infrastructure. Usually, the clerk reads the first and last line of legislation into the record. Heck agreed.
> This maneuver killed the transmission bill, as well as several others Senate Democrats were hoping to vote on before the deadline. One of those looked to address surging theft of copper wiring. Senate Bill 6190 would’ve imposed new recordkeeping requirements on scrap metal businesses and made destroying “critical communications infrastructure” a felony.
Better luck next year, I guess.
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