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Saw her at the polls today in Nashua - Massachusetts plates.
Get out and cancel her vote before she votes again.
I voted Democrat.
Because it's time we tried a different approach to policing.
Abdul El-Sayed asks some good questions, like, “Do police really need to use guns?”
I think bringing guns into tense situations only makes things worse.
Personally, I think police should carry bubble wands instead. They're an underrated crime-fighting tool. Blowing bubbles could help de-escalate the situation by lightening the mood and making everyone feel a little less intimidated.
It's hard to keep committing a crime when you're busy popping bubbles. 💙🗳️
The Liberty Case for Yes on #1 in NH's election.
On this November’s ballot is Question #1, which asks voters whether to eliminate the office of register of probate as an elected position by amending Part II, Articles 71 and 81 of the New Hampshire Constitution. While it is far from the most important liberty decision we will make this year, Yes is the right option.
Before discussing why, it is worth addressing the other side. One of the more compelling arguments for keeping the office elected is that an elected official involved in estates, wills, and trusts could serve as a bulwark against an unaccountable judiciary.
There are two problems with this argument.
The first is that a 2011 legislative reorganization of the courts (HB 609, Chapter 88) transferred the register’s former administrative and clerical duties to circuit court clerks. The remaining statutory duties are nearly ceremonial. Under RSA 548:5, the register is responsible only for coordinating with the Secretary of State and the administrative judge of the circuit court on the preservation of closed files of potential historical significance, may recommend that such files be sent to the records center, and must maintain a current index of files removed under that section. The change was challenged in 2013 when Hillsborough County Register Joseph Kelly Levasseur filed a writ of prohibition with the New Hampshire Supreme Court arguing that the transfer of duties was unconstitutional. The Court denied the writ without prejudice after the Attorney General noted that the proper initial forum was Superior Court. The reduced role has remained in place ever since.
Coordinating and recommending actions on closed files hardly seems worth electing someone for—even given the low cost. Registers currently receive a stipend of $100 a year (set by the Supreme Court under RSA 548:17). Across the state’s ten counties, that is roughly $1,000 annually, plus the modest incremental cost of including the race on an already-run county ballot. Still the position is a very cheap bridge to nowhere: a cost to taxpayers that is not particularly large, yet still indicative of the kind of inertia common in government. It is hard to imagine a private organization nearly eliminating a job but continuing to pay a small stipend for ceremonial reasons.
Supporters of retaining the position are not merely arguing to preserve the current ceremony. They appear to hope that the legislature might someday restore meaningful duties and that elected registers could then correct future court injustices. That hope has several problems.
First, the pre-2011 system carried real costs. The 2011 reorganization that transferred these duties (and eliminated roughly 50 positions overall) is commonly described as saving about $3 million annually. Restoring a full elected register apparatus with staff and operational responsibilities would reintroduce substantial expense—on the order of tens of millions of dollars per decade once inflation, benefits, and related costs are considered. One former register’s salary alone was in the range of $58,000 before the change (again this was 2011 dollars).
Now perhaps this might be worth it if the spending prevented injustices, however, the historical role never matched the powers some now imagine for it. The office dates to the state’s original 1784 Constitution (when it was not elected) and became an elected position in 1877. From the founding until 2011, registers functioned essentially as clerks: managing office operations, maintaining records, and arranging publication of notices. They did not decide cases or override judges. As one former register/former NH house speaker put it they “didn’t have any authority to make any decisions, but they kept the trains running on time.”
Electing every clerical or administrative position in state or county government might theoretically constrain growth, but it is impractical even under a limited-government philosophy.
The real risk is precisely the possibility that the office could be restored to something closer to its former (still limited) scope. Keeping constitutional offices, titles, and duties that have long outlived any useful purpose is the kind of waste we correctly criticize when we are not focused only on the potential upside of some future law. Structures that have existed for more than 200 years should not be dismantled lightly, but neither should we treat obsolete ones with reverence.
Amending the Constitution to remove this vestige is the pro-liberty choice as it signifies that when an office, employee or rule outlives its usefulness – it should be ended.
employee or rule outlives its usefulness – it should be ended.
Unfortunately we still can't fly like superman. Really what's the point.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem like a win for the 23 states that are still bound by state and local law to the NFA and eight states that entirely banned them outright.
So good luck crossing state lines with any of your equipment.
The main justice should have invoked the supremacy clause, but they want to fuck the people over as usual!
You still have to register or banned entirely in 23 states!
• 15 states: State law independently requires compliance with federal NFA registration/process (Alaska, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Michigan, Mississippi, Montana, Nevada, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Washington, Wisconsin).
• 8 states + D.C.: Outright bans on suppressors (and often other NFA items) under state law: California, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island.
Jeff NH retweeted
The AI doomers must be defeated because infinite fear demands infinite repression.
They've created a moral singularity by imagining an event with effectively infinite negative value - the self-extinction of humanity - that demands they take coercive action to prevent it now.
The extinction is uncertain, but the doomers have Pascal-mugged themselves into treating it as though it's certain. But the coercion they want to use to prevent it is not uncertain at all.
Condider this: if recursive self-improvement in AIs is possible at all, how are they going to prevent everyone, forever, from achieving RSI in an AI?
In the most benign version of their future, you can't have a computer or GPU that's above a certain maximum power level. Also, open source AI models and open source development in general have to die - it would be too difficult to close off paths that could lead to RSI unless computers are licensed, monitored, and crippled.
But the actual outcome would be much, much worse. Because excuses for coercion and repression, however well intended, attract people for whom repression is the goal, not just a regrettable necessity.
We just spent a decade watching that kind of power-seeker try to turn society into a totalitarian panopticon over what they called "hate speech". What do you suppose they would do with a much bigger rhetorical club labeled "species extinction"?
The implication of believing doomer eschatology is a boot grinding on our human faces, forever.
I do not submit.
Freaking @JensenHuang is getting out of hand with his token maxing sock puppet accounts. Ok, I'll order some more GPUs - just stop.
Jeff NH retweeted
Trump has been a disaster on crime—from making it easier for dangerous people to get their hands on firearms to defunding law enforcement and cutting lifesaving grants our communities rely on.
@Emma_S_Brown breaks down how Trump has made us all less safe 👇
We condemn political violence - say the people that show up every year at the Pine Tree Riot event to celebrate political violence..
That's not going to work for me. I have a thing that day.
