Ok, grandpa. Let’s get you back to bed.

Hands should be smaller

Nice.

Looking back on the case 40 years later, Don Riddle, Abbott’s personal injury lawyer at the time, agrees that Texas has changed.

“It would be next to impossible to get the kind of settlement we got,” Riddle told Chron Monday.

They still made it very difficult. It may not be completely pulling the ladder up behind him, but he for sure knocked out a lot of rungs.

Fun fact: Texas Governor Greg Abbott had his spine broken, resulting in his paralysis, while out jogging in his youth. He successfully sued and won millions in damages. Then campaigned on stopping “frivolous” lawsuits and helped institute that cap.

https://www.chron.com/politics/article/greg-abbott-tree-lawsuit-explained-19574621.php

Classic Republican “Fuck you, I got mine”.

This is one of those things that should, in a rational world, make people realize that these models are not under control.

Yeah it’s not a new playbook…

In 60 years, they’ll say the same about something else we all use. Not just the obvious like plastic, something we genuinely think is awesome right now.

Not likely. People knew in 1921 when, tetraethyl lead was being added to gasoline, that it was extremely hazardous. They just, as is the style, got bought out by lobbyists.

Thomas Midgley Jr. was one of the worst people in history, maybe accidentally, maybe not.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/one-man-disaster-scientist-who-36285595

I’m here for it.

I said no gum everyone.

Wait, it takes steel and concrete to build coal power plants? I thought they just grew out of the ground. They’re called plants! What do you mean we have to build them?!

If there’s one thing Texas doesn’t give a shit about, it’s the people that live there.

Sure we can do it this way if you want, but the 12th amendment goes with it. No more choosing your running mate. The vice president will be the runner up in the election, just like it used to be. You know “founder’s vision” and all that.

Can you fucking IMAGINE the constant meltdowns if Trump’s VP was Kamala?

Had me in the first half, not gonna lie.

I literally learned to solder so that I could replace some cheap popped capacitors on a speaker preamp this week.

Worked like a charm.

She is not contributing regularly to it before she is 14, her parents are

I think, and I’m not the op so this is conjecture, the point is/was that (most) parents are already broke, and most adults are as well. Someone else did the math and at a 10% yearly compounding it would still take $300/mo or more to hit that hypothetical $170k.

With everything else spiking in cost, broke people aren’t going to magically have $300 extra for their kids’ “trump accounts” to hit these targets.

I keep hearing about the literacy crisis, is this it?

Friend, I think part of the attitude of response you got was the tone you gave out.

It’s just fucking depressing man

Yeah, this is where I’d put the “first time?” meme. Sorry dude.

“by the time she’s 18, she’ll have $170,000”

That’s the quote, dude. She could conceivably start working at 14. So this hypothetical girl is gonna have to contribute a LOT in 4 years, 14+4 being 18, in order to hit that hypothetical $170,000 at age 18.

He’s not rich enough to get away with insider trading.

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Genghis Khan would like a word. So would Pol Pot, Mao Zedong, and Hirohito. Those are just the ones I can name off the top of my head.