Oops it turns out Disney’s lawsuit against the Florida governor is based on a constitutional clause which says that states can’t pass laws to interfere with private contracts. Historically this is something courts have used to strike down basic labour protections like minimum wages. So if the Supreme Court decides to give Disney a win here by saying “um actually any contact betwen private individuals is completely fine and beyond any kind of state regulation” (which would be wildly broad but also that’s how this Supreme Court sometimes behaves) then stay tuned for a lot of terrible lawsuits eroding a lot of basic protections for workers and renters and anyone else who’s signed a contract with a vastly more powerful entity.
[[sadly puts away my “let them fight” jpeg and pulls out my “no matter who wins, we lose” jpeg]]
This is such a bad take, that clause is specifically about contracts that the government is a party in. ie the government can’t just say “just kidding” after they got the benefits of a contract.
So…The article zeroes in on that one argument, but there are five bases listed in the actual filing.
The filing is linked at the beginning of the article, and I’ll link it directly here:
If Disney wins, that doesn’t automatically set the precedent that all their arguments are valid. It will set precedent based on which arguments are determined to be valid, and it is very unlikely that the contracts clause one is going to be the sweeping nuclear bomb the article makes it out to be.
They have him dead to rights on a First Amendment violation, and the rest is there because Disney hires good lawyers who can and will use every legal argument of relevance to bear.
In short, the Slate article feels like one hell of a stretch, and I’m not sure why it focused on that one thing beyond trying to make Disney look worse than their standard perception as The Ultimate Evil Megacorp already did.
YEAHHHHH ok. I need to post about this but uh. Tumblr has a very fun glitch! If you press R ONCE on the desktop ver of the site, it will reblog the focused post instantly, no tag editing or blog selection. it may accidentally post it a couple more times , but that’s it.
however. if you fucking hold R? it’ll reblog the post instantly too, but MULTIPLE TIMES INSTANTLY. like I hit post limit bc I thought it wasn’t actually reblogging the post. I only held the r button for a solit 10 seconds for it to reblog that post 200+ TIMES. my big ass mistake
either use or abuse it is up to you, but I reported it to Tumblr bc holy fuck dude. that’s too much instant power
Tumblr Support just said this is a feature, not a glitch.
YEAHHHHH ok. I need to post about this but uh. Tumblr has a very fun glitch! If you press R ONCE on the desktop ver of the site, it will reblog the focused post instantly, no tag editing or blog selection. it may accidentally post it a couple more times , but that’s it.
however. if you fucking hold R? it’ll reblog the post instantly too, but MULTIPLE TIMES INSTANTLY. like I hit post limit bc I thought it wasn’t actually reblogging the post. I only held the r button for a solit 10 seconds for it to reblog that post 200+ TIMES. my big ass mistake
either use or abuse it is up to you, but I reported it to Tumblr bc holy fuck dude. that’s too much instant power
Tumblr Support just said this is a feature, not a glitch.
YEAHHHHH ok. I need to post about this but uh. Tumblr has a very fun glitch! If you press R ONCE on the desktop ver of the site, it will reblog the focused post instantly, no tag editing or blog selection. it may accidentally post it a couple more times , but that’s it.
however. if you fucking hold R? it’ll reblog the post instantly too, but MULTIPLE TIMES INSTANTLY. like I hit post limit bc I thought it wasn’t actually reblogging the post. I only held the r button for a solit 10 seconds for it to reblog that post 200+ TIMES. my big ass mistake
either use or abuse it is up to you, but I reported it to Tumblr bc holy fuck dude. that’s too much instant power
Tumblr Support just said this is a feature, not a glitch.
Hey y’all. With the Writer’s Guild of America on strike, you might be hearing a lot more about something called “residuals,” which are payments that the writers get for the studios continuing to air their work on reruns and such. Already I’m seeing people trying to frame the union trying to bargain for better residuals as greedy and unreasonable, so I just wanted to give you guys a peek into my dad’s full, 100% real residual payments for writing some of the most watched episodes of American late night television.
Yeah lol. If u hear anyone trying to frame the conversation around residuals as writers being greedy, please do me a favor and punch them straight in the face ❤️🙃🙃
The last time I saw any real money from film and TV was in 2008, when I got a substantial cheque from the WGA (who administer residuals and such) for my share as cowriter of the Beowulf DVD. And then DVDs were done and became a niche market.
These days residuals are… well, something you can take a friend to dinner with. Not something you could pay a monthly mortgage or the rent with.
(And I’m fine. My TV work over the last 5 years has been subsidised by my book and comics work.)
But I just got one even smaller than the one cent residuals…
As everyone knows, names have great power in the world of the Fae. Today, you helped a sick and dying Fae creature by pointing out a spelling error in their True Name.
