We are all Slave now.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

So I own a bike rental company on the Hudson River. NYC installs bike rental stands all over the City. My business drops 50%.

Why can't I sue the City to get it to stop citing Detroit Edison (gov can't give light bulbs away as it impacts a store that sells them)?

I am not familiar with the Detroit Edison case, but nothing stops the government from giving away public education for free even though it impacts private schools.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally Posted by Adder

I honestly do not think anyone is completely free of racial bias.

It is amazing that I can tell him (and I have) that even black people internalize our society's racism and exhibit it reflexively constantly about ourselves. I can talk about how I enjoy a certain level of privilege based on how fair my skin is relative to other black people (white women feel way more safe around me than my b-i-l, as just one example) and how I come to expect to be treated a certain way when I am among other blacks.

And yet, if you broach this subject with white people, for the most part, they only hear, "You're racist. You have no control over your racism. You're bad." And they fight that shit with everything they have or give all sorts of justifications or exemptions or stories about the tough lives they or their parents had instead of saying, "That's interesting. I do remember some things I've thought or done that fall into this category. How can I recognize this and figure out how to overcome it?"

The topic of race is so charged in this country that instead of approaching the faults we all have when it comes to race and trying to understand what they are, how those problems manifest themselves and how to fix them like we would, say, poor grammar habits, we prefer to create a category of people who are intentionally evil who are the only ones capable of racist behavior. Then we get to say, "I'm not like them, so fuck off. I'm not thinking about this shit beyond whether or not I do intentionally evil racist shit."

TM

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

I am not familiar with the Detroit Edison case, but nothing stops the government from giving away public education for free even though it impacts private schools.

Dude, assume you can bill and give the anti-trust unfair comp answer. You're fucking in-house spending hours arguing with Sebby about a definition- answer my question

[Not Bob]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

I don't think you understand what a mic drop moment is, and that I dropped it earlier.

Don’t be so thirsty, Hank. I don’t remember ever seeing Michael Jordan say something like “hey, did you see that shot I made over Ehlo? Good night!”

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Not Bob

Don’t be so thirsty, Hank. I don’t remember ever seeing Michael Jordan say something like “hey, did you see that shot I made over Ehlo? Good night!”

Umm, not to fight your hypo, but continuing to argue about "race free" parts of the country is more like MJ saying, "we won, but let's put some time back on the clock and see where this goes." Except that might be fun to watch.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

More proof against Trump: the Bridgeoflove webpage is no longer live. Coincidence?

https://www.thedailybeast.com/proud-...gBQPr_QduN-6zo

Trump kills BofL but his followers believe in it? QED

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

Dude, assume you can bill and give the anti-trust unfair comp answer. You're fucking in-house spending hours arguing with Sebby about a definition- answer my question

I thought I did. The government can give away whatever it wants, ever since it put private currencies and post offices and roads out of business, and even before that.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

https://www.thedailybeast.com/proud-...gBQPr_QduN-6zo

Trump kills BofL but his followers believe in it? QED

"Wolfe, who prosecutors say exhibited signs of mental illness, called police himself after the killing and claimed he thought his brother was a lizard...."

You think?

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

I thought I did. The government can give away whatever it wants, ever since it put private currencies and post offices and roads out of business, and even before that.

Please read Detroit Edison, and any prodgeny, then give me an informed answer. 100 hours of your time ago I told you and sebby you were working from different defs.Yet you persisted.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

Please read Detroit Edison, and any prodgeny, then give me an informed answer. 100 hours of your time ago I told you and sebby you were working from different deps. Yet you persisted.

One of us is at a law firm, and one of us gets to be a client all day, and I think you are forgetting which is which. Maybe you are thinking of Adder? I think he likes to answer questions like this and does it for a living. I tend to do it when I am stuck in HR meetings.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

One of us is at a law firm, and one of us gets to be a client all day, and I think you are forgetting which is which. Maybe you are thinking of Adder? I think he likes to answer questions like this and does it for a living. I tend to do it when I am stuck in HR meetings.

Clients would pay me money for advice like “quit arguing with Debby. You are wasting electrons.” Im just giving you an avenue to pay me in trade.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

Clients would pay me money for advice like “quit arguing with Debby. You are wasting electrons.” Im just giving you an avenue to pay me in trade.

I'm sure you're very good at what you do, but I would like to keep myself from showing up in a Moth story, and giving you any kind of substantive answer about Detroit Edison seems like a misstep.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

I'm sure you're very good at what you do, but I would like to keep myself from showing up in a Moth story, and giving you any kind of substantive answer about Detroit Edison seems like a misstep.

Pro Tip? You don’t want to be in My stories? Don’t take me to a restaurant at the sewage treatment plant.

[LessinSF]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

Please read Detroit Edison, and any prodgeny, then give me an informed answer. 100 hours of your time ago I told you and sebby you were working from different defs.Yet you persisted.

Gubment cheese too.

[LessinSF]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

So I own a bike rental company on the Hudson River. NYC installs bike rental stands all over the City. My business drops 50%.

Why can't I sue the City to get it to stop citing Detroit Edison (gov can't give light bulbs away as it impacts a store that sells them)?

From a quick skim, it is because Detroit Edison was not found to be sufficiently governmental to qualify for an exemption from the Sherman Act. In your hypo, the city would be sufficiently governmental. So bad hypo.