This morning SCOTUS ruled that once you buy a physical thing, it's yours to play with. I'm watching patent lawyers lose. their. damn. minds over this bit of common sense and it's delicious.
Good news!
This joins the two court rulings today that helped incrementally advance trans rights as well, making for a pretty decent day.
@ElectricMink I see this one: https://thinkprogress.org/transgender-win-wisconsin-542c6fea92f8 . What's the other?
*and* gay conversion therapy ban upheld!
@ElectricMink Oh, outstanding!
Cool, no? :)
@ElectricMink Very! I've been explaining to my kids that while some things are very goofy right now, on other fronts we're making a lot of progress. There's good news and hope to be found!
Another area for hope right now - the push for single payer health insurance is gaining headway, not just in California, but states like Nevada are starting to make "single payer" noises.
@ElectricMink I think it's inevitable at this point. My company ran a lot of "what if" articles showing what would happen to prices under Trumpcare and it's not pretty.
The only good thing about the AHCA is if it becomes the law of the land, there's going to be a *lot* of anger directed at the people who passed it....might finally be the straw the breaks conservatism's back.
@ElectricMink I think you're right. I _hope_ there'd be a "oh shit this is exactly what they promised us they'd do, how could we have known!" moment.
Yeah, here's hoping.
