Quentin Cody

I stopped doing criminal defense because of prosecutors (long list of reasons why), but most of what this guy identifies as being sign juries are broken is the jury system functioning exactly as intended. Jury nullification isn’t just about principled opposition to a particular law in all instances, it’s also the community making its own decisions about whether they want to make someone a criminal for particular conduct. This is far preferable to a bureaucrat deciding that question. That’s why we have juries: so the public gets to decide who’s a criminal, not the government Juries are also SUPPOSED to hold the government to an extremely high evidentiary burden. Prosecutors think a conviction rate below 90% means something is wrong with juries. It doesn’t. It’s supposed to be really hard to take away someone’s liberty.

I did it!! 120 books read this year 🎉📚

"She said she was told she could only choose from six local options in NSW and they were all of Asian heritage."

You have no experience. You’ve never started a company. You’ve never had a full time job. Nike is going to kill you. You’re a kid. You don’t have technical skills. You shouldn’t build hardware. Apple is going to kill you. You can’t build hardware. You can’t measure heart rate non-invasively. Athletes don’t care about recovery. Under Armour is going to kill you. It won’t be accurate. You don’t listen. You’re an ineffective leader. You can’t recruit great talent. You’re going to have to pay every athlete. You can’t measure sleep non-invasively. It’s too expensive to research. Athletes are a small market. The product costs too much to make. The product costs too much to sell. Your valuation is too high. Consumers aren’t going to want it. Hardware is too hard. You should measure steps. Fitbit is going to kill you. You can’t build a marketing engine. You can’t raise enough money. You need a real CEO. Google is going to kill you. You can’t be a subscription. You can’t build a brand. You can’t do consumer in Boston. Your valuation is too high. You shouldn’t make accessories. You shouldn’t make apparel. Lululemon is going to kill you. You can’t predict Covid. Stay in your niche. You are going to run out of money. You can’t build a health platform. Amazon is going to kill you. You can’t measure blood pressure. You can’t get medical approvals. The market is too small. You don’t understand AI. The market is too competitive. It won’t work internationally. The supply chain is too complicated. You can’t build an AI. You can’t raise enough money. It’s too competitive. Healthcare isn’t going to want it. … Just keep going ✌️

Steve Miller is a favorite for attorney general.

Don't play coy with us. There is no possibility short of armed conflict for such an amendment to ever be passed. Even if we fell on our hands and knees and begged Democrats to support this amendment for the sake of the nation that we both call home, they would still say "No" because they understand that demographic replacement and mass migration are indispensable tools for acquiring political power. They will never give these things up, even if refusing to do so eventually results in the destruction of the very country they seek to rule over.

My warm take on birthright citizenship: Wholly defensible to be against it as policy and wholly reasonable to want to reform it in some way. Also intellectually defensible to say that the 14th amendment is being misinterpreted. Doesn't mean I agree, but I don't think it's crazy either. But even if you win that argument, you still need to deal with century+ of precedent and statutory language that codifies it and has created massive reliance interests. I consider it an open question whether Congress can repeal or modify birthright citizenship. I think it is absolutely nuts and dangerous to think a president can repeal it through executive order, and defending the E.O. because you agree with the underlying policy is itself indefensible. That's it. That's my take.