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Overturning Chevron is going to usher in an era where self-taught judicial expertise in technical areas such as chemistry, statistics, mechanical engineering, biology, geomorphology, epidemiology, mathematics, and many other fields will once more be able to shine forth as it did in the Middle Ages.
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With the greatest possible respect I am sorry to say that at this time I have less than no interest in Medievalists loyally popping up to tell me a lot of things in the Middle Ages were great actually
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But I thought you valued expertise, no? And despaired at uninformed people making judgements about things they don’t understand? Perhaps I misunderstood.
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Perhaps you did. Look mate, I have no interest in sniping with you, a Surprised Eel Historian. I now regret assuming a typical reader would see my original remark not, in the main, as really about the Middle Ages, but more as what you might call an exasperated rhetorical fling at recent events.
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We are too specialized these days to be governed by generalists, and we are also too specialized to talk about it.
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Well, and that's how you get corrected by a Bluesky Elver.
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The first rule of Middle Ages Bluesky is that everyone talks about the Middle Ages.
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It's fine. It's just a medievalist's reflex. Flung rhetoric aside, I'm very much with you
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social media values expertise like a slug values salt: in wee tiny amounts, preferably self-selected
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Serfs literally had more leisure time, and healthier work-life balances than us.
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Actually I think it's going to be a whole new kind of fucked up
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You know who ELSE doesn't value expertise?
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They put bunnies on trial! Bunnies!
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Government by the people kicked out of the SCA. Great. On the other hand, the idea of fighting Pennsic for control of the Supreme Court has some appeal.
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Fuedalism was great, can't wait for a return of stocks.
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Make Trepanning Great Again
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But surely it will be worse than this? Being self taught speaks to some curiosity. What the court has done is not encourage jurists to become self taught generalists. It has encouraged narrow minded incurious zealots to impose their will. "The law is everything", not "everything is the law".
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My man...medieval thinkers were generally *way* better at this sort of thing than modern jurists.
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their selftaught history expertise is already excellent, so this will doubtless go swimmingly
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well, when you put it that way 😬
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I hear them giggling the nitrous giggle...
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Seriously Team Blue needs to talk about how Trump's SCOTUS wants more doors falling off of airplanes so billionaires can make more money. Deathtrap planes, poisoned food, dead workers, all because the Thomas and Alito want more gifts from billionaires. Repeat it over and over
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It’s a peculiar feeling, watching a country set itself on a path to decline. Seeing it happen repeatedly since 2016 is also bewildering.
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Everything they ever needed to know about pollution, they learned in home schooling from scientifically illiterate parents.
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I look forward to new rulings based on phrenology. And by look forward, I actually mean
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On a positive note, I'm gonna go out wearing my plague mask and cape, then start giving out cocaine.
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Plague doctors didn't prescribe cocaine, you're mixing eras
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Yeah, that's part of the joke.
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Oh, jokes are supposed to be funny, that must be why I didn't recognize it as such
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Soon it will be judicial precedent that you *can* in fact construct a square with the same area as a circle, as god intended Indiana was just ahead of it’s time en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana...
Indiana pi bill - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org
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I had never heard of that. Damn. A basic understanding of geometry and calculus should be required for any legislative, congressional, gubernatorial or presidential position.
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they are going to defer to whichever corporation's own experts and ... the bible i suppose
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Important to clarify in advance the size of the gratuity which is potentially on offer. There should be a pre-courption (pre-crup) agreement setting it all out so if the gratuity isn't forthcoming the matter can be resolved through litigation.
I think you’re over reacting. Given the results of our experiment of putting MBAs in charge of everything, we should be fine!
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Mediocre But Arrogant.
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Finding out this week that Scott Adams has an MBA and thinks it makes him special went a long way to explaining Scott Adams to me.
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I think a difference may be that, back then, polymaths made a good-faith effort to study those fields and had a reasonable chance of learning most of what was known at the time. Federalist society judges will just read briefs from industry and more often than not follow that guidance.
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I mean if the so called experts in those fields were so smart they would have been judges
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SCOTUS 2026: "if she weighs the same as a duck, then she's made of wood..." "And therefore?" "She's a witch!"
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Dunning-Kruger judiciary.
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This will usher in a new Golden Age for paid "experts" giving testimony. Deepest pockets will win.
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Barbers doing surgery ass administrative state.
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They did their own research.