This case is a web designer for wedding websites, not a bakery. The bakery thing was several years ago now.

Both rulings cute the same fundamental precedent: "expressive works"/"expressive goods" — that is, services that entail some act of creative work and/or speech, generally in endorsement.

For example, to take a less-favorable position as an example, a web designer could under this ruling post as terms of their services that they do not design websites for anyone connected with Trump or the GOP, because designing websites for them would require the designer to write speech and create designs participating in xenophobia and racism. If a Trumpist group sued on these grounds, and the government said "no, you must take them on as clients", the government would be coercing a particular kind of speech from this web designer — that is, the government would be forcing the web designer to, by court order, write xenophobic and racist speech.

A grocery store could not, however, say "we won't sell groceries to anyone connected with Trump or the GOP", because selling someone a gallon of milk or whatever else off the store shelves does not involve participating in any of their speech. If a grocery store did so, and a Trumpist group sued, and the government said "no, you must sell them groceries", the government is not coercing any sort of speech from the grocery store owner.

That's the crux of the issue here: not Jim-Crow "we don't sell groceries to coloreds" baseline discrimination against people, but instead trying to walk the line of not using lawsuits as a weapon to coerce someone to participate in some viewpoint.

Just start giving them numbers. This one will be the Nintendo 8 or something.

I just saw an interesting Gemini post ruminating on the same idea: gemini://idiomdrottning.org/threadiverse-vs-mailing-lists

The Transcendental One is just a monoid in the category of ephemeral endofunctors; what's the problem?

I was pretty sure that Jerboa is already on F-droid; see https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.jerboa/

I mostly just use Syncthing for syncing the files, and otherwise I let Obsidian do the driving.

Man, I'd really love for one of these to be viable in the US someday.

I live near Atlanta, in a spot where taking a train anywhere means I have to drive at least 80% of the way to my destination, then park and buy a train ticket to ride the last 20%.

The nearest bus route to me also requires that I drive 15 minutes away, and it runs infrequently and only directly to midtown, with few if any stops along the way (and it lacks a dedicated bus lane, so it doesn't buy me anything over driving).

Most of that is due to hardcore NIMBYism around me, with just a touch of racism tossed in (of the sort where majority-white suburbs that have Confederate memorabilia shops always shoot down any transit expansion or funding by saying "we don't want urban crime, that'll make us just like Atlanta"...which just so happens to be one of the more majority-black major cities in the US).

Still, what it means for me is that public transit is totally unfeasible for getting around the Atlanta area.

It also doesn't exist at all between metro areas. There's only Amtrak, a private company, which has routes so limited that to get from Atlanta to Savannah (both in the same state) by train I'd first have to route up through North Carolina and Virginia and then catch a different train back around. Atlanta and Savannah are 3ish hours away from each other by car. They're around 30hours apart by train. (This is not an exaggeration; you can plug this all into Amtrak's "Plan Your Trip" tool yourself).

I went to Boston recently for a work trip. Their public transit actually goes places, and Boston's particular form of sprawl seems to be the sort where there are smallish neighborhoods a few train stops away from their midtown. In that sort.of environment, I think I'd be riding the train more often for work commuting or "I don't need to carry anything around" purposes, but use-cases like grocery store trips still seem like something where the car as a "stuff transporter" still retains a lot of value.