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I looked it up again. It started a bit before the Magna Carta, the concepts were established a butt better in the Magna Carta, but the Writ of Habeas Corpus, is from an actual in 1679.

There’s a ton more in the main Habeas Corpus wiki entry, but I’m at my limit of reading legal stuff for the day!

Tldr, any time we’ve suspended it has not been a good time for anyone! 😒

I try to make my jobs work for me as much as possible. I find things that annoy me, and see what I can do to change them. Big things I’ve encountered in a few jobs now that we’re solvable: moving physical paper things to electronic records wherever allowed, automating routine tasks, working out better workflows, improving usability of documents and forms.

All those things have multiple benefits. Time savings, uniformity/less confusion, and I learned new job skills to get better paying but still annoying jobs. It also sneakily molds the jobs into something that while I still find it largely pointless, it fits into my personality better because I took ownership of things and made them work in a way more compatible with me instead of them being things that someone that doesn’t do my actual work said was good enough and called it a day.

It’s near impossible to eliminate many of the stupidest aspects of a job, but inefficiency and having to redo things is one of my biggest energy vampires, so these things make it more bearable to me. No amount of bitching or bullet points will make a boss change the job, but invent a better solution on your own, and odds are they’ll let you do it if you show it has merit. Or just do things in secret if you’ve tested them. I do that plenty too, and as long as work is being done timely and correctly, usually nobody notices.

Also, I focus on things I can actually accomplish. There is a lot of special equipment I need, and you would never believe how rich our company is by the way they maintain things. If something is down, I try to not let it upset me. I just report it to my boss and move on. I used to pressure myself to come up with a solution, but that’s Management’s ordeal once I report it. Just find ways to let go where you can. Keep doing an honest job, but don’t sweat what work doesn’t enable you to do. That is their responsibility to you.

Also have activities you look forward to after work. Work may always suck, but if you’ve got something positive you know is coming your way after work, it goes better than if you just work>home>sleep>work.

Best I can do for you right now is a slightly used Kamala and a Newsom. (sad laughter)

I was somewhat pleased the other day to see Andy Beshear being mentioned. I’m not an expert on Kentucky politics, but I used to listen to a show from Cincinnatti during Covid, and Basheer seemed to navigate issues in a largely red state well, and he seems to be on what I feel is the right side of many issues. Skimming his wiki page quickly, I don’t see any controversies, and actually a few more good things I wasn’t aware that he managed to accomplish.

There are still many powerful people with a lot to lose that I don’t think are interested in seeing the US go fully off the rails, plus the head of the MAGA cult of personality is an old and unhealthy person, so we may yet get to see the movement run out of steam naturally before it is too late. I’d like this BS stopped yesterday of course, but I don’t want a violent leftist government any more than I do a violent right government. I’m neither rich nor well connected, so either would be bad for me and the people I care about.

Constitution.congress.gov

Article I, Section 9, Clause 2:

The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it.

Link has some discussion of previous court cases involving the second part of that clause: who can suspend it and for what reason.

I was reading the other day it is based off centuries old British law, originally created so a king couldn’t just stick you in the dungeon for no reason.

The problem now is we do have someone acting as king, and all the king’s men have spent the last 10 years calling these people outside “invaders” and with guys like Miller who exist purely to milk these legal vagaries, that language is most likely very intentional for that reason.

I really don’t want to see people crossing the line to war/terrorism. I guess it would be the fastest way to get impactful change, but likely at a high cost. Destabilization also seems much easier than establishing a new system that enough people are happy with without fracturing again. That’s also assuming the side we’re on comes out on top.

We don’t necessarily need something catastrophic to build back. We just need to seriously learn from the mistakes we’ve allowed, not just to smooth things over with words and by ignoring transgressions.

The compromising of things like voter data and social security databases has really disturbed me. Even if we have the best president in history next, how can we ever trust those systems again when an unknown number of people potentially have backdoor access to that info? I think a lot is going to need to be scrapped and rebuilt from zero if we’re supposed to have confidence in it. It’s not like the normal stuff like when we get a crummy EPA or FCC person and we can just roll some policies back or what have you, we have been severely exposed to unknown parties about many of the most private and personal levels.