Disney blocks Ron DeSantis’ Florida power play with a royal family clause

[BBally81]

Seems DeSantis was outfoxed by the Mouse.


https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/30/disney- ... lause.html

[clearspira]

I find it very difficult to believe that some obscure rule from hundreds of years ago is going to stand in court when you are talking about a man who no doubt has a very quality lawyer on staff. And not just any obscure law, one partially from Britain of all places! I can see said lawyer fighting pretty defiantly to repeal something that still treats your good selves like a colony.

That aside, there are effing thousands of obscure rules still on the books, many of which you've probably broken without even realising it. No one ever gets done for them. The whole thing stinks of desperation frankly.

DeSantis hasn't be outfoxed. He has been temporarily paused.

[hammerofglass]

Bonus points: stripping the political body you're about to lose control of of any meaningful power before vacating is right out of the standard Republican playbook. This was done completely out in the open and if he'd been paying attention he could have stopped it.

This article Is playing up the royalty thing like it was the crux of it, but it actually has no effect whatsoever unless at some point in the future Florida law changes to ban perpetuities. The "21 years after the death of..." phrasing is standard; they could have used anyone but apparently thought involving a real princess was funny.

[ProfessorDetective]

Bonus points: stripping the political body you're about to lose control of of any meaningful power before vacating is right out of the standard Republican playbook. This was done completely out in the open and if he'd been paying attention he could have stopped it.

This article Is playing up the royalty thing like it was the crux of it, but it actually has no effect whatsoever unless at some point in the future Florida law changes to ban perpetuities. The "21 years after the death of..." phrasing is standard; they could have used anyone but apparently thought involving a real princess was funny.

That and the Royal Family of the United Kingdom is unlikely to get wiped out to a man, at least right now. And even THEN, they'll still have two decades to think of something else or wait out DeSantis' Admin.

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

I find it very difficult to believe that some obscure rule from hundreds of years ago is going to stand in court when you are talking about a man who no doubt has a very quality lawyer on staff. And not just any obscure law, one partially from Britain of all places! I can see said lawyer fighting pretty defiantly to repeal something that still treats your good selves like a colony.

That aside, there are effing thousands of obscure rules still on the books, many of which you've probably broken without even realising it. No one ever gets done for them. The whole thing stinks of desperation frankly.

DeSantis hasn't be outfoxed. He has been temporarily paused.

And we still use your measurements no less.

[Riedquat]

And we still use your measurements no less.

Different versions of them in some cases... (a US gallon isn't the same as an imperial one).

Never could get my head around most metric units, always have to mentally do a rough conversion from metres to feet to get any actual idea of it for example (beyond the order of magnitude level). And although they keep trying to push things more metric here I've yet to find anyone quote their car's fuel economy in anything other than miles per gallon. Come to think of it electric car ranges are always quoted in miles. And of course even those who want everything in tens seem quite happy about sixty seconds in a minute, twenty-four hours in a day, seven days in a week, and a varying number of days in a month.

The only exception is temperature, I've got no feel for Farenheit whatsoever.

[ProfessorDetective]

And we still use your measurements no less.

Different versions of them in some cases... (a US gallon isn't the same as an imperial one).

Never could get my head around most metric units, always have to mentally do a rough conversion from metres to feet to get any actual idea of it for example (beyond the order of magnitude level). And although they keep trying to push things more metric here I've yet to find anyone quote their car's fuel economy in anything other than miles per gallon. Come to think of it electric car ranges are always quoted in miles. And of course even those who want everything in tens seem quite happy about sixty seconds in a minute, twenty-four hours in a day, seven days in a week, and a varying number of days in a month.

The only exception is temperature, I've got no feel for Farenheit whatsoever.

Same. I always multiply meters by three, since yard nearly equals meter. And, yeah, Celsous is just WAY more intuitive.

[McAvoy]

And we still use your measurements no less.

Different versions of them in some cases... (a US gallon isn't the same as an imperial one).

Never could get my head around most metric units, always have to mentally do a rough conversion from metres to feet to get any actual idea of it for example (beyond the order of magnitude level). And although they keep trying to push things more metric here I've yet to find anyone quote their car's fuel economy in anything other than miles per gallon. Come to think of it electric car ranges are always quoted in miles. And of course even those who want everything in tens seem quite happy about sixty seconds in a minute, twenty-four hours in a day, seven days in a week, and a varying number of days in a month.

The only exception is temperature, I've got no feel for Farenheit whatsoever.

Same. I always multiply meters by three, since yard nearly equals meter. And, yeah, Celsous is just WAY more intuitive.

That's weird. Fahrenheit actually goes by tens. Almost metric for human comfort. Like 40 degrees is cold, but not too cold. 60 is comfortable but definitely jacket wearing temperature for many. 70 is human comfort level. 100 is hot as hell and anything beyond that is just extra torture.

[ProfessorDetective]

And we still use your measurements no less.

Different versions of them in some cases... (a US gallon isn't the same as an imperial one).

Never could get my head around most metric units, always have to mentally do a rough conversion from metres to feet to get any actual idea of it for example (beyond the order of magnitude level). And although they keep trying to push things more metric here I've yet to find anyone quote their car's fuel economy in anything other than miles per gallon. Come to think of it electric car ranges are always quoted in miles. And of course even those who want everything in tens seem quite happy about sixty seconds in a minute, twenty-four hours in a day, seven days in a week, and a varying number of days in a month.

The only exception is temperature, I've got no feel for Farenheit whatsoever.

Same. I always multiply meters by three, since yard nearly equals meter. And, yeah, Celsous is just WAY more intuitive.

That's weird. Fahrenheit actually goes by tens. Almost metric for human comfort. Like 40 degrees is cold, but not too cold. 60 is comfortable but definitely jacket wearing temperature for many. 70 is human comfort level. 100 is hot as hell and anything beyond that is just extra torture.

Yeah, but the freezing point of water is 32F while boiling is 212F. In metric it's 0C and 100C. 20C is about 68F, for further reference.

[Riedquat]

What it really boils down to is just whatever you're used to works.