Texas abortion law has tech workers reconsidering moving to the state

Exactly my reasoning for moving out of Poland. It's fun to watch and cheer if you are a normative citizen who will never be affected by this, but for everyone else it turns into hell sooner or later. There are multitudes of people I know who ended up under psychiatric care because it's becoming hopeless for them as the anti-modern kulturkampf gains in strength.

Is Austin much cheaper than Washington these days? I have not looked in 4 years

You've been downvoted but i think you may be right.

All correct, though the progression from “a couple of cells” to “person” obviously has a lot of interpretation that will be different for different people.

An interesting thing is that the law is, as I see it, allowing civil protection for being offended at another’s actions, since the citizen plaintiffs otherwise have no standing. Should SCOTUS uphold this mode that’s a messed-up principle that can be gamed by every legislature to create chaos in our courts.

I also wonder if companies will simply put big centers in red and blue areas to allow employees to pick the place they’d rather be. In a remote-first era, HQ location matters less than it did.

I smell jesus