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The US got so worried that all these expenditures to foil Islamic terrorists were going to waste that it had to produce a domestic crop to justify them.

It is important that people understand that only building engineering prevented this being a wholesale slaughter of dedicated public servants.

This is so true also I expect tiny winged unicorns to fly out of my ass singing La Marsellaise any moment now.

I almost want to take these poor people on guided tours. Like, really, it's okay that not everyone looks like you and isn't 100% focused on not offending your sense of cultural primacy. Just relax and you'll experience some cool things. I don't know.

Yeah I love NYC, always will, and I love that my job requires me to commute there. I mean, it's not like I live totally in the boonies. (Poughkeepsie gets a deserved bad rap in some ways but has its points.) Still, the amount of FOX-inspired fear of NYC I encounter here is baffling.

I thought I had a good grasp on all this, but then I stayed for a couple of days in Saratoga Springs (for some kickass Phish shows at SPAC) this summer and found the place so profoundly fucking weird that I'm not sure, as a bog-standard white middle-class dude, that I understand My People at all.

Anyway to a layperson the courtly stylings that may be due seem arcane. I know if you walked into 1 First Street and responded to an invitation to make your argument with, "Thanks, Judge Roberts," it probably wouldn't go well, and I've always assumed there were more little rules like that.

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS: We will hear argument this morning in Case 24A884, Trump versus CASA, Incorporated, and the consolidated cases. General Sauer. ORAL ARGUMENT OF GEN. D. JOHN SAUER ON BEHALF OF THE APPLICANTS GENERAL SAUER: Mr. Chief Justice, and may it please the Court: On January 20, 2025, President Trump issued Executive Order 14,160, Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship. This order reflects the original meaning of the

Hm maybe there's further nuance here since it's the Solicitor General of the US, not just a state AG, but this is from the official transcript of Trump v CASA.

Likely you have more context than I do. I feel that I've certainly heard it used as a form of address in e.g. SCOTUS oral arguments.

Lol you've been saving it up all these years, you finally shoot your shot, and you get...what? Pat on the back for all that political capital you amassed, I guess.

Isn't that how AG's are addressed in court? It's lickspittle behavior for sure, but IMO not utterly bizarre.

"Outlaw to outcast may be a step forward, but it does not achieve the full promise of liberty."

"Outlaw to outcast may be a step forward, but it does not achieve the full promise of liberty."

"History and tradition guide and discipline this inquiry but do not set its outer boundaries.... That method respects our history and learns from it without allowing the past alone to rule the present."

I remember this day vividly. I immediately read Kennedy's opinion, which is one of the great documents of our nation's recent history.

It will be enraging but in no way surprising if this SCOTUS rejects the moral clarity this decision makes central to its logic.

Yeah no shit that poor woman got second-degree burns from a cup of fucking coffee. She deserved every dime.

Pete will I'm sure be very measured and understanding when the state annuls his marriage and takes away his children.

The shortening days are always a reminder of mortality, and then going back to Standard Time is the fall of the guillotine's blade.

Can confirm one of them just got a pint of bitter in the pub and went up to helpfully inform the bartender that their beer is warm and flat.

hang in there

Have to install one of those nets like they have at the driving range in every bathroom.

imagining "Big Balls Beatdown" in a middle-school social studies textbook

An old time-y illustration of a Otters.

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I just can’t believe our Reichstag Fire is the Big Balls Beatdown.

if you took a partisan congressional majority from the 1880s and plopped it into the present, it would look at the size of california and immediately turn it in to six states. "surprise, we have 10 new senators now."

Lol "old-timer" I was a technical lead on getting a massive application migrated from physical servers to cloud so go fuck yourself thanks.

lol Asimov was a notorious sex pest and sleazeball. Of course he would write cringey weird sex in his books.

The best way to think about interacting with an LLM is to imagine yourself wearing a baseball cap that says "Bullshit Me Please" at all times.

In our company there are two flavors: One that operates only on-prem, which our security has cleared for sensitive data; a second that is hooked up to the web where you can literally face disciplinary action if you give it the same kind of data. Not confusing at all.

Nah, skip it and watch Big Trouble in Little China instead.