Charlie

You can’t expect them to rock a slim fit look like a peasant

Yup. Not all that different from the rest of Camden county.

I live 20 minutes from this town and you are correct. Maybe he votes for the local Dem candidates from time to time, but he votes R at the statewide level.

For reference, Space X charges something like $5k per kg to launch stuff into low earth orbit. Pretty sure getting to the moon considerably more expensive.

That's brave relying on one that old

pcpartpicker.com/trends/price... Looks like price increases are worse with SSDs but are generally up across all types

After years of swearing off old timey non SSDs, I'm headed back towards them for a NAS.

gamers united against AI data centers

The enemy of my enemy (who happens to be my enemy in a less important context) is my …

Had my ten year old ask me about the start of WWI the other day at the beginning of a long car trip. Poor child had no idea how long I’d been preparing for that question.

Going to be interesting to see their new "whatabout" topic is whenever the AI house of cards comes crashing down.

Part of what’s going on here is the fed chair is like one of 12 votes on the fed’s open market committee, which sets rates. So one appointment doesn’t necessarily tip the balance of votes within the committee regarding rates.

Tried explaining this to my wife and I had to earnestly explain “no, he actually said this” three times before she realized that I was not making a joke.

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Pretty sure he was speaking the LinkedIn language. www.tiktok.com/@makinajoyfu...

Even worse when you make it up for perceived clout.

No greater bitch behavior than protecting the bosses’ property (that’s going to spoil anyway) from persons trying to survive a disaster.

Used to be the first google result for “pediatric Tylenol dosage” was a link to some random hospital’s page showing a correct dosage chart. Now you get AI crap which may or may not be correct.

While the Navy's off in the Med, the Persian Gulf, or the South China Sea, the aliens thought they could launch an invasion from the continental shelf just offshore. But they didn't count on one thing ...

Yes, I completely agree. I'm trying to point out that these "woe is us" legal rabbit holes people jump down are just divorced from the reality of how those systems would actually break down and to point out how people would not just sit there and take it.

But again, that kind of breakdown in the rule of law has some common outcomes, including summary executions of the perpetrators by mobs, which itself would be illegal and certainly unconstitutional, but like, whose fault would that be?

I agree. Also, at that point it is not really a legal process so budgets and the question of whether people are obeying the constitution has gone by the wayside.

It’s a high variance event. And the bad end of the spectrum of outcomes for him is Louis XVI in 1792 bad so idk.

More broadly, what you are describing is really not a legal issue so much as a total collapse of democracy that would certainly lead to mass unrest and the outcome of that is not dependent on the legalities.

While the Senate is a continuing body, the current House membership loses all status as of the end of their terms. At that point, there’s no House at all until reconstituted. So refusing to seat so many members would mean there’s no House at all.

As an attorney, I’ll just say that if any client has ever deserved its crime/fraud/contempt confidences revealed in violation of ethics rules the current federal government is near the top of that list.

The charges are always state charges, but federal officers can have a case filed in state court removed to federal court and tried there. That’s why he’s mentioning state and federal court. The charges can’t be pardoned by the president regardless.

With these staffing issues showing up across the country, I've been wondering when we'd see our first criminal case dismissed for speedy trial issues.

Yes. I’d also say that should things get worse in the run up to the election, he needs to be made to understand that a stolen election will lead to regime collapse rather than the glorious victory and consolidation of power he imagines.

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Here’s a fun takedown of that book open.spotify.com/episode/1IeS...

I was browsing episodes of old shows the other day musing about this kind of thing and found that the first season of The OC had 27 episodes! Now I'm sad about what we lost.