Jennifer Hendricks

"we are focused on the wrong 1 percent" absolutely cooking

They think there should be a comma after "as well" because they think it means "also."

Cf:

Coloradans can now vote on the name of Front Range Passenger Rail service | Colorado Newsline The public vote comes ahead of an anticipated vote on a sales tax hike in November to fund the long-awaited intercity line.

Vote for CoCo! (Colorado Connector)

The vote is only advisory, so be sure to justify your choice: "FRED" is cute but "express destinations" sounds like a corporate power point and is cloddy and slow. "RangeLink" is super boring. "Ranger" sounds too cowboy.

This is fun but a little stressful trying be clever when playing the AI. I understand why one of them has anxiety now.

... a spider isn't a bug." "Murder" is a regular English word with a meaning, and this ain't it. So I would say that, in English, "felony murder" isn't a subset of "murder." It's a whole different, special lawyer thing.

I was once a juror in a felony-murder trial, and I think this is an instance where the legal system has overreached in claiming jurisdiction over what a word means. "Murder" is not a term of art that we get special dibs on, just like entymologists don't get to go around saying "actually, ...

Was "kinetic" the word of the day on some nazi calendar last year?

I thought I was too cynical to believe in cheap patriotism. But I am shocked. Shocked that this despicable man kept his hat on, let alone what hat it was.

Imagine a world where we stop wasting human capacity on evil and bullshit, and instead we spend our time meeting real needs, like elder care for injured bats.

All around me every day people yearn to have slaves

Story I love to tell: My dad, who later became a neuroscience prof, turned 21 in New Orleans in 1959. Decided to register Republican to be contrary. The questions were all ambiguous, he failed. Went back the next day, asked to register Dem, the clerk pointed to all the answers as he filled them out.

omg, their taste is only marginally better than trump's ... also, the proportions are all off. That's an awful lot of money to spend on an architect who doesn't understand the golden ratio.

How's the East Wing?

I'm increasingly struck by how periods of time that are nothing to historians are actually quite long when you are living through them.

Could we not do this, please.

I have been volunteering with the political integrity project (integrityindex.us). One thing I've made a repo with data on districts. This includes some economic and political stats, as well as a shapefile for each district. In case it's useful to anyone else: github.com/ellio27/fed-districts/

I'm so sorry. That's horrible.

I was in a small town and my law partner had recently represented a family suing my OB's medical partner for very clear malpractice, so I pretty much called the shots.

For many kinds of care, a doctor's training and experience have value. But where the doctor is just a conduit for a public health or other statistical conclusion, "doing your own research" isn't crazy, especially if your doctor isn't very bright or is an asshole.

When I was pregnant, the "What To Expect When You're Expecting" book said that some doctors perform routine episiotomies after every vaginal birth, others don't, and I should just "listen to my doctor" and consent to whatever they wanted to do.

Amendment: If you read them *and keep good notes* ...

If you read things before you cite them, you won't have to check later whether they're real.

(Clarification: They were not assholes who posted a job ad w/o thinking it through. They hadn't posted anything. I was just a very aggressive job-seeker and basically bullied them into interviewing me in the first place.)

I try to remember this when I'm impatient w/ someone. And I think everyone w/ any kind of personal assistant, from secretary to housecleaner, should periodically do some of that work themselves.

I also think about it when people want to replace skilled labor with a planet-destroying slop machine.

When interviewing me, they worried about budget for a secretary. "I don't need a secretary; I can type," said I. Partly I was bs-ing b/c I wanted the job. But also I had NO IDEA how much work and skill went into being a legal secretary. Neither did they, so they bought "I can type" and hired me.

When I started practicing law, I went to work for two lawyers, both men who still dictated even short letters. Their secretaries typed them up. For briefs etc., the lawyers edited with pen, scissors, and tape. There were two secretaries and one paralegal in the firm.

There was software yrs ago that would do better than that, but you need expert help. Why do people who think LLMs can never replace their hard-earned expertise in writing and analysis think they should be able to write computer programs, create graphics, etc. without practicing those skills?

Shockingly poor strategy. Good judges accept that people can say many things about them without their being able to respond at all.

Also, this would be a Golden Rule violation if said to a jury. You might as well just announce, "And now, your honor, I will attempt to manipulate you emotionally."

For any who wonder: Under state court procedures we had no duty to return accidental disclosures. Also, the govt in question generally waived privilege and WP on the grounds that they were doing the public's business. But we did give it back.

My opposing (govt) counsel once sent discovery including an email from chief agency counsel to all legal staff offering a 6-pack to anyone who could "defend [client's] position w/ a straight face."

They asked very nicely if we would send the email back, but they did not try to defend the position.