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And get you put on a list to buy some sort of disastrously expensive insurance for several years afterward, like some kind of stricter version of SR-22.

Just so long as their insurance carrier has the ability to look at their search history and deny their claims based on certain results, absolutely.

Longterm Basement Guest is the name of my indie band. Or it would be, if I had a band. Or any musical inclination/talent in the first place.

Garbage/Slightly less garbage on the highway as I have a 2006 Tacoma, but I also drive it fewer than 500 miles/month, so that, uh, helps.

These are the deaths, mother. From army.”

Seems like a really stupid bet for Governor Polis to make given the stakes. This person very much worked to upend our entire system of governance in service of a tyrant.

“No, it’s not that I’m notoriously difficult to work with or that my artistic moment has passed me by, James Jesus Angleton and the Langley boys have meddled in the rightful place of rock forever at the top of musical importance! In this essay, I will…”

It isn’t as if we needed any more reasons to reject the surveillance state, but just in case, here’s another really good reason to dismantle it:

Seriously though, your cat is very cute, even I’m quite biased in saying so. These mackerel tabbies are pretty neat.

Grey mackerel tabby cat named Gary tucked into a human’s bed looking over its shoulder at the camera.

I’d accuse you of stealing my cat, but clearly he’s tucked into bed here, so…

A grey mackerel tabby cat named Gary curled up on a corner of a bed with their paw partially obstructing their face.

And to get things started, this is my cat, Gary Laurence Fishbone.

Overheard: Sorry I cannot attend the Friday happy hour as I have a prior commitment to be unhappy at that time.

I think that line of thought is wildly irrational, but you know what they say about someone’s ability to stay solvent longer than a market remains irrational. To the extent we’re going to have companies that make LLMs I’d prefer them to have clear ethics, but does the rest of the market? We’ll see.

Thanks for your informed and sustained replies. Clearly, I Have Questions.

Is the pickle that Shaheed could (would) be the superior KR/PR guy that puts less wear on Horton, but costs so much that we need to also use him as a WR3 (even as the inferior option so far in that role) also to justify the cost?

I was picking up what you were putting down.

Serious bummer. Dude was never gonna be a HOF lock or anything, but looked like a solid contributor at WR2. I hope for his (and Seattle’s) sake he turns the corner on that, because he’s shown he can be a difference maker on the field. Especially with JSN catching the ultra brackets from now on.

Are they still iffy/unsure about Tory? I really hope his medical issues don’t make him a one and done, dude was putting in work when he was active.

It’s that “The Future Is Only Ever Next Quarter” syndrome all these types seem to be infected with, at least in part.

Ephesians? Correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t he have difficulties in tracking the ball and with pass break ups more occasionally?

Him and Jean Michel Connard, too. I hope they’re well out there in the world.

And it all just clicked into place. Great googly moogly. Thank you.

Cripe, what did I miss this time?

I worked with a lot of folks at that time who were just itching for government to signal that was where things would be headed. It was indeed frighteningly disorienting to observe that line of thought just bubbling away right at the surface, and for so many years afterward, too.

Wait, is it your turn on the rota again to be History's Greatest Monster? I thought with Hill Dog in the news again that it was her turn, but…

Counsel all you want, but degenerates are gonna degenerate. So, so glad I receive no thrill from that particular activity.

Is the Olu Olu experiment over? I know Sundell wasn't the best we could have, but he seemed serviceable, and more importantly, cheap. Is Linderbaum enough of an upgrade to the interior line to justify that kind of expense?

If they’re locals then the war zone was brought to their baby.

You won’t see his name trending, you‘ll Just see “It Happened!” and that’ll be all you’ll need to know.

I was in similar circumstances some years ago, and the poor first line service rep empathetically shared with me that they understood exactly what I had said, but that they were required to perform the entire script with no deviations until we got to the relevant part. Went fast-ish, at least. Sigh.