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Yep. And while Kozinski’s legal opinions are still precedent, citing his out-of-court thoughts on the appropriate use of power? That does more to undercut than support a person’s argument, as well as their judgment and character.

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A tabby kitty hidden by a wall next to rainbow colored fabric

More than 20 years later, this slide has yet to be relevant to my job, but it has made me look at our cats more skeptically.

Slightly diminish a band: The K Street Band

I once went to a conference about the investigation of causes of death, and one slide showed what happened when a cat owner died and no humans noticed soon enough.

Maybe I missed it, but did you ever figure out who the DOJ lawyer was?

The dissent’s heavy reliance on a Kozinski law review article was a choice.

Has anyone in the short history of Bluesky ever looked better by complaining about someone blocking them?

Wait. I don’t remember whether that cat was supposed to be one of the “good” villains in the story. I’m also pretty sure the author has disowned the photo because it’s AI generated and he doesn’t want that in his covers.

Point still stands. Dude looks like a villainous cat.

I know. Unfair to cats.

The eyes do have that alien-mind-control look to them.

She’s right.

U.S. Government to Take Cut of Nvidia and AMD A.I. Chip Sales to China

Hey. @nytimes.com, there’s a word for when the government takes a percentage of what you earn. It’s called a “tax.”
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Thanks for posting. I liked the first season, and wasn’t aware the second had started. If it’s awful, I’ll only waste 15 minutes like you did. FWIW, I like reading arguments between a show’s fans.

Two SciFi writers and their fans speculate on what should be in the upcoming TV series about Gollum.

Now I have to watch it. I admit that it seems odd to not watch a series because a non-lead character is portrayed wrong, but I know I’m super annoyed by how the LOTR movies portray Faramir and Théoden, but other people don’t mind it given how nearly perfect the movie’s casting is.

What do client red flags prompt you to do? Decline representation? Charge more knowing it will be more work? Plan your representation differently? Something else?

Some centrist and conservative Ds are beclowning themselves in the way they criticize him. So what if you oppose rent control and want lower taxes? Those are things people can reasonably argue about. But people can’t reasonably argue about the relative integrity of Mamdani, Cuomo & Adams.

Nobody’s perfect. Nobody will do in office exactly what you want them to do, but Mamdani:
1) is a competent politician
2) won’t steal from the public
3) won’t take bribes
4) won’t be a patsy to Trump, ICE, & the NYPD
5) won’t prey on the women around him.

Your post prompted me to look, and OK, you’re right.

I haven’t blocked him, but he only very rarely shows up in the feeds I follow, so I guess I must be doing something right.

Scream at the phone to get to a human being faster? In a rational world, it would be the opposite. The thing that frustrates me is that the whole reason I’m calling is that I have an issue that falls outside of the normal decision-making tree I could follow online.

I sometimes read the hidden comments. Or, more accurately, peek at them. One disadvantage to hiding comments is that it can highlight them for some, but it’s worth it to keep the flow of conversation on topic and relatively civil. People who go to hidden comments effectively leave the conversation.

One of the few progressive things (only progressive thing?) Trump did during his first term was massively increase the standard deduction, so now the mortgage deduction only helps owners of the most expensive homes, not even all homeowners.

Why did you block the first three accounts I followed you with?

A reminder that ICE agents have free will and should be accountable for their decisions.

Channeling recently resigned AUSAs…

Maybe the biggest difference between modern presidents who’ve done horrible things & our current one is a sense of shame. Whether actually felt or not, Nixon, W & Clinton all showed that they understand shame. Maybe not enough or for the right things, but they knew shame existed. Trump is shameless.

Also, George Will wrote a couple very good (IMO) books about baseball.

Riffing on the OP’s username, in the Peace Corps, our little paperback library had what I think was a complete set of Blackford Oakes spy novels by William F. Buckley. I tore through them. That, and British versions of Steinbeck novels are what I most remember reading.

That’s a conspiracy theory mill. I have no idea whether they’re honest dupes or dishonest disruptors or something else, but their propaganda about elections is as accurate as RFK’s propaganda about vaccines.