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Here I thought you were channeling the Vatican's voice of the Grey Lady.

If I held "sincere religious beliefs," my worry would be for the souls of ICE & border agents and health insurance management.

As a non-believer, can I sincerely hope they go to the same place some sincere faith-based folk think I'm aheaded for?

What to you sounds good about it?

"Formal plans" is a nice out.
Most of what Trump's process does is informal -- grudge, greed, and mood driven.

"Formal" for Trump means an aesthetic of gold surfaces. (For Melania, it's black and white.)

What's immunity got to do, got to do with it?

It's so hard to keep up with the political firehose. Here we have is an unsurprising yet awful move. It's so indicative of the Trump administration's general view of workers and a government of public servants. (And Big Tech's, and the GOP's views as well.)

Another question: how on earth do you cut all the photojournalists?

Is there like an Uber app for photojournalism? Ah, Mechanical Turks might be the more apt choice for Vertical Integration.

More evidence of Left violence.

Fabulous!

did you make the vid? What's the source?

Dickens?

Catholicism, Ross. Not just generic Christianity.

I feel the same way as your kid in relation to general relativity or quantum mechanics time.

I too call my spawn "spawn." No need for specifying gametes, really. Tho we all know that you have a touch o' the Roman C. homophobia, Ross.

AI isn't grounding me in the present though. Not even an AI Therevada monk with its cat.

The extra bonus of squeezing the IRS is that then the GOP can squawk that there isn't funding for social services. (Especially when gazillions *must* go to Homeland Security & the Military.)

Terrifying to think how Doge or the Trump administration would program it.

"Pick over all returns with incomes <$200k."

Or vice versa of LARB's blurb: a literary classic might shed new light on science.

I respect Wallace and feel for his struggles. His aura of genius did feel pretty associated with a bro lit vibe.

In NYC back when (in my life, not centuries), there was the chair, sometimes with a guy in it, or just some large object in a parking spot. But this was without any shoveling. It was to reserve spots when alternate side of the street parking rules ended: the labor was just the physical claiming.

Ah well, it was a good 200 year peat run, but then it run out.

I think that money replacing barter story has been challenged. Inter alia by David Graeber in "Debt."

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View the TOC and read "Biden’s Criminal Justice Legacy" and "The Framers’ Mistake and What to Do about It," both freely available for a limited time.

T.I.L., astronomy & marine edition.

Really interesting! I taught a course on "nature/nurture" with a neurobiologist and we covered some of the history of the debate and this would have been great to draw on. Maybe if I teach it again!

"Jenny made up her mind at 75
That she would live to be the oldest woman alive.
But gin and rum and destiny play funny tricks.
Jenny kicked the bucket at 76."

-- Ira Gershwin & Kurt Weill "The Saga of Jenny" from "Lady in the Dark."
(I grew up on the Lotte Lenya version. Worth a listen.)

That 50% + Extrinsic factors sure is significant, as historical change, sociological patterns, family losses tell us.

America says, "hold my non-lite beer."

Let's have a moment of gratitude for the fact that the Bureau of Labor Statistics still exists and that it is allowed to publish results like this.