The Groyper Wars

California parents, grew up in Colorado in the 60s and 70s. Super middle class. We ate quite a lot of canned cream of mushroom as an ingredient, never standalone. I've used it only a handful of times as an adult. But still yields quick reasonably tasty meals that nobody complains about.

Denmark's exports to the US.

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Immigrant child laborers are being killed in US factories. Companies are walking away with fines Sawmills and slaughterhouses collect citations amid landscape of ‘underfunded and under-resourced’ regulators

it's striking how the murder of the United Healthcare CEO is being covered compared to the several women who were killed due to anti-abortion laws and the people who were maimed and killed in factories, including kids: www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

The great thing about fake claims of rising theft is that it's less likely to get you fired vs. admitting you tried to sell things people don't want and chose locations where people dont want to shop.

Nothing directly on point, but this article about TNR in Hawaii was interesting: www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adve...

We got our two outdoor cats from a group that purportedly does a variation ("feral" cats to "barn" cats). They turned out to be not very feral, but they are effective mousers.

Continuing the binge of @badlawyerpod.bsky.social. Today it had me Googling "bitch eating crackers". Apparently nobody got that worked up over the hate for Neal Katyal? He's a reliable provider of anti-Trump fanservice on MSNBC, but seems like nobody loves him enough to rush to his defense.

This trial court decision (Martel v Matt) summarizes and cites precedent as I understand it in NY. You get a jury trial for claims at law. Disgorgement is an equitable remedy. barneslegal.sharefile.com/d-sd532db837...

The cover of System Collapse, art by Jaime Jones

System Collapse, the next novel in the Murderbot Diaries, is coming out November 14 from @tordotcompub.bsky.social . It's set directly after Network Effect. Cover art is by Jaime Jones.

To pick just one recent example of how retail companies can take risks and then regret them, see: www.forbes.com/sites/peterc...

One of my first assignments in biglaw in 2006 was related to a big retail bankruptcy, and I worked on several after that. They happen All The Time because retail expansion is risky and predictions are hard, especially about the future. I'm sceptical that it's now "crime" and not "business as usual".

Retail stores have risen and fallen over the years, often leading to waves of closings. They do it in waves because it's easier to handle one big wave of bad PR than multiple ones. Theft is just an excuse to deflect from better / more common reasons that someone in management could be blamed for.

This thread contains a nonexclusive list of phrases that you do not ever want to see a court direct at you:
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1: "Defendants' arguments...invoke the time-loop in the film 'Groundhog Day.'"

2: "Defendants' contention...is pure sophistry."

I would say that ones 12-year-old son asking about Andrew Tate is at least as concerning.

Fortunately he just wanted ammunition to throw back at his classmates, among whom he is disturbingly popular.

Party idea was mine; Eric was only one of the people who posted it on lists. Tim came (I think) because Russell W posted the invite to an Extropian list. While I was not expecting the level of turnout, it was a lot of fun. I will admit to being the person who told Tim to smoke outside.

S3 of Serial is indeed brilliant, but would be tough & expensive to duplicate.

Not a podcast, but @scotthech.bsky.social has posted stuff on Twitter over the years that captures the day to day brokenness of the system, e.g. twitter.com/ScottHech/st...

And Then There Were 4: Biglaw Lawyers Behaving Badly Who belongs in the finals?

Also found myself revisiting Above the Law's "Biglaw Lawyers Behaving Badly" March Madness bracket, featuring two former colleagues (neither of which made the final four, sadly). abovethelaw.com/2017/03/and-...

My ongoing binge of @badlawyerpod.bsky.social kicked up a bunch of memories from law school with the episode on l'affaire Washingtonienne. Listen with a browser open to unblind "Larry Lawyer" and look up the court filings. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

It's been four days since I read the original post, and it's still bouncing in my head every time I take the dog out (also 15 lbs., inconsistently housebroken).

Here is a breakdown of the *second* NHK documentary that you and I are both in: www.facebook.com/media/set/?s...

To be clear - not including you under "randos", you were deliberately invited. :-)

Someone had the idea to put butcher paper all over the walls and people drew on it - I know Tim had a good time with this and I wish I'd saved the stuff he drew/wrote. At some point I saw the NHK show but have not been able to find it since - it had quite a bit of footage from my crappy apartment.

Probably my housewarming in '95 when I first moved to MV. The invite was forwarded to a bunch of mailing lists and all kinds of randos showed up, including Tim and a video crew from NHK. Next day a neighbor was like: "wow, that was some party man! I could have sworn I saw Timonthy Leary there."

The “we must save the Senate from John Fetterman’s pajama clothes” thing is the perfect story for rage click cycles, because only the world’s most insufferable dorks care about it, but those people also occupy a startling proportion of editorial board writer jobs

African Violet - Edge of Darkness. Dark purple flowers with a white border.

Edge of Darkness, got it about 3 months ago from Lyndon Lyon.

This has been the diplomatic equivalent of tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwik... It's like the administgration thinks they need to do this to keep their ratings up or something.

Broadly agree, but it's hard to tell ex ante which way these folks will break. I was optimistic about a FedSoc friend from law school (sat next to each as first years thanks to the alphabet) who instead keeps popping up with what can most charitablly be described as "outlier" decisions.

I concur.

Recently listened to this episode of "If Books Could Kill" by @michaelhobbes.bsky.social and Peter Shamshiri, which helped me systematize my dislike of David Brooks. This post fits perfectly into that structure.

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