PSA to anyone remotely considering Tucker's "apology".

*dont have children

And the answer is no. I dont have to hand it to Meta.

Do I...do i have to hand it to Meta?

Like, I will fight people over wearing the surveillance glasses, the "I am angered by the very idea of consent" glasses. But Meta made them look like glasses, not bad snorkel goggles.

Thought this was an AI-slop aging of Stephen Miller.

This is the principle method by which the Zeldin (and other politicals at the EPA) have stymied and are stymieing research and tbh its pretty effective.

Everybody is 12.

Pay em standard JD (juris doctorate) rates, pay them well and as lawyers i mean, but make it known the job of clerking is a job to itself, not a stepping stone.

Im gonna go further and say the whole clerkship system should be abandoned.

Clerks should be civil servants, hired into the federal service by nameless and humorless OPM bureaucrats whose dedication is to following the byzantine law of Federal hiring and placed with judges by similar measure.

Songs can crescendo multiple times. Its a relative thing. So like, this is a minor crescendo in the first part.

They're really gone hate the fanfare, never mind the actual end of the song.

Its fun learning where that convention breaks down.

Grew up in the far north, exit ramps are made wide and long, ti accommodate the hazards in winter driving. In summer you can exit safely 20mph above the exit ramps speed limit.

I live in the south now. If a ramp says 45mph, consider 40.

Its not like hes also bragging about going to Amsterdam or Vegas for his sex tourism. Thailand isnt known for sex tourism, its known for its unregulated sex tourism.

"Before passing judgement..."

Man this isnt a court of law and we dont have to sentence people, we dont have the burden of high evidentiary standards to prevent miscarriages of justice.

Hes a high level CBP official in Trump's CBP, we dont owe him an ounce of the benefit of the doubt!

Alternatively:

"I dont want to see the Head of State of a foreign nation with which we have a formal diplomatic relationship as a politician."

He won't get it. Lifetime pensions for Reps ended about 50 years ago. Since 1984, a reps pension* is based on length of service and you arent vested until 5 years of service. He will have to buy Healthcare.

For Reps who were first elected after 1984.

I will admit, as a person who was already familiar with Jesus's stature in Islam, I took this to be an expression that the President of Iran publicly expressing solidarity with the Pope (against MY country's leader!) feels pretty bizarre.

what the fuck is even going on

Or: Maher's atheism is secondary to his belief that he is a good and smart special boy.

Im not trying to horseshoe theory atheism and religion, but someday we will develop a consistent vernacular that allows us to describe that type of person whose principle goal is to feel superior and smarmy without needing to address whatever ideology they've pasted over it.

i am not saying this out of a sense of malice or to give this poster a hard time. but i do think we should consider posting predictive market data about news events to be the same kind of tide-lowering slop as posting generative ai

"Cooked" here meaning adjusted in a manner that may have once been legit but is now failing as a competent measure due to the specific circumstances of our economy.

The Podcast/video series How Money Works (@howmoneyworks.bsky.social) had a recent episode "How is everything outpacing inflation?" Which is basically about how the inflation numbers are kinda cooked*. And being the basis of inflation adjusted income, means our measure of income is also cooked.

I feel like 80% of Buttegeig's rep as a good public speaker and thinker is because he will ask 2 sequential follow up questions and people are simply not prepared to go that deep anymore.

I will start a war that spreads famine across Bavaria to say she does not. There will be VERY specific regional racisms that arise from this, but also a misunderstood English language Christmas carol, so...call it 50/50?

Doc wants 1300 dollars to find out where the potential lymphoma is in the cat, best case scenario is (if is it lymphoma) 1-3 extra month QoL on treatment.

What if the lymphoma is jn the gut vs the liver? Why, the same treatment! So why cant we just do treatment!

That there is a natural hierarchy, and that the principal business of government is ensuring that the right people are on top. It unifies all authoritarian governments, even if they disagree about what their preferred hierarchy is.

The guy who does Inneundo Studios had a great video a few years ago about the philosophical underpinnings of conservatism that arose following the French revolution, which is to your point. The fundamental belief of modern conservatism (and its economic model Capitalism) is...

It was a much more plausible answer in 2016. Ive can find forgiveness for people who voted for him in 2016 but not 2020 and 2024.

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