(those days were in 2011)

The people yearn for the days when Wisconsin Supreme Court justices were choking each other in the hallways

Scientific racism demands innumeracy from its believers. The extent to which this obviously can’t be true is hard to explain, it’s like claiming the average height somewhere is 4ft tall.

Has the Trump PAC (can’t recall the name) started spreading money around at all? Or is it just sucking all the air out of the whole ecosystem?

These names all sound like they were created by that garbage AI you use on the podcast

Trump also had Michael Cohen on the payroll to do exactly this sort of nonsense when he wasn’t nearly as flush with cash. Patel is about to see what hiring actual lawyers can cost.

THE POKEMON WORLD. MAY, 1945:

SOVIET CONSCRIPT 1: Holy shit. It’s Hitler’s dog!

SOVIET CONSCRIPT 2: How can you tell?

HITLER’S DOG: Hitlersdog. Hit-Hit. Hitlersdog.

SOVIET CONSCRIPT 2: Oh. Right.

Episode 26: That Colossal Wreck Podcast Episode · ALAB Series · October 30, 2021 · 1h 28m

The actual collapse is way weirder, involving using a voice changer to pretend to be a YouTube exec during an investment call with Goldman Sachs. Just weird scams the whole way down podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

Dan’s explanation goes through the mechanics, but if you read up on the implosion of Ozy Media this was basically the entirety of their views used to build up a mostly fake multimillion dollar media company

does pain hurt?

Partially because good, thoughtful policy is localized to a particular state’s issues and culture war nonsense is easily generalized to a nationwide issue

did NASA deserve it?

Haaland can look terrible for 99% of the game but the Goals Robot only needs to operate for a moment

Adding $0 federal dollars for Palantir contracts to the long list of reconstruction goals

Old ass Mike Conley with a positive play. I did not see it coming

I guarantee some of the people participating in this have made snide comments about Hollywood activism, like saying Free Palestine during an Oscars speech

A flatscreen display on a "smart" water fountain, demanding to be reconnected to the internet.

In 1999, I was playing a decker in Shadowrun, and tried to distract a guard by hacking a water fountain to overflow, and my GM said "why would a water fountain be on the network? That's fucking stupid. No you can't try."

Well it's 2026 and I just want you to know, Phil, that I FUCKING CALLED IT!

Should you be able to knowingly work to overthrow the Constitution, end representative government for hundreds of millions, but avoid consequences because there’s a BS legal argument created from misrepresented affidavits and specious readings of law? No.

I would encourage people to read the decision in this matter, particularly with respect to the “dual electors” and the memos Eastman wrote prior to January 6. Then decide if those were the actions of a good man.

can’t see Young Pope without singing it to the tune of Young Girl

Young Pope, get outta my mind
Jude Law you are way outta line

But maybe I am just over explaining what was a half joke: I want John Yoo disbarred for the Torture Memos, seeing his name here was a jump scare and I was don’t have a sincere argument about punishing him for it

Details about Yoo’s testimony as a constitutional expert

I think he testified but was barred from making those specific arguments. It would be fairly extreme to punish him for asking the court if he could make those arguments and then not doing so when denied. Idk what submissions etc he made regarding them

Sorry, he was a “constitutional expert” called by Eastman

Yes! That is exactly it

I didn’t finish reading the whole 128 pages, can’t remember exactly what you argued as his lawyer. I think I just take the general position at all times that the legal profession should be looking for reasons to censure/disbar/exclude John Yoo

Footnote about John Yoo arguing that Pence had the right to disband Congress rather than certify the election

If we were doing what Barnett says, they would have gone back and disbarred Yoo for making this argument in Eastman’s defense (they should go back and disbar John Yoo for making this argument in Eastman’s defense)

Somebody beat me to it, but it’s just the hippo tweet bsky.app/profile/robi...

2023 tweet from InternetHippo reading: New right wing thing is describing crimes as genetically as possible to pretend like they're not crimes. Someone gets convicted of conspiracy and they start yelling "Wow so it's illegal to make plans with friends now"

Legal ethics version of this

If it’s money you might need in a few days, it should be in savings rather than a brokerage account anyway

Yeah, it’s not that I don’t know it is cheaper than the alternative (ownership), just that I can’t always convince myself I couldn’t have not gotten the car and saved even more money