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by dctoedt 3y ago
> The prosecution will have to prove the intent to commit a crime. Friendly amendment: Generally, the prosecution must prove only the intent to take the action that's proscribed by law (and sometimes, the intent to achieve the s
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by dctoedt 3y ago
And the very first cold-open sketch on the very first episode of Saturday Night Live , in October 1975: John Belushi learning to say, "I would like to feed your fingertips to the wolverines." https://www.openculture.co
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by dctoedt 3y ago
Tangential: TIL (OK, I knew but had forgotten) that aerobic composting of organic material — e.g., kitchen food waste — produces significantly less methane (an especially-bad greenhouse gas) than just dumping the waste in a landfill where
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> a friend told me that their sister had been in a car accident. I asked why, and they said she was texting. An extended-family member was killed that way — texting while driving, she ran into the back of a semi.
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by dctoedt 3y ago
The "phone ringing in your pocket at your wedding" cartoon resonated with me: Our daughter's wedding was during the covid lockdown and before any vaccines were available. She and our now-SIL cut the guest list to basically no
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> We don't care, we don't have to, we're the phone company." Hah! Haven't thought of that one in years. (You're dating yourself, BTW.) For young whippersnappers, this is from https://vimeo.com&#
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by dctoedt 3y ago
Highly recommended reading about designing human-focused online systems to replace hard-copy workflows: Recoding America, by Jennifer Pahlka. [0] [0] https://www.amazon.com/Recoding-America-Government-Failing-D ... — it was
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by dctoedt 3y ago
You might want to consider that perhaps — just perhaps — you're not quite as clever as you clearly seem to think you are, chief. Bye.
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> I assume you're from DC (per your name). If you'd clicked on my handle, you'd immediately see that's an unfounded assumption. (Although I did live in suburban Maryland for a few years in my early teens when my dad
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by dctoedt 3y ago
You really think that's a compelling argument? "It's not A so it must be B by golly" — if that's what you think, it's an indictment of your schooling.
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> There does need to be some aspect of empathy in the immigration system. Agreed; glad you think so too. > Noticing differences in groups is so taboo that they throw common sense out of the window. The problem is that "common
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by dctoedt 3y ago
>> Why do you think folks who walked thousands of miles to somewhere nobody would receive them to build a better life for their family mostly through backbreaking Labor would be a shitty American? As a group they tend to be great
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> Folks like Jamie Dimon and Tim Cook are billionaires, but they made that money by being very highly compensated employees of institutions in which their equity interest is negligible. Jamie Dimon went to Tufts — Harvard-adjacent? — w
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> No pricing === you are the product True, but is this no pricing? At a glance it appears to be available only to Workspace customers, which I believe you have to pay for (at least I've been paying for it for years).
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> you make a lot of claims without a lot of evidence. Wait, are you not the one making sweeping claims about small government and the free market? I'd love to spend several days with you discussing what has caused me to evolve fro
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> a small government to take care of the essentials and the free market will handle the rest absolutely. Yeah, I used to believe that, because it was such a neat theory and Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged seemed so right. (I was a t
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by dctoedt 3y ago
So you're a "the free market will take care of all the things!" thinker, then? EDIT: I wasn't the one who posted the "Living in a society requires structure" comment.
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I think you might have responded to the wrong comment —- I’m not making any claim here.
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> For example the Democrats provided structure in the form of slavery in the south pre civil war but that was found to be wrong of the government and on the repressive side of the continuum. Are you one of those folks who insists that,
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> Simply "hereby grant" should suffice. Not necessarily — in some circumstances, the law might not recognize a present-day grant of an interest that doesn't exist now but might come into being in the future. (Cf. the
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by dctoedt 3y ago
Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.
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by dctoedt 3y ago
>> You agree to grant and hereby grant "Hereby grant" means the grant is (supposedly) immediately effective even for future-arising rights — and thus would take precedence (again, supposedly) over an agreement to grant t
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by dctoedt 3y ago
Re your battalion commander: "Mrs. Colonel" — and for that matter "Mrs. E-9" — and their husbands are a longstanding problem, but as far as I could tell* in my day, it was just a minor irritant. No organization is flawle
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Just curious: Have you served (in the military)?
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Forty-year Houstonian here: About 13-14 years ago, one of my wife's nephews called to say that he and his wife were coming to Houston from their home in NYC — in July — to see the nephew's grandfather (my FIL), who lived near us,
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> She was delivering a lecture purchased and paid for by the government. If that's to be the standard, what effect do you think it will have on the hiring desirable faculty by state universities in red states? I'm already see
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> the journalism school extended a written 5-year tenure-track offer The original offer wasn't tenure- track , it was tenured — she already had tenure at the far-superior and more-liberal institution 100 miles west of TAMU (of w
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by dctoedt 3y ago
Horses for courses, as the Brits say. Here we had a government-employed professional who publicly (and mildly) expressed disagreement with another, high-ranking public servant on the merits of an issue of public concern — in a field in whic
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> I used to refuse to stand for the pledge of allegiance in high school I almost never participate in saying the Pledge of Allegiance. I took the constitutionally-prescribed oath* in the Navy (I'm a third-generation veteran) and a
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> * this is a tenured professor.* I don't think she's tenured — her TAMU Web page says she's a clinical assistant professor. [0] [0] https://health.tamu.edu/experts/joy-alonzo.html

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