More specifically, in a formal environment, I think the baseball cap is signalling "I'm so rich I can ignore basic norms of civility."
Thinking of my students, I would also add (5) haven't washed their hair.
Poorly drawn sketch of a large computing machine connected to electrical wires and three stick figures kneeling in front of it. Text above the stick figures says: "O Deep Thought what is the ultimate answer to the problem of the climate crisis?"
Same sketch, now with text above the machine saying: "You should have stopped burning fossil fuels"
Same sketch, zoomed out to see three smoke stacks and text above the stick figures saying: "How could we have known?"
I'm no artist, but hopefully this gets the point across. A comic in three panels.
... brazenness, and outright evil of non-acquiesence has changed.
It's one thing to defer, presume regularity, or allow the executive to adhere for a time to its own good faith interpretation of the law. It's quite another to do those things when the executive's theory is "Fuck you and the law."
Law profs keep chastising district judges for saying their orders create binding precedent on the govt in their district. That's right, as far as we were taught: non-acquiesence is a thing.
But one feature of a common law system is that when things change, the law changes. And the scope, scale, ...
I mean, I guess I could have said "like in a presidential tweet."
Every time you think your jaw will never drop again...
A lawyer for the United States federal government just testified that he used quotation marks not to indicate quotation but for emphasis, like at a used car lot?
Exactly the ethical problem that was discussed when the JAG guy got sanctioned.
bsky.app/profile/jenn...
"Birth rate problems are technocratic problems that emerge primarily out of the failure of neoliberal biopolitics to adequately organize reproduction for the needs of capital; pronatalism is an attempt to impose an ideology that will do so..."
So much useful framing in this from @lesja.bsky.social
Excellent follow-up question in this case, but pro tip: In general, always follow up this sort of answer by asking who "we" is.
Who writes the honor code? Who decided how/whether to enforce it? The answers to these questions should be very short and should boil down to "faculty and students."
The chance of someone being hit by a satellite today is higher than the chance that Leicester City would win the Premier League in 2016.
(This is Steve's fun article about those odds. Paywall disappears if you switch to reader mode while it's loading.)
Someone once reviewed one of Steve's books on Amazon and called it "old-timey writing" because of this sort of thing.
"we are focused on the wrong 1 percent" absolutely cooking
They think there should be a comma after "as well" because they think it means "also."
Cf:
Vote for CoCo! (Colorado Connector)
The vote is only advisory, so be sure to justify your choice: "FRED" is cute but "express destinations" sounds like a corporate power point and is cloddy and slow. "RangeLink" is super boring. "Ranger" sounds too cowboy.
This is fun but a little stressful trying be clever when playing the AI. I understand why one of them has anxiety now.
... a spider isn't a bug." "Murder" is a regular English word with a meaning, and this ain't it. So I would say that, in English, "felony murder" isn't a subset of "murder." It's a whole different, special lawyer thing.
I was once a juror in a felony-murder trial, and I think this is an instance where the legal system has overreached in claiming jurisdiction over what a word means. "Murder" is not a term of art that we get special dibs on, just like entymologists don't get to go around saying "actually, ...
Was "kinetic" the word of the day on some nazi calendar last year?
I thought I was too cynical to believe in cheap patriotism. But I am shocked. Shocked that this despicable man kept his hat on, let alone what hat it was.
Imagine a world where we stop wasting human capacity on evil and bullshit, and instead we spend our time meeting real needs, like elder care for injured bats.
All around me every day people yearn to have slaves
Story I love to tell: My dad, who later became a neuroscience prof, turned 21 in New Orleans in 1959. Decided to register Republican to be contrary. The questions were all ambiguous, he failed. Went back the next day, asked to register Dem, the clerk pointed to all the answers as he filled them out.
omg, their taste is only marginally better than trump's ... also, the proportions are all off. That's an awful lot of money to spend on an architect who doesn't understand the golden ratio.
How's the East Wing?
I'm increasingly struck by how periods of time that are nothing to historians are actually quite long when you are living through them.
Could we not do this, please.
I have been volunteering with the political integrity project (integrityindex.us). One thing I've made a repo with data on districts. This includes some economic and political stats, as well as a shapefile for each district. In case it's useful to anyone else: github.com/ellio27/fed-districts/
I'm so sorry. That's horrible.
I was in a small town and my law partner had recently represented a family suing my OB's medical partner for very clear malpractice, so I pretty much called the shots.
