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People were far more vulnerable in almost any way you can think of.

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@Renauda said in Hamas attacks Israel:

I call that a nibble. But I overall agree with what you wrote, symbolic cautions. Nary even a Yellow card.

From here on the Referee looks the other way.

The referee was always looking the other way, he just didn't want anyone to notice. Didn't work.

So I just rolled a joint.

You’re probably jealous, but don’t be.

It was my ankle.

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The protagonist from "Bad Monkey", Andrew Yancy, is caught up in a scam involving a woman who fakes rear-end car crashes while shaving her nether regions. A new builder wants to put up a mansion next to Yancy's beach house. More restaurant inspections and more cockroaches.

Yeah, typical Hiaasen stuff with the craziest characters ever.

Fun, but I can only take so much in a while.

ETA: Oh, yeah - there's a subplot with a "Duck Dynasty" takeoff, "Bayou Brothers."

@Doctor-Phibes yes!

I'd forgotten (heh) this series. Very well done. Understated, quiet and respectful.

They’d need a valuation model that would survive an audit. I doubt they’re fucking with it. Doesn’t mean their model is perfect. Hard to imagine how to value it, it has meme stock potential and you can’t very well model that.

McCarthy:

All search warrants involve the possibility of forced entry. All of them involve police seizures of property, which can subject the personnel involved to legal risks as well as safety risks. The cops or federal agents usually do a good job of identifying themselves during the process of seeking or forcing entry; yet there are tragic instances in which people inside the premises mistakenly believe violent criminals, rather than cops, are trying to get in, resulting in physical confrontations including, sometimes, exchanges of gunfire.

As a result, and as a matter of common sense, the FBI always has an operational plan for carrying out a court-authorized search. That plan customarily involves reminding the search teams of the FBI’s use-of-force policies. Those policies, of course, include a refresher on the conditions under which lethal force may be used. This is to prepare law-enforcement officials for contingencies that are all too familiar, and to protect the agency and agents in the event of later legal claims.

If you don’t instantly grasp why police agencies would perform these prudential steps, you must have been living under a rock for the last decade or so, which has featured no shortage of instances in which allegations of excessive police force have been made (and a thankfully small percentage of instances when excessive force was actually used), with intense scrutiny and occasional rioting in the aftermath.

It would have been surprising if the Mar-a-Lago search hadn’t been conducted in accordance with an operational plan of which use-of-force policies were a component. It was important to do this search by the book — more on that momentarily. But there was never anticipation that force, much less lethal force, would be used, and there was never any threat to the former president. My understanding is that the FBI was reluctant to do the search — it was Justice Department officials who ran out of patience with Trump’s intransigence. The bureau intentionally carried out the search when it was known that Trump was not on the premises.

Excellent. When Lucas started getting his sense of smell back it was fairly rapid progress. Hopefully it will be the same for her!

If the UN is not going to waive the immunity of those employees, then they have further discredited themselves, and the US and our allies ought to walk out.

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Let's see whether this adds anything to the board. If it is annoying I can always disable it.

Winner. I used less water and added onions, Rotel and green chiles. You could do a lot of different things with it.

Bell’s timbre and pitch change depending on temperature:

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@Horace said in Whither the GOP post Trump 2020 election loss:

@jon-nyc said in Whither the GOP post Trump 2020 election loss:

If someone tried to forcefully take over your property and the state forced a settlement on you that ceded 25% of it to the aggressor, would you consider that a loss?

I refer you to the second half of my one-sentence post.

"as compared to <whatever the hell anybody expected if Kamala had won>."

What hypothetical outcome, in a Harris regime, are you comparing Trump's "handing Putin a W" to?

She would not hand him a W?

If your point is ‘Putin might still be successful even with us helping Ukraine rather than coercing their surrender’ that’s true as far as it goes, but that’s very different than the US formally recognizing the land grab and lifting sanctions and encouraging Europe to do the same.

Nah. What the world needs is a lot fewer pussy males like you.

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@jon-nyc said in The Bitcoin/Crypto Thread:

What ultimately gives fiat currencies value is that governments require you to use them to pay taxes. No such equivalent for crypto.

Slightly imprecise framing IMO. I would say that fiat currencies have value because they are defined as valuable by entities with authority to impose violence on you, if you do not provide them that value upon request.

They live in the golf course ponds here. They will come out and walk around sometimes, just to let you know they are here.

When they are active, I stay away from the ponds.