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A quote from a progressive white female lawyer on a Trump hating podcast yesterday, went something like "I loved Justice Jackson's dissent so much. She was just Black Girling all over that court." This was in reference to the birthright citizenship case, where Barrett's majority opinion specifically called out Jackson's dissent as removed from any legal grounding whatsoever.

Jury returned verdicts on four of the five counts, which are enough to put him in prison for life. They were hung on the fifth count. The judge rejected the partial verdict and sent them back to deliberate more. Most people are assuming they found him guilty on the decided charges, as if he was not guilty on those the fifth would be not guilty by implication.

We will never know the music and fashion Diddy's absence will deprive the world of.

It would have been interesting to see how the socialized supermarkets dealt with shoplifters. The politicians who started the stores are the same ones who barely think shoplifting should be a crime.

Lance Armstrong feels just as good about his wins anyway. Maybe Lia and Lance have some personality traits in common.

This lets us know how important Zuckerberg thinks it is to be first to market with whatever he is trying to do with AI. I'm sure those people he made those offers to are all bright and talented, but what makes them worth that, is their ability to hit the ground running, towards whatever it is Zuckerberg wants to do. The market will soon be glutted with newly minted AI experts, to whatever extent academia can produce them.

Depriving OpenAI of the talent probably plays into the amount of those offers. Anyway this must be an historic right place, right time confluence for those people with those specific resumes.

Jesus.

Darn now he has an excuse not to do it. I really wanted to see how that worked out.

That guy could do some damage.

This thread is just a way to humble brag about not having AIDS.

The last time I gave blood was in college, while I was on the crew team. It ruined me for endurance exercise for a week. Since then, I've been hesitant to give this liquid gold I have running through my veins. Not only because of the health effects, but also because I don't believe in helping people. But my red blood cell count is borderline high, so I decided to mitigate that with a blood donation, motivated by pure self-interest. I was relieved to find that just two days later, I was able to do a treadmill workout at normal effort.

I asked ChatGPT how much a pint of blood would sell for if it was legal, and it indicated that the blood centers sell to the health care system for around $300 per pint. My O negative blood would be more expensive though, at up to $500 per pint. But if there were a real market, one would not expect to get that much. The blood centers have to pay for their testing and logistics.

I did get a $25 gift certificate out of it. I'll probably be doing this every two months from now on. I hope I don't inadvertently help any bad people, like Republicans. I asked them to mark my pint as Democrat only.

Imagine Biden bending over some young lady to sniff her, and finding that she smells like Trump victory. Nightmare.

Ezra Klein getting it done.

An exercise that makes one look like a total doofus is optimal for those who look like total doofi no matter what they're doing.

What a relief. My palms were sweating reading the story. I bet the cops felt good about being able to help.

Big if true.

I visit hammerfest constantly.

The educated progressive whites know why that is - because the people they are helping, are low information voters who only vote by name recognition. They don't say that out loud of course, but they know that that's why the poor people voted for Cuomo.

@LuFins-Dad said in Supreme Court to weigh in on GAC for Minors Ban:

@jon-nyc said in Supreme Court to weigh in on GAC for Minors Ban:

Fantastic piece.

https://archive.is/K2tDv

That is absolutely fantastic, especially coming from Lionel Shriver, born Margaret Shriver and changed her name to Lionel because she felt it truly reflected her Tomboy personality. Her critiques over the past 10-15 years of culture and government have been cutting and insightful.

She does lots of podcasts. Never dull. I liked her most famous book We Need To Talk About Kevin. I got it at an airport bookstore for a flight, thinking it was a thriller twisty page turner. Not quite.