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A tale told by an attorney, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
Mostly law, econ, and politics.
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Ok but those aren’t exactly the people DOJ, FTC, at al have been drawing from.
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Yep
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Table stakes is going to have to be fixing GS-15 pay compression- and dealing with the fact that a first year attorney in private practice now makes 12.5%+ more than the most you can make, ever, as a fed
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Getting younger more competent attorneys back won’t actually be that hard (unfuck benefits, unfuck telework, and a streamlined return hiring process). It’s the massive loss to early retirements / senior managers that will be brutal
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Oh, they are (have an egg allergy in my family makes things hugely annoying)
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It’s an enriched dough (meaning extra fat, particularly eggs).
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All brioche buns for anything not seafood based are insane. Why would I want an extra fatty bun for my fucking *hamburger*?
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Depends very very much on the profession.
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Aka the entire federal government
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OP is also laughably wrong about DC. It’s a “grid” drawn to Masonic specifications and on the outer portions the sequence is opaque
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This conceit is (spoilers) addressed in Lev Grossman’s far superior works
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ANDOR really excels at Täterforschung, which is why no fascist undergoes a moral conversion; Gilroy wants to explore the varying mindsets of authoritarian functionaries and their final teleology. Rebellion is personal and psychological, but tyranny can’t escape the jaws of its own totalizing logic.
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No but like, this is nerd shit, it doesn’t let me look swole and boss around women
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I wonder how Too Many Cooks would land now if they pulled the same stunt.
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I clearly need to make some adjustments to my feed
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Stoller is not the chief, he is the jester
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Wait what, I follow both of those extensively and have somehow missed this?
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I’ve needed to replace my back gate for like 3 years and keep waiting for the price of lumber to fall :-/
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If it helps, we’d also like to buy your shit but the same guys are also making *that* difficult.
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Cheers! Happy Friday.
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Oh *I* know that, hence “what they claim”
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Streisand effecting what they claim is a call for assassination, what could go wrong?
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This is like that stat where smoking actually saves money for a society with retirement systems because smokers tend to drop dead of heart attack and stroke in their 60s
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Yes this gives me optimism.
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The other two aren’t *abominations*
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That’s all I meant to be clear
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The reality is they’re never gonna do this because they built two entire theme park lands set explicitly between VIII and IX