ahstrongmorse.bsky.social
Game designer, entrepreneur, lawyer (but not your lawyer), and general geek. Founder (no longer involved) of Choice of Games and Hosted Games.
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The problem is that extracting much useful energy from waste heat is hard. If your waste heat is low temp (ie body temperature), moving that to a higher temp likely requires more energy than it gets. You can sometimes do some useful work with waste heat, but thermodynamics limits what you can do.
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I understand the motivation, and there are real problems with distraction/etc., but I hope that you will consider allowing laptops for people who specifically ask for an accommodation. For a meaningful number of students, "notes only by hand" means "you can't take notes."
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I wonder, despairingly, how many would endorse explicitly genocidal policies. :(
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No local endorsements except for when necessary to defend the privilege of powerful failson men to engage in sexual harassment and other abuses of power, because some principles are too important to let slide.
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But yes, honors like Kentucky Colonel or Nebraska Admiral or Presidentisl Medal of Freedom are very similar in function to non hereditary knighthoods.
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There are several ways in which the Medal of Honor is treated like a title of nobility—even with a hereditary component with special privileges for the children of recipients to attend the service academies. And of course the Order of the Cincinnati is basically a private hereditary order. [2/2]
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I believe the DOJ position is that knighthoods are not titles of nobility for purposes of whether Congressional approval is required for officeholders. [1/2]
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Those are party size bagels. It’s like 6 foot sub sandwiches—way too big for one person, but fun for a whole party.
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Is he surprisingly short or is something else going on?
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That is one of the tags that you can opt in or out of, I think with both a don’t see at all option and a don’t show initially, but have a button to reveal. There’s a similar but separate tag for porny nudes. It’s a pretty good system.
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But in a case like this, where the district court already stayed the TRO to allow time for a motions panel to consider it, a four-day stay that has the effect of irreparable harm is nonsense. [2/2]
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Related to TROs being treated like PIs (adversarial, substantial evidence, noticed and decided days or weeks later) and PIs being treated as almost full trials on the merit. Similarly, an administrative stay for a couple hours to get a substantive stay app before a motions panel, sure. [1/2]
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In a non-agent world with reciprocal relationships (you may want their blurb, desk review, peer review where they can guess the author, etc.) it’s much worse and asks for rings of professional self help mild corruption to form. Shame. [2/2]
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I’m given to understand that among professional (ie not academic) authors, direct asks are viewed as intolerable, with ask via agent the standard, because of the awkwardness of saying no to a friendly acquaintance (or a friend!) directly. [1/2]
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It’s not clear that Iran is capable of hitting Israel at this point. Multiple large scale attacks basically failing entirely…
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Simultaneously great and terrible that it is not a duology. Should be your new epithet: SRB the great and terrible. :)
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To assert that gross irrationality, stupidity, or dementia is compatible with being a good and effective president is nonsensical. And asserting its ablist to identify when disabilities really can’t be accommodated undercuts disability rights by asserting that inclusion is actually impractical. 2/2
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Presidents who have mobility or some perceptual disabilities—even some mental disabilities, especially with medications and adaptive technologies—can do the job well with accommodations. See, e.g., FDR, Lincoln. But ability to think well and clearly is necessary to the job. [1/2]
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Okay, to create your character, assign scores of 4,3,2 and 1 to the four primary attributes; lgbtq+, crochet, ballet and D&D.
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A friend (ironically, a gay guy) recommended reading Jane Austen novels on e.g. planes and subways for the same purpose.
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Would a USMC recruiter necessarily be recruiting only for the Marines? I don't know how they do things, but I could see them viewing a JAG recruitment as positive even if the prospect ended up in the Navy. (Note that I'm asking precisely because I have no idea.)
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As the saying goes, a billion here, a billion there, and soon you’re talking about real money.
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In particular, the prosecution will argue that his removal, their fight against his return, and the prosecution are all based on their belief that he is a really serious and dangerous criminal. That would be a valid reason to target him--even if most of us think it wasn't the real reason. [3/3]
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I wouldn't be surprised to see a selective prosecution argument here, but I think his defense will be more likely to succeed by attacking the quality of the evidence against him (e.g. reliance on a cooperating, incarcerated witness). [2/3]
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Selective prosecution claims are extraordinarily hard to prevail upon--they usually require proving things like the defendant being prosecuted on the basis of race (or other suspect classification). [1/3]
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The whole situation has some of the vibe of a selective prosecution claim--which are extraordinarily hard to prevail on--but in a context where it might suggest reasons to doubt the government's evidence because of concerns that it might be manufactured. Don't know how courts handle that. [3/3]
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I don't have enough experience with evidence rulings in criminal cases to know whether a judge is likely to let the defense make an argument like that to the jury. Thoughts? (@kenwhite.bsky.social @renatomariotti.bsky.social @orinkerr.bsky.social @mitchellepner.bsky.social) [2/3]
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But also, HR should be concerned about workplace environment, not just preventing illegal conduct. But of course “should be” isn’t always “is.”
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And a US Navy officer forced to accept an other than honorable discharge because of his sexuality.
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Oh! Makes total sense!
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In the musical, there is lots of ick material, but IMO it's presented as very much contested--Tevye's viewpoint is deeply problematic but also challenged heavily. But again, YMMV, and I don't know how Aleichem presents things in the original short stories.
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Huh. It's interesting that I hear "Fiddler" and immediately assume the musical, instead of the (also important but less prominent, and obviously the source material) short stories. (Unless you mean "book" in the musical theater sense.)
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The dynamic in which local/state two party politics gets submerged into low-information primaries obscures a great deal of that and avoids having consistent teams/sides.
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Fundamentally, this points to failures inherent in a national two-party system creating functionally one-party regions. RI, SF, and NYC need a functioning second major party for local and state elections, and Wyoming needs one, too, in the opposite direction.
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At one time, Sarah Jane Smith's actor, Elisabeth Sladen, would have been a reasonable possibility. RIP.
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Yeah, makes sense that there would be some reasonable disagreement between a stricter and less strict version of happy ending, as long as everyone agrees that definitely some form of happy ending is required. Thx!