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Good news everyone. Because mostly poor, mostly old, and mostly uneducated people died in the Covid Pandemic, Social Security has $205 billion more in the bank for all of us healthier, younger, better educated, and better paid people.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Steven Spielberg has spent his entire career warning us about the dangers of dinosaurs and Nazis and I personally think we should have brought back the dinosaurs instead

submitted 7 days ago • 26 comments

Why can't we run the government like a business? Because "move fast and break stuff" isn't a cool edgy business plan when the stuff being broken is tens of thousands of human lives.

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

People sometimes imagine that because there are many Gov’t employees, there must be extra employees. But, it’s not like that: “the firing of three employees at the USDA’s National Animal Health Laboratory Network program would hurt efforts to combat the spread of the [bird flu] virus.”

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

To paraphrase Taylor Tomlinson: There are people who will make denigrate you for wearing arm floaties when you can’t swim. They will try to get you to stop wearing arm floaties. Those people don’t care if you live or die.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

That was Hermann Göring’s argument at his war crimes trial.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

There are lawyers with integrity. People don’t give a much of a damn about politics when representing clients, but who care about the law. This is one of them. Remember this the next time you think about telling a lawyer joke.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Finally just watched Knives Out: Glass Onion. 1. It is possible this is the best movie I’ve seen in ages, even better than the first Knives Out. 2. It would’ve been more entertaining if it hadn’t predicted so much of our living reality rn.

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

The ABA supports the rule of law. Read full message: www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

submitted 16 days ago • 180 comments

Is it ok to hate stretchy business casual slacks? What about hating jeans that have synthetic material?

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

The question is not whether to protest Trump’s Kennedy center take over, but what form it should take. Musicians coming together to play the New World Symphony on the steps?

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

I’m hearing some hyperbole about wood chippers? Better hope it is kiddo. www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

USAID.gov is down. Congress authorized and appropriated, and Biden signed into law, around 40 billion dollars to be managed by that agency. If Musk ordered USAID closed, who would be spending that money? Who would be controlling it? Who monitors it? Who will report to Congress?

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Fed. Employees work weekends; but, overtime is expensive and federal agencies don’t want to pay for it. “An officer or employee of the United States Government or of the District of Columbia government may not accept voluntary services …” 13 USC 1342 If you want more gov’t, pay for it.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Even if we aren’t “socialists” plenty of Americans believe in American Liberalism or Progressivism: both of which recognize that wealth tilts the playing field and needs to be constrained in its influence over gov’t institutions, and needs to be taxed proportionally to its ability to pay.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

“I am informing you that OPM assures the federal workforce that the offer is valid, lawful and will be honored …” The person that wrote this knows that they can’t be held liable for misstatement.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

It did happen A long tome ago in a galaxy far, far away …

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

I owe @scalzi.com a shiny, shiny nickel. (Trump signs executive order to pause TikTok ban, provide immunity to tech firms …)

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

So, now that the SCOTUS (and Justice Thomas) has made it clear that former slaves have no standing to hold US chocolate companies accountable for the slavery they profited from, maybe buy from Tony’s? us.tonyschocolonely.com

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

I’m reading a lot of confused people don’t know why TikTok got a US Gov’t ban. You can, in fact, read why: crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/...

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

Listening to this: A Beach, Jephthah’s Daughter, Orchestre Elektra, direction : Félix Benati, soprano : Delphine Guévar music.youtube.com/watch?v=SkGT...

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

There are regulations against the use of alcohol in Federal Gov’t buildings. 41 CFR § 102–74.405 In point of fact, federal civilian employees are rarely allowed an exemption from consuming alcohol. The Fox News anchor is just wrong: agency heads (even Defense) don’t have alcohol in their offices.

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

I just read this, re Jomon pottery: “As in all other Neolithic cultures, women produced these early potteries.” It was 16,000 years ago. What is the evidence for that particular detail?

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments