rlheppner.bsky.social
Law Prof at Duquesne Kline Law (Civ Pro, Fed Courts) • Former Appellate Attorney • English PhD (Modernism) • Overeducated, overtired, underwhelmed. Posts too infrequently to have a brand. he/him
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They’re just designed to look tough and manly to make up for the fact that they’re made of plastic and actually flimsier than basic metal ones. Aren’t they?
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I’m sympathetic to your defense. And I do think the blanket criticism of journalists and editors can go too far. But I-know-them-personally isn’t a great argument.
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For both the verb and the adjective?
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Looks great. Plus, prominent blurbs from George Saunders and Lyle Lovett. Nice.
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Guy sending mass emails to the mothers of his children.
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Wow, really? I can’t imagine what you make of these!
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Georgia O'Keefe–looking lamp.
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Zip Zap Zocrates.
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Your little phonebabies.
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Can you imagine how heavy we’d be?
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But it’s a matter of first principles, Joe!
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See also milkshake duck, the “which ideas, mfer!” goose, and probably some other memetic waterfowl I can’t think of right now.
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Because he is.
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Yeah stop blowing Ds!
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The sheer number of fired federal employees is itself going to spike the unemployment numbers, even before we get to secondary effects on the economy.
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Fancy leather binding aside, actually just reading the Rules is a really good practice.
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Yes, but not that clearly!
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People I know still haven’t heard much.
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Sure, but maybe they asked the AI which employees have the least legal protection!
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Knowledge is never knowing the answer. It’s knowing the territory.
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:why not both gif:
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I mean, unfortunately no, we don’t all know that. 99.9% of us have never heard of Edward Bates before (or possibly think he’s that guy in Psycho).
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Did it end up in the NYT as “look how bad it was for this white girl to do this” or as “look how bad it was for people to pile on?”
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Look, we can get along just fine, as long as we agree to politely ignore Cleveland.
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This is why Pittsburgh is the perfect balance of Midwest and East Coast: Yinzers mostly have no real expectation of chit chat but are happy to talk if you’ve got a question to discuss.
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Yeah. It’s easy to do.
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I mean, it was never about efficiency. It was about control and grift. But it’s also about just deregulating every damn thing, and damn the consequences.
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There are like 5 pages on the DOGE website. The one called “Regulations” is just stats of a “Unconstitutionality Index” about how much regulation there is.
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Is it a sign of a flailing republic if you start running out of days/dates to name massacres after?