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  1. Reportage from DOGE hearing in DC. https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/doge-ing-questions-in-federal-court To use a kid's word. Shiesty. DOJ lawyers either don't know what's going on or are lying to the court. chmod chmod chmod.
  2. There really isn't anything more deep state than a bunch of political hacks at every level of government instead of civil servants that transcend politics and administrations.
  3. Nobody is going to jail over their opinions, yet. And if that happens it sure as fuck isn't going to be the CR librul cabal that does it, but rather the DT motherfuckers and the assclowns they support. We don't censor shit. We stridently take down counterfactual takes and shitty opinions. Just exactly as the First Amendment was intended.
  4. Still wasn't really an expert on anything. Just a kind of lucky kid with good timing.
  5. Gonna fuck up some med schools and other universities. Price of pharmaceuticals gonna go higher.
  6. It's not really funny, but LOLOLOLOL.
  7. I wonder to what extent digital recording and extensive signal processing tools available now influences this.
  8. Like I said, objectively and subjectively horrible opinions, insupportable with fact. But not facts.
  9. Well, you know they've been telling us forever that all the immigrants are brown, criminal, poor and will vote liberal. So it's a pretty obvious next step to promote immigration of racist landed gentry.
  10. Well I do remember you throwing punches around and preaching from your chair. So maybe it was you. Groos.
  11. A priest may have blown something, but it was a breeze that got your hair.
  12. A rather perfect analogy for Trump and Elmo here is Chainsaw Al Dunlap. Apparently remarkably skilled at downsizing an operation, also at accounting fraud. I suspect the results of this operation, if it continues to be "successful," will be similar to those obtained by Chainsaw Al. Bankruptcy. I mean shit, look at Elmo's work at Twatter.
  13. Still, though, "Trump is a good president" remains an opinion. An objectively bad opinion, but an opinion nonetheless. It's funny, as law dogs, we encounter "questions of fact" and "questions of law," which correspond mostly to "facts" and "opinions." This is an important question to law dogs, because as a general rule, courts of appeal can reverse or undo questions of law, but can't touch questions of fact. Something quite similar comes into play in defamation law, where statements of opinion by and large can't be defamatory, while statements of false or incorrect fact can be. At first blush, what is fact and what is law, or, similarly, fact and opinion, seems quite straightforward. But law dogs soon learn it is not. One legal talent is the ability to recast matters factual into matters of opinion or law, and vice-versa. None of this really matters when it comes to the Trump cult, who are wrong on actual facts most of the time, as well as holding objectively and subjectively horrible opinions. Just pointing out the rhetorical trap that fact vs. opinion holds for most.
  14. Appears to be false. http://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/coi/high-school-graduation-rates?utm_source=coe_share&utm_medium=figure_tool&utm_campaign=copied_url#1 Behind such educational stalwarts as MA, WI, KY, TN and the leader in West Virginia. Aaand, I'm not sure graduation rate is any indication of educational quality, see, e.g. West Virginia.
  15. Why not? Could it be because you haven't really thought about it very much and just swallowed the propaganda whole? You didn't do your own research? Let's just take an example of this. These people are rooting around in the treasury, freezing payments to everyone, because some of them are "fraudulent" or "not in compliance with law." Whatever the fuck that means. In this particular instance, Treasury is like the payroll and A/R A/P department at your work. They pay the bills other departments approve. If payments are "not in compliance with law," you look to the people that authorized the payment, not the ones who cut the checks. This is like going to accounting and lighting all the checkbooks on fire because you don't like the way the company is spending money. Or you think certain people should be fired. They have these inexperienced code-monkey savants that don't know shit rooting around in private data, fucking up people's lives and livelihoods, and compromising the security of US government IT systems. It's maybe not the same thing going on everywhere, but it's exemplary of the stupidity that's going on here. Do you really think any of this is any better thought through?
  16. Not like this. Not by them. Not by Trump. Any "corruption" he accidentally eliminates, he will more than make up for, personally.
  17. I mean hot wheels and his compatriots have been in charge for 30 years, why not done? Texas state government should be a paragon of efficiency if you believe what these assmonkeys tell us. Take, for example, DPS.
  18. Well, the point in that particular case being that a guy with Musk's recent, admitted drug history couldn't get a high-level security clearance.
  19. Well, nothing really. But, the federal judiciary is divvied up among districts. And districts have Trumpy judges and non-Trumpy judges, and it would be difficult to strangle the non-Trumpy judges without also strangling the Trumpy judges. Also, one thing the plutocrats don't acknowledge but may know to a greater or lesser extent: they are heavily dependent on a status-quo, rule-based judiciary in their business and personal lives and they fuck with that at their peril. And, they are also politically heavily reliant on a friendly judiciary at this point. Also perilous for them. Finally, I think when push comes to shove, the judiciary is going to do a better job of protecting its power than the legislative branch has done.
  20. She should do a Dante Pignetti. Love that movie and the book is better.
  21. Yeah, this goes back to what I was saying. One of the fundamental tools of engineering analysis is to make assumptions and ignore factors ("noise") that you know exist but hope don't affect the outcome. Ordinarily, those assumptions and ignored factors are based on sound reasoning, that is something that you believe to be of such small relative magnitude that it can be successfully ignored, or that you have great difficulty analyzing/calculating so you hope you can ignore. But you won't know until you see the outcome, then you go back and "adjust." So, to an extent, "move fast and break things." But when you're talking socio-economic-philosophical-political things, it's not as easy to do that and the assumptions and ignored factors often swallow correct answers whole and destroy good outcomes. Plus, there's not as much reasoned basis for making assumptions and ignoring noise: it winds up being dictated by personal biases, ie "feels." Thus, extremism masquerading as logical thought. This is not a completely binary thing, though. What I'll call "left-brain thinking" (scientists, engineers) has value in the "right-brain" sphere, and vice-versa. But these are the initial tendencies.
  22. Ackshually, I think what should happen is offending parties, like school districts in the case of Brown, are sued in the local district before a friendly or at least law-abiding judge and you get ongoing supervision from a Barefoot Sanders or Billy Wayne Justice and Texas prisons. Or Janis Jack with the foster-care system. But, that assumes a non-feckless 5th Circuit. Then again, if it is a Supreme Court order, the 5th can't really disobey it.
  23. That should result in an historic judgment for copyright infringement. Historic in the sense of magnitude.
  24. Funny thing, the output of and LLM is, itself, unprotected by most IP schemes.
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