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  1. Yeah, sirens give me the willies. One problem in Dallas, though, I can hear em from miles away where I'm not gonna be affected. And they've started doing em for severe thunderstorms and not just tornados.
  2. Ever notice all those Chinese sellers on Amazon with weird-ass names? Well the Amazon Brand Registry is encouraging them. You have to have a registered or applied-for US Trademark Registration to put yourself on the Brand Registry. Heretofore, I thought that was only an issue of removing counterfeit/infringing products from Amazon. But, listing in the Brand Registry also helps search positioning. This I did not know. So those little Chinese and other sellers are flooding the USPTO with trademark applications so they can get on the Brand Registry. https://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2025/july/how-amazon-is-changing-the-us-trademark-system.html There was a rash of Chinese bogus filings during Covid that may or may not have related to this (it appears that it did as this article is lagging the phenomenon pretty significantly). It's easier to register a complete nonsense word than something that more resembles what we think of as a trademark. Fuckin Amazon.
  3. After an event of this magnitude, those responsible for public safety (and private safety) need to get assed to either turn off the other alerts on their phone or pay enough attention to sort the trivial from the serious.
  4. Yeah those of us with the luxury of living in places where only White Rock Creek and low water crossings flood can ignore flash flood warnings. People in the Hill Country just can't, especially if they're in loco parentis for 600 kids.
  5. One of the main reasons that was proposed (and passed in a bond election that Ross Perot Jr. rigged with JWP and Kathy Neal) was to increase the value of land around there, held by people named Stemmons and so on. It was a horrible idea and ungodly expensive and couldn't get done for the bond budget.
  6. Make the sonofabitch deny it. The reason the Biden DOJ didn't do anything with it is there was nothing indictable in it. The only way they were going to make part of it public was through a criminal trial.
  7. You know who is usually a "bipartisan commission" of "no politicians"? The United States Department of Justice, that's who. Until a certain someone turned it into his personal revenge law firm.
  8. Prosecution by Trump's DOJ? Are you fucking kidding? Great move by Kanna to put them on the spot.
  9. As I have pointed out, responsible governments don't just release dirt on their enemies. If they can indict and convict them, they try.
  10. Because allies don't get prosecuted by this administration, especially when they're IN the administration. If Trumpco thought for a second they could pull together some half-ass indictment against Bill Clinton or another Dem on this without the evidence blowing up in his/their face, they'd have done so on day one.
  11. Definitely a weird grandstand. Another total debasement to the orange god.
  12. Assuming the files are criminal in nature, ie evidence seized using search warrants, pursuant to grand jury subpoena and other criminal processes, they would be in the sole control of the DOJ. HoR ain't got nothin to do with it unless they somehow obtained copies, which a norm-following DOJ would resist for the same reason it doesn't make such files publicly available. So, unnecessary grandstanding by House Rules Committee.
  13. Well, tariffs haven't really been in effect, either. It's gon get worse.
  14. Dumb old fuck doesn't know what arrested or indicted means, anyway. Worth pointing out that he was initially arrested, federally deferred, and convicted in Florida between 2005-2008, during the Shrub administration.
  15. I'm a criminal law hacker, so I always have to look at the statute. C seems to have provisions for all three. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/924 Although I am unopposed to the idea of an enhancement for firearms, I think the results of 924 are pretty draconian. Oh, and I thought you were a lawdog.
  16. I've enjoyed him (Kebbell, not your lil bro) often since Rock N Rolla.
  17. Leave it to the Brits to say it concisely and cuttingly: The combination of small government ideology and climate crisis denial has distorted the politics of the state to the extent that basic decisions that might bolster climate resilience are shunted aside. The impact is seen at all levels, from the state capital in Austin down to local neighborhoods.
  18. On the lawsuit front. No lawsuit is going to bring any children back, obviously. A lawsuit is a vehicle for accountability, provided it doesn't settle. And money is thin gruel for the bereaved. I would not blame a parent who chose not to sue at all. It's an extremely valid decision not to have to relive the trauma through a bunch of civil procedure and discovery lasting 4-5 years.
  19. It is several miles downstream of Mystic, so if they both received and acted on the 114AM NWS alert, CLJ had some more time. What's interesting is HoH is across 39 and more than 100 yards from the bank of the Guad.
  20. Well, hmm. UT was most assuredly not selective in the 80s and 90s. "Room for above average and good students" pretty much excludes elitism. I suppose that depends on the definition of elite, but most of them include highly selective and the current eliteness is a product of the selectiveness imposed by "top __%." But I think its outcomes, particularly in certain fields, were elite.
  21. And that the California examples came not from random doctors, but politicians and officials, including POTUS. And then lets not forget the less directly offensive, but equally inappropriate self-congratulatory press conferences from Kerr, Texas, and federal officials.
  22. This, I think, is proof positive that Trump isn't playing some kind of 4d chess or have some vision, however unlikely, of trade surpluses, weakened dollar, and low interest rates. He is simply lashing out at countries he thinks have been "unfair" to us in some way. Or to him or his interests.
  23. It will be interesting to see if they can get to the land. And also interesting to see what happens to the value of land with river access. I suspect some rich folks, like the ones on oceanfronts everywhere, are going to build things squarely in the danger zone, regardless.
  24. Fucking gross. Also, perfection for the timeline. Who's Hunt? Wesley Hunt.
  25. Hmmm. Well I was contemplating this. It seems that the nature of things is that most of us probably made better grades than our parents in more rigorous curricula in hs and college than our parents. Yet, our ability to live a better life than our parents hasn't necessarily risen concomitantly. Like, I make more money than my parents did, in inflation-adjusted dollars , but my mom was stay-at-home and they purposely moved to an "elite" school district. Things I'm not sure I could or would do today and that are objectively harder than they were in 1963. A lot of that is just the result of equity, sans affirmative action. "Regular" white people got opportunities previously reserved for "elite" white people. And then that opportunity started spreading further. White women started doing things previously reserved for white men. And then other "minorities," with a boost from the Civil Rights Act, and yes, affirmative action. That's progress, but is it "progressive" or just sort of the natural order of things absent a cultural and economic revanchism like we're currently experiencing.
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