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  1. The problem here seems to be that there is an excess of whale death around the world for which marine biologists have no explanation. The usual cause of net and trash entanglement and vessel strikes provides a partial explanation. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/national/marine-life-distress/2017-2025-north-atlantic-right-whale-unusual-mortality-event https://www.calacademy.org/press/releases/california-academy-of-sciences-confirms-24-dead-whales-in-the-san-francisco-bay-area Professor Whalejuice is more than happy to supply the explanation, given his intimate familiarity with driving minivans with whale heads atop them.
  2. Patent law. Technical undergrad required in most cases. Although I enjoyed the engineering education quite a lot and putting math and technical explanations behind observable mechanical behavior really amused me, I sincerely doubted my abilities as a design engineer because I felt creativity was not my strong suit. I went to law school to be a patent lawyer, although I spent a good bit of law school thinking I wanted to do something else, and finally circled back. Unlike a lot of engineers, I was pretty even on my math/English SAT and achievement test scores, actually always slightly higher in English.
  3. There's foreign and foreign. UT ME had several foreign professors, like Phillip Varghese, that spoke better English than a lot of native-born Americans. Of the current crop of foreign profs in the ME Department, that's the type there mostly are.
  4. My honors PHY303K class had a test average of like 26. The professor, a hippie looking dude fresh from the Max Planck Institut fur Plasmaphizik, did not announce a curve and expressed disappointment at the low scores. A guy on my floor at Castilian was the curve-buster at 33. We were all sweating what would happen. I made a gentleman's B. Based on that, I wanted to get the hell out of the honors section of 303L, but hell week was the first week of class. So, I went to Dean Margaret Baker's office looking rather unkempt and probably pretty stinky to try to beg my way out of it, she told me I was a big boy and had made a B in 303K and to quit cryin or she'd give me something to really cry about (slight hyperbole there, but she was tough). So, I did have Austin Gleeson as a professor, but electricity and magnetism still often befuddles me and I'm not sure I learned shit. That same semester, I had a statics prof that was Polish and said "perpendicle" instead of perpendicular. Made a C there and the following mechanics of materials, which wouldn't seem to bode well for an ME, but I guess they gave me a good foundation, because 3.7 was my lowest semester GPA in upper division.
  5. Moore-Hill was built in 1955. Tom Landry graduated in 1949.
  6. Why bother with redistricting, then?
  7. Well, the redistricting plan would seem to be a post-Trump power-retention move. I'm not convinced Rs can win elections nationwide without him. And maybe not even more locally without his orange choad for them to gobble, Texas notwithstanding.
  8. The OTA picture is glorious, too. I probably don't have the best antenna or positioning, but at about the same rate that streams buffer or go lo-fi, I seem to lose the signal for some of the weaker stations, which in this case includes Fox4 in Dallas.
  9. Who uses a machete to cut through red tape? WIth fingernails that shine like justice?
  10. If by POA, you mean power of attorney, and you're in Texas, this is about all you need to know https://www.hhs.texas.gov/regulations/forms/advance-directives/statutory-durable-power-attorney-sdpoa
  11. Still another reminder that the adults are back in charge.
  12. Oh, that's beyond dispute at this point. It's a quid pro quo for the grant. What's a bit less clear is any voting/management rights the government will have. Even if it doesn't have voting rights, it owns enough to move the market, which might pose something of a threat.
  13. The axios article puts it in terms of a sovereign wealth fund, which is pretty different from extorting equity in return for previously awarded grants or other funding. Presumably, that means buying equity on the open market, but who the fuck knows anymore.
  14. This is true. Then again, there are a number of full-grown adults trying on costumes at this point, including elected and appointed officials. They should know better, of course.
  15. The upshot is her appointment violates the Appointments Clause. One kind of hilarious thing is, after her acting appointment expired, Blondi appointed her as a "special attorney" citing the exact same statutes that give the AG power to appoint a special counsel, which Ruckus suggested and Aileen Cannon agreed, do not authorize appointment of a special counsel with the authority equal to a US Attorney. It doesn't actually remove her, but it makes her pretty useless.
  16. That's not what the DB article says, at all. Unfortunately, the harassment story appears to be pure fiction.
  17. Yeah, that seems like a good deal if you don't have an ESPN+ subscription. Doesn't help with Fox shit though.
  18. And beat some Trumptards senseless on the way and on the way back.
  19. Perhaps you should consider the statute of limitations, you stupid fat, feckless walrus-looking piece of grabasstic whale shit.
  20. They really do believe because Lincoln was a Republican and freed the slaves that QED today's Republicans would have done the same thing and Democrats would have opposed them.
  21. The post was presented as representing a possible groundswell of opposition from a "regular dude" farmer/firefighter. Unfortunately, I don't think that's what that represents. Love what he says, but until further notice, a minority like Talarico.
  22. TwiceHorn

    RIP Greg Iles

    I read his Natchez books, having had relatives that lived there, and recall enjoying them. Wasn't aware of or read anything else. RIP.
  23. Titanium is quite soft unalloyed and un-heat-treated. So not nearly as stupid as glass. Also much lighter but very corrosion-resistant. But stupid nevertheless.
  24. Reuters and AP don't fuck around. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-crime-crackdown-deploys-troops-washingtons-safest-sites-2025-08-23/ By contrast with central Washington, residents of Ward 8 in the city's southeast - the area with the highest crime rate - said there was not a guardsman in sight. With the ward's murder rate dwarfing that of most other neighborhoods, many locals said they would welcome troops on their streets. Also Most of the soldiers told Reuters they had been instructed not to talk to the press. Instead they had all been issued with a printed statement they produced from their pockets. It states that they are in the city to support "district and federal law enforcement by keeping DC beautiful and safe."
  25. I think pretty clearly the rebranding effort was designed to distance them from old farts and country fucks. Don't know if it would have worked, but the MAGA shitshow was something else.
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