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  1. I wanted to write in one of our cats in 2016. Texas doesn't allow write ins though. At least not in presidential elections.
  2. Yes. One of the main problems with bail was that it had become cookie cutter. This offense = $x bail. Recent bail reform focused mostly on eliminating that and forcing an actual analysis of defendant risk and commensurate bail. It does kind of default to "personal recognizance." Most of the controversial bail decisions are probably a result of judicial atrophy. They don't know how or care to perform the danger/flight risk analysis and set commensurate bail. So bail reform is kind of at fault in the "but/for" sense, but doesn't require low/no bail when the defendant is a risk.
  3. I'm super skeptical of reading tea leaves based on oral argument. But the fact that the justices would say "major question" or "non-delegation" in public and in connection with an anti-Trump appeal gives me some hope.
  4. Ah fuck it. It'll be like going to a foreign country. For real.
  5. Almost complete thread jack, what the hell is going on with that locomotive and the flat overhanging roof at the rear?
  6. Well, I do think Cheney was less cynically self-interested than Trump and many/most of his cronies. That his policies empowered and enriched him and those of his "class" was a nice side-effect of policies he thought best for the country. Which is subtly, or not so much, different from Trump's "what's good for me must be good for everyone else, but mostly it's good for me."
  7. So, this may not be the exact place for it, but I continue to be fascinated by "strong executive" political theories. I don't endorse them, particularly as currently implemented, but have to admit that they make some sense in a realpolitik sort of way. As noted in the piece above, Clinton and Obama were beneficiaries of and not exactly opposed to the strong executive theories advanced and implemented by predecessor administrations and people like Cheney. This partly or maybe largely in response to a gridlocked and ineffective Congress. But let's examine some things that make a strong executive sort of make sense, or, in the same breath, why Congress has become useless. Proliferation of agencies (Congress lacks the expertise and agility to address many situations and policies, so they delegate to agencies) Agencies are inherently a) undemocratic and b) easily captured by moneyed interests (point a) may actually be necessary) Do the agencies have to be executive controlled? Money in politics means Congress critters are less responsive to their constituents, to the people Related to or subsumed by the above, Congress critters are obsessed with reelection to the exclusion of doing congressional business The two-party and primary system force Congress critters to adhere often to "national" rather than local priorities, at least for election and fundraising purposes Writing these down, I start to think it is really nothing more than money in politics that has fucked everything up. No more, no less. Everything else is symptomatic. Blinding glimpse of the obvious, there.
  8. I dunno, we'll see. I don't discount the possibility that he's going to try to Sark up the offense at the earliest opportunity. But, he's been slapped in the face with a couple of really hard points of evidence that I'm not sure he's encountered before: two top 10 wins by going away from the preferred offense, and a loss and two bad wins with complete offensive stagnation while attempting the preferred offense. This will be Sark's opportunity to extract himself from the ourobouros of suck.
  9. This era of political celebrities is disgusting. On general principle. The specifics of these particular celebs is extra disgusting.
  10. Hence the Hawaii Air 737s becoming targa tops in flight (lotta pressure cycles). One of the more fascinating things I'll never forget. My senior project sponsor was LTV. We went up there to tour their facility. At the time, they were rebuilding A7s for sale to smaller countries. So they had an A7 airframe/wingless fuselage up on a giant jig, with hydraulic cylinders at the nose and tail and it was fixed around the wing box. The cylinders were pushing the nose and tail up and down relative to the wing box to find the real-world fatigue limits of the airframe. Notable was that the nose and tail were being deflected nearly a foot upward relative to the wing box. You don't think of that kind of deflection in an airframe, but I guess it happens.
  11. In case you were unaware, most cast iron anything is cast in sand. Engine blocks, skillets, you name it. I was shocked to learn in the 80s that it remains, to this day, one of the dominant methods of casting iron and other alloys. And there's a lot of science or technique that goes into it. What kind of sand you use, how often you change it, whether and for how long you tamp the mold before casting to compact the sand, and so on, that provide opportunities for cost-cutting and enshittification. And some other things, like high-clay-content sand can make smoother castings. But the water content of clay molecules means they explode on contact with molten iron or other metals, which sends silica molecules into the atmosphere and creates silicosis problems for casting workers. And once the clay gets burned, like pottery, it goes from a fine colloid in the sand to big burnt clods, making castings rougher when you don't change the sand. Also, one of my lifelong fascinations is the amount of technology (engineering and ingenuity) that goes into manufacturing even a prosaic, no-moving-parts item like a cast-iron skillet.
  12. A characteristic of stupid people is bad memory.
  13. I always note the presence or absence of ag tags. It's notable that a lot of the troglodytes on texags lack the ag tag. Then again, not having an allegiance to a school by attendance/graduation and voluntarily selecting eaTme to root for and texags to do it on tells you most of what you need to know.
  14. https://sites.google.com/view/abmack33/speaking-out/updates?authuser=0
  15. Do we have any little fellas on the board?
  16. Also "without presenting evidence," which implies that there might be evidence. They've never had evidence, there is no evidence, they're fucking lying.
  17. TwiceHorn

    Mad Men

    Well, you could make her a more sympathetic, less bitchy frustrated, depressed, and drug-addicted housewife that is kinder to her kids. But that would make Don seem more like the dickhead that he probably is sooner than you discover that.
  18. On the other hand, Sark had not really built a program anywhere before either. Nor had he scaled the heights of CFP and returned pretty harshly to earth. He's stubborn or blinkered or something, but not incapable of learning.
  19. Man, there was an ouroboros, a circle-jerk, of suck going on in the early season. Arch, OL, Sark, WR, even RB a little bit. Each was making their own individual contribution to the suck, but it was feeding on itself and compounding into super suckage. Arch, for now at least, has seemed to muddle through the suck, and so has the OL, a little bit, and for now. I'm happy for him and glad the patience with him has seemed to pay dividends. We really actually know now what he's more or less capable of instead of trying to conjure it from the past. But the suck could return.
  20. TwiceHorn

    Mad Men

    Chauvinism and misogyny? But, more realistically, perhaps, I think she was intended to represent the underutilized housewife whose dreams and aspirations were crushed by domesticity. The topic of Mother's Little Helper. Why they had her express that as bitchiness is a good question. To some extent, it postpones the viewer's candid assessment of Don, so he's not unlikeable from jump.
  21. Also a much more rural or at least wooded state than people give it credit for.
  22. So nice that fucktard reps from backwater Georgia and Tennessee and Colorado have become national political spokesmen.
  23. Christine is real, for sure. And her shit seems to be private now.
  24. Have cowboy games programmed to record? From the VHS days, time shifting recordings don't necessarily infringe copyrights, so it probably just recorded it automagically and will let you see it. While they wouldn't let you see the live broadcast. Same reason game recordings often stay up on YT.
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