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  1. 3 hours ago, 52-80 said:

    Took kiddos to the zoo today:

    1. adults repeatedly tossing food at the animals, despite endless signs prohibiting it. 

    2. adults at the childrens playground part, chain smoking cigarettes, despite even more signs prohibiting it. 

    and the people doing this…lets just say theyre an extremely stereotyped group of people and these actions dont help that image

    I'll bite.  What group of people feed zoo animals and chain smoke cigs in a playground?  Women?  

  2. 30 minutes ago, HouTex said:

    Yes, I read the transcript of the show cause hearing in the NY court. The lawyer at fault was given chances to withdraw the offending court paper and didn’t until the court issued the show cause order.  Opposing counsel initially brought it to his attention by asking for copies of the cases, letting him know that the cases did not appear to be real, and he basically ignored it.  Later, he lied to the court about vacations and other stuff as an excuse for not fixing it.  I never heard how he was sanctioned and/or disciplined.  
     

    edit:  I see from your link that they were sanctioned $5,000.  They also could face disciplinary action by the state bar.  

    The discussion at the conference about the sanctions was that the $5,000 was immaterial.  The damage the attorney had done to his reputation was immeasurable. 

  3. 6 hours ago, HouTex said:

    In legal circles there’s a situation in NY in the last year or so where a lawyer used ChatGPT to do some legal research and write a brief to file with the court.  He didn’t double check the case law that ChatGPT spit out.  Turns out that ChatGPT fabricated some of the cases.  Then he didn’t come clean right away and was in some hot water with the judge.  

    This was discussed at a conference I was at this past fall.  ChatGPT cited several cases.  The opposing counsel or the judge questioned those citations.  The attorney asked ChatGPT for the opinions for each of those cases.  ChatGPT gave them.  All of it was fabricated.  The attorney claimed he thought ChatGPT worked like a search engine to generate results.  I'm not an attorney, but I can't imagine that you'd assign the same task to a junior attorney and not review their work before submitting.

    https://www.reuters.com/legal/new-york-lawyers-sanctioned-using-fake-chatgpt-cases-legal-brief-2023-06-22/

  4. Just so y'all know, I don't like killing snakes, and I won't unless I think there's a need to.  Saturday night, I encountered this snake in an urban area.  The only non firearm weapon I had in my car was an umbrella.  I broke my umbrella killing it.  

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    So because I felt bad about killing it, I figured I needed to skin it and eventually eat it.  For those of you that don't know, a reptile retains muscle memory long after it's dead.

    Notice it's "head" up in this pic.

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    When I picked it up out of the bowl, it struck me in the arm.  It scared the shit out of me.

     

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  5. On 6/17/2023 at 7:29 PM, Born to Run said:

    We used to clear wasp out of barns with a flaming diesel soaked rag on the end of a long stick. It would burn thier bastard wings off instantly. Quite effective. They wanted revenge but couldn't fly.


    I actually leave nest alone if they are away from where we hang out, because fuck spiders too.

    I did that with newspapers as a kid and used the grubs for fish bait.

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  6. On 6/19/2023 at 5:34 PM, Armybrat said:

    Almost forgot about the time of the State of Texas Sesquicentennial festivities in 1986 when the Prince of Wales dropped by Austin for a short visit. 
    He met local celebrities including Lady Bird Johnson, Walter Cronkite, & Willie Nelson. 

     

     

    I read that first sentence as 1896 until I read the second sentence.

  7. I bought a Murray push mower with a Briggs & Stratton engine from Walmart in 1996 with grass cutting money. The engine code says it was manufactured 1/31/1996.  I was 14.  Besides normal replacements like blades, spark plugs, dry-rotted wheels, and air filters, I've replaced the prime bulb once and the magneto last year.   It cranks on the first pull.

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  8. On 4/15/2023 at 12:38 AM, bolverk said:

    Weird bitch but it's Surly and trivial.

    Drove up again to my hometown to deal with my parents' estate today.

    I just went to get a sixer at the corner store, and the cashier started to wrap the six-pack in a big, thick, black plastic bag. I said "No, that's not necessary."

    But then the cashier went into this schpiel about how Texas law requires a plastic bag be wrapped around a six-pack because of some fictitious (so far as I know) law that treats a standard six-pack of unopened bottles packaged in a normal cardboardish whatever that every six-pack of bottled beer you've ever purchased MUST BE thoroughly wrapped in plastic to exit the store.

    Me: "Dude, I've been buying beer for 30 years, and this is the first I've ever heard of that. Have you seen this town? Every mesquite has a plastic bag stuck in it. Go drive by the Walmart."

    Him: "Sorry, man, that's the law."

    Me: "Whatever. That can't possibly be true. Down in Austin (which as a phrase probably marked me as being an asshole), I specifically say "no bag" to every request, and everyone is cool with that without fail. I promise you this is just a store policy and not the law."

     

    The dude looks at me like I'm an alien for that exchange. Sure, I understand he's in a dead-end job and is just spouting company line, so I didn't give him any more grief and walked out with a six-pack of Dos Equis wrapped in an extra thick, black plastic bag.

    Is this really a thing in Texas? Am I the asshole baddie?

    I had a cashier recently say they had to put a six pack of Dale's Pale Ale cans in a bag.  It comes in a box.  I asked if they put twelve packs in a bag.  Blank stare.  I wish they'd pass a law that says you don't have to put alcohol in a bag rather than not having a law that says you have to put it in a bag.

  9. 12 hours ago, nnm said:

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    1968 Dodge step side. Straight 6, 3 on the tree, no radio, 2/60 AC. 

    Before I turned 16 I had my granddad's '71 D100.  I think it had a 225 slant 6.

    Edit: I turned 16 in 1997.

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  10. 9 hours ago, 52-80 said:

    I like how neighborhoods/subdivisions take on names and identities of things that are totally artificial and aspirational to them. 
     

    I’m driving through this one outside of Houston and every street is like “cliff edge road” and “oceanside view st” and “edge canyon land” and yo….just where the fuck do you think this is

    Neighborhood in Arkansas

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  11. 20 hours ago, YGIFS said:

    I moved to Texas 30 years ago.  Now I spent several years at other institutions of higher education/grad school.  And have been here permanently over 20 years.  

    I was today years old when I learned that April is Confederate History Month and that Texas is one of only 7 states that still celebrates it.  I don't want monument I'm gonna shit on first.  Internet bullshit aside, I had no idea this was a thing in all my decades in this wonderful place.  

    Alabama has state holidays for Confederate Memorial Day in April and Jeff Davis's birthday in June.

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  12. Go down 98 to Inlet Beach and drive back up 30A.  Pick a restaurant or bar.  Most of the restaurants are good and if the bar isn't move on.  Luke Bryan has a cigar bar on 30A and there's a cool area outside the bar if they have bands/etc planned.  Baytowne in Sandestin Resort has kid activities, bars, and restaurants. Go to the marina at Baytowne and covet all the boats.

    Take a helicopter tour or parasail and see all the sharks close to shore.

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