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Gatorubet

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  1. I know this is my mantra, and I know that everybody is sick of hearing it, but literally the death of critical thinking will be the end of humanity. We had a nice run from the Renaissance till now, but apparently what we really want as a species is to return to “Og no understand why lost job…. Church and neighbor people say browns and blacks and white traitors who went to woke college at fault - OG SMASH!!!!” is apparently our evolutionary process now.
  2. But doesn’t make a difference, whether it’s senility or reptilian alien lithium battery depletion?
  3. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/30/megabill-policies-senate-parliamentarian-byrd-rule-00375507 this article is certainly worth a read in explaining how the Senate might potentially derail some of the most egregious house inserted provisions of the one big shitty bill.
  4. “ I told Putin that he should listen to me, but he did not listen to me. He needs to listen to me in the future.. Russia is a beautiful country as are parts of Ukraine, and they should end this terrible war. They obviously can’t end the war without my help and so I’m going to be even more involved in the future. Turkey failed to end the war miserably without my involvement. Thank you for your attention to this matter.”
  5. This makes absolute sense. Stalin foolishly had all of those new air fields near their western border that was easily accessible to the Luftwaffe. Hitler’s surprise attack did a great job of establishing day one air superiority. I think Germany destroyed something like 2000 (?) Soviet planes in opening operations. On one hand, that devastation far exceeds yesterday’s less than 40 planes. But on the other hand, it is similar in that your foe traveled thousands of miles and struck you and you had no idea it was coming.. But since those bombers were destroying civilian targets regularly, the comparison to Pearl Harbor fails when considering the moral culpability for conducting the attack without warning. Their propaganda continues to be “how dare the country we invaded protect itself?” That is going to be a tough sale - winning hearts and minds for Russia when it was a strictly military target Ukrainian operation.
  6. Bringing manufacturing jobs to Great Britain….
  7. Take this with a grain of salt because it came from X, but several posters on different threads have this quote from undisclosed Russian media source: I am including it without confirmation because it seems to be very much in line with Russia’s World War II ego-centric view of things. It appears the translation might be a British source based on the spelling of harbour?
  8. Break this bitch open.
  9. To me, it’s a matter of degree. If you have a core belief that business and our economy doing well as what’s best for the country and the source of the continued health of our democracy and nation, then you can reconcile yourself with GOP policies that may have hurt the little guy to some extent if it led to a robust economy. If you view a good economy as the key to all good things in our country, you can surely overlook individual instances where people on the low economic end of the spectrum (here, read minorities ) take a hit from some of the policies. That is completely different to seeing millions of undocumented immigrants who are good neighbors contributing to the economy and helping that precious economy being treated like criminals, regardless of their being in the country for decades, not causing any harm, but helping out established businesses in many industries that require undocumented labor because citizen white people don’t want to do it - then the combination of the assault on the economy and the destruction of many industries, combined with horrific human suffering on a bunch of people in a scale exceeding what you were willing to put up with previously would lead a rock rib,old school republican to turn on the current guys. I always consider myself the last Rockefeller Republican on earth, and thought that conservative business models combined with progressive social issues was the way to go. As long as that business model was not bullshit trickle down. Which is all to say - I could see how those guys came from where they were to where they are.
  10. Kavan! Out fucking standing Horns.
  11. How do you say “rude” in Italian?
  12. The team that is a <checks notes> baseball team? Last year we needed the final season series to get to .500 to accept a bid. Which took us to the semifinals in Omaha. Tournament time is always interesting because everyone is usually starting their ace and can be a one game Superman. Sucky teams like ‘24 Florida can beat better teams to win a regional and super regional. There is nothing about ‘25 Florida that says a suckier team can’t beat us. We were 1-11 in conference to start the year. i’m just happy we got a bid and some tournament experience to help us in future years. And I’m not sure how many people there are in your “we”. There aren’t that many people that usually jump on the Helobious opinion train.
  13. I think Trump is mixing them up with Japan - you know - since they all look alike.
  14. i’m fighting a dismissal of a case that one of our younger lawyers botched at the trial court . On appeal, the other side’s opposition brief contained multiple statements of fact that were just completely false. And by that I mean, not the normal spinning true facts to the point of breaking stuff that lawyers do, but just flat out false stuff. On one point I was making they told the court I failed to cite any cases for my proposition. Actually, I had cited three cases - and a fourth case in our particular appellate jurisdiction commenting with favor on one of the three cases from another appellate court. We are fighting about an affidavit being excluded, and their brief said that I had never explained which of the individual averments in the affidavit I thought were improperly excluded. WTF?? In reality, I pointed out several of them and discussed why I thought they were improperly excluded. They also made a statement about basic hornbook law on comparative fault that was so incredibly stupid and wrong that no lawyer would’ve asserted that stupidity. It then dawned on me that maybe some associate used AI to draft it - and that the partner who filed it had not reviewed it. I pointed out in my reply brief how all of that was false, and suggested that it was an unintentional misrepresentation caused by the use of AI. Well, that will not make me friends with opposing council, but I don’t think I should have to respond to absolute bullshit falsehoods just because an associate is too lazy to write their own brief. I have used the AI feature on Westlaw for legal research, and while it is helpful, it gets all kinds of things wrong and can’t really get the procedural posture of all the parties right all of the time. There is a warning to check your work because they cannot guarantee the AI response is correct. And yet there is always some dumb son of a bitch who will cut and paste it into their work and send it on. It looks like a real problem.
  15. "I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that.”
  16. Nonsense. They knew they were black when they came over here.
  17. This is reason eleventy-billion why I love Surly.
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