Grand juries are different than trial juries in Texas. They’re nominated “respectable” members of society that serve terms for multiple months. It’s remnants of Jim Crow that are alive and well, where rich white guys decide who gets prosecuted for what.

And Texas made it even worse a few years back. In 2008, a white guy called 911 because police his neighbor’s house was being robbed. He indicated that the neighbor’s were not home, and also that he was gonna shoot the burglars. The dispatch told him over a dozen times not to interfere, and he repeatedly said he would shoot them. As plainclothes police were arriving on scene, dispatch told him they were arriving, but he went ahead and shot the 2 unarmed burglars in the back while.they were fleeing, killing both. They happened to be unarmed.

The grand jury refused to indict him for a crime, but the familes sued the murderer in civil court and won.

So Texas made a law that if someone is not found convicted of a felony for a gun crime they can’t be sued in civil court over it.

Deficit spending has historically worked out well because the US has been able to borrow at a rate lower than inflation, making it actually cheaper to borrow money and pay it off later. The national debt isn’t much of a concern unless we tank our credit and reputation.

So it’s a huge fucking concern.

They have the Marshalls. But they can also deputize people to enforce Court orders.

The biggest hurdle federal judges face right now is the pardon power. They effectively can’t hold the administration in criminal contempt because Trump can make it go away.

Which leaves them with civil contempt, which is really difficult to enforce.

Things were bad in the 80s in general.

Look at movies from the time. Revenge of the Nerds has one of the nerds dressing up in the same costume as a jock to have sex with his rival’s girlfriend. And when she finds out after the deed, she loved the rape so much she decides to dump her boyfriend.

Blade Runner - the beloved classic sci-fi has Harrison Ford pinning a woman who says no to a wall and sexing her up as the romantic climax of the film.

ReadID verifies identity, not citizenship

What we need to do then is poison the well and provide bad training data.

Yeah - that’s why I always use credit if I can. If someone steals my credit card, I’m protected. The money doesn’t even leave my account, so I don’t have to worry about losing access to my funds for a few days while everything is worked out.

Inverted Y works for me in first-person games because I equate the tilt of the stick to tilting my head. If I want to look up, I have to lean my head back.

In 3rd-person platformers, it’s because I’m imagining moving the camera. It’s also why I have to invert the x-axis on third-person platformers.

3rd-person shooters I just treat as an fps because that’s how my brain works.

Or just photos of random people or celebrities

Or AI slop photos. Or AI slop fake IDs.

The important takeaway is they won’t be restricting AI bots from participating.

I work near downtown Austin, where both Waymo and Robotaxi operate.

Waymo cars are some of the best drivers on the road because they actuallyt ested their product, use multiple Lidar sensors instead of just cameras, and have remote driver backups for unusual situations.

Teslas drive like maniacs and will end a ride and tell the driver to get out in the middle of a lane.

This is why when my city installed them (with a 3-2 vote from Council) they required them to all be installed in the Right-of-Way, which gives the city more authority to remove them if the contract is terminated (which it likely will be soon).

I used to be clergy. Now I work in government.

So I feel like I’m a decent authority on how the separation of church and state makes both institutions better.

Or did they just initially export the emails from Outlook as pdfs for the redaction process?

Preachers and all other church staff members have to pay income taxes.

There is an interest-free housing stipend for preachers that works similar to an FSA (use it or lose it annually). Some military service members get a similar stipend if they live off-base for the same reason. Many preachers and service members are itenerant and may be reassigned to a different area at any time. Purchsing a house isn’trealistic if you don’tknownwhere you’ll live in 6 months, so they can’t take advantage of tax breaks like the home interest mortgage deduction. Preachers who are provided free housing (parsonage) can’t take advantage of the tax-free stipend because they don’t pay for housing.

My thought on that particular tax break isn’t to close it but to expand it to everyone who rents.

That’s pretty similar to how it is.

I used to be a preacher. I paid taxes. Any facility space or property we rented to commercial companies (we had a psychologist who used a portion of our space during the week) was taxed.

The only real break we got versus other charities was that clergy can get a tax-freee home/apartment rental stipend if they aren’t provided a personage. The idea there was that, for itenerant clergy, purchasing a home isn’t realistic because they don’t know where they’ll live in a year. They can’t take advantage of things like a mortgage interest deduction.

But my solution there is to open up tax exemption for all rent payers and to tax the living shit out of landlords to make them sell and open up housing inventory.

Google pays them the make Goigle the default search engine.

We need to be careful in how we view the latest batch from the files. They contain lots of names of people who were not involved in the least. Bilbo Baggins and Punxsutawney Phil are in there. Lots of celebrities are in there simply because they’re referenced in an email, while they had no contact with Epstein knowledge of what was happening.

And if we’re too aggressive in how we react to people’s names popping up in searches, it gives cover to those who were complicit.

OEM licensing isn’t the important part. It’s everything that comes with it. Subscriptions, cloud storage, etc. In my city, a bunch of field workers are being moved from laptops to iPads and phones with the next hardware refresh due to the price jump in laptops. Microsoft won’t have integrated Onedrive and SharePoint and full Office Subscriptions for them.

We already use third-party web apps that aren’t Microsoft (and are mostly hosted by AWS) for a lot of their work, so the only Microsoft product they’ll have is an email address.

Us abandoning the Windows laptops costs Microsoft hundreds a year per employee.

In a “fault” divorce, it could allow people to use the obligation of a spouse to perform sexual acts as a way to assign blame in the divorce. Basically allowing one partner to claim harm and therefore pursue financial damages or even leverage in custody disputes because they were owed sex. It trapped people in situations where they were forced to have sex or face potential civil penalties if their partner refused a no-fault divorce.

It’s almost like incidents without video filmed from multiple people and widely shared online don’t get as much attention as nurses telling a story they were told about an incident we don’t have video of.

It’s really bad, but it’s also entirely understandable that it gets less attention.