👍 law, menswear, @pontifex | 👎 bad ties, schism | omnicause centrist | "like a young Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch" —Juror No. 2
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3 Jun 2018
THEM: "any big plans for the weekend?"
ME: "Well..."
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I'm a lawyer and the range of intellectual ability among lawyers is massive. Even among judges it's pretty huge.
I think academics just don't evaluate each other's work as often or as critically.
This is what makes me doubt the idea of “IQ” as a meaningful construct. I work in elite academia and honestly don’t see a lot of variation in raw intellectual horsepower, either among academics or in comparing academics to non-academics. 1/
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Any time I see the phrase “enfant terrible” I always mentally translate it as “terrible baby”
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Trying to avoid eye contact with my wife this Saturday morning as she has a big exclamation point quest giver mark over her head
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Jun 12
The Jones Act is the bedrock of the U.S. maritime and shipping industry.
@TransportDems are protecting American-made ships and jobs as costs continue to rise from the Administration’s war with Iran.
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The U.S. ship building industry is “near collapse” according to the GAO, despite the Jones Act being in place since 1920.
Today, U.S. ships cost 5x as much as foreign ships.
U.S. flagged commercial ships declined 94% from 1960-2025, while the global fleet doubled.
gao.gov/assets/gao-25-…
nytimes.com/2025/05/27/bus…
maritime.dot.gov/sites/marad.do…?
kentclarkcenter.org/surveys/the-jo…
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Jun 12
Oh no, the two things big law cares about.
Jun 11
Big Law’s aggressive recruiting of first-year law students is distracting them from their studies and hurting their mental health, the head of a legal professional group said, citing survey results. news.bloomberglaw.com/busine…
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What I don’t think most liberals appreciate, even those who are critical of this kind of stuff, is just how absurd it is. It’s the equivalent of hedging every claim in a story about fossils with the fact that some people believe the Earth is 6000 years old.
Jun 11
This is a very crazy thing to believe and definitely shuldn't be the basis of ed policy decisions
nymag.com/intelligencer/arti…
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Jun 11
Best would be exponential back off where your cumulative sentence length coefficient goes up with the severity of each crime.
Jun 11
3 strike laws are probably bad
20 strike laws I think are a reasonable compromise
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Jun 11
his answer to questions about the tattoo depend on the views of whoever asked him about it. Leftist chick asks = America bad excuse. General public = I didn’t know what this was. Right leaning chick = my totenkopf and jokes about it
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Jun 11
This is one big problem with the whole “this was several years ago” defense — Platner is actively lying to the voters *right now*! His lying is an ongoing thing!
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Client, angry on phone: "We are not doing that, that is ridiculous. I'll ask my manager but we aren't doing it."
Client, tersely in email: "We will do what you recommend."
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Jun 10
The combination of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, reduced immigration, and lower fertility has been really bad for Social Security and Medicare.
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Jun 10
Young people at risk to sacrifice even more income to senior citizens, unless they mobilize.
Jun 10
Social Security at Risk for Cuts by 2032, Unless Congress Acts nytimes.com/2026/06/09/busin…
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Jun 10
Ok but why does every mid civil defense attorney look the same? Is there a school they send you to so you can learn the wrong neckline on your beard or something?
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fuck hipaa
all my homies hate hipaa
Jun 10
It also makes patients miserable, saturated with bureaucracy, and in many cases real difficulties in accessing their own data. I had to fight for days to get urgently needed medical records when a provider’s proprietary delivery system stopped working. They couldn’t just email it
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The stabbing at Penn Station on Sunday is yet another story of a frequent offender allowed to remain on the street until he kills or seriously maims someone. Every time, people ask: why does this keep happening?
As I argue @thedispatch, you're not being deceived. Frequent offenders make up a massive share of crime. The 10 percent of the population most prone to offending accounts for 66 percent of all crime, in one estimate.
But the problem is that in many places, our system isn't designed to recognize that different criminals are different. We discriminate based on offense rather than based on offender. We decline to charge misdemeanors (even when there are 60 of them); our habitual offender laws are old and outdated; our policing strategies react to calls rather than targeting prolific actors.
Until our system actually recognizes the reality of offender concentration, we'll keep seeing brutal attacks like Sunday's. Read the whole piece 👇
thedispatch.com/article/crim…
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RT @JessicaBRiedl: An under-appreciated point. Social Security's financial problems are not just demographics.
Rather, by formula, benefit…
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Everything in the Microsoft ecosystem is like this. There's an old, functional system and a new, "pretty" system with 80% of the functionality.
Someone remodeled the kitchen by building fake cabinets over the old ones. You can get to the utensils, but not the spatula.
> Be me
> Wonder why my new Logitech bluetooth mouse keeps disconnecting from its bluetooth connection
> Use keyboard to go into Settings, turn BT off and then back on and it starts working again
> Think it's something blocking the signal, but it's not
> This happens every five fucking minutes now
> Check battery. Battery is brand new. Replace it anyway
> Every five minutes it dies, I have to go into settings, etc etc
> Finally have enough, look into buying new mouse
> Before purchasing, decide to look up any issues with this BT mouse
> Ask Grok, something that AI is actually very, VERY good for. Turns out Microsoft is entirely to blame
> The fix: you have to go into your Device Manager
> Device Manager is in your Control Panel
> Your Control Panel is a legacy windows interface that Microsoft is desperately trying their best to make you stop using for some fucking reason, they want you to use Settings instead
> But you can't apply this fix without opening your Device Manager
> Go into your Device Manager, open the Bluetooth pulldown, select Intel(R) Wireless Bluetooth(R) and don't get ANY ideas about infringing on Intel's wireless bluetooth trademarks and copyrights because why the fuck else would they inform you of this in the fucking Device Manager
> Right-click, Properties. Select the Power Management tab
> Unclick "Allow this computer to turn off device to save power"
> MS apparently made it so that it turns the device all the way off, they set it to "ON", and they made that the default setting WITHOUT TELLING FUCKING ANYONE
> Begin to understand why everyone fucking hates Windows 11
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Jun 9
The truth is that Platner is an unstable shitbag.
If he wasn’t running for office, the people defending him would be asking the local police to keep an eye on him.
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Jun 9
It seems obvious to me that a ton of male anxiety about not having sex is actually about some combination of status anxiety and desire to be loved and not, like, the mechanical act of sex for its own sake.
Jun 9
Casual sex is one of those things you think you want until you have it, after which you realize it’s unpleasant and annoying and that really what you wanted was to feel like you “made it” and just used this as a proxy for that
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