Upon seeing Jackson’s state of dress, Judge Sean Perkins asked, “You got some pants on, officer?”

Jackson is seen replying, “No, sir,” before changing his camera’s framing so his lower body was no longer visible.

The rest of the hearing went on as planned.

At least he was polite about it

“Dinosaurs have been on this earth for 150 million years. And it’s not like we’re just going to … disappear …”

They use to use “Godless” as a slur. I guess they can’t anymore because they also want to punish people who don’t believe in a god the same way they do.

“Modernizing” being euphemism for planting lots of listening devices for his friends in Russia paying customers.

There is a process to amend birth certificates, presumably initially intended for errors like this. But then people who successfully transitioned used the process to amend their birth certificates to reflect their new gender, because there was no other way to do it. The transphobes seized on this, and started processes that refuse to honor any late changes to birth certificates.

It should have been a simple matter to resolve - his doctor wites a note saying “This kid has boy parts, and always has. The birth certificate was always an administrative error”. But then, that would force the transphobes to acknowledge a role for facts and science to contradict their feelings. So, we can’t have that either.

So, they go on claiming that they are just out for the best interests of kids, and that justifies why they are treating this kid so poorly. When in reality, they are just protecting their narrative, at his expense.

The search was for exactly 3 letters in between

I will be the contrarian in the room and say that you shouldn’t really do anything different – unless you know that you are going to need that money in the next year or two.

Let’s take the S&P 500. Yes, we know there is an AI bubble, and the same 7 tech companies are knee deep in it. But it turns out that bubbles make money, until they don’t. In fact, a good chunk of the growth in the S&P over the past two years has been in those 7 companies.. If you had made this bet 2 years ago, you would be a big loser now.

So what do you do? Don’t panic sell. You can’t time the market. Sell when you need the money for something else. Sell when you have a purpose. But don’t be too upset when the bubble finally bursts, and it all dives 25% (or more!) . That was never real money anyway.

Introverts probably had it much better back then. You couldn’t physically take your work home with you. Your news came once a day, to the front porch, and was not constantly bombarded at your eyeballs. When you were home, you only interacted with your immediate family, unless you had someone physically over to visit. Or if someone called in the telephone, which you could always just not answer.

Carefully

https://theweek.com/speedreads/575962/donald-trump-tells-biographer-hes-same-now-first-grade

You are assuming that the stock market is logically consistent. The market can remain irrational far longer than you can stay solvent betting on rationality.

Yo mama’s so fat that her ass has its own congressman!

Yo mama so ugly the ICE agent deported himself to get away from her!

Yo mama’s so old she dated Christopher Columbus!

They care about being decent to the white right people…

It’s not like overland would be a cheaper transport option than Pacific shipping routes or anything.

I wouldn’t be so sure. Shipping routes may be cheaper, but I bet they would still be longer. I think it takes the better part of a month to get goods from China to the US. I bet this takes more like a week.

this article article estimates the distance at 8000 miles to the “lower 48”, presumably to Seattle. It proposes high-speed rail service to do the trip in 2 days, but I don’t think that will compete at all with air passenger service . Rather, I think freight traffic will be the real winner, and 7 days is doable at 50 mph the whole way.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFC_White_House

“Peak X” is a phrase that is often used to convey the highest point in a long term trend. And if we are past that peak, that implies that the trend will continue to be lower and lower for the foreseeable future.

Consider the nation’s supply of 18 year olds that would normally enter college. We can’t just create more 18 year olds on demand, couples would had to have gotten busy 19-ish years ago to produce today’s supply of 18 year olds. With birth rates declining, not only are there fewer 18 year olds now than before, but those 18 year olds will be able to make fewer humans for the future when they all get busy with each other later.

Someone in Cornwall just got home from the pub and slammed the door

Sounds like they are getting charged

The Waller County Sheriff’s Office said it was now pursuing dangerous conduct charges against three people suspected of firing off guns nearby.

Bullshit

“Hey, Reddit, who’s a greedy little pigboy?”