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As unbelievable as it might sound, in the USA justice system, if a lawyer knows their client is guilty as hell, they are not supposed to just pretend otherwise and make up crazy legal theories in court to try to get them off the hook. Lawyers who make such grossly bad-faith arguments like this in front of a judge are supposed to get disbarred.

I hope so, even if just to end the pin-balling between PNP and PPD.

This is why there's so much exuberance on the stock market

Porky sleeps soundly knowing that any potential leadership of the US is completely captured by the interests of capital.

this shit's gonna give Matt another stroke

It's not Nazi heraldry unless it comes from the National Socialist region of Bavaria!

Controversial statement: Noon on the clock should correspond to solar noon.

That also means not having timezones that are completely out of whack with solar time.

I don't like spooky movies, I get freaked out too easily.

...but The Thing is so good.

This is flippant of me, but I think it's obvious that Libertarianism is just what happens when you would otherwise arrive Liberalism or Anarchism, but don't do the homework.

I don't think it's true, nor is it true if what he meant was that more people died per-capita. A perplexing and distracting mistake.

My parents have helped out at food shelf in the rural Midwest for a couple decades now, and the demand is way up, although not as high as it was during 2007-2008. The real unemployment rate is at record lows in that area, and wage growth is actually increasing, but not enough to keep up with ballooning grocery bills and rent hikes. So the families with lots of kids might have more income coming in from wage labor, but their costs are just out of control, and food aid is absolutely essential to keep the household afloat. I think what is not really appreciated is that there's a huge shortage of rentals that have 5+ bedrooms (renting a house is the only real option).

I think the really cynical calculus from the political establishment is that these people are mostly non-voters, and so actually trying to address these problems is a waste of political capital.

I've been really getting into classic Sonic games, and have gotten most of the way through Sonic 2, as well as finally putting some time into finishing Sonic Mania. I dropped Sonic 1 after finishing a few zones, as it became clear that the level design in that game is not up to par with later releases. Also poking around at the Master System Sonic games, which are totally different games than the mainline release, but have some interesting stuff in them (my original exposure to Sonic was looking over another kid's shoulder while he played Sonic on Game Gear).

I've always been a Mario Enjoyer, and just never quite understood Sonic... the platforming aspect of Sonic always felt so clunky because of how much less air control you have. But I think I get it now, it's all about figuring out the right paths through the levels to just go fucking apeshit turbo mode and blast through them as fast as possible. GOTTA GO FAST.

Also helps that I've got a nice CRT tv setup and am playing on original hardware. The super fast scrolling of Sonic works way better, it's not a blur like it is on a crappy LCD screen.