I am sorry for your (rapidly impending) loss. I hope you and your family can find some kind of comfort.

This post is a thing of beauty.

It would take a lot of people standing up and demanding such a change, and we cant even get ‘cops shouldnt kill people arbitrarily’ right, so we have some ground to cover before we get to commercial code overhaul.

Starred for bringing my commercial law classes back - IANAL, but had to take the classes for my major. Everyone should, if only for the FYI factor.

That is an amazingly good law and enforcement mechanism.

Fair point.

This guy got to be lead economist at Bear Stearns with no relevant degree?

Seconded.

Actually, yes.

And, it is still available on dvd, etc.

The text of the link on its own conjures up a much more compelling story than what it actually links to, which is depressingly mundane.

Roblox has been my kids go-to for 4 months now, and they never tire of it, or of showing us the cool stuff people make in it. Like much user-made content, quality varies widely, but there are some really cool things there, and the admins have made it really hard for people to try and extract personal information from…

Agree. At $2,500-$3,000 all good. With impending (probable) maintenance coming up, not so much.

“But you only get textbooks in school, and who reads books outside of school? I mean really, who actually cares about school anyway? Hell, I dropped out my junior year to work at the Jiffy-Lube and never missed a thing!”

Oh my effing god, I had to make that ‘I am no less married today than before same sex marriage’ and it felt just as idiotic that I had to make it.

When I see stuff from Mother Jones, I always read it because they do a really good job of reframing news in a way that forces me to think more critically, which is always welcome. I need to start reading them on the regular.

Michael Shannon shines too bright to be a character actor, and is way to dominant to put alongside pretty much any ‘leading man’ but too grounded to actually fit most ‘leading man’ roles.

In the US, a cash deposit over $10k gets automatically flagged for FBI review. They will have questions.

I have not compared the two head to head, but WaPo has certainly put out some good stuff I have read.

Sulzburger needs to go too.