Now starting a pool on what decade the VB movie will actually come out.

I just shove one of the cigar boxes my grandfather left in my parents’ basement under the pillow. Sometimes it’s full of some particular type of nail, sometimes a soldering iron and accesories; I don’t check ahead of time.

It’s still around because, as much as you hate it, people get news from sources other than The Root and so see the cases you filter out. People still see the truck driver fired because he returned a random “O.K.” sign, a professor fired for retweeting a study about police violence whose result was one the mob didn’t…

Yeah, if we wanted a president who decided appointments by loyalty we would have voted for Trump.

Landlords are generally individuals who own like one or two mortgaged rental units in addition to their own home.

That they don’t have to share their cakes when their birthdays come around?

Quarterback throws football; more at eleven.

Are you really celebrating Christmas is you don’t put out just one plate of ham and sides for Jesus and then share a slice of burnt toast with your family?

Decided to look it up. He was scratching his ear rather than counting.

Isn’t there a famous clip of Obama counting down to his middle finger, noticing, laughing, and then moving on?

the officer-related shooting murder of Ma’Khia Bryant

why assholes think it is acceptable for the police to blast away at someone, even a child, for having a knife without ascertaining what the fuck is going on

So, just to check, the confrontation happened because he brought a gun to a school and his mother indicated that he was possibly doing it for a shooting, right?

I was going to note that the recommendation to start cholecystectomy at 45 is exclusive to ACS and was only added in February, but I found the USPSTF recommendations at https://uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/draft-recommendation/colorectal-cancer-screening3 and it looks like they’ve been thinking the same.…

I planned mine in less time during COVID. Granted, it’s a bit easier to make decisions when you’re shomer kashrus and everything’s closed because there aren’t any. Similarly, the hotels were hard-up, so we got a good deal on no notice, even if we did have to switch from shivering in an oversized ballroom with the…

Considering the total weight, I think it would only be a foot or two in any direction at the end of the trip up, small enough to be attributable to not having an exact measure of atmospheric conditions for every inch of the trip/altitude (a small, localized breeze).

There was a BU World of Ideas podcast episode about the predictors of how congress members legislate, with the relevant part being when they follow public sentiment. The two requirements are vehemence (it doesn’t matter how unified the public is on what floor wax the chambers should use when forced to answer on the…

While it is somewhat intuitive why all three would be served concurrently (they’re all for the same thing, basically), it’d be nice to see how such determinations are actually met, in terms of legal basis, common guidelines, and ambiguous example cases. Similarly, it would be nice to see some example cases of how…

I’ve been seeing something similar in my media feeds about justice for French Jews. Sure, the justice system there declared it legal to brutally murder a Shoah survivor while ranting about her Jewishness so long as you puff a joint before doing so, but it also convicted a food delivery driver for refusing to take…

The verdict is showing us how corrupt and insidious the system is in that we all watched this man be murdered in front of our eyes. And it was still a question of whether or not Derek Chauvin would be found guilty.”