Awwww Death is adorbs!

cup of tea

There’s your problem right there, bucko. In the words of the last great American… pigeon sweat.

I got an Outback in 2013 when my wife was expecting. Then nine years later I got the world’s most boring mid-life crisis car and just got a new Outback, but this one is black and slightly lifted and has the turbo. It’s almost three years old now and I expect to have it for many years to come.

I love the actual utility. It rides like a car and fits where a car does, but holds as much as an SUV, with more interior volume than a Forester.

The shocking part is that Subaru never explains why the hell you’d want a Forester when the Outback exists.

Wagon Life, BAY-BEE!!!

So, for US Federal Court, there’s basically three levels: District (trial), Circuit (appeals), and Supreme Court (…of the United States, aka “SCOTUS,” a second level appeals court and the final arbiter of federal constitutional questions). This was a lawsuit filed in a District court in Washington state. As everybody gets their pleadings in order, they will move towards a trial. The loser will appeal, and then appeal again.

HOWEVER, in a case like this, which seems to be a huge departure from existing constitutional precedent, and which could seriously fuck over the affected kiddos born after February 19, a trial court judge is within their power to issue a temporary injunction, which basically says, “hold up y’all, this would be crazy, and unless you just wow us with legal brilliance (or SCOTUS fucks us over) it’s probably going away, and in the meantime we’ve all been doing okay with the previous interpretation, so the change is on ice until we get this sorted.” It is inherently temporary because nothing’s been actually argued or analyzed and decided.

Of course, now THAT will get appealed, because you can appeal stuff other than final decisions, particularly when by their nature they’re stuff that needs to apply either to everybody in the country or to no one (versus, like, telling Company A to hold off on selling a piece of land) and that’s what SCOTUS will probably rule on well before the actual merits, though in this case it’s all of a piece and therefore we’ll get a huge hint as to how they’re leaning if they overturn the injunction. Letting it stand would imply they agree with the district judge or at least that a couple of justices haven’t made up their minds.

People get very emotional about this stuff because the issues ARE emotional and I find it despicable that this is where we are, but the process is gonna process, and nothing final will have happened this quickly.

ACKSHULLY…

While you’ve chosen better verbs, that’s still passive voice.

“A bunch of deranged MAGA assholes murdered a police officer by beating him to death.”

Thank you for coming to my pedantic grammar lesson.

I read the linked Marc Andreessen interview.

Holy shit! Dude goes full Principal Skinner, literally blaming the kids and saying how literally terrified all the tech CEOs were of their young employees who had been radicalized to destroy their workplaces from within.

TEX out of Taiwan makes a few.

Never underestimate the degree to which corporate management believes that they already do everything they need to and have no blind spots, or how much they resent any cost which is not directly revenue-generating.

Either he had some perfectly color-matched work done later in life, which seems pretty unlikely since they’re all “I’m a 60-year-old large-animal veterinarian with decent teeth, who the fuck needs whitening”, or my guy just had some really bad luck with his baby molars coming out late but all at once.