LanyrdSkynrd [he/him]

One of the billionaires who owns Clarence Thomas did have business before the court and he didn’t recuse himself.

https://fortune.com/2023/04/24/clarence-thomas-billionaire-friend-harlan-crow-business-before-supreme-court/

One of his clerks received 7 payments for thousands of dollars via venmo labelled “Clarence Thomas Christmas party” from conservative lawyers who have argued cases before the court.

The lawyers who made the Venmo transactions were: Patrick Strawbridge, a partner at Consovoy McCarthy who recently successfully argued that affirmative action violated the US constitution; Kate Todd, who served as White House deputy counsel under Donald Trump at the time of the payment and is now a managing party of Ellis George Cipollone’s law office; Elbert Lin, the former solicitor general of West Virginia who played a key role in a supreme court case that limited the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions; and Brian Schmalzbach, a partner at McGuire Woods who has argued multiple cases before the supreme court.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/12/clarence-thomas-aide-venmo-payments-lawyers-supreme-court

I don’t have AC and haven’t really needed it this year. I’m way north in New Hampshire.

We keep the heat at 63-65f(about 17c) in the winter, but occasionally go up to 67 when it’s warmer out and the furnace doesn’t have to work as hard to keep it there.

Dime Store Adventures makes videos about discovering and researching minor historical events.

One of my favorites is when he heard a local legend about the reason one gravestone in a small cemetery is much larger than all the rest. The legend was that the man hated his family so much that he decided to exhaust his estate with the most expensive gravestone possible. He shows how he figures out whether it was true by reading old newspapers and visiting historical societies.

https://youtu.be/H0NWn-ytoqI?si=AzfgpSzlfG2fnvKF

Did you not see how that turned from a really inconsequential disagreement to something emotional and personal almost immediately?

Sure, no single post was particularly toxic on its own. It’s the holy war tenor of discussions on Phoronix that all but guarantees that every discussion ends up as a flame war.

That’s hilarious.

“Mozilla is allowing you the option to build Firefox without X11 dependencies”

“Mozilla hates freedom!!!”

Suffolk county homicide police make $100k+, with unbelievable benefits. Guys later in their careers can get 200 days of paid time off per year, a very generous pension that cannot be taken away, and take home cars with gas paid for by the county.

They are unbelievably bad at homicide investigations, mostly just following hunches and beating suspects.

The problem isn’t just the pay, they are rotten institutions that are beyond repair short of firing most of them at once.

Yes.

Also xManager, a similar tool for Spotify. I’d use revanced for YTmusic, but most people seem to use Spotify and it’s nice to be able to share playlists with friends.