So the government is effectively exercising the hecklers veto

The USPTO is in chaos right now

This is really bad framing because it pretends all mine tailings contain equal concentrations of these metals with recoveries possible if only we made people do it.

Yeah, Li and Mn are especially common. The latter is also dirt cheap and proposing tailings recovery is ludicrous.

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Thanks to @ericgoldman.bsky.social for hosting this post on Lululemon v. Costco and to @lexlanham.bsky.social for being an extremely amazing coauthor:

At this point, Democrats may want to take up a collection in hopes of paying Mitch to switch parties and show how a minority wields its limited power

This is ridiculous. Shih tzu just doesn’t have the right texture for this technique.

Shouldn’t have sent those texts using Mint Mobile

We just moved my great-grandparents’ clock to my place from my mom’s. It was a fixture in my grandparents’ house when I was growing up. The same gentleman who has serviced it my entire life will be coming to reassemble it.

I’m happy to have it, but it feels a little strange.

Sounds like the quid to the pro of appointing Lara Trump to the Senate

I’m a Packers fan who usually has leanings towards the Eagles, but we’ve hit that point in the season where playoff scenarios result in me rooting against the Eagles

Going over my first law school writing assignment, my professor opened by saying, “Let me guess. Engineering major, right.”

The squirrel is taunting him

Introduce yourself with some jobs you have done apart from what you do now:
- Dishwasher
- Waiter
- TA - chemistry
- Engineering tech
- RA - antitrust law