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It's only breaking the law if the law requires you to do it. And the law only requires you do something if there's a punishment when you don't. Otherwise it's just a legal polite request.
Missing the deadline = breaking the law.
Deputy AG Blanche just said the Trump DOJ will miss the Epstein files deadline.
He says "several hundred thousand" docs will be released today, "and then over the next couple weeks, I expect several hundred thousand more."
All files are required by law to be released today.
He says "several hundred thousand" docs will be released today, "and then over the next couple weeks, I expect several hundred thousand more."
All files are required by law to be released today.
December 19, 2025 at 11:06 PM
It's only breaking the law if the law requires you to do it. And the law only requires you do something if there's a punishment when you don't. Otherwise it's just a legal polite request.
After decades of being told that something can't happen due to obscure legal niceties, a lot of people are discovering that the penalty wildly illegal stuff is that two years from now a judge says "ok but don't do it again," so I think it's a fair reaction to people who are still saying this stuff.
NB: When I, a professor of law, profess that an act is unlawful, I am not doing it to inform the lawbreaker, but rather to inform you, the reader.
So the question “what, like you think he cares?” is inapposite. The question is whether *you* care. I think you should, which is why I bother.
So the question “what, like you think he cares?” is inapposite. The question is whether *you* care. I think you should, which is why I bother.
December 19, 2025 at 10:46 PM
After decades of being told that something can't happen due to obscure legal niceties, a lot of people are discovering that the penalty wildly illegal stuff is that two years from now a judge says "ok but don't do it again," so I think it's a fair reaction to people who are still saying this stuff.
I refuse to believe these two upstanding citizens would ever do anything illegal like underage drinking.
December 19, 2025 at 8:45 PM
I refuse to believe these two upstanding citizens would ever do anything illegal like underage drinking.
"Well I see your "lock all your products up and take 10 minutes to open it for people when they want to buy things", and raise you..."
Anti-loitering speakers have been installed in the parking lot of Home Depot in Cypress Park, following a recent Border Patrol raid. “It’s like a sonic ice pick–just stabbing you,” says audio expert Dustyn Hyatt.
The full story: lataco.com/cypress-park...
By Aisha Wallace-Palomares
The full story: lataco.com/cypress-park...
By Aisha Wallace-Palomares
December 18, 2025 at 1:25 PM
"Well I see your "lock all your products up and take 10 minutes to open it for people when they want to buy things", and raise you..."
The Elkhart Bears has a ring to it. Could be great.
Dying at Kevin Warren issuing a statement about the Bears looking at sites in Indiana for the stadium since Illinois won't give them enough money and putting "this is not about leverage" in it lol
December 18, 2025 at 1:19 PM
The Elkhart Bears has a ring to it. Could be great.
Starting to think we should view the Turing test as a test of the person rather than the computer.
If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
December 18, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Starting to think we should view the Turing test as a test of the person rather than the computer.
Oh my god imagine a world where a machine could do your chores, like washing clothes, doing the dishes, vacuuming the carpet...
From the new issue: What will it take for robots to start doing our chores?
Robot Servants Are Coming. Would You Want One?
Robots are poised to play a much bigger role in daily life at home, at work and in the world
www.scientificamerican.com
December 18, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Oh my god imagine a world where a machine could do your chores, like washing clothes, doing the dishes, vacuuming the carpet...
The number of cop cars that go zooming by, completely failing to notice the car they were chasing sitting there upside down says a lot about how normalized cars driving into things has become.
The noises are absolutely glorious!!!
#WorldBollardAssociation
#WorldBollardAssociation
December 17, 2025 at 1:22 PM
The number of cop cars that go zooming by, completely failing to notice the car they were chasing sitting there upside down says a lot about how normalized cars driving into things has become.
OFFICER('s feelings) DOWN! OFFICER('s feelings) DOWN!
"... as bystanders and activists hurled insults and snowballs in their direction." www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
ICE agents call for backup during Minneapolis traffic stop, bystanders hurl insults and snowballs
Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to a call for help from an agent who said 60 to 70 “agitators” were “fighting them.”
www.mprnews.org
December 16, 2025 at 6:10 PM
OFFICER('s feelings) DOWN! OFFICER('s feelings) DOWN!
One thing I think the next Democratic Party president needs to do is declare that for the next month anyone who wants to can just sign up to be an American citizen online, resident or not.
December 15, 2025 at 6:55 PM
One thing I think the next Democratic Party president needs to do is declare that for the next month anyone who wants to can just sign up to be an American citizen online, resident or not.
In the last year Walz has picked up a big liability (the fraud issue, fair or not), and alienated a big block of supporters.
He's popular outside of Minnesota, but not a strong candidate for governor right now, not at all. In a wave election he could still pull it off, but so could anyone else.
He's popular outside of Minnesota, but not a strong candidate for governor right now, not at all. In a wave election he could still pull it off, but so could anyone else.
December 14, 2025 at 5:44 PM
In the last year Walz has picked up a big liability (the fraud issue, fair or not), and alienated a big block of supporters.
He's popular outside of Minnesota, but not a strong candidate for governor right now, not at all. In a wave election he could still pull it off, but so could anyone else.
He's popular outside of Minnesota, but not a strong candidate for governor right now, not at all. In a wave election he could still pull it off, but so could anyone else.
Americans are fundamentally unable to understand society, or institutions, as a thing, and when they hear "speed limit" they imagine it being limited exclusively to them personlly having to go slower while everyone else drives like they do right now.
one of my longstanding takes is that car manufacturers should be forced to install mandatory speed limiters in every new vehicle and people react to that like I'm advocating to strip them of their right to free speech
December 13, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Americans are fundamentally unable to understand society, or institutions, as a thing, and when they hear "speed limit" they imagine it being limited exclusively to them personlly having to go slower while everyone else drives like they do right now.
It's easy to see how poorly they've assimilated by looking at how all of their neighbors in Minnesota are ok with having ICE roaming around assaulting them, and how no one is getting really, really, really mad about it.
Weird thing to brag about right now.
Haven’t read it, but I wonder if it discusses how the Bush administration treated the entire Somali-American population as suspected terrorists after 9/11. Or how the Bush DEA cracked down on qat cafes like they were crack dens.
Haven’t read it, but I wonder if it discusses how the Bush administration treated the entire Somali-American population as suspected terrorists after 9/11. Or how the Bush DEA cracked down on qat cafes like they were crack dens.
December 13, 2025 at 7:01 PM
It's easy to see how poorly they've assimilated by looking at how all of their neighbors in Minnesota are ok with having ICE roaming around assaulting them, and how no one is getting really, really, really mad about it.
This makes me feel sad. I just wish George Orwell could have survived to see this movie, with me there to watch him do it.
Animal Farm | Andy Serkis | Official Trailer | In Theaters May 1 | Angel
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December 13, 2025 at 1:49 AM
This makes me feel sad. I just wish George Orwell could have survived to see this movie, with me there to watch him do it.
With reaction time like that it's easy to see how she ran someone over.
8th District DFL Chair Cyndy Martin resigned on Friday, a little over a year after she was charged with criminal vehicular homicide.
Northern Minnesota DFL party official resigns one year after vehicular homicide charge • Minnesota Reformer
An influential Democratic-Farmer-Labor official in northern Minnesota resigned Friday, a little over a year after she was charged with criminal vehicular homicide. On Monday, the Reformer reported the...
minnesotareformer.com
December 12, 2025 at 10:44 PM
With reaction time like that it's easy to see how she ran someone over.
I've seen people argue that Governors and Mayors are reluctant to tell the police to enforce laws of this because they believe the police will just refuse, and reveal that they're a lawless gang outside of public control.
If so I think it's time to pull off that bandaid and make it clear everyone.
If so I think it's time to pull off that bandaid and make it clear everyone.
Multiple U.S. citizens have been arrested during ICE operations.
The forcefulness, lack of communication, and unlawful practices displayed by federal agents will not be tolerated in Minnesota.
The forcefulness, lack of communication, and unlawful practices displayed by federal agents will not be tolerated in Minnesota.
December 11, 2025 at 1:09 PM
I've seen people argue that Governors and Mayors are reluctant to tell the police to enforce laws of this because they believe the police will just refuse, and reveal that they're a lawless gang outside of public control.
If so I think it's time to pull off that bandaid and make it clear everyone.
If so I think it's time to pull off that bandaid and make it clear everyone.
I'm sure it was all just some kind of misunderstanding, and everyone was acting in good faith. Talking it out should fix the problem.
Gov. Tim Walz on Wednesday urged Secretary Kristi Noem to review all recent arrests in Minnesota after reports that at least two U.S. citizens were detained this week in the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign.
Gov. Walz urges Noem to review Minnesota ICE arrests after reports of detained U.S. citizens • Minnesota Reformer
Gov. Tim Walz on Wednesday urged U.S. Secretary of Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem to review all recent arrests in Minnesota after reports that at least two U.S. citizens were detained this week in the...
minnesotareformer.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:04 PM
I'm sure it was all just some kind of misunderstanding, and everyone was acting in good faith. Talking it out should fix the problem.
Very on brand that they're rappelling in from a helicopter and scampering around like operators to seize a civilian freighter from a country we are not at war with, as if they could not just pull up next to it in a boat and tell them they've seized it.
December 11, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Very on brand that they're rappelling in from a helicopter and scampering around like operators to seize a civilian freighter from a country we are not at war with, as if they could not just pull up next to it in a boat and tell them they've seized it.
LLMs are the Segway of the 2020s.
It's a Segway because it's massively over hyped as the way of the future, and likely to fade out into an expensive novelty with some limited applications.
It's of the 2020s because it's unbearably dumb and also a catastrophe for everyone.
It's a Segway because it's massively over hyped as the way of the future, and likely to fade out into an expensive novelty with some limited applications.
It's of the 2020s because it's unbearably dumb and also a catastrophe for everyone.
"ai is inevitable" is a high accuracy indicator of "I am a sucker"
"the tech is inevitable" is not the winning argument you think it is in this debate*
*applies to many debates
*applies to many debates
December 10, 2025 at 12:38 PM
LLMs are the Segway of the 2020s.
It's a Segway because it's massively over hyped as the way of the future, and likely to fade out into an expensive novelty with some limited applications.
It's of the 2020s because it's unbearably dumb and also a catastrophe for everyone.
It's a Segway because it's massively over hyped as the way of the future, and likely to fade out into an expensive novelty with some limited applications.
It's of the 2020s because it's unbearably dumb and also a catastrophe for everyone.
Roar 2 coming up soon it looks like.
just watched a few dozen videos from the TikTok account of the people who own a caracal cat which very clearly should not be a pet and wants to kill them (every video is like this)
December 9, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Roar 2 coming up soon it looks like.
I have stopped wondering if she had an editor at all, and started wondering why her editor was actively suggesting things to her to make her book worse.
Truly sorry to keep posting these but I cannot believe this book is real.
December 6, 2025 at 11:43 PM
I have stopped wondering if she had an editor at all, and started wondering why her editor was actively suggesting things to her to make her book worse.
I'm sure the shift to the E line will be good, but man. I rode the 6 to the University when I moved here, and then I shifted straight to riding the 6 further to work. It's like losing a room in my apartment.
Final ride on the Metro Tranit (Twin Cities) Route 6. Nice crowd of U of MN types, probably 25 of us early in the route. Tomorrow the replacement E Line bus rapid transit bus starts. Tonight as always I will be getting off at a stop that the Route 6 honors but the E Line will not.
December 6, 2025 at 4:22 PM
I'm sure the shift to the E line will be good, but man. I rode the 6 to the University when I moved here, and then I shifted straight to riding the 6 further to work. It's like losing a room in my apartment.
I love this. More organizations should do this kind of thing, and do it this blatantly.
Eventually it's not even flattery it's just insulting him to his face in a way he's psychologically incapable of recognizing.
Eventually it's not even flattery it's just insulting him to his face in a way he's psychologically incapable of recognizing.
December 5, 2025 at 9:33 PM
I love this. More organizations should do this kind of thing, and do it this blatantly.
Eventually it's not even flattery it's just insulting him to his face in a way he's psychologically incapable of recognizing.
Eventually it's not even flattery it's just insulting him to his face in a way he's psychologically incapable of recognizing.
So many people hate this plan because it is "monstrous", "tacky", and "a relentless public humiliation for the entire country", but personally I love it (same reasons).
Nightmare-client’s renovation makes Page One:
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December 4, 2025 at 1:20 PM
So many people hate this plan because it is "monstrous", "tacky", and "a relentless public humiliation for the entire country", but personally I love it (same reasons).