Being incredibly guilty and having a jury that’s going to have to come back next week if they don’t finish by 8pm is a dangerous mix.
Being incredibly guilty and having a jury that’s going to have to come back next week if they don’t finish by 8pm is a dangerous mix.
And this was only like the 3rd worst thing to happen to O’Brien that day
I think the judge gives him an extremely stern last-chance warning tomorrow and if he does it again, he gets cited for contempt. Doesn’t have to be much, chuck him in a private cell in the Manhattan Detention Center for 1 night with Secret Service outside the door, but it seriously hurts the rule of law to have him able to get away with this sort of crap with no consequences.
I almost planned a trip to DC with the kids for Columbus Day, glad I didn’t.
(probably not a good idea to plan to fly anywhere in October, actually - possibly November too)
Here’s a video of her arguing with children about climate change: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lu-VzZ45MwI
Or - as many of us hope for - we manage to make the economics of the fediverse work (don’t forget to support your instances, people) and the most valuable users move to blissful ad-free places like Lemmy and Mastodon.
Indeed, throw in open-source AI (thanks, weirdly, to Zuckerberg) and Wikipedia and you can start to see the contours of a post-advertising internet.
Ginsburg was worse; Feinstein at least was doing this in a situation where if she did keel over, a Democratic governor would replace her with somebody whose politics were broadly similar to her own, but Ginsburg knew perfectly well that her replacement might undo everything she accomplished and she refused to retire despite that.
I feel bad that she spent her final few years Weekend At Bernie’s-ing for her staff instead of getting to retire + relax a bit.
I love how everybody is so busy about mining your behavior for ad tracking data and then like 2/3 of the ads I actually see are utterly irrelevant gut doctor / toenail fungus / 17 Most Embarrassing Topless Celebrity Moments crap.
(I think the reality is that they’re mining that data to identify a small number of people susceptible to high-value scams - like getting addicted to an F2P mobile game and spending $1000s on it - and the rest of us just get generic infill)
locals may have to accept that same-day delivery is a thing of the past
In a pedestrian-friendly city like Amsterdam, couldn’t they mostly replace this with a pickup depot / Amazon locker type setup? (maybe residents with wheelchair / limited-mobility / etc permits can still get front-door package delivery, but it’s not something most people need)
Connecticut is especially dicey because they have a 1:4 ratio right up to age 3; if you have 2 kids under 3, like one of the mothers in this article, you’re effectively paying 1/2 of a full-time employee’s salary plus your share of all of the other costs (rent, utilities, insurance, supplies, administration) associated with running a daycare.
Childcare is an absurdly labor-intensive business and I don’t know how to make it work for non-wealthy people without massive subsidies.
I mean that was more-or-less Werner Herzog’s natural delivery, they just had him go in and read a buncha lines; somebody decided that Basically Werner Herzog was the right fit for that character and then they went out and got him to do it.
(I imagine this is how Stephen Tobolowsky gets many of his acting jobs too)
I wouldn’t discount Harris’ innate advantages there too; he was 10 years older than Gambon, aged more poorly (having been an alcoholic hellraiser in his younger years), and his natural delivery - even when he was much younger - had that sort-of wizened wheezing sound to it; “old and physically frail but with incredible magic power” was sort of baked in even before he added any actual acting to the mix.
But I don’t know if there’s an alternative who would have been better in that regard; the three I’m aware of them talking about were Christopher Lee, Ian McKellen, and Peter O’Toole, but the latter two would have played him very much like Gambon did, and I’m not sure if Lee could have pulled off “frail” either given his voice + physical stature.
One of Chief O’Brien’s more elaborate holodeck simulations
With him, Richard Harris, Robbie Coltrane, and Alan Rickman all gone, the only members of the Hogwarts Professor Tontine left are Maggie Smith and Warwick Davis.
Can’t wait until my King Arthur AI-Generated Flour turns out to be a 5 pound bag of uncut cocaine.
I got a FEVAH… and the ONLY PRESCRIPTION… is MORE DEAD RUSSIAN FLAG OFFICERS
When the “disagreement” is that your nosy Boomer Karen coworkers mis-gender you or disapprove of the way you live your life or think it’s NBD that by the time you’re their age we’re going to be in the “find out” phase of the biggest disaster to hit Earth’s biosphere in 65 million years, the problem isn’t really with Gen Z.
This is wonderful. Churches are one place where the 1st Amendment is so mighty that even the current Supreme Court would be reluctant to weaken it for the sake of politics; they can teach whatever they like and Ron DeSantis can’t do a damn thing about it, and I hope they take full advantage of that.
(Perhaps some progressive white churches might join them in teaching about Black history and gender issues and other stuff students are no longer allowed to learn about in school)
xkcd still has the best approach to this; four random common words