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TwiceHorn

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  1. You're not wrong, whatever its origins, it has acquired that spelling and meaning. https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/to-the-manner-born.html
  2. I really don't have a single problem with that.
  3. And guess whose cars won't be bought by anyone else in the world.
  4. It had already been reported that when Meta went fishing for training material, it used torrents and bootleg websites to download pirated/infringing copies in a knowing fashion. That has not been reported in connection with any of the other AI training infringement cases.
  5. And. https://www.txdmv.gov/motorists/register-your-vehicle
  6. The problem with statutory damages is that the Copyright must be registered prior to the commencement of infringement, which is often not the case. Meta seems to have been exceptionally brazen in their infringement for training purposes.
  7. So Trump, via Lutnick, is proposing a patent tax based on their value for deficit reduction. https://ipwatchdog.com/2025/07/28/purported-plan-charge-patent-owners-percentage-patent-value-fraught-peril/id=190705/ As patent blogger Prof. Dennis Crouch says "trading innovation policy for deficit reduction." First, an infinitesimally small percentage of patents generate revenue and even then valuation is a hazardous proposition and not something USPTO or Department of Commerce is well-positioned to do. Just idiocy.
  8. What appears to be an actual narrow neck makes me think cottonmouth. But nerodia can do one hell of a cottonmouth imitation when they flatten their heads.
  9. Well said. This notion has been percolating just under my cortex for some time.
  10. There's a note about the colors, but not the whole thing.
  11. Probably worth pointing out that her petition for certiorari, the main brief, was filed April 10. The government delayed responding until July, making that, her REPLY brief due two weeks later, or today.
  12. Those far exurbs are still rurals at heart
  13. All the train/station/portal shit in volume 3 is getting on my last nerve. I still like the story arc and the characters, but that plot device is an absolute beating and I don't think very well written or explained.
  14. Yeah, ya old fucking asshole, use that internet to check some prices and news outside of Cali. Fucking dumbfuck.
  15. The Non-Prosecution Agreement
  16. Frau Von Der Leyen is a generation older than Tulsi and far more accomplished in every way (privileged too).
  17. Imagine being a female stateswoman/politician who fought all kinds of adversity and basically had to be twice as good as any "comparable" man and have to listen to that stupid, unserious fucking pig as the "leader of the free world."
  18. Well, as to 2), the OU spy was not DC Larry Lacewell, but was arranged by Larry Lacewell. And Lacewell was on Chuck Fairbanks' staff before Switzer came. But he followed Switzer to the Cowboys, so he was pretty firmly a Switzer guy. I was wrong about that, he was with the Cowboys under Johnson and stuck under Switzer.
  19. Cody Campbell, who is trying to singlehandedly bigdog Tceh into the haves, but knows it can only go so far. I am troubled by SCORE, as reported above, to the extent it relies on NCAA for enforcement. NCAA is a classic example of a captured agency. I'd like to see SCORE be enforceable by criminal authorities, the DOE or something similar, and private civil suit.
  20. There isn't any. There are some emails contemporeaneous with the election that "admit" that Russia did not interfere with election INFRASTRUCTURE, that is, voting machines. But everyone rational knows that it wasn't that kind of interference anyway. Oh, and the Steel Dossier was attached to some report with disclaimers that it shouldn't be relied upon. ETA scottsins covered it above.
  21. Yeah, the stupid and cruel has always been there and always will be. Gaussian distribution out front . . . . It demonstrates the importance of leadership.
  22. Well, politicians everywhere lie their asses off to a greater or lesser degree. You'd never get a representative government to criminalize lies by politicians, ie by themselves. Every country in the world shares this foundational weakness. There are other weaknesses relating to politician behavior and regulation that are a much bigger deal. The greater "foundational weakness" is an electorate that accepts lies great and small without ever holding that particular politician to account for them.
  23. Also interesting to see a coyote that's well-fed and healthy.
  24. Probably true but that is an allegation from the lawsuit against her.
  25. And all of those expenses are completely fabricated by social media.
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