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  1. Oh yes it is. Suck it Tom. Gobble it right on down, get every fuckng drop, you lickspittle.
  2. Not all STEM is the same. Some of it, including medicine, includes massive amounts of memorization, in addition to analytical application of that information. Most engineering, on the other hand, doesn't ask you to memorize shit, it's all analytical application. One thing in common, though, most STEM reading is dense, hyper-factual stuff, nothing that asks you to accept or reject or criticize it. It's pretty much 100% "this is it." You rarely if ever compare and contrast histories, authors, philosophies, politics or policy. Except in your 12 hours of electives, which most STEM people do well on. So, you're still thinking, and actually in a way that's quite analogous to critical thinking. But you aren't "practicing" it, so to speak, on subjective subject matter. And, I think whoever posted about taking mental shortcuts on non-essential (ie non-work-related) information, e.g. news, is spot on. Probably a habit that develops during school.
  3. That would be the erratic part.
  4. Think you read that backward. He wants to hate on them. Dre has been erratic, but with bursts of great. Jaden is basically a JAG. No reason to hate. EDIT Oh, 100% wrong. I read you wrong. Soz mate.
  5. As posted on one of the other tariff threads, the irony of being accused of inconsistency by an Asian counter-party is thick. Although, to be fair, Japan apparently has more "westernized" its approach to contracts and negotiations than, say, China.
  6. https://www.reuters.com/business/japan-voice-concern-over-us-trade-deal-inconsistency-pm-ishiba-says-2025-04-21/ The irony of being accused of inconsistency in a negotiation by an Asian counter-party.
  7. I would expect, of course, that this is the subject of discovery requests in the litigation. But very good point as to why the media and watchdogs aren't pressing the issue. Of course, Trumpco is going to hide behind executive privilege, but I don't think that holds up for anything shared with a foreign sovereign.
  8. And they love "facilitate" because they claim it has a meaning, without citation, that is to "remove domestic barriers."
  9. Such a contract would seem to be in the nature of a treaty, and thus subject to ratification by 2/3 of the Senate. Existing law acknowledges that Presidents may make "lesser" international agreements without ratification. The enforceability of them as federal or international law is questionable, and it seems clear that such agreements are voided when the President leaves office.
  10. Yep, this is what you get with political hacks instead of civil servants.
  11. That would seem to be it, yes. As usual, poorly reported by the media. I do have this vague notion that you have to move through civil contempt before going criminal.
  12. And that's before you figure in that you are some sort of consultant/1099 "employee," hired without the consent of the BoD and given extremely high-level executive functions with no vetting of your apparent conflicts of interest, no NDA or other employment agreement giving you any sort of fiduciary or contractual duty to the company. And you employ as assistants a bunch of equally or more sketchy minions that are very young and have no training or experience in executive operation of a business. Oh, and the bylaws of the corporation give the CEO no direct control over payroll and HR functions, only the ability to hire and fire the directors of those departments, with the consent of the BoD.
  13. First off, I don't trust it so I'd never use it. But legal citations, cases, form the basic "facts" from which one might synthesize a legal argument, supported by those cases. I might expect it to get the holdings of some cases wrong or say that Plessy v. Ferguson stood for the principle that equal but separate satisfies the Equal Protection Clause. I would not expect it to fabricate citations such as Captainant v. TwiceHorn, 8 Surly 223, 225 (2024). Which is what it did, apparently. I have no idea what kind of prompts these dipshits used.
  14. He also would have to stand on a box.
  15. I tend to think you're correct on this. But, Mike Flynn makes me worry.
  16. Entices? Agressor? No one is defending anyone or claiming it's anyone's fault. There's got to be more to this story regardless of whose favor the more falls on.
  17. An on-point article at just security. https://www.justsecurity.org/110614/fox-problem-deporting-international-students/ Also notes that a lot of this may be driven by AI "analysis" of visa-holder's social media and online presence. Seems to be working with the accuracy that we rightly attribute to AI. But, again, we should note that all due process is not created equal. Criminal defendants get the most due process, followed closely by those being deprived of a fundamental right. In ordinary civil proceedings not protecting a fundamental right (a job, a driver's license, a visa most likely), there are far fewer due process protections. This is not a new, fascistic development, but has been a feature (or bug) of American law for a long time, through administrations and philosophies progressive and reactionary.
  18. All valid questions. One thing, though, I'm not sure how much due process visa holders are really entitled to. But yeah, they seem to be using the same playbook for all of them.
  19. "White Americans have been suppressed for generations. We have been told to sit at the back of the bus...We are standing against Black violence against white Americans." — Jake Lang, PWA organizer and J6er. Do not kid yourselves, this kind of baldfaced lie is exactly what underlies "DEI, CRT, woke" bullshit and who and what it appeals to. This is not a reasonable debate over the merits of affirmative action (which actually may have been a thing once upon a time in America). Why can it not be couched this way? Because affirmative action is now legally dead in most respects.
  20. I think what you're driving at is that a habeas corpus petition, which we have been informed is the exclusive remedy for challenging deportation under the AEA, and maybe many other bases for deportation, is properly venued where the petitioner/detainee is detained. The administration has been playing whack-a-mole here by moving detainees around so that the venue of their habeas petition is incorrect. And also to venue the habeas petitions in friendly courts in the Fifth Circuit. Venue, though, unlike jurisdiction, doesn't affect a court's power to rule, but incorrect venue may cause reversal of the court's final order or conviction because it was ultimately the wrong place for proceedings. Thus a court in its discretion can transfer to a proper venue. So, Sessions, rather than transfer venue from Vermont to Louisiana, ordered her returned to Vermont, where she was originally detained.
  21. Well, he's LDS and I imagine based Mike Lee had something to say about it.
  22. Somewhere I saw that Boasberg's moves toward criminal contempt in the JGG case had been slapped down by the DC Circuit. Anyone have any further info?
  23. That article is, uh, remarkable. It pretends there is a standard of competence, defends the indefensible, and yet still calls out Hegseth as incompetent.
  24. Good to see. I sensed, without knowing for sure, that the integralist types didn't represent the global RCC.
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