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Should be a wild four years.

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Some Dickens is sure, but the first 7 paragraphs of Bleak House are comedic art, a (British-)funny painting of London's court system made in words instead of paint.
It also offers a unique insight into the minds of people of this era with the reference to the megalosaurus. Bleak House was written roughly two decades after the discovery of dinosaurs and the popular lore that had developed around them was that they had died in the biblical flood. So Bleak House' reference to it being almost as if the flood waters had recently receded, followed by how easy it could be to imagine the dinosaur waddling up Holborn Hill like an elephantine lizard shows us that ordinary Victorians had enough of an interest in dinosaurs for them to flit into their heads on miserable days, and it shows us popular presumption about them. It's a really interesting tidbit about the period that would otherwise be lost.

Additionally, and it won't be obvious just from reading the passage, but the long description of fog in the city and surrounds, is the very first description of urban fog (smog) in all of literature. So sure, a modern reader may read it as boring, but at the time readers would have for the very first time in their lives have seen this phenomenon that they were familiar with if they lived in cities, or may not even have been aware of the existence of if they lived rurally, put into words on paper. It's easy for us to dismiss it as too much descriptive prose, but contemporaneously, it was doing something amazing. To the point that following on from Bleak House, this fog became a staple of gothic fiction.

The prose in Bleak House is dense and it's a far cry from the type of tightly edited, straight to the action writing we're used to. But it's also straightforward, and with just a little care can be easily deciphered. It's not like trying to figure out what the hell is going on in Benjy's section of The Sound and the Fury.
 
A whole carrier group? That may or may not be overkill.
There is no 'overkill.' There is only 'open fire' and 'reload.' -- The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries #37
Some 12 monkeys styled psycho has been breeding lone star ticks. I think one dude has already been caught releasing them.
What plague would that spread? Wasn't there some tick spread bioweapon that makes people allergic to meat? I could see those psychopaths trying to fix the "meat problem" by just making everyone violently allergic to it.

What kind of loser works for 25k a year legit? You have to actively scam and cheat the system to live off that amount.

15 an hour 40 hours a week has you make over 30k btw. So a wage slave at McDonalds might be too wealthy for it. Also if you have a job you have to take the employers plan if it checks the boxes and cant go on the exchange.

Only people i have seen get the Obamacare shit to work was grad students and waiters who didnt report their tips. Also scam niggers who maxed ebt too while not reporting income streams.
Companies often don't give 40 hours a week anymore. Anything over 32 requires they provide insurance, so they cap their staff at 32 + whatever free work they can force them to do without clocking in.
 
my brother in Christ, there is no law or provision ANYWHERE that allows anyone to "bomb a pirate vessel in international waters"

MOST CHARITABLE UNDERSTANDING is your attempting to say we have the right to stop them from doing what they are doing, you dont just fucking sink boats in the open ocean, atleast you arent supposed to. you board and arrest unless your at war dipshit.

you dont get it both ways, it can be based and cool to kill people in international waters but it also not be a war and also have no legal justification other than "hey we called them a terrorist before we bombed them"

Im not even arguing if its right or wrong to do this, im just saying its defiantly illegal, extrajudicial killing. I kinda think its based to but its also 100% crossing the Rubicon. if we can do that we can bomb cartel haciendas who actually do real damage to America.
You are for some reason operating from a perspective that nobody is allowed to do anything until the law authorizes it, but the opposite is true: there is no law that says we cannot bomb pirates in the sea, and no force that is stopping us, therefore we can do it and it's legal. "International law" is a polite fiction and 100% reliant on the grace of the people with the power to uphold it, which happens to be us in this case, and all this is moot anyway because blowing up pirates in the open sea is explicitly allowed under international treaties
 
I think the Venzuela is in part to set a carrot-and-stick example for the rest of the hemisphere
play ball and you get money like chainsaw man, don't and get missiles like maduro

I could read before I got to kindergarten, and don't really remember much of how they taught kids to read, beyond simply reading, lol. But, surely, anyone my age (50s) can remember the Hooked on Phonics commercials from the late 80s and early 90s. They were everywhere in those days.
I was a Primary Phonics guy, but yeah even by 80s elementary I was the freak because I could read in a functional way

wtf now I hate being against dual citizenship?
 
Just meeting the bar of "understanding the text literally" makes you a proficient reader for this study and only 4 out of 85 English majors (only 1 of 30 seniors!) were able to achieve that lofty goal. It explains so much about the world in general that the vast majority of people (how could the rate for general society be any higher than this?) aren't even capable of understanding the direct meaning of words and sentences.
English majors who cannot decipher Dickens should be made to read A Pickle for the Knowing Ones until they learn from their mistakes.

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Aaaaaaand, predictably, the judge has now also granted the motion to speed up proceedings on All The Things again. Defendants have two days now to respond to All The Things, plaintiffs will reply Monday, and then the Big Hearing of All Hearings will occur on Tuesday (wherein also, presumably "the merits" will finally see their day in court). 🙄

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Update on the RIFs case (reductions in force, firings of government employees during the shutdown). Last night the defense (Trump admin) submitted their opposition/response to the motion for preliminary injunction filed by the plaintiffs (the unions). It is thirty pages long, which is a shame because the Clinton-appointed lady judge in the Northern District of California will not bother to read it.
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Also last night, the defense filed its opposition/response to the motion for plaintiffs to amend their complaint yet again. It's only five pages, but the judge still won't read it.
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The union lawyers are expected to file their hysterical replies on Monday, and then the Big Hearing Covering Everything will commence on Tuesday, at which time the judge will undoubtedly ignore everything the admin lawyers have to say and declare that "everything [the union lawyer] just said is what I'm ruling," as she literally did in the last hearing, and that nobody can be fired no matter what. 🙄
 

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There is no 'overkill.' There is only 'open fire' and 'reload.' -- The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries #37
I think there is a bit of 28 in effect here too. "If the price of collateral damage is high enough, you might be able to get paid for bringing ammunition home with you."
 
That's why I'm sus on that reading comprehension test. Reading engagement is very necessary to comprehension and Dickens is not very entertaining. That's why South Park sticks metal newspapers and robot monkeys and Genesis devices into Great Expectations.

If you're an English major, reading and understanding English text is supposed to be what you're better at than other people. Yeah, high school calculus was boring, but if you're a math major and struggle with basic bitch product rule derivatives, you should probably have your degree rescinded.
 
What plague would that spread? Wasn't there some tick spread bioweapon that makes people allergic to meat? I could see those psychopaths trying to fix the "meat problem" by just making everyone violently allergic to it.
It's that. The meat thing, Fatpaks was talking about. Some vegan biology major got busted trying to release a bunch of them I think in the north east US.
 
You are for some reason operating from a perspective that nobody is allowed to do anything until the law authorizes it, but the opposite is true: there is no law that says we cannot bomb pirates in the sea, and no force that is stopping us, therefore we can do it and it's legal. "International law" is a polite fiction and 100% reliant on the grace of the people with the power to uphold it, which happens to be us in this case, and all this is moot anyway because blowing up pirates in the open sea is explicitly allowed under international treaties
It's why the USA is the global hegemon. We kill pirates. Have done.

If you travel the open waters under no flag, with a mind to transgress others, then you are considered an enemy to all and are afforded the same legal rights as a cockroach.

It's pretty funny that all these narcos need to do to not get blown up is to fly a false flag. Then the military would need to attempt contract before pushing the button on them.
 
The union lawyers are expected to file their hysterical replies on Monday, and then the Big Hearing Covering Everything will commence on Tuesday, at which time the judge will undoubtedly ignore everything the admin lawyers have to say and declare that "everything [the union lawyer] just said is what I'm ruling," as she literally did in the last hearing, and that nobody can be fired no matter what. 🙄

Could she just get on with it so some superior court can stay her odious order, the government can go ahead with its reduction in fuckwits, and several months from now a real judge can explain to the formerly fired fuckwits that this judge was high on her own farts and that they actually have no case and will remain reduced.
 
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