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The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers ~~instinctively feel like doing~~ logically determine to do, after rigorous examination, for their babies is the best after all.

-Mr. Spock's Baby and Child Care

Even this can use some aditional context. SCOTUS took away a tool, nationwide injunctions, that judges were using to pause executive actions by presidents in both parties. They said that a class action was more appropriate, and a District Court judge has already certified a class for people affected by the birthright citizenship EO, and its accompanying injunction should go into effect by the end of the week.

This SCOTUS has been insanely cowardly in not taking on this stuff head-on, but I do tend to think that that other than Thomas and Alito, they think much of this shit is unconstitutional, so they're intentionally slow-playing it with narrow rulings, hoping the mid-terms and public opinion will save them from having to piss off Papa Trump and the MAGAs. It's disgraceful because it's hurting the country and real people, but hopefully it's not unfixable in a structural sense.

Agreed, which probably means they were on it because of stuff like documented previous flooding (like when it flooded in the fuckin' 80s and girls died) and that makes it all the more egregious that they worked to get themselves off of it. The camp owner is starting to seem less like a hero and more like someone feeling fully warranted shame and fearing divine judgment.

We lost our "young senior" heeler mix unexpectedly a few weeks ago, from seizures, either due to simple epilepsy or maybe Old Dog Distemper since he spent an unknown amount of time as a stray when he was young. He too made the choice for us, declining rapidly overnight at the animal hospital, to the point where they don't think his brain ever truly woke up fro the cluster seizures, though I understand that also means he likely felt nothing.

It's been very hard, even with the legitimate joy of bringing a new puppy in. Thoughts are with you in a tough, tough time, and I think we want to relate our stories just to let you know there are people who truly empathize.

You're right, though the melodrama and swashbuckling of Space Opera definitely lend themselves more towards the soft sci-fi/sci-fantasy end of the spectrum. Sort of, "if the characters and plots don't need to bear much relation to the real world, why should the setting?"

Our new guy is a mutt (Embark DNA pending) and is still in the goony velociraptor phase, but he already plays with the older one there (only about 4, though) largely by driving him and nipping at heels, and he's learned to abuse the strap of "potty jinglebells" on the back door just to ask out to hunt for june bugs and investigate everything.

Oh, and our last pup who passed away was mostly Heeler and while he decided after a period as a stray that his ass wasn't going anywhere he didn't absolutely have to, he also did a great death-glare, making me question my life choices deep down to my soul. 🤣

And in particular, this product is a vanity computerized exhaust that almost certainly has at least one setting that violates Singapore's new noise restrictions, and possibly the emissions standards.

While even 6 days of actual jail for three motorcycles (and maybe that's all they could prove?) hits me as a little harsh, it also seems like the sort of thing Singaporeans have always dealt with for offenses that affect the QoL for other people. Not saying it was "justice" per se, but this is not the hill to die on, and it seems this guy fucked around and then found out.

My completely unfounded hunch is Cornyn’s people found some dirt, or they just promised her something to weaponize the marriage. She’s almost as awful as her husband is, and Cornyn too — especially during primary season — but keeping Ken Paxton out of the US senate is a legitimately good thing.

We have a hose from the "Flexzilla" brand. I'm not sure if it was any amazing deal or anything, and we haven't used it heavily I guess, but it has lasted four seasons with only sun-bleaching to show. Traditional garden hoses never lasted that long for us.

At this point the only way to realistically get that squeeze is to create more districts that are "very safe" versus "locked in," and at least some Republicans will push back to save their own skin. Texas won't need to go blue for this to backfire or at least be of minimal impact.

This is as close as I get to optimism about state politics though.

Also the only food whose squeak can give cheese curds or calamari a run for their auditory money.

Given the quote is from a Democrat state senator, I am guessing at least part of him agrees.

The level of sheer incompetence is also extremely impressive. Evil populist Trump is getting outcompeted by evil-smoothbrain trump that can't understand anything other than bullet points and sounbdbites:

“There’s pressure on the ice agents to be able to pick up 900,000 people in the next six months, which I think is physically impossible,” said Senator Jimenez.

The sheer enormousness of the utterly arbitrary number has meant they've had to eat so many more faces than is politically prudent, to say nothing of it being fucking awful. The leopards are going to get sick. Assuming we still have actual midterm elections, Stephen Miller and Laura Loomer are going to ethnically cleanse the republicans out of the majority.