John Laforet

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Our primary dictionary, Merriam-Webster, defines hantavirus as "any of a family (Hantaviridae and especially genus Orthohantavirus) of bunyaviruses transmitted especially by rodent feces and urine and including viruses causing serious pulmonary disease or hemorrhagic fevers marked by renal necrosis." apnews.com/article/what-t…

Warren Buffett on Charlie Munger’s hearing problem “I stood across the room and said - Charlie, we should buy General Motors at $35. No reaction.” “Got closer and repeated it. Not a flicker.” “Finally I shouted in his ear and Charlie replied - For the 3rd time, Yes.” 😂

It's shutdown, one word, as a noun, but two words when it's used as a verb, shut down. apnews.com/article/spirit…

@cselley Chris, you got a list handy of 80 year old, bilingual females from the west lying around that you’re not sharing?

Little-known fact: It is technically legal to appoint a governor general from somewhere west of Sudbury.

We added new terms to AP Stylebook Online last week: * jumpscare * fanbase * lipsync * offside * primetime All of them are styled as one word with no hyphen.

Do you put a question mark inside or outside quotation marks? That depends on the meaning. Are you asking a question about what's in quotes? Then the question mark goes outside: Who wrote "Gone With the Wind"? Is the quoted matter a question? It goes inside: He asked, "How long will it take?"

Congress watching soldiers get arrested for insider trading

Christ this dystopia is depressing

A law firm sues a client for $1.24M in unpaid legal fees. But in that litigation, the lawyer cites 23 fake cases, on 47 occasions, across 19 filings, including in a motion for sanctions against the client (!). The court also notes "at least 83 instances" where the lawyer misstated case holdings, with examples "too numerous to detail fully herein." The client defendant who allegedly owed the money says he never even signed a retainer agreement, was never invoiced, and he filed an ethics complaint against the lawyer. The court points out that the lawyer sought $50,000 in fees "for work product that appears to have been generated through the use of artificial intelligence, without adequate verification of the accuracy of the cited authorities." The court grants the client's cross-motion for sanctions against the lawyer. Sanctions hearing and order to follow.

e.g. means for example. It is always followed by a comma. i.e. is the abbreviation for the Latin "id est" or that is (to say). It is always followed by a comma, as well.

@RobynUrback @Anthony__Koch Do we think he’s coming back?

Sounds like his intended bride will be very safe, too

Let me just double click for those of you that don’t know: This is probably the #1 litigation law firm on the planet submitting AI hallucinated cases in a ~$8 billion bankruptcy case. This should be a wake up call to EVERYONE. If it can happen to them, it can happen to you!

White smoke seen from Apple Park to signify a new CEO

Daddy Tomato, Mommy Tomato, and Baby Tomato are walking down the street. Baby Tomato keeps falling behind, so Daddy Tomato says, "Catch up!" Geddit, geddit?

Books are amazing because a stranger from 200 years ago can still ruin your afternoon emotionally.

They should change the name to "Strait of Schrödinger". It's both open and closed at the same time.

@lraitt The framing on the issue is so clear, I don’t think anyone can politically afford to oppose banning it.

This is a very impactful piece of creative. Grabbed my attention and I watched it to the end.

@washingtonpost His teenage children were home during the shooting. They are his victims as well.

Breaking news: Former Virginia lieutenant governor Justin Fairfax had been ordered to leave his family’s home and lost custody of his two children in the weeks before he killed his wife — and then himself — in their home early Thursday. wapo.st/4tWzokZ

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