Establishmentarian

@michaelmalice I mean they are basically warehouses for computer hardware, what are they supposed to look like? It’s basically an industrial area now, idiot those aren’t very beautiful.

I'm driving through "data center alley" in Virginia for the first time and it's the most dystopian architecture I've ever seen--and I've been to north Korea

@1lynnanderson51 @JoJoFromJerz Most homeland security secretary’s aren’t trained law enforcement or intelligence personnel. Their job is to manage the organization and direct policy. Ideally they should relevent experience in national security policy, but it’s not as if Kristi Noem had that

@glnott @JoJoFromJerz Not to make an overstatement, but a specialty of Homeland Security Secretaries is spotting it when folks are keeping secrets, so it seems surprising to have failed to notice balloons taped to your husband’s chest, in a 30 year marriage.

Bull. Fucking. Shit. We’re supposed to believe that someone who was in charge of the Department of Homeland Security didn’t know that a man living in her HOME was a cross-dresser?!?

@nick_field90 @TheChrisSuprun He can use seats reserved for the Solicitor General’s office

@TheChrisSuprun You think he's gonna wait in line for a ticket?

What if the Supreme Court doesn't want him to attend? What's the jurisdiction between the Court's security and Secret Service? x.com/PollTracker202…

@captgouda24 You don’t want to incentivize people to hang onto cash

Does anyone have a satisfactory answer as to why?

@rkeuler @jawillick Your right, I forgot this other more likely scenario.

@glnott @jawillick Those aren’t typos. The brackets mean that Justice Gorsuch changed something about the original word he’s quoting from Justice Jackson. For example, changing write to writing, or yes to Yes.

Justice Gorsuch is the master of scathing quote marks.

@kevsaucebro It does not take longer than 3 years to build a single family home in most cases, but if your talking about urban zoning than yes, it is faster for the Federal Government because they are immune from local regulations on federal property

even aside from everything else wrong with this it should infuriate every living American that it takes less time to build a massive ballroom at the White House than it does to build a home

@prinkasusa Sounds like depression.

WHAT IS IT CALLED WHEN YOU’RE NOT SUICIDAL BUT JUST REALLY TIRED OF BEING ALIVE?

My grandfather was an involved alumnus at another major national private university, and when he attended it cost $1000.00 a year, which seemed expensive compared to his state flagship school which was $600 a year (just tuition, neither included living costs), when he asked them in the 2000’s why they kept raising the sticker price tuition (which most students don’t actually pay), he was told “because we can, and because it looks good to applicants to get a large discount”.

@BBCNews My intuition as an Attorney is elementary aged children would be very plaintiff/prosecution friendly. They tend to be very into “right and wrong” and rules.

Meet the pupils teaching speeders a lesson in Kids Court bbc.in/3PDJwAa

@ColePerryTN It’s true that most don’t, but GW is one of the elitish schools where a decent portion do pay sticker price. NYU has a similar reputation.

“GW costs $100K” makes for a great headline, but the worst-kept secret is that almost nobody pays sticker price. Still, the pricing power to charge that much for what many “students” treat as an internship crash pad is kind of hilarious.

Is the “Shield of the Americas” a eponym for Kristi Noem’s husband’s breast plate?

Obviously humanities classes should involve a lot of reading, but I also think it’s useful for professors to actually assign what is a reasonable amount of reading if they expect their students to complete all of it. These texts are usually dense and require close reading so 20-30 pages an hour is probably about as fast as you can expect an undergrad to closely read them (faster if you’re fine with skimming). So for a 4 credit college class where 8-12 hours of out of class work a week would be expected, it’s probably reasonable to assign up to 200-300 pages of reading a week, assuming no other out of class work is due like a paper or other project. Keep in mind most college students are taking 16 credits a semester so somone majoring in the humanities might then be expected to read 600-800 pages a week, which is a lot for anyone, and frankly it’s hard to blame students if they are complaining in these circumstances.

Harvard faculty report that they've had to "trim some readings and drop others entirely, switch from novels to short stories, and that it’s difficult to keep assigning reading in the face of increasing student complaints."

It was especially weird because his own Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel publically published an opinion stating this was not lawful. Usually if they are going to ignore the opinion it is not published, or if they change their minds they publish a new one. So the President was taking a legal position that was in opposition to what his own lawyers told him and allowed that to be public knowledge.

Today I'm affirming what I have long believed and what three-fourths of the states have ratified: The 28th Amendment is the law of the land, guaranteeing all Americans equal rights and protections under the law regardless of their sex.

@DrFrancisYoung Except for the time period where many Protestants did not adopt the Gregorian Calendar untill much later resulting in them having differnt dates for everything.

This is no great mystery; all Protestants are still Latin Rite Christians (albeit idiosyncratic ones), and at the bare minimum acknowledge the Papacy's authority to determine the date of Easter

I was only allowed to watch tv as a young child if my parents were sleeping (my mother thought I was saintly 3 year old for encouraging her to nap when my little brother was born, but really I wanted to watch a movie 😂), and That was a pretty good incentive for letting my parents sleep in the morning. Of course that was the era when you could turn the TV on by pushing a butten and then pushing another butten to search the chancels for somthing entertaining.

I've noticed amongst friends who have little kids that they are basically forced into waking up when they do. When I was little I remember v clearly knowing that we shouldn't go and wake parents until at least 9am on a weekend, and generally entertaining ourselves in the morning

If you use Hogwarts, though as an example of how big the schools are Hogwarts actually had a pretty small student body so even like the all of Asia school would not be bigger than a large American public high school. So maybe it’s less unbelievable than people think. ( I still think it’s dumb)

Obviously JK Rowling isn't interested in "worldbuilding" and she isn't very good at it when she tries, but this map isn't totally crazy to me. All this really says is that most of the world's magic-users don't attend formalized wizarding boarding schools. Which seems plausible!

@kisstheblade_ It would not be unusual as part of a British Private School Uniform. They have far stranger ones.

You know, it's been forever since I watched these movies and it didn't strike me as weird at the time, but why the fuck is Dudley wearing an old-timey fancy boy straw hat.

@DIGWOMANNN He’s a new dad, probably came to the Island extremely sleep deprived.

why does christian look like he’s been on that beach three months longer than the rest of his tribe