Mom, I want an aim bot!

But we have aim bots at home.

The aim bots at home.

That’s super underselling it. Open Financial Exchange OFX is still the go-to for markets and banks to exchange information with various end user devices. ISO 20022 is a standard used in banking that is XML based. Fedwire, the platform that moves money between the central banks completed transition to XML in July… of this year.

Credit reporting agencies, insurance agencies, hospitals, medicare, medicaid, massive amounts of the entire global logistics industry are heavily using XML with no plans in the near future to move off of it. Like the network that handles auto insurance claims and reporting them to people like LexisNexus is all XML.

Like it’s impossible to cover just how much of this planet runs on XML.

She can’t resign from a job she never legally held.

That’s like this kind of interaction in a race:

I’m sorry sir, we’re disqualifying your car from racing today. It seems to have a jet engine attached to it and we don’t know how that got by inspection. But it’s not allowed in the rules.

Oh well that’s easy to explain, I just didn’t take my car by inspection. I just drove it out here and told everyone I’m here to race. It’s a race, correct? Well I’m here to race with the best of them.

That doesn’t sound like you’re an actual participant in this race then. You should not be here and I’ll have to ask you to leave.

Leave? Perish the thought. I officially withdraw from this race. scoffs Clearly you are not ready for innovative takes on race car design.

Well it seems you weren’t in the race to begin with, but by whatever means, please see your way out.

That is what this whole thing summarized is…

The leaders behind EPIC City have engaged in a radical plot to destroy hundreds of acres of beautiful Texas land and line their own pockets

— Texas AG Ken Paxton

That’s really odd for a State that has regularly written off all the various pollution Musk does over at his launchpad. And of course that ignores the obvious anything and everything that has anything to with oil production there.

Don’t worry I do the same thing a lot.

For the purpose of sections 203, 205, 207, 208, and 209 of this title the term “special Government employee” shall mean an officer or employee of the executive or legislative branch of the United States Government, of any independent agency of the United States or of the District of Columbia, who is retained, designated, appointed, or employed to perform, with or without compensation, for not to exceed one hundred and thirty days during any period of three hundred and sixty-five consecutive days

— 18 USC § 202(a)

Highlight is mine, but yes. There’s a limit of 130 days.

Mike Johnson accused Democrats of “cherry pick[ing] three emails out of 20,000 documents” to “try and imply that the president was guilty.”

Buttery emails anyone?

Most aren’t up in 2026. So don’t forget this.

All they have to do is say, ‘Let’s go. Let’s open up our country.’ And everything snaps back into shape.

Except it doesn’t. There’s several cuts that have been made to the budget. While ACA has been the most visible because of the Democrat’s demands. There are cuts that will remove 3 million people from SNAP. $300 Billion removed from Federal education grants to various schools around the country, including rural schools that severe small populations.

The ACA cut has been the one that Democrats have really dug in on, but the OBBBA has tons of cuts that are going to affect everyone. And Democrats have been asking since March to have a seat at the table for shaping what was in OBBBA only to have all their motions to bring to the floor denied.

And that’s the thing. Everyone knew that Senate Democrats were going to be needed for the coming CR. They knew this all the way back in March. By May House Republicans started shutting out Democrats and Senate Democrats told them what was going to happen if the House kept pushing Democrats out of everything. They knew what was coming and they still did it.

Republicans don’t get to do the “my way or the highway thing”, even when the ACA went into effect there were Republican riders that were enacted along with it. Build Back Better included plenty of pork projects for red states. Inflation Reduction Act helped out tons of deep red districts. I’m sure everyone remembers the member of Congress who voted against it but then told constituents how great it was going to be.

Democrats help out Republicans, and the OBBBA completely shutting Democrats out of the process isn’t how Congress does things. So yeah, Republicans are seeing the result of their choices. And they have the opportunity to make different choices.

I always get a laugh from Prisencolinensinainciusol by Adriano Celentano. But that’s “sorta English” so a language I don’t speak is probably J’en ai marre by Alizée.

A glass of water. About an hour later a cup of coffee. For lunch I usually have a slice of bread toasted, with butter and jam followed by a cup of coffee.

This pretty much every day.

That last bit of “This is nothing like what it’s like at night. It’s really bad!”

Oh my god princess. They’re blasting music and dancing in inflated costumes. For fuck sake, talk about snowflakes.

Stephen Miller may have just accidentally confirmed that he, not President Donald Trump, is the one calling the shots in regard to deportation raids and National Guard deployments.

Wait was this an actual question? Yes, Trump’s brains are mush. Dude likely couldn’t recall what’s on a tortilla and beef only taco.

There are zero ways that Trump is actually calling jack shit.

Alternate headline: Pam Bondi proves that she can’t independently think.

LOL. That’s not even a real ask. It’s like if I walked into work tomorrow and asked for a 200% raise.

His handlers are showing him exactly what they need him to see.

Same thing I was saying about Trump leaving in 2020. He might be gone, but the people who found him useful aren’t. Whatever we attribute to Trump, the thing to remember is that Trump is just the outlet. There’s a whole wellspring that is the source of his vitriol.

Lindsey Halligan. She’s an interim AG. When this filling was going down, she had been on the job as a prosecutor for four days.

Her previous experience is an insurance attorney. So, yeah, going to be a lot more of these “oopsies” along the way.

arguing that decided cases are not “the gospel,”

This is correct, but not in the sense that he provides. Society changes, what was okay before may not be okay now. Weighing precedent and modern society is a careful process. Tossing off precedent should have justification for why it’s being shrug and there needs to a preponderance that this is indeed the shift of society.

Walking in and saying, “well we should just outright critical” is absolutely not the way to do it. Overturning previous case law should happen, but that shouldn’t be the fucking default. And when you do overturn previous case law, you really need to bring a fuck ton of support, not, “meh we changed our mind.” Being a contrarian for sake of rocking the boat isn’t how our highest court should operate.

A representation of a binuclear compound of element 10^(56) with an average bond length of 100 quintillion angstroms.

Okay that was funny.

When they bring up Murthy v. Missouri it’s always good to remind them what the Supreme Court said.

To establish standing, the plaintiffs must demonstrate a substantial risk that, in the near future, they will suffer an injury that is traceable to a government defendant and redressable by the injunction they seek. Because no plaintiff has carried that burden, none has standing to seek a preliminary injunction.