When I worked for Large Oil Company, there was a method for computing your target salary that amounted to this. Your raise was some fraction of the difference between your target and actual salary. This allowed your manager to congratulate you regardless.
Big raise: Hey, you got a big raise!
Tiny raise: Hey, you already got to your target salary!
It's interesting that SCOTUS ruled with no objections on this purely hypothetical case, while Thomas, Gorsuch, and Alito rejected the much more real (and constitutionally important) independent state legislature case as moot.
The same three dissented from denial in pandemic-era cases that the Court declined to hear, but we don’t know how they would have voted if those cases had been heard.
On “Ten Things I Think After Watching Oppenheimer”
I really want to see Rusty Venture as Kurt Godel.
On “Thursday Throughput: Aspartame Edition”
The ugly answer would be that it can crack public-key encryption that fast.
On “Rule of Tod Video Playback: Campaign Silly Season Edition”
I'm recovering from my second bout with Covid , so if it was genetically engineered to spare Jews, someone screwed up.
On “Fear And Loathing And Commentary On Gun Buying”
As for the word tactical, it means, “adroit in planning or maneuvering to accomplish a purpose.”
Sure, here's an adroit in planning or maneuvering to accomplish a purpose shirt.
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On “Rule of Tod Video Playback: Campaign Silly Season Edition”
Remember Fitzmas?
On “Trump Says He Is Target of Investigation, No, The Other One”
Now some of his henchmen have been indicted as well.
https://kdhnews.com/news/nation/michigan-charges-16-fake-electors-for-donald-trump-with-election-law-and-forgery-felonies/article_29b4491c-4326-5d3e-82cb-7a75a75a770c.html
On “Sunday Morning! King Lear by William Shakespeare”
That would be illegal in Tennessee.
On “Open Mic for the week of 7/17/2023”
Surely it should be a themem.
On “What I’m Looking for in a 2024 Candidate”
That he would have left willingly when his term was up is a "hunch".
On “Sunday Morning! King Lear by William Shakespeare”
Or something dumb like the Fool being played by the same actor as a character who's more needed in the last couple acts.
On “The Disturbing New Labor Trend: Skilljacking”
When I worked for Large Oil Company, there was a method for computing your target salary that amounted to this. Your raise was some fraction of the difference between your target and actual salary. This allowed your manager to congratulate you regardless.
Big raise: Hey, you got a big raise!
Tiny raise: Hey, you already got to your target salary!
On “AITA For Not Telling My Girlfriend About My Hobby?”
It's reminiscent of all the films where we're not supposed to notice that a female character is gorgeous until she takes her glasses off.
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I guessed who Dwayne was, but it took way too long to see where his name came from.
On “DeSantis is Fading”
Strong candidate for the GOP nomination if only he were 35.
https://twitter.com/National_RU/status/1677512091853557760
On “AITA For Not Telling My Girlfriend About My Hobby?”
You do not want Dwayne mad at you.
On “A Paucity Of Limits, By Stipulation: 303 Creative v Elenis”
Scalia was upset that Lawrence preemptively decriminalized masturbation,
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All religious beliefs are protected by the Constitution equally. It just happens that Christian beliefs about sexuality are more equal than others.
On “Why the 303 Creative Decision Was Not About A Hypothetical”
But preclearance for VRA violations was tossed in Shelby County, because fair elections aren't as important as web site designs.
On “On Fraud, Standing, and “Stewart and Mike” Not Getting Their Day in Court”
It's interesting that SCOTUS ruled with no objections on this purely hypothetical case, while Thomas, Gorsuch, and Alito rejected the much more real (and constitutionally important) independent state legislature case as moot.
On “SCOTUS Strikes Again”
Under a merit-based system, every white and Asian kid will get in.
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The Roberts Court, after ignoring the plain language of the 15th in gutting the VRA, has earned no assumption of good faith on racial matters.
On “The Supreme Court Just Killed Independent State Legislature Theory”
The same three dissented from denial in pandemic-era cases that the Court declined to hear, but we don’t know how they would have voted if those cases had been heard.
Sure we do.
On “SCOTUS Rules in Moore v Harper Election Case: Read It For Yourself”
It would be pretty hypocritical of Kavanaugh to outlaw all federal oversight of state elections after asking for it in 2000.
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I knew that 2 of the 3 were Alito and Thomas. So did you. (Third one is Gorsuch, which is not a huge surprise.)
On “Sunday Morning! Richard III by William Shakespeare”
But East Germany was good at making computer memory.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDR_SDRAM