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James Nostack
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See? Very slow but real improvement. Thank you!
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Reluctant law-monger
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James Nostack
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See? Very slow but real improvement. Thank you!
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James Nostack
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It has certainly exposed me to a viewpoint I much too often take for granted. I'm genuinely grateful for all the people on here talking about their needs. Educating stupid people like me shouldn't be necessary but it seems like one of the better ways to make generational change
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James Nostack
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I can't imagine how much it would suck to, for example, work out the "isolate your voice so listeners don't hear background noise" trick, and then have that tucked away where no one will ever find it
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James Nostack
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All you need to arrest someone is probable goddamn cause, Merrick! Tell me how you didn't have that on Jan 21, Merrick! Oh, you're worried about speedy trial time? Okay, sure, here is your evidence: [motherfucker admits to committing crime on cross when you say he's too dumb to do crimes]
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James Nostack
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As a lawyer, I normally feel pretty cynical about my profession, but these last 2-3 years have been really rough. Bush v. Gore was a joke of a decision but it kinda stood alone for years. Now there's several of them a year
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Django Wexler
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Every morning I check the news and it's like -SCOTUS Eliminates Three More Basic Rights, Only Six Remain -President Mispronounces a Word, Will Now Lose Election to Senile Hitler -New AI Company Uses Artist Blood to Let Billionaires and Racists Live Forever, Gets $45 Billion Valuation
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James Nostack
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I didn't pay much attention in Psych 101. Someone remind me what happens if you ask the guy with uncontrollable Oppositional Defiance Disorder not to be an asshole.
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James Nostack
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The fascist political project--and I guess that's now mainstream US Republicanism--is to make a mockery of the rule of law, of the very idea of rational policies practiced fairly for the common good. Getting the Supreme Court to destroy the rule of law, though, is just A+ comic book supervillainy
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James Nostack
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What are the hours?
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Peter F Fulton
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James Nostack
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There is no problem that can't be solved with a high enough Deception score. And if it can't be solved that way you've just made the situation more screwed up which is fun too.
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James Nostack
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I mean, one side believes in worldwide liberation from racism, sexism, and capitalist oppression; the other side thinks the problem with Gilead is that there wasn't enough corruption. Horseshoe theory if your horse's foot is horribly deformed
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James Nostack
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I do think it's interesting that they've created a Cocktail Party Intelligence. I know fuckall about anything, but I can fake it and blather about most things for 5 minutes. We're really credulous about this stuff, if you use the right vocabulary, syntax, and draw in a left-field connection.
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James Nostack
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One of the things that drove me crazy when I was doing criminal defense work was that The System had zero resources to keep kids from going astray.... but the instant they took one wrong step, there was an almost unlimited budget to destroy their lives and the lives of their loved ones.
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James Nostack
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Also, as a Philadelphian, this photo of Kerry getting his ass kicked by a "cheesesteak hoagie" did him zero favors
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James Nostack
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I don't think there's anything wrong with nominating a war hero, especially at that time. The problem was that Kerry had no goddamn message. "Hey, remember how catastrophically Bush failed to keep you safe" seems intuitive but couldn't be politicized, as his opponent politicized the shit out of it
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James Nostack
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Haven't read McCarthy, but that's MAGA-as-oppressed-working-class. It's very much a (perverse) class identity formed in reaction to certain cultural signifiers of the effeminate, multi-racial, academia left-of-center. If you oppose those cultural traits, you're part of our (imagined) class
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Rima I Anabtawi
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"There is another way” is not just a catchphrase but a reality we try to model in our movement to show the world that an alternative reality is possible. Last weekend 25 Israelis & Palestinians gathered in the desert for our first bi-national seminar since the start of the war.
cfpeace.org
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James Nostack
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A sizable fraction of the documents I draft as an attorney are almost boilerplate, and changing it up doesn't require much actual knowledge. But it requires *some* genuine knowledge and that's what makes this "AI" so embarrassing. They've simply built the world's largest parrot
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James Nostack
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But have you considered that the seed corn is delicious and it would be a shame not to eat it all right now
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James Nostack
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Of all the zillion Marvel films, The Marvels is the one that felt the most comic book-y. Just being weird, fun, spectacle with a charismatic ensemble.
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James Nostack
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Figuring out how to get people to a shelter is tricky, but Christ maybe try the carrot of making the shelter better before reaching for the stick
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James Nostack
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Bout a year ago I donated some clothes to a NYC shelter and the vibe there was worse than visiting prison.
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James Nostack
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It would be one thing if the government merely neglected these people, but Adams seems actively hostile. He's got a program to dismantle unnecessary scaffolding specifically because people sleep under it. And he was exploring how to make involuntary mental health commitment easier.
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James Nostack
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The thing about Garfield is that if you are 6-7 years old it is very funny! Granted, at that age one's sense of humor is, "I don't get it but I appreciate a culturally designated 'joke' has been made." But still, bringing happiness to a bunch of kids is an intrinsically good act.
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James Nostack
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That sounds awful! But it sounds like he knew to knock it off before making things even worse. Violating the Building Code carries a (usually nominal) fine, but the stop work orders are the big penalty b/c puts the project on hold and tends to mess up the owner's financing & timetable.
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James Nostack
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Depends on the license. Most skilled construction type work is directly licensed through DOB, which ultimately falls under mayoral authority. But deliberately flouting a stop work order would still be a mess for them.
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James Nostack
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The other possibility is that the DOB Commissioner is a mayoral appointee so Adams could call in favors or just replace the guy. But I assume that was already factored in when we decided to do this. NYCDOB! Statistically we have to get something right sometime!
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James Nostack
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The trouble there is that the contractors can't legally build without a permit, and doing so could cost them their professional licenses & thus their careers. More likely this will drag on in court forever
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James Nostack
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Dang, I work in DOB general counsel's office and my colleague was handling that. We have different hybrid schedules so I sort of lost track of what we were gonna do about that. Good for us!
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James Nostack
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Doing my bit!
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James Nostack
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So I ended up learning a new thing about myself after reading this post
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James Nostack
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I mean, set politics aside: What are the odds that a partner at a law firm is a garbage human being?
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James Nostack
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Look, the car alarm is the closest the real world has come to the shriekingly xenocidal Dalek. If *any* machine has emotions, it's a car alarm
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James Nostack
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Please tell me the woman is Buz's wife, impatient with his never-ending South American voyage.
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James Nostack
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IMO it's fine to be mad. The policy's been mostly fixed but that doesn't do anything for people who already served their time. But I do think Biden's drug policies in 2024 aren't what they were in 1994, and that is a good thing in federal criminal cases, where good things almost NEVER happen.
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James Nostack
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And in my district it's fully retroactive, undoing quite a bit of the harm he caused.
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James Nostack
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So, Biden's role in the 1994 crime bill was bad. But he directed Garland to seek sentences for crack offenders equal to those for powder cocaine. (They had been literally 100x worse prior to 2010 and 18x worse after.) The 1:1 ratio is a huge development that got no press at all
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James Nostack
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But I kinda think Merchan might sentence him to a (brief) stint in prison and NY doesn't allow sentences to be stayed during appeal.
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James Nostack
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I mean, the civil war already started, it's just not recognized. They deliberately denied Covid gear to "blue" cities and states, then staged a failed coup, and there's been years of stochastic terrorism.
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James Nostack
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Gotta start someplace. The First Order ain't gonna recruit itself.
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James Nostack
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A cop has needs, including the need to occasionally kill darker-complected people with basically complete impunity. They can't do that working from home--they moved to the suburbs to get away from "those" people. You want them to pay $15 a day for a hunting license? In THIS economy?
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James Nostack
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Unfortunately it's a consequence of success--if the ONLY way to get elected is to be a Democrat, a lot of freaking useless hacks will suddenly decide to join the party. If you're lucky you can weed them out in a primary... but because they're hacks they prob have more $ and connections.
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James Nostack
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Someone needs to plot a graph of age versus how often your feet are above your head on any given day.
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James Nostack
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You can also use a light board to view a bunch at once, though they're not magnified.
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James Nostack
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the thought had occurred! The importance of this case, in the "Is there any hope whatsoever for the rule of law in America," is really hard to overstate. (There probably isn't but it's worth fighting about.)
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James Nostack
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2/2 I've done some NYS crim law but never dealt with this particular issue, so maybe there's a wrinkle here. I guess Merchan could order the sentence to start after the election, but that seems more fraught than just doing it now
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James Nostack
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1/2 NY Crim Pro Law 460.40(1) - "Except as provided in subdivision two of this section, in no other case does the taking of an appeal, by either party, in and of itself stay the execution of any judgment, sentence or order of either a criminal court or an intermediate appellate court."
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James Nostack
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The thing that UTTERLY baffles me is that you can arrest someone on probable cause. And I'm pretty freaking sure they had that when Garland took office. Trump is such a pill that he'd force the speedy trial time issue (normally a dead letter in Fed ct) but we SAW HIM COMMIT THE CRIME ON TV
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James Nostack
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No, there's *nothing*. SCOTUS doesn't have jurisdiction until NY Court of Appeals renders a decision, likely after the election. I guess a court that can ignore plain text of 2A and 14A can try it, but if I were NY I wouldn't give a shit. Let the Supeme Court send its army to free him.
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