Weirdly they don’t care about all those vacations Clarence Thomas received from Harlan Crow.

“See. This is why I prefer rubber gloves instead of nitrile. That way I can keep doing the exam while they defibrillate, and my fingers don’t go numb!”

It’s a spoonula!

They’re great for all sorts of things in the kitchen. The black ones, however, do not belong in the kitchen.
Not because of the black plastic controversy, but because if you’ve ever thwacked someone/something/yourself with a spoonula, you know that you need one in the bedroom, and if you only use black ones for that purpose, then you never ‘cross the streams.’ A … uh. friend introduced me to that rule over a decade ago, and now I bequeath that knowledge to you all.

It’s either that or a hinge to the back of the skull.

They really made bad choices here.

I would buy that and turn it back into doors.

They didn’t remove the knob’s or even round over the edges. A mediocre woodworker could get 2 doors out of that. A skilled woodworker would get 3 (with some reattachment efforts).
I could probably get one whole door.

This will surely make housing more affordable in the U.S!

That’s part of the gig in many IT roles. You have to be at least partially available for IT help requests.

Whenever I’m in the middle of something and I get a message from someone high up on the org chart.

“Hey, got a moment for a quick question?”

Me, internally: ‘Ah, fuck.’
Externally: “Yeah, totally!”

Many years ago, I discovered that my then-employer’s “home built” e-commerce system had all user and admin passwords displayed in plaintext at home/admin/passwords.

When I brought this to the attention of leadership, they called the “developer” in and he said “oh, well, that’s IP locked, so no one on the web can access it!” When I pulled it up on my phone, he insisted my phone was on the work WiFi, despite it being clearly verifiable that was not the case. (The same work WiFi that had an open public connection, which is the one my phone would have been on, if it were on it…)

He did fix that, but many other issues remained. Eventually a new COO hired someone competent as his ‘backup’, replaced our website and finally suggested he pursue other employment opportunities before he could no longer voluntarily pursue them. (There was concern he might sabotage.)

Sec. 3. (a) The Attorney General, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, and the Secretary of Transportation shall
(ii)   enforce prohibitions on urban camping and loitering […]
(iv)   enforce, and where necessary, adopt, standards that address individuals who are a danger to themselves or others and suffer from serious mental illness or substance use disorder, or who are living on the streets and cannot care for themselves, through assisted outpatient treatment or by moving them into treatment centers or other appropriate facilities via civil commitment or other available means, to the maximum extent permitted by law.
Sec. 3. (b) The attorney general shall
(iii)  assess Federal resources to determine whether they may be directed toward ensuring, to the extent permitted by law, that detainees with serious mental illness are not released into the public because of a lack of forensic bed capacity at appropriate local, State, and Federal jails or hospitals

WaPo missing the fucking point and painting this as anything but what it is. It’s not AND, it’s OR. It’s not mental health facilities, it’s prison.

Here’s who it could impact:

• Anyone with mental health issues that could be deemed dangerous to themselves or others.
  Anyone with depression (~36% of the U.S.) or who has said something off-color online.
• Anyone who uses drugs.
  Does your state have a legal weed program? Do they collect data on who purchases? Are they likely to give that data to the feds? Have you told your doctor/will they or their systems tell the feds?
• Anyone who attends a protest that does not have a permit, or has the permit suspended during the protest, because then they are loitering.

As someone pointed out in a now-deleted post - this comes after Trump has offered Palantir unfettered access to U.S. citizen data. Unless a judge completely kills this, it will be massively abused.

It also includes people who are loitering, a sufficiently broad definition that could be maliciously wielded against protestors.

It also stipulates that if hospitals are unavailable, jails will be used.

So it’s literally an order to allow them to throw anyone they want into prison.

I guess criminalizing homelessness and protest in one fell swoop, while allowing the authorities to throw people into prison labor camps is one way to distract from the Epstein files as well as bring back slavery and keep the corporations going once the economy collapses.