wjrii

Based on the number of anoles, skinks, geckos, and Texas spinys in our yard, I’m guessing that little display was for someone else.

My brother used to catch them and let them bite down on his earlobes.

Weird dude.

I think a big thing is that good prebuilts are now readily available: hot swap, foam layers, PCB stabilizers, CNC aluminum cases, a mounting system more sophisticated than tray mount, decent firmware (often properly released QMK/VIA, but at least VIA), and fun features like lighting or encoders. A late as 2022, this would have been a wish list on an interest check for a $400+ kit; now it’s a baseline to charge three digits for a prebuilt MX board.

There are still many group buys going on at the high end (geek hack basically exists as an IC/GB publishing platform at this point), and a lot of boards are available bare bones, but when a newbie comes along for a recommendation, no one has to feel bad recommending some pre-built that would make a Pok3r look like a joke as a value proposition.

And this, folks, is why they were never not going to spoil the main spoilery part. Sounds like it was well done, so I guess maybe I'll actually see it in the theater.

However, after a weeks in the role, several FEMA officials said they came around to Phillips after seeing his initiative during the January storm response.

“Gregg Phillips is FEMA’s best hope at this moment. I can’t believe I’m saying that,” one high-ranking FEMA official told CNN at the time.

Same, unnamed FEMA official, same.

It's at about 43:00 in the embedded video, and yeah, that's probable, but the question was posed to the panel about what their characters would explore in a hypothetical Legacy show, so unless she's been right on top of it, it feels like a fair assumption for her to have made that they'd be among the leads.

As an aside, I think I would absolutely love hanging out with Marina Sirtis for exactly one day, and I would be utterly exhausted at the idea of spending any longer than that. In her interviews, she is always a delight, but also a lot.

I haven't had any in a while, and I'm not sure if they even carry them anymore, AND the tub was like a million dollars last time I saw one, but Costco had these Caramel Macademia Clusters that just perfectly nailed the ratios and didn't source their chocolate from Hershey (which is a whole other discussion, but even if I'm very American and don't dislike it, it's not always the right fit), and they were basically a diabetes succubus.

Chief Justice has been considered a separate slot for nomination purposes as of the late 19th century, so when he retires or croaks, the job will come open. Sometimes the then-president nominates one of the existing justices and backfills, but it's completely possible, as @radix@lemmy.world says, to directly nominate the new person for chief justice; it's actually pretty common to do so.

Once again, I will mention that "originalism" and "textualism" were a fucking death knell for jurisprudence, which barely withstood Bush et al, to say nothing of a brazen bad actor like Trump. They are the dark side of legal reasoning: quicker easier, more seductive, but once you go down that dark path (with a ritually worshipped constitution that was a nice bit of kit for its time and place but is maddeningly vague and almost impossible to amend), forever will they dominate your destiny.

It's impractical and deeply, inherently regressive to think that a few clever slaveholding provincials had everything figured out forever and ever (see also the almost impossible to amend part), and pretending that it's workable without applying thought and context should be grounds to get someone disbarred.

While they've got it apart, they can make sure to use a high quality battery!

I disliked him because I was an anti elitist

Frankly, given the way he was eventually embraced as the god of all writing (one of my professors was fond of saying about other Elizabethan playwrights: Their best stuff was better than Shakespeare's worst stuff") and how thoroughly but poorly he's taught, I don't blame you. The language is simply not very accessible and pretending otherwise turns reading Shakespeare into a chore and liking him into a flex, and yes, I'm keenly aware that I'm not immune here. I think there's a place, but I really do tend to think we go too hard and too early with teaching entire plays using the original scripts in middle school or 9th grade.

how anti elitist he was

This is such a tough one for me. On the one hand, he was in some ways making outsider art. Most of the "history" in his plays comes from various middle-brow English books that are full of mistranslations and Tudor propaganda, but then he dives into the psychology of these people in a way that can seem crude to modern ears but was absolutely game-changing for English literature. He finds motivation and humanity even in people who are ultimately irredeemable. He played fast and loose with iambic pentameter, and over the course of his career more and more prose crept in. He wasn't afraid to take down the actual slang on the streets, and even insert it into the mouths of the powerful. While overstated, he absolutely did coin many words and even more famous turns of phrase that never existed before. The work absolutely had low-brow appeal, and it did piss off certain more formally trained writers. Then there's the fact that it's barely controversial to suggest he might have been queer (at least as we understand it), and completely banal to suggest his work often had homoerotic subtexts. It also isn't insane to suggest that he either was a crypto catholic or or at least had sympathies in that direction.

Yet on the other hand, here's a guy who was seeking the approval and even acceptance of powerful people for his entire lifetime. He glommed onto middling nobles and wrote sonnet after sonnet for them, about them, to them. He dedicated his "serious" work to his various patrons. Then, as the acting company took off, they absolutely dived straight into proto-capitalist adventures and sought out higher and higher patrons, until by the end they were literally "The King's Men." Don't even get me started on the potentially cringy -- and definitely historically dubious -- efforts to get his family a proper coat of arms. He knew how the game was played, and he actually played it pretty well, basically retiring early to live in the biggest house in his hometown, getting his favorite daughter married off to a doctor, and having multiple beds to bequeath in his will.

Experts report the alloy was unmoved by the masterful prologue to Pixar's 2009 classic Up.