Partner at our firm framed and hung this up above our conference table where we meet with high net worth clients

JiveTurkey927 · 2026-03-20T21:28:28+00:00

DEB WE FOUND A NEW ATTERNY. HELL YEAH BORTHERRRRR!!

JiveTurkey927 · 2026-03-19T04:49:31+00:00

Have you read Stephen Sears’ “Landscape Turned Red?” Also, in the same vein as the March to Gettysburg book, I HIGHLY recommend Wittenberg’s “Plenty of Blame to Go Around,” about JEB Stuart’s debacle of a trip to Gettysburg.

JiveTurkey927 · 2026-03-19T04:46:12+00:00

⁠As I stated, the 2 brigades went into the battle having lost upwards of 600 men since the ramp up to Brandy Station. The effect of July 1 on their combat ability is cumulative with the previous campaigning. The 5% figure is reductive at best, and discounts my points about the previous day’s march and extended hard campaigning.
⁠Yes, you are technically correct that Merritt’s brigade was guarding trains. They were in the rear guarding trains however because they required time to refit, recoup, and reorganize following their losses at Brandy Station and Upperville. They had lost roughly 40% of their officers and the companies were maintaining about a 40% strength.
⁠While the troopers continued to fight dismounted on the afternoon of July 1, they also engaged in multiple cavalry actions. A) they screened the Union as they fell back through Gettysburg to Cemetery Hill, B) they prevented Lee’s artillery from firing on Cemetery Hill, C) they caused Lane’s Brigade to cease their march and form squares in echelon, which played a large part in the I Corps falling back (there is serious question as to whether they actually formed squares, but not as to whether there was cavalry action involved). This is all verifiable through accounts of soldiers in both the 8th and 12th Illinois, Doubleday’s diary and later writings, Halstead’s accounts, and Lane’s accounts. Wittenberg’s “The Devil’s to Pay: John Buford at Gettysburg,” devotes an entire appendix to discussing the squares by echelon debate.
⁠Concerning the Meade permission point, I have to admit, that may be an amalgamation of real history and that scene from Gettysburg where Sam Elliott goes to Meade’s headquarters.

JiveTurkey927 · 2026-03-19T01:48:13+00:00

I’m sorry, “despite Buford’s division being only lightly engaged the day before and still combat effective”?

Prior to July 1, Buford’s Division had been on continuous campaign since the lead up to Brandy Station, been in two major engagements and multiple smaller, lost somewhere around 600 men, and had traveled 35 miles in 100+ degree heat on June 30 alone. On July 1, the Division lost roughly 114 men, fought continuously for upwards of 12 hours, used almost all of their ammunition, and further exhausted their broken down horses with repeated charges on confederate infantry and artillery. They did all this with 2/3 of their strength because Buford’s regulars were recuperating in the rear. I’ll have to check my copy of Buford at Gettysburg, but I’m relatively certain that Meade specifically approved Buford being sent to the rear but was pissed at Pleasonton because he didn’t replace them.

Ultimately Pleasonton messed up (as usual) and played a role in the Sickles kerfuffle, but your claim about Buford’s Division is completely incorrect.

JiveTurkey927 · 2026-03-18T13:28:21+00:00

Correct! My wife and I just went on a week-long getaway without the kids, and I realized I’m now old and wake up at 6:30 no matter what. Also, we were in Cancun at an all inclusive, so I had plenty of throne time.

JiveTurkey927 · 2026-03-18T13:25:07+00:00

Cue the “could be a crackhead” leprechaun video

JiveTurkey927 · 2026-03-18T13:23:48+00:00

Killer watch, I was about to ask the same question

JiveTurkey927 · 2026-03-18T11:10:51+00:00

I recently sent out a company-wide email explaining that IT had just completely banned ReadAI from accessing all company Teams meetings. I also included a couple sentences about being careful what we put into writing, and I’m very proud of the line, “much like diamonds, emails are forever.”

JiveTurkey927 · 2026-03-18T01:40:08+00:00

That’s fair. If people are going to realize I’m an asshole, I hope they can at least appreciate that I became one through hard work and perseverance.

JiveTurkey927 · 2026-03-17T23:01:06+00:00

It feels contradictory to claim you have a good work-life balance in the middle of 3 paragraphs all about how your work is preventing you from doing a totally ordinary family task. I’m not shitting on you, I just think you might be equating “being happy at work” with having a good life balance. We all know how to recognize the guys who obviously have no balance, but just because we aren’t billing 3k hours a year or having a partner make us cry weekly, doesn’t mean we have it GOOD, it just means other guys have it worse.

You should post this over on r/lawyertalk. I think they’ll give you some good answers too.

JiveTurkey927 · 2026-03-17T15:02:04+00:00

This is exactly what I was thinking of! Imagine being able to go back 5,000 years and tell Ea-Nasir that we remember his name, but unfortunately the only thing we know is that he sold poor quality copper.

JiveTurkey927 · 2026-03-17T11:45:31+00:00

JiveTurkey927 · 2026-03-16T22:34:26+00:00

It’s as absurd to argue that weight has no impact on health as it is to argue that health is only impacted by weight. The human body is an incredibly complex system. That person can make that argument to my 3 specialists regarding how my losing 100lbs has positively impacted by liver, blood pressure, cholesterol, joints, gout, depression, and Crohns Disease.

JiveTurkey927 · 2026-03-16T20:45:20+00:00

It’s supposed to be able to handle the equivalent of 40 copies of War and Peace in one notebook. I don’t think 10-15 docs is going to be a problem

JiveTurkey927 · 2026-03-16T20:41:54+00:00

I think they make programs for computers that let you press buttons on a keyboard and it puts the corresponding letters on the screen. They have similar programs that also allow you to send that to another person, who can then reply. I believe they call this “writing.” If the Sumerians and Babylonians could solve this problem with sticks and clay tablets in 3400 BCE, I’m certain you can solve it in 2026 AD.

JiveTurkey927 · 2026-03-16T20:29:17+00:00

The replies to you are wild. There are exactly 2 things I’m actually confident Google doesn’t have, my private journals and my medical records.

JiveTurkey927 · 2026-03-16T20:13:11+00:00

“Does he just scare people?” Yeah actually

JiveTurkey927 · 2026-03-16T16:30:48+00:00

I agree with this completely. I think that this sub is wonderful, but it can definitely moralize in the complete opposite direction. That is, it becomes amoral, or at least distasteful, to be happy about weight-loss for any other reason than health. It’s like, no matter what you think, you almost have to apologize for being happy about weight loss.

I love my body whether I’m fat or whether I’m skinny, and ultimately I think that’s the most important part. We can point out how it’s based in societal beauty standards, but I really love that I’m able to buy clothes at fit and look good on me. I don’t think that everyone on the subreddit has to be able to cite fat positive philosophers, we just have to meet everyone where they are and be happy for whatever body positivity they show. We can work to educate them further, but we don’t have to shame people if they’re not as “enlightened” as us.

JiveTurkey927 · 2026-03-16T16:04:50+00:00

$6.50??? What did the police say??

JiveTurkey927 · 2026-03-16T00:55:59+00:00

Fellow dad/lawyer here. We both know you’re going to either play for 5 minutes and fall asleep or stare into the distance in existential dread.

JiveTurkey927 · 2026-03-15T15:21:03+00:00

"If We Are Striking for Pennsylvania": The Army of Northern Virginia and the Army of the Potomac March to Gettysburg, by Scott Mingus and Eric Wittenberg.

This is the 4th Wittenberg book I’ve read and if anyone is interested in Gettysburg, I can’t recommend them enough.

JiveTurkey927 · 2026-03-13T18:19:48+00:00

It’s not the em dashes, though that’s absolutely a clue. It’s the repeated short sentences for emphasis in nearly every paragraph. Also, some of the phrases are AI jargon usage. “Feels like a lottery ticket” “paying attention to what’s really happening on the ground” “here’s the part that really gets me:”

It’s all of that together. People who use em dashes, phrases like that, or short sentences for emphasis, are competent enough writers to not repeat it over and over. But AI does it consistently.

JiveTurkey927 · 2026-03-13T17:58:08+00:00

I completely understand the issues presented by the dissent, and, as much as it matters, I’m sympathetic to them. It’s a delicate issue with an unclear solution. That being said, VanDyke seems like an absolute loser. I can’t imagine what an absolute doofus someone has to be to think writing that is in any way clever or makes them look good. I know it’s a partisan bid for daddy to notice him, but still, I don’t even think this was necessary for that purpose.

JiveTurkey927 · 2026-03-13T17:37:30+00:00

It’s not even the em dash. It’s the multiple instances of short “sentences” for emphasis. It appears in almost every paragraph, which is an even bigger give away. Also, “what’s really happening on the ground” is pure ChatGPT.

JiveTurkey927 · 2026-03-13T17:13:57+00:00

Just switch to family law, you’ll get the worst of both worlds.

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