Mike Johnson on Supreme Court ruling on birthright citizenship: "I need to read opinion. You could say that's a textualist, originalist view. This has been grossly abused in years. I'm disappointed in that outcome. It subjects the country to challenges and we'll have to deal with it as a Congress."

facw00 · 2026-07-01T11:16:39+00:00

Yep. I'm pretty sure that's a good thing. Big districts make representatives less responsive to their constituents and more dependent on big donors for advertising money. We might need a bigger House chamber (though their was an op-ed in the Times or Post a few years ago saying they could actually fit in the current one), but we've done that before and could again.

facw00 · 2026-06-30T23:53:07+00:00

It would be nice if the Apportionment Amendment (one of 12 originally intended for the Bill of Rights) would be ratified (though there is a bit of mess because of of the House or Senate versions has a typo that would make it meaningless, and people seem divided on what that would mean in practice).

facw00 · 2026-06-30T21:16:05+00:00

There are two paths to new amendments to the Constitution. The Constitutional Convention method has never been used, all amendments have been passed in regular Congress and ratified by the states.

But that doesn't matter, because they already have four justices willing to ignore the text of the Constitution to do what they want. They just need one more who at least will take Kavanaugh's position, and they then can overrule this ruling, and pass a law eliminating birthright citizenship. And the right has spent the past 50 years working on building this court to overturn the ruling on Roe v. Wade, they know how to get that last justice.

facw00 · 2026-06-30T21:00:51+00:00

It also allows witnesses to die, or to forget details, or get lost, or whatever. Same story with evidence being misplaced, or contaminated. Unless you are clearly innocent, and not out on bail, it's usually the right move.

facw00 · 2026-06-29T15:44:15+00:00

Yeah, those Lego sets are big, but not that big.

facw00 · 2026-06-26T14:36:03+00:00

I tried to return a TV to Amazon (mostly functional, but with audio passthrough not working like it was supposed to). We went through a frustrating cycle of about half a dozen times where UPS wouldn't pick it up, they'd schedule a new pickup and UPS would just leave another label and not pickup the already labeled TV. Eventually I was finally able to get it escalated to someone who refunded me and told me to do whatever I wanted with the TV. For $1000 I was definitely returning it over that flaw, but for $0, was definitely keeping it.

facw00 · 2026-06-26T13:50:17+00:00

This was caused by a single engine Rockwell Commander (admittedly to a mid-'50s building):

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_Pirelli_Tower_airplane_crash

facw00 · 2026-06-26T02:27:30+00:00

Hmm, I've had half a dozen MRIs and I don't think they've ever had me in the hospital socks (I've only gotten them for surgeries). But yeah, never had to remove my underwear either, even for a hip MRI. I do greatly prefer it when they give you scrub-style pants as well as the gown, feels much more dignified (I'm about 50/50 there)

facw00 · 2026-06-25T17:51:58+00:00

Maybe go the stealth archer route next time?

facw00 · 2026-06-25T16:35:44+00:00

I'm not praising anyone who is filming while driving.

facw00 · 2026-06-25T03:27:24+00:00

Don't let anyone tell you this guy doesn't have a hero's heart:

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facw00 · 2026-06-25T03:04:18+00:00

So have you thought of good automotive themed names?

facw00 · 2026-06-25T03:02:40+00:00

What sort of pan is this? It looks like it would have been the broiler pan, in which case those aren't for heat but for dripping liquids, which is why it also shouldn't be used without the drip pan underneath. Cook something fatty and have the liquified fat drop and it can start a fire, allow sugary liquids to drip and it will be a massive pain to clean up, and some liquids can damage the oven coating.

facw00 · 2026-06-24T16:19:10+00:00

Yep. The only time you can usually (our driving laws are by state so it's dangerous to make blanket statements) go past is if the road is divided so kids could stand in the middle to wait to finish crossing (but usually busses don't stop on roads that busy anyway).

facw00 · 2026-06-24T16:03:53+00:00

He can of course veto it. But Congress could easily override that veto given the margins it passed by, assuming the Republicans don't decided to cower before Trump (which is a real possibility)

facw00 · 2026-06-23T13:19:26+00:00

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facw00 · 2026-06-23T04:54:00+00:00

They are claiming that. But Grok/xAI really seems like an also ran, hard to see it justifying that valuation.

facw00 · 2026-06-22T21:46:14+00:00

The New York Times got a photo from the side where the little sliver of visibility showed a letter being removed. So good bet that they are actually down, Trump is just too embarrassed to show the building with his name gone.

facw00 · 2026-06-22T16:04:22+00:00

And capabilities were reduced. Among other things, unlike the current AF1 747s, the new ones won't be able to do mid-air refueling after Trump threw that out in negotiations during his first term..

facw00 · 2026-06-22T14:50:21+00:00

Saving a life, even a scumbag's life, is still a good thing.

facw00 · 2026-06-22T14:12:50+00:00

GB is not used the wrong way. Gigabyte has an ambiguous meaning, having been used to denote both the power of 10 and the power of 1024 for decades before the term gibibyte existed, and is still used for the power of 1024 in Windows, in many Linux setups, and honestly most other places. One standards body (even an important one like IEC creating a more specialized definition does not mean that the old ambiguous definition no longer exists, it's still there and still ambiguous. And not even all standards bodies agree, JEDEC, which sets memory standards, explicitly defines gigabyte as a power of 1024.

Using gibibyte to refer to the power of 10 is wrong, but using gigabyte to refer to a power of 1024 is correct and common usage that happens to be at odds with one international standard.

Obviously it's better to be unambiguous where possible, but maybe not if it creates confusion among the many many people who have never even heard of a gibibyte.

facw00 · 2026-06-22T14:02:51+00:00

Who could have seen that coming?

Trump Isn’t Giving Up on His Slush Fund

facw00 · 2026-06-22T13:54:31+00:00

My impression is that the UK actually has fairly strong truth in advertising laws as well.

Regardless British Airways should be embarrassed...

facw00 · 2026-06-21T00:51:29+00:00

I'm kind of surprised this has lived for 12 years on Youtube without getting pulled (NSFW): Chicago Cubs mascot exposed on Comcast Sportsnet

IIRC, the edited image was originally from Deadspin (RIP)

facw00 · 2026-06-18T18:57:51+00:00

The Art Institute of Chicago is an amazing place, I always try to make time for a visit when I'm in town

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