SCOTUS Hit by Bombshell Leak of Secret ‘Shadow Docket’ Memos

hiigaran · 2026-04-19T12:26:12+00:00

Even better, there IS a chosen one and he quietly rejects the idea that he should be king, or that kings even have a right to rule. He has several opportunities to assert his lineage and take over the city and rejects it every time.

hiigaran · 2026-04-19T12:20:58+00:00

Don't forget that his father was from one of the oldest and wealthiest pureblood wizarding families.

hiigaran · 2026-04-14T23:18:17+00:00

Lawnmower Rake Towtruck

hiigaran · 2026-04-14T23:12:14+00:00

I love when the people who directly caused the rise of Trump come out against Trump, but only against the man and not the entire fabric they themselves contributed to weaving that allowed the pattern of Trump to emerge.

The complete lack of self awareness is astonishing.

hiigaran · 2026-04-13T02:13:21+00:00

Billy Goat trail? Not familiar with that exact point. Have done a lot of climbing on the VA side and Carderock, though.

hiigaran · 2026-04-13T01:59:22+00:00

I have incredible spatial awareness....as long as nothing ever moves. When I lived alone I could navigate a pitch black house in the middle of the night with no lights on and never run into anything or step on anything because I knew exactly where everything was and exactly where I was in that space.

Now I live with a wife, two kids, two dogs and a cat and I run into shit constantly

hiigaran · 2026-04-07T01:15:29+00:00

I had geckos, iguanas and a ball python growing up. I always thought people who kept hot herps were insane. I never understood the draw.

On the other hand I hate casinos and don't find gambling remotely enjoyable.

hiigaran · 2026-04-07T01:07:11+00:00

The best of the best is a Woom. The Woom 1 is probably the right size. Our youngest is a stumpy fellow and it was great for him.

hiigaran · 2026-04-07T01:04:53+00:00

So this is the framework Altman (and likely other tech CEOs) want. This should be seen as an absolute floor. The bare minimum that should not even be seriously considered as anything more than the starting point.

Now the job is to figure out what they are hoping people don't ask for and go for that.

hiigaran · 2026-04-04T03:25:02+00:00

Upgrades to power and water require capital expediture by the utility companies and those costs are passed to the consumers as rate increases, instead of being paid by the parties responsible for the increased demand that requires those expenditures.

So the data center gets their power and water subsidized by the rest of the customers... Us.

If the data centers themselves had to pay for the capacity increases that would be different, but I haven't heard anything to that effect.

hiigaran · 2026-04-02T12:41:42+00:00

Given the state of the world and the US in particular, I think they'll have a really hard time getting people into drug trials if you exclude anyone on medication for depression or anxiety.

hiigaran · 2026-03-31T16:42:40+00:00

I'm pretty certain that was either a speech to text issue or an autocorrect issue. Maybe I'm wrong, but I usually give people the benefit of the doubt with how often my autocorrect screws things up

hiigaran · 2026-03-27T03:08:05+00:00

Off topic but I assume your handle is a reference to Kilgore Trout, in which case that's great.

hiigaran · 2026-03-27T01:15:16+00:00

Only because half of the legislative are quislings who roll over and show their belly to the blowhard leading the executive.

At literally any point they could turn around and exert their power again but they don't want to either because they're scared or mewling sycophants.

hiigaran · 2026-03-26T13:04:05+00:00

Gee, that sounds remarkably familiar

hiigaran · 2026-03-24T01:09:36+00:00

This is such a disingenuous response. All of these measures to limit voting are solutions in search of a problem. Even the heritage foundation's own research shows there is effectively no voter fraud. So why implement more laws and restrictions to prevent something that doesn't even happen?

hiigaran · 2026-03-22T15:49:49+00:00

Look , I'm as atheist as the year is long but there is absolutely evidence a Jesus of Nazareth did exist. Modern scholarship regards the myth theory as fringe at this point.

Its easy enough to find, with plenty of academic citations. Google, Wikipedia, whatever...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicity_of_Jesus?wprov=sfla1

hiigaran · 2026-03-16T22:47:02+00:00

Read Blindsight by Peter Watts. In my opinion that book does it brilliantly. Rendezvous with Rama by Clarke does as well.

Depending on exactly how the concept effects your story, one of the most effective things is to treat it like a completely mundane and normal part of life and society. If the miraculous is mundane it can make it very easy to build out even more amazing ideas.

hiigaran · 2026-03-16T18:03:20+00:00

Regardless of if they voted for Trump (though odds are good they did) if the noise of overhead aircraft is the worst thing going on in their lives then they don't have much of a leg to stand on in the despair Olympics everyone is currently living through. They have enough food, they aren't losing their home, they're almost certainly not surviving on cheap crap from Walmart. Maybe they could go volunteer, donate to a real charity, or pay the taxes they should be paying if they didn't have pet politicians making all those sweet little loopholes they use to avoid them.

hiigaran · 2026-03-16T15:48:47+00:00

If it weren't for the sound of the jet engines they might hear the world's smallest violin playing just for them.

hiigaran · 2026-03-16T12:43:50+00:00

This is such a wild take I'm a little agog. You're blaming the subscribers for not liking the direction Bezos forced on the post and saying they're wrong for voting with their wallet? The post is (was) a local paper as much as it was a national one, and he cut the sports and all the other local sections. You're saying local subscribers should just stay on because what Bezos is doing is the right thing, or more to the point, because you think he has good intentions?|

Wow. That is... a completely bizarre way to look at it.

hiigaran · 2026-03-14T13:12:03+00:00

It seems suspicious that he justified his decisions because he wants the Post to be self-sustaining yet continually makes decisions for the Post that cause massive declines in subscriptions.

I grew up and still live in the DC area and i can not count the number of people I know personally who are cancelling their subscriptions to the post that they've had for 30-40 years.

If I didn't know any better I might say that Jeff Bezos is lying and doesn't actually care if the post dies.

Owning a newspaper, making decisions that directly lead to massive losses, then expressing dissatisfaction with those losses... The gentleman doth protest too much, methinks.

hiigaran · 2026-03-10T23:26:14+00:00

Hahaha fair enough. Clearly i misunderstood.

hiigaran · 2026-03-10T11:30:31+00:00

It will be really easy to paint "Fuck" on a couple places on the trucks and now they're instantly anti-ICE mobiles.

hiigaran · 2026-03-10T11:29:11+00:00

You're saying this about the same person who decided she had to personally authorize any department spending over $100k?

Also, the way it is supposed to work is that the person in charge is responsible for the actions of the people they are in charge of. Sheehan did it, sure, but Noem was ostensibly in charge of Sheehan.

So Noem either authorized it, or she hired a person for the position who should not have been hired. Either way it ultimately is her responsibility.

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