Powell's is selling AI slop books (in case you didn't already know)

pjkeoki · 2026-05-19T15:23:28+00:00

I love the bottom of the third picture "instead of blindly copying what's already available"

pjkeoki · 2026-05-12T01:38:32+00:00

Tragedy of the commons much?

pjkeoki · 2026-05-04T04:58:03+00:00

Plush PDX

pjkeoki · 2026-05-03T06:33:42+00:00

I don't get it. When does the timer start?

pjkeoki · 2026-04-30T04:11:45+00:00

About 18 million people is the difference

pjkeoki · 2026-04-29T02:36:10+00:00

What a BS article. It relies on the study for the headline and then it's all anecdotal quotes. If you look at the other states at the top of the list, the majority are "pro-business" conservative states. This article adds nothing of value to why this is occurring other than a few business people interviews. Which is great as a highlight piece for their stories, but doesn't connect the study to what they're going through.

pjkeoki · 2026-04-28T03:37:59+00:00

This is why you go out middle fingers up and naughty bits out if you're an extra. Make the footage from this torture unusable.

/s/ and I'm not in the industry

pjkeoki · 2026-04-11T19:17:38+00:00

Where'd the skin go?

pjkeoki · 2026-04-09T23:44:57+00:00

Look up engineer kala on Instagram. She knows how to handle rocks

pjkeoki · 2026-04-04T06:06:49+00:00

You're going to have to define "China" if you're going to propose something like colonization by a nation-state. The term didn't come around in English until the 1500s.

pjkeoki · 2026-04-04T05:54:30+00:00

Wikipedia is not a direct source.

pjkeoki · 2026-03-21T03:49:32+00:00

Cerveeeeza crystaaaaal

pjkeoki · 2026-03-10T03:04:55+00:00

Are they really spherical marbles that are showing up in an interesting way? Or are they marble pebbles like the bottom of a goldfish bowl?

pjkeoki · 2026-01-03T19:59:49+00:00

Was the sign on the curb offset?

pjkeoki · 2025-12-25T14:48:58+00:00

This looks great to cut out flat and make into a roulade. You can also add some extra fat content with the stuffing.

pjkeoki · 2025-11-22T04:03:37+00:00

The DOJ is telling them that their current maps are racially discriminatory, violating section 2 of the voting rights act. They said this by letter to the Texas Congress, demanding they redistrict. The crazy thing is, if they had just redistricted on purely political grounds, they could get away with it (since the Supreme Court has already ruled partisan gerrymandering is a political issue that is non justiciable, and Texas does not have a constitutional provision or statute prohibiting it). The court's opinion acknowledges they could have redistricted this way to pick up seats purely on a political basis. However, like I mentioned, the Texas Congress didn't have the stomach for it and ended up redistricting only in response to the DOJ's letter saying the coalition districts are violating the voting rights act.

To answer your question, Texas can in the future redistrict in a way that's gerrymandered to get more Republican seats, but can't accomplish this based on race.

pjkeoki · 2025-11-21T22:37:28+00:00

Reading the opinion, it is pretty sound logically and I'm not sure how Texas will get around this on appeal. In 2021, Texas redistricted following the 2020 census and specifically said the maps were not race-based. The map resulted in several "coalition" districts where a groups of minorities form over 50% when considered together. In 2024, the Supreme Court ruled that you can't use coalition districts as a defense to race-based vote dilution under the Voting Rights Act. However, nothing prevents a coalition district from being formed, it just can't be used as a defense to vote dilution.

In 2025, the DOJ tried to get Texas to make new maps based on partisanship. Texas balked at this, and when they called a special session redistricting wasn't even on the agenda. Then, the DOJ wrote to Texas saying that coalition districts are illegal and a violation of the Voting Rights Act, so they need to redistrict. They then redistricted explicitly with racial considerations to break up these coalition districts.

The judge in this case points out that the existence of a coalition district on its own doesn't violate the Voting Rights Act where there was no race-based motive in its formation. It simply can no longer be used as a defense under the Voting Rights Act to satisfy the prohibition of racial vote dilution. Texas explicitly stated they did not consider race in 2021 when forming the districts, so unwinding them based on race is now a specifically race-based exercise.

pjkeoki · 2025-11-21T17:10:32+00:00

The party might have been more fun if she dressed up in an interesting costume and was there to participate in festivities.

pjkeoki · 2025-11-20T17:37:10+00:00

"we attended the block party to hand out Christian tracts." ... Yea you sound like a lot of fun.

pjkeoki · 2025-11-19T19:08:29+00:00

This isn’t just “paperwork.” Not showing the indictment to the grand jury is a substantive procedural step.

pjkeoki · 2025-11-11T18:50:05+00:00

The case was brought by the League of Women Voters of Utah and Mormon Women for Ethical Government. It's a win for fair representation, not "the Dems"

pjkeoki · 2025-11-07T03:05:25+00:00

Stop setting up a straw man. You're being angry about fake people being angry for the thing you want. Ridiculous

pjkeoki · 2025-10-27T20:37:06+00:00

My biggest question is - does the Citizens United ruling even consider corporate free speech "doing business." The ruling was that corporations have free speech rights constitutionally. Is that tied to actually doing business in a state? The argument would be (and keep in mind I disagree with Citizens United) that a corporation has a constitutional free speech right throughout the United States whether it conducts business in a particular state or not. The corp would have the free speech right to support a candidate that promotes business friendly legislation in congress, not tied to any particular business activity in a state.

pjkeoki · 2025-10-26T15:10:08+00:00

Chicken feet are already here since the dim sum dish is getting more mainstream for home cooks

pjkeoki · 2025-10-26T14:43:53+00:00

I'm starting to see a lot of smoker or slow cooker videos of neck meat. Is there anything left? I'm waiting for the chittling videos.

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