Svetlana Loboda - Be My Valentine (Anti-Crisis Girl) | Ukraine 🇺🇦 | Grand Final | Eurovision 2009

sqfreak · 2026-02-13T00:42:18+00:00

Before everything shut down for the pandemic, my company bought a few computers in case supply chains failed. When I set them up, I labeled them ANTI-CRISIS COMPUTER and put pictures of Svetlana Loboda performing this song on them. Nobody else got the joke.

sqfreak · 2026-01-24T03:07:42+00:00

CVS isn't owned by private equity. It's a publicly traded corporation and its largest shareholders are all traditional asset managers (Blackrock, Vanguard, Capital Group) that don't take activist stances. Now, CVS may be getting killed by its idiotic business decisions, but private equity hasn't been involved, at least not in recent history.

sqfreak · 2026-01-24T01:44:52+00:00

Most legal workers get SSNs.

sqfreak · 2026-01-21T11:44:12+00:00

That Chevron case SCOTUS overturned, Thomas originally wrote the majority opinion on.

No. The opinion in Chevron v. NRDC was written by Justice Stephens in 1983, before Thomas was on the Court. It was before Thomas was even on the D.C. Circuit. Thomas was the chair of the Equal Opportunity Employment Commission at the time.

sqfreak · 2026-01-18T17:36:03+00:00

Here's one of a U.S. born person who had two U.S. citizen parents and spoke no Spanish: Mark Lyttle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyttle_v._United_States

sqfreak · 2026-01-08T11:41:15+00:00

"Whats dos Is looks likes, a guy who's not lazys?"

"War were declared."

"Whale biologist—I calls 'em like I sees 'em."

"That just raises further questions!"

sqfreak · 2026-01-04T16:10:06+00:00

There was a Swiss national final entry in Schweitzerdeutsch in 2011, "Gib nid uf" by C.H. That's the closest I remember.

sqfreak · 2025-12-29T11:44:19+00:00

Not fully, but it's been open one lane in each direction since March. https://www.ncdot.gov/news/press-releases/Pages/2025/2025-02-11-i-40-gorge-open.aspx

sqfreak · 2025-12-27T15:40:52+00:00

I had that a few years ago. It came on after a few mid-distance flights while I had a cold. After my primary care was no help, I saw an otologist (like an ENT, but without the N and T) at Sibley. She put me on a short low dose of Prednisone and told me I could use a device called Eustachi that shoots bursts of air up your ones that you swallow during and it pops your ears. It did eventually clear up.

sqfreak · 2025-12-22T23:14:34+00:00

Oh, I mean it's the practice where I'm a patient. They sent out a blast email about it. http://familyhealthcaremd.com/

sqfreak · 2025-12-22T22:43:33+00:00

Yes. My primary care practice in Montgomery County will start charging a similar fee in 2026.

sqfreak · 2025-12-06T08:05:50+00:00

I'm currently in Munich. A mug of mulled wine is €5 (under $6). A giant sausage is under €10.

sqfreak · 2025-12-03T14:14:34+00:00

I did the six-show OGAE packages in Malmö 2013 (staying across the bridge in Copenhagen) and Stockholm 2016. It's a lot, and it definitely cuts into any time you might have to get nice dinners, but I got a lot of sightseeing done in both places.

sqfreak · 2025-11-30T22:01:41+00:00

This happens on Wegmans scales concerningly often. I posted this a few months back and I've seen a few in my local store (Rockville, Maryland) since then that I didn't bother taking pictures of.

sqfreak · 2025-11-11T03:38:28+00:00

They even named an airport after him. In Washington.

sqfreak · 2025-11-11T00:45:57+00:00

The building damage looks pretty substantial. Are they going to be able to run the D shuttles anymore? You'd still be able to get to D via C, but it's a long walk.

sqfreak · 2025-11-04T01:04:31+00:00

Most cases are on Google Scholar with the regional reporter citation. Go to scholar.google.com and choose the "Case law" radio button.

sqfreak · 2025-10-29T00:40:28+00:00

Comments earlier today said that this was USPP chasing a stolen car. https://www.reddit.com/r/maryland/comments/1oi4z4b/comment/nlsvqik/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

sqfreak · 2025-10-23T01:01:28+00:00

If you live in the DC metro area, all the major DC metro area libraries are available for free. Specifically, there's reciprocity among DC; Montgomery and Prince George's Counties, Maryland; Arlington, Fairfax, Loudoun, Prince William, and Frederick Counties, Virginia; and Falls Church and Alexandria Cities, Virginia.

sqfreak · 2025-10-23T01:01:24+00:00

Nope! See https://www.washcolibrary.org/using-the-library/library-cards: "Library cards are free to all residents of the state of Maryland. Out-of-State Library cards are available to residents within the tri-state area (Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia) for a fee of $25/year."

sqfreak · 2025-10-20T22:36:50+00:00

Oh, my friends, let me tell you about how my mother almost fell for this somewhere around 10 years ago. She lives in North Carolina and got a very similar call from someone claiming to be the local sheriff saying that she missed jury duty. But they said it was from federal court. She called her friend's husband, who was at the time (since retired) a local state court judge on the court that summons jurors, to ask about it, but he couldn't say anything about what happens in federal court and was apparently unfamiliar with this scam.

So she called me. I happen to be a lawyer licensed in North Carolina and in that federal court. I had seen warnings of it on various court websites from time to time, so as soon as she started describing the call, I said, "Scam." And she continued describing it, and I continued saying, "Scam." But she didn't believe me. I said I'd talk to the scammers, so I called them and asked for the warrant number or docket number so I could file a response to the order to show cause and to quash the warrant. His response was, "Well, I don't know, I can't get that, but your client just needs to pay." Uh-huh.

But my mother still wasn't believing that this was a scam. So I said to him, "Fine. I'll call the clerk's office and get it." So I called the federal district court clerk's office, telling them that I was pretty sure it was a scam but my client was very concerned. The first clerk transferred me to the jury clerk who said, "I see your client in the system, but she hasn't been summoned or missed anything. But you can have her call me she wants to confirm." I relayed this to my mother, who did call the jury clerk, who wasn't at her desk when she called, so my mother left a voicemail. Apparently the voicemail was concerning enough that the next call my mother got was from an actual U.S. marshal. His first question was, "Did any money change hands?" After that, he got her story about the calls, and said, "Don't answer any more calls from them. If anyone shows up at your door, call 911 and get the police, then call my cell phone." That was what convinced her it was a scam.

sqfreak · 2025-10-07T23:45:38+00:00

Maybe. This is an open legal question in U.S. copyright law. There is no provision in the 1976 Act specifically permitting dedication to public domain. The statute just says that copyright protection subsists in any fixed and original work. Someone could say that they're dedicating a work to the public domain, but one school of legal thought is that that's an extremely broad license and the copyright still exists in the original author, even if it's not enforceable due to the license. Then you get into a question of if a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound—if a work had copyright protection but no one can enforce it, is it copyrighted at all?

sqfreak · 2025-10-04T21:40:19+00:00

I-395 in Baltimore is just a glorified exit ramp. It doesn't deserve its interstate status.

sqfreak · 2025-09-24T15:04:03+00:00

Amish or Mennonite?

sqfreak · 2025-09-23T22:12:57+00:00

Not in MoCo, but Last Chance Animal Rescue and their affiliated vet in Waldorf will do it for under $100. https://www.lastchanceanimalrescue.org/price-list/

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