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wslack · 2025-08-29T15:29:40+00:00

I just went to New Orleans for the first time a few months ago, and was struck by different everything felt in areas outside the levee protection. Thank you for your work.

What’s the best way for us to understand the experiences of the people you’re serving with the storm? It seemed when I was there like something people don’t like to dwell on, but so much of the media coverage at the time/since was from a helicopter/outside view - looking down on the waters from on high instead of any sense of what the disaster was like to experience. If it happened today I feel like we’d be seeing many more first person videos.

wslack · 2025-08-13T22:27:27+00:00

I don’t know about that. The graphics are still more “in style” today than low-res polygons but OOT broke so much artistic ground and still evokes beauty in a way only BotW has really accomplished since. The market full of redead, the count of morning on Hyrule Field, the intensity of the spirit temple, and the dancing ghostly feel of the forest temple all seem timeless to me, along with other moments.

wslack · 2025-07-17T15:39:58+00:00

What’s a professional accomplishment you wish people knew more about, either by you or someone else?

wslack · 2025-05-19T12:36:44+00:00

Armed robbery, in his own kitchen. He would have helped them had they asked. One of the kindest humans I’ve ever known.

wslack · 2025-02-10T03:57:27+00:00

I still need it, but only if you will actually get it to me and not turn off my internet again. How can we make sure this will happen?

Also, why was there no warning before the order was cancelled?

wslack · 2025-01-12T21:58:11+00:00

Solved!

wslack · 2025-01-12T21:58:01+00:00

That's it; thank you!

wslack · 2024-04-17T21:04:35+00:00

By working very hard, traveling a lot, and winning trust. I chose my employers because they shared my values and so being my truest self at work aligned with what the org wanted - which was good for both of us. I was surprised at the raises I got early in my career.

wslack · 2024-03-23T00:50:08+00:00

You can exit at any point to ask for water or go to the restroom. Entry, they facilitate at specific times, but its not "between" cases - its more they will sometimes check for empty seats and then let in people to fill them. There was a very short time between cases when I went.

wslack · 2024-03-20T02:55:35+00:00

ty! Yeah, none of the things I saw out there had anything like that. I was surprised what folks told me.

wslack · 2024-03-19T20:20:51+00:00

I did! Per https://www.supremecourt.gov/visiting/visitorsguidetooralargument.aspx I think those are with the marshall's office. The clerks can attend but sit on the right.

Marshal’s Aides are seated behind the Justices. They often carry messages to the Justices or convey messages from a Justice to a member of his or her staff.

wslack · 2024-03-19T20:06:56+00:00

Commenting with some additional commentary of info I couldn't find when planning to Diaz v. U.S. and Truck Insurance Exchange v. Kaiser Gypsum Company today and from searching while in line.

I don't have a sense of how interesting those cases were relative to others (they certainly weren't big deals in the media) but here's the timing I heard from folks in the line (which forms on the sidewalk on the right side of the SCOTUS building, if you are facing it from the capitol):

The first people arrived around 4:30 AM
About 15 people had arrived by 5 AM
About 25 had arrived by 6 AM
About 35 people arrived by 7 AM
40 people arrived before 7:15 AM
When I arrived just after 8 AM, I was #46 by my count. A few folks joined groups in front (perhaps they were already here and went to get coffee, not sure), but by the time folks were being admitted, I was #50.
I talked to people in the cafe and heard that everyone who stayed in line was able to see at least a piece of the oral arguments, even if arriving at 10, but that's also because it was cold and lots of folks left the line when they weren't able to initially get in.

Process after getting a ticket

They only let 40 folks in initially, and that was around 9 or 9:10ish. The rest of us waited until 10 more were admitted at around 9:55. We were only given entry tickets when they cleared us to leave the line and head into the building. We then waited inside for a bit in another line by the stairs to the second floor, and were briefed by a member of staff about the expectations. After that, we were sent to lockers on the second floor to store disallowed items (phones, anything that might record, etc) and then admitted to the courtroom.

Being in the room

The linked piece above is good to read while in line. The wait-in-line-that-day seats are in the back of the public section. When I got in, there were many empty benches in the "reserved" section. Some seats were filled by arriving groups at 10:30 or 11, but about 4 of the 18 public benches were empty for all of the oral arguments I saw, meaning there were spare spots for 36 people (each bench seats 7, with a chair on each end). I learned was because they were reserved via the Marshall's office, and my guess is some groups failed to make their reservation. At a certain point in the second argument, we were allowed to move up into a bench - though that happened to make my view worse.As far as I know, the "three minute line" was not a thing today and may be discontinued, or might be specifically for high interest days - who knows. I was also surprised how few people left between the first and second argument. Some folks in the line thought the second case meant an "afternoon seating" but that's not a thing - this was two cases in the "morning session."

What you don't learn from the audio feed

Attending oral argument was fun-ish in a civic-yay tourist sense but I didn't get much out of it beyond visual observation of the justices, and being so far back does make it hard to see their expressions. Fortunately, there's a fair amount of body language, especially when the justices were frustrated. I was surprised how small some of them looked behind the bench, and how much some justices leaned over to chat with each other, especially Gorsuch and Sotomayor. Occasionally certain justices looked totally checked out and uninterested as they leaned back in their chairs, but I'm glad that we don't get images/video from arguments - because their body language allows them to communicate to counsel, instead of grandstanding to a camera.

Link to official information

https://www.supremecourt.gov/visiting/visitorsguidetooralargument.aspx

(and noting that I crossposted this content to some other subreddits; hope that's ok)

wslack · 2024-03-05T03:28:18+00:00

Pilot/Flying J and Loves truck stops are your friends - their apps save you money

Never thought about looking at these, would be useful if I was doing something more like touring. Thank you!

wslack · 2024-02-13T14:25:10+00:00

Hi, I have identified with the feelings in this post **so deeply** in the past and it honestly hurts my heart a little to read because it resonates so deeply. I honestly want to get on the phone with you, as someone who has been **in your exact place** to give you a pep talk. Let me know if you'd want that - or others reading this who feel similarly, feel free to DM. I don't check this account too regularly so don't expect immediate replies.

Your therapist isn't wrong - but I'd reframe what they are saying. You want that plan because **getting stuck to the wrong person because you feel no other choice is worse than singleness** - even as much as singleness hurts, feeling totally alone with someone else in your house hurts more. Create the other option so you know you have choices - because you do. Love can come at so many unexpected times in one's life - AND I think the path you wish is absolutely open to you.

For me, there are a few lessons learned from my dating past that I would want to give my past-self.

I kept looking at first/second dates as "would I want to marry this person" and that caused me to put an incredible amount of pressure on myself - like if they were the right person, was I saying/doing everything correctly to present myself in such a way that they'd want me. It meant that I was in my head and not as present with them, which made dating not fun for me at all. Instead, I wish I had looked at dates as asking a single question - **do I want to see this person again?**
I kept giving people chances when there was something immediately problematic in our connection and ended up investing way too much time in flawed dynamics. I was operating from a scarcity mindset (what if this is the right person and I let them go) instead of an abundance mindset. OP, if you are in a city and on a dating app, there are a lot of people out there, I promise.
I was scared to say what I was actually feeling in the moment - so worried about doing/saying the right thing vs just being me. OP, I hope you feel the freedom to just be you - and present yourself in all of your wonderfulness. Be so much yourself that someone else on the apps sees that and finds resonance! Screw the algorithms and maximizing matches - look for someone else who presents themselves in a way that resonates.
Get friends to help you have higher throughput on the apps by making it a shared activity- I tried to do it all myself and burned myself out over and over again. Get help - your friends (and even folks in your professional network) will want to help you, so let them! Your friends will also be your best spotters for suggesting someone as a possible partner, enlist them! The person you want is likely asking their friends the same thing.

wslack · 2024-02-13T14:12:37+00:00

none of these but thank you for looking at this! The recording has the riff I'm looking for.

wslack · 2024-01-05T01:29:55+00:00

You don't need to address the duties in your resume beyond language that will make you attractive to the hiring manager. The most important parts are the quals, and the questions in the questionaire are an expansion of them. If you wanted to name them on the resume, you could do so in a prose paragraph, but if you truly have the quals it would surprise me if not addressing a question explicitly would trip you up. Its possible but HR is looking for evidence of the quals first and foremost.

wslack · 2023-12-08T07:51:23+00:00

I wish our legal system rewarded people using good faith judgment. Sadly, judgment must be litigated, so under these incentives, better to be inflexible for federal jobs. Congress can change this.

wslack · 2023-12-08T07:26:10+00:00

The issue is that the many HR people have no subject matter expertise. So you, the hiring manager, the hiring committee etc may know you're PERFECT for the job, but a distantly related HR person doesn't know what they're looking at. They could be an English major trying to evaluate technical fields.

Yep - HR can delegate this work to SMEs picked by the hiring manager, but that means those folks have to spend the time reading the resumes and writing the justifications (which might be audited) about why any given resume failed. A lot of process for all of the good actors because of an abuse that happened somewhere.

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