Yuck, it does sound very blatant:

“I think it’s just pretty suspicious to see teenage girls dressed in club wear at 9:00, 10:00 in the morning paying for a hotel room during the week,” she replied.

She spoke about witnessing a pregnant woman being beaten to a bloody pulp by her trafficker in the bathroom and how housekeeping staff came each morning to remove garbage cans filled with condoms and bloody towels.

she encountered many of the same hotel staff repeatedly. Those employees witnessed her trafficker being frequently violent with her and “loud sounds of abuse could often be heard from the room,” the lawsuit alleges.

And accepted up the chain even when employees tried to report it:

Vanessa Cole, a general manager at one of the hotels between 2011 and 2012, said in her deposition that prostitution was a “consistent problem” that she reported “up the chain,” including to Moyer. She said Moyer responded by saying: “yes, we understand we have to, you know, clean up the place, but we also need to sell rooms.”

Yeah, if you don’t want the next dev (or your future self) to accidentally undo that corner case you fixed, better put a unit test on it.

So each universe just contains a simulation of all of the worst, most generic parts of itself, recreated by AIs, recursively? We’re the gods of a new universe being born that’s just social media bots posting for each other.

funds that Israel must use to purchase U.S. military equipment and services

Oooh, I see. Free tax money for the MIC.

Thankfully electrek.co has the uncensored version.

I wonder how it was sealed. Is glazed ceramic + wax that airtight? The article (nor many very similar ones from other sites) doesn’t give specifics.

Ah, thanks for the proper name for it. Yeah, handy shape!

Thanks!

Looks great! I’m thinking about trying a mortise and tenon project. Any progress photos?

I guess if you’re hanging on to your Tesla stock at this point you must have some faith in Musk?

Just being forced to talk about how it’s going and what’s blocking can be helpful, so I’m glad you’re questioning for to be more useful, not doing a little rubber-ducking isn’t all bad.

I was hoping for hardwood! Seems like it’s probably not, though.

Yeah, I can pretty easily scratch it with my fingernail, which seems the same as a 2x4 scrap and much softer than some oak and maple scraps I have around.

Also looking more closely at the bigger scratches and screw holes I see lighter wood visible, I was a bit fooled by the stain on the bottom.

It was super heavy. But I have a hard time judging whether it’s heavier than a similar bulk of 2x4s.

It lifts out so you can easily empty the crumbs.

:-D

Thanks! I didn’t get a great picture of that before leaving it with my mom, but it’s in the background here. Just made slots (dados?) for 1/8" plywood for the back.

Is she carrying a hatchet?

This biography quotes a description:

armed entirely in white, exept, for the head, a little ax in her hand, seated on a great black courser.

So Vullo encouraged many insurers to cut off ties with the NRA at the very moment that she was pursuing a major investigation into three companies that did business with the NRA. And she allegedly offered to shield one company from additional liability if it took further actions against the gun organization.

As Sotomayor’s opinion explains, that’s not allowed.

Perhaps because the opinion is written by Sotomayor, and not by a more right-wing justice who may be eager to use the state of New York’s blundering treatment of the NRA as an excuse to shut down legitimate enforcement actions against the gun group, the Court’s decision also includes some language ensuring that the investigation into Carry Guard remains valid.

Interesting nuance and reminder to not get carried away with punitive justice even when wielding the law against someone deserving.

Wow, how incredibly brave.