Chemical Brothers - Under The Influence has always been my go-to system tester. The song itself is meh, but a good system will rattle your bones listening to it.

Soros gets blamed not because he is a democratic billionaire, but because he’s a [[[certain kind]]] of democratic billionaire.

One of my favorite stats to pull out in regards to this:

What states have had the most votes for Trump (2016, 2020, 2024)?

One of the best performances of it:

https://youtu.be/7tScAyNaRdQ

Why is everyone fully clothed in that Oglaf strip?

StarCraft. Learn to type really quickly when you’re coordinating a massive assault or calling for reinforcements.

FYI: Rhinoceruses don’t play games. They f*cking charge your ass.

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My working memory is terrible. If I don’t write something down, it’s likely forgotten. I’ve always tried to keep a pen and paper on me, to varying degrees of success. Now, instead I can “Hey Google, add x to my grocery list” and it’ll add it to my shopping list in Keep, or “… Create a reminder/alarm/event for…” for reminders to empty the dishwasher in 45 minutes or remember that I just agreed to plans on Saturday.

I’m not a huge fan of Google anymore, but I still willingly use their services because the tradeoff is that beneficial to me.

Same boat. Tools like this and Gemini make managing my ADHD sooooo much easier. Having a JARVIS-esque “AI personal assistant” would make a lot of my struggles less debilitating. I’d even be willing to pay, as long as the data stayed private.

Open the dictionary and under the word idiot, what do you see?

A picture of me?

No! The definition of the word idiot! Which you are!

(done from memory, so likely not 100% accurate)

Nope, it was reasonably randomly assigned. It’s just that the odds weren’t great.

So he rolled the dice on Florida, calculating his one in 26 odds of drawing the dreaded Judge Cannon were pretty good. The problem is, as they said in “The Music Man,” he didn’t know the territory. The odds were really as short as three to one against drawing Cannon.

The catch is that the Southern District of Florida is administratively divided into five divisions: Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Palm Beach, Key West and Fort Pierce. This is supposed to be for the convenience of the parties and their lawyers, and has no other legal significance.

Cannon is the only judge sitting in Fort Pierce, which is in St. Lucie County, 68 miles north of Palm Beach and 128 miles north of Miami. But, for the purpose of assigning judges, Fort Pierce is treated as part of the neighboring Palm Beach Division. There are three federal district judges in Palm Beach, one of whom is a senior judge. What Smith did not know, or failed sufficiently to appreciate, is that the pool of judges administratively eligible to try the case was not 26 but four. (If you remove from consideration the senior judge, the eligible pool narrows to three.) The grand jury that returned the Trump indictment sat in Miami because the courthouse facilities were more accommodating than those in Palm Beach, but an administrative order deemed the investigation a Palm Beach inquiry.

https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/4052380-how-trump-ended-up-with-judge-cannon/

Damn, you were on pace for a really great score until that last one.

March 23, 2025

https://bracket.city/

Rank: 💼 (Power Broker)
❌ Wrong guesses: 3

Total Score: 94.0
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I’ve never played Strands, but I just checked it out and it seems like a cool game. I can definitely see myself imposing the same restriction on myself.

I scored 764/1000🏅

1️⃣📍263 mi - 🗓️6 yrs - 🥇180/200
2️⃣📍431 mi - 🗓️6 yrs - 🥈172/200
3️⃣📍3.3K mi - 🗓️5 yrs - 🥉114/200
4️⃣📍589 mi - 🗓️4 yrs - 🥈168/200
5️⃣📍1.2K mi - 🗓️12 yrs - 🥈130/200
 https://whentaken.com/```

Not my best game, but not terrible. I should have gone with my gut on #3!

IKEA doll bed

https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/duktig-doll-bed-with-bedlinen-set-pine-multicolor-70589223/

My current job is WFH, so no one would know or care. But I previously had a safety sensitive job that held us to either the same or higher standards as the federal Dept of Transportation. They were so strict that we had posters advising against drinking kombucha at lunch or using pure CBD products at all. My SO at the time had a CBD balm that I would put gloves on to help apply because I didn’t want to risk it. The company said that while these products were likely fine, if an accident or something happened and we had to then take a drug test, any registerable amount would be grounds for immediate dismissal with no recourse.

It was for the articles!