Flaming on the Net @densetsu@mspsocial.net

A revised #introduction!

I'm Josh!

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and my dear #cats, Kentucky and Louisiana! Welcome and nice to meet you!

Hellooooo Mspsocial! Nice to meet you! I'm Josh. I like reading, gaming, and many other things.

Here are the living beings that depend on me, Kentucky cat and Louisiana cat. Kentucky is from Kentucky, has no teeth, and enjoys chasing her toys. Louisiana's origin is unknown, but that was her name at the Minneapolis shelter so it seemed like fate. She enjoys waking me up in the morning to feed her.

#introductions

I'm Josh and trying to figure out how to be a lawyer.

I have two cats, Kentucky and Louisiana.

I post about the Court, USPol, puzzles, my cats, and whatever media catches my fancy.

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Stay toward the end of this video for some . . . "fun" comparisons between the US and Japanese health insurance systems. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeoUeC1943I

Ope, never mind. Seems I have Discovery watching planned during said time.

I need to see Lego 2 and Happy Death Day 2U, so I think I need a double header at the movies this weekend. Maybe during the Oscars.

Let's get those arms in frame! #februaryselfies #day21

I feel bad saying it's been a rough week emotionally, but I felt it quite a bit in the last 24. Now worried about every interaction with my boss, which was once my favorite part of the job.

Like @stelepami, I like the snow but I'm running out of places to shovel it to.

This February is the Too Many Cooks of months.

Buttigieg 2020, because I want to see people say "Buttigieg" over and over again.

I am confounded by choice paralysis regarding :knives:!

Trying to watch Ganja and Hess and friend started texting me about Timbs and that got my blood up and now I'm crabby and haven't watched Ganja and Hess.

Lashing out at friends because I'm tired and mad at other things isn't a good look.

I took this earlier today as it snowed outside. #februaryselfies #day20

"Unconscionability" in legal terms, is typically applied when there is something so grossly unfair in a contract, so unjust, that a court needs to intervene. All we were asking was to kick the can down the road should we happen to invent something, which was already pretty unlikely.

One of my coworkers was negotiating a contract where the sponsor was being annoying with some IP rights, particularly what we would get in royalties if anything were invented (0). If they're being a problem, I said, say we'll negotiate that later in good faith.

Well, the sponsor came back and said a court might find that "unconscionable." And, y'all, I don't know if I've ever had such a hard belly laugh.

Something I think about a lot is how much of our speech is fictionalized.

Between bots and propaganda.

A punditry class beholden to the speech of the richest of us.

Other corrupting influences.

It's depressing.

That thread ends with the Noam Chomsky quote that is particularly apropos.

As I said, here for it. https://twitter.com/rcbregman/status/1098283273120350211

The Timbs decision put me in a really good mood. It made me happy in a way I haven't been in awhile.

Ugh, Thomas. I swear.

"As a constitutionally enumerated right understood to be a privilege of American citizenship . . ."

Fine if you seize shit so long as the people you're seizing from aren't US citizens.

Anyway just a concurrence that no one joined him on.