Jeff Bishop

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Attorney, polyglot, ex-blogger, ex-Libertarian libertarian, ex-Republican republican and Democratic democrat.
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If you know what bidialectalism is or can tell the difference between code-switching and fraud, you are overqualified to write for the Daily Mail.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11966927/Shes-total-fraud-Squad-member-AOC-slammed-video-emerges-using-accent.html

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So, DoNotPay's one big claim to "success" is that it gets you out of subscriptions where companies make it hard to cancel. Except... it turns out that DoNotPay has made it next to impossible to cancel its own service for some users! (Again, with thanks to @kathryntewson ) https://www.techdirt.com/2023/02/01/donotpay-promotes-itself-as-helping-you-get-out-of-subscriptions-but-keeps-charging-customers-after-telling-them-their-own-accounts-are-closed/
DoNotPay Promotes Itself As Helping You Get Out Of Subscriptions, But Keeps Charging Customers After Telling Them Their Own Accounts Are Closed

We’ve been writing a bunch lately about DoNotPay, the massively hyped up “AI lawyer” run by Stanford dropout* Joshua Browder. Again, the company has received a ton of publicity re…

Techdirt

So they investigated 97 Supreme Court employees and spouses, zero Supreme Court Justices, and for some reason couldn't find the guy who leaked the Dobbs opinion.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/19/politics/supreme-court-dobbs-report-leak/index.html

Morning! I put the New Mexico shooter into a larger context: Republicans are getting increasingly manic in their unwillingness to admit that people just don't like them. https://www.salon.com/2023/01/20/new-mexico-suspect-shows-seek-a-violent-solution-to-rejection/
The New Mexico shooter is the inevitable result of the GOP refusal to admit they're unpopular

The threat of violence increases in America as rejected Republicans seek revenge outside of elections

Salon.com
Video: 'Jesus Saves' shirt is 'offending' Mall of America shoppers, security guard says — and he orders...

Cellphone video captured a confrontation involving a Mall of America security guard telling a man wearing a "Jesus Saves" T-shirt that his shirt is "offending" shoppers at the famously large mall in Bloomington, Minnesota — and the guard ordered the man to remove the shirt or leave the mall. What ...

TheBlaze
Petty larceny is not a victimless crime. Done enough times, by enough people, it's not really petty, either.
If you call yourself "chaotic good," you're probably right about the chaotic part.
@vruz @estelle I might would have engaged in earnest myself, then I saw this.
George Santos bragged he got an MBA from NYU with zero debt while lamenting that the youth of America think they will get things for free without working hard.