With a pre-game show sponsored by Kalshi, inviting viewers to gamble on predict blood spatter patterns.

Update: Tennessee fucks up another “lethal” injection. https://wpln.org/post/tennessee-set-to-carry-out-rare-execution-of-a-woman/

The filing said the execution began around 8 p.m., that two syringes of pentobarbital were administered, and that Pike maintained a heartbeat and was heard audibly snoring.

Media witnesses report being unable to view what was taking place. They were able to hear groans, moans and snoring for more than 40 minutes before they were escorted out.

I don’t know if they got bad drugs, or if it was some other form of incompetence, but this is not okay. Time to abandon lethal injection altogether if we can’t do it better than this. Firing squad like she proposed is probably one of the better methods if Tennessee wants to remain in the capital punishment business. Yes, you’d have to clean up blood, but that’s often what happens when you kill people. Let’s stop euphemistically pretending we’re “putting her to sleep.”

For the next one, that is. I think surviving a botched execution attempt should get her sentence commuted.

Sometimes I walk around town late at night. Last week I saw a guy with a sleeping bag napping in the park gazebo. He wasn’t bothering me or anyone, so I just let him be.

Summit County (Akron) Ohio. It’s $1.25 now, but I think $1 per ride was the rate then. No free transfers, but all busses meet at the courthouse so that didn’t matter.

I’ve answered a jury duty summons, but never even got to voir dire.

1. Get summoned by mail.
2. Check website or call ahead to see if you need to show up.
3. I check website. It’s owned by domain squatters.
4. I call number, recording says go to courthouse tomorrow morning.
5. Take bus because I don’t want to deal with downtown parking.
6. Check in to juror waiting room. Get jury number. It’s high.
7. Can we validate your parking? No but you could reimburse me a dollar for bus fare.
8. LOL. We don’t do that. The bus. LOL.
9. I tell clerk about their website. They know. They lost it last year. (But still direct unsuspecting citizens to it?)
10. Okay everybody. We have enough jurors and the rest of y’all can go home now.

You don’t need that sort of instructions, just vague feedback on what’s good and what isn’t is sufficient. Do more stuff like what got good feedback and less stuff like what got bad feedback. Think of it as AI training set and hope you have enough I to learn without the A.

One neat thing about solar and wind energy, that might have national security implications in light of recent events, is that it’s really hard to blockade.

I just wait. They’ll eventually understand and present my “losing” position as their own.

Indeed, and would have earned full marks had he said that, or even showed any awareness that his intermediate results were somehow nonstandard.

I had a student tasked with summing a finite geometric sequence with |r|>1, let’s say 1+2+4+8+16. He had apparently forgotten the formula for that, but knew the formula for the infinite series a/(1-r). Good enough he thinks, and sums 1+2+4+… = -1, then subtracts off the excess terms 32+64+128+… = -32, and gets the correct answer of 31.

If she’s used all the pieces and solved enough to reverse engineer the shape of all the missing pieces, then it is fully solved. If the missing pieces cannot be individually identified due to shared edges, then it is still solved, but is no longer a 1000 piece puzzle and she should only claim to have solved the 999 or 998 piece subpuzzle.

If you indexed minwage to the local affordable housing costs, there might be more interest in building some.

You shouldn’t kill anyone in private that you wouldn’t kill in public.

So someone with an income of $1M (20A) has a tax liability of $2M, and earning $10M means you owe $200M? At least with traditional tax brackets, it’s hard (but not impossible) to accidently get marginal rates over 100%.

He’s dead.

The college I graduated from required a year of foreign language for graduation – actually take it and pass, not just test out of it.

OK, that’s not quite true. For some reason, the mathematics department was grouped with the languages for purposes of this requirement, so you could take a year of calculus in lieu of a foreign language if you preferred.

Unless you were a math major. Classes in your major didn’t count, so all math majors absolutely had to take a foreign language.

Unless you were a dual major like math-physics. Dual majors could apply classes from both majors towards distribution requirements. I knew several “math” majors who took just enough physics classes to qualify as a dual major for the express purpose of not having to study a language.