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Comment · 3 years ago
Ah. It was paywalled and I foolishly assumed it was copy I read earlier about it passing the Assembly with it yet to be sent back to the Senate. That's what I get for assuming.
Comment · 3 years ago
My cynical take is that this will not make it past the Senate, due to Newsom leveraging himself into the discussion behind the scenes. His national political ambitions likely prevent him from taking a public stand on this issue, as he would were it to come to him to be signed.
Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 5 years ago
He's citing year-over-year? Seems to me that for some reason the economy was in the toilet this time last year but it had reason to be an aberration. I don't know, it's a real mystery.
Comment · 6 years ago
You've missed your very best chance ever to lead with "Well, actually"!
Comment · 8 years ago
Summary: mild electrical stimulation of ectomycorrizhal matsutake mushrooms yielded immense gains in both quality and quantity of fruiting bodies.
Comment · 8 years ago
Ok, I have a dumb question about this sort of technology. Aren't these devices essentially just borrowing from tomorrow by capturing moisture that would have eventually collected as clouds? Are there any long-term ramifications to using these?
Comment · 9 years ago
"Turns out the last shower curtain you bought from us isn't working out so great, is it? Well, check out all these top-ranked shower curtains that your search didn't return!"
Comment · 9 years ago
Up voted for this:

"If you do not understand every single command in this thing, you should avoid it, and if you understand every single command in this, you don't need it."

It's so universally applicable!

Comment · 10 years ago
Count me in too! Who knew we were so many?
Comment · 10 years ago
From the abstract: "This article argues that there is a 50-square-mile swath of Idaho in which one can commit felonies with impunity. This is because of the intersection of a poorly drafted statute with a clear but neglected constitutional provision: the Sixth Amendment's Vicinage Clause."

Mods: The title "The Perfect Crime" seemed insufficiently descriptive, so I took the liberty of augmenting the title.

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