Tower

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[–] Tower@lemm.ee 2 points 3 days ago

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

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

Texas 16,968,991
California 16,572,025
Florida 16,396,742
[–] Tower@lemm.ee 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Why is everyone fully clothed in that Oglaf strip?

[–] Tower@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago

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

[–] Tower@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago

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

[–] Tower@lemm.ee 29 points 1 week ago

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)

[–] Tower@lemm.ee 15 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

AKA we all know this is bullshit, but I'm going to backtrack and cover my ass just enough to not catch a perjury charge

[–] Tower@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago

That's just the poorly designed default position.

[–] Tower@lemm.ee 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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/

[–] Tower@lemm.ee 2 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[–] Tower@lemm.ee 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

It was for the articles!

[–] Tower@lemm.ee 0 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

He's a con man grifter that will shill anything for the right amount of attention.

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