I’m purely guessing but if the internal staffing is not changed when a new administration, than the office culture, makeup, structure, purpose, and outcome should stay roughly the same.

Only if the office is forced to reform under each administration would it really change. If it was working fine for the Tories, they’d leave it. If anyone else thought it needed to be overhauled they might have done it.

This is what people mean when they talk about the Deep State, though they whisper it conspiratorially.

It’s government professionals, doing their jobs day in and out, no matter who rules the henhouse.

Don’t be like Boris.

I took the opposite tack.

You ain’t shit, Pythagoras! You just wrote it down, you didn’t figure it out, you absolute fucking fraud. We’re taking your immortality back!

Congratulations, you just gave the protesters exactly what they wanted: more attention to their cause and marks of valor for being beaten and arrested.

ACAB.

Yup. Go to the bar, find a 7, and ask them how random they are.

Chances are you’re gonna get sporked.

Telling the poor to pull their own weight while cutting taxes for billionaires.

Typical.

Quoting Buelldozer@lemmy.today:

C’mon Vox…this article is straight garbage.

First you link to the wrong god damned instance of this case at SCOTUSBLOG (McKesson v Doe 2 instead of McKesson v Doe 3) you then don’t link, or you know just post, Justice Sotomayor’s remarks about why SCOTUS didn’t hear this case for the third time.

Of course you probably chose not to link, or state, her full remarks because if you HAD then you wouldn’t have been able to write that inflammatory headline.

SCOTUS already resolved this in 2023 with Counterman v. Colorado. It’s right there on pages 14/15 in the linked PDF.

Modern Media is a raging dumpster fire of inflammatory bullshit.

Edit: In case it’s not clear this Vox article was carefully crafted to leave the reader ignorant and outraged.

This was posted yesterday and refuted that the Supreme Court recently ruled on a similar case and refused to hear it again.

The court had already sided with the protesters. This article is flat out wrong.

That’s a fascinating article.

I can’t pretend I understood most of it though.

Or ‘I can’t shit’ posters.

Then it would be an easy apology.

“I certainly did not mean to inflict further grief on you at this troubling time. My remarks were instead intended to point out (x). Again, my thoughts are with you in this time of loss.”

The notoriety probably got him a better job offer elsewhere.

You are correct!

I’ll give a hopeful one:

Many years ago I was in a hopeless and hellish state. Unemployed, sleeping on a cot in my parents basement, my health failing me, and recently bankrupt.

I was suicidal but not to the point of having ideation. “You should just kill yourself” was a common refrain of my internal monologue.

Then I read something on reddit like “How long would you stay friends with someone who talks to you the way you talk to yourself?”

So I started on a serious effort to remove that from my thoughts. It was 2008, and Obama was running against McCain. I liked them both but was definitely in Obama’s camp.

I tried replacing “You should just kill yourself” with “You should just kill John McCain.”

And it worked! That shocked me out of that self hatred long enough to start to laugh it off.

A little time went by, I met someone, got a job. The someone convinced me to get surgery for my issues. (a hernia but I didn’t think fixing that would even help the overall stuff I was fighting)

We have been married almost a decade. Nine years in the house I got her when I got a better job. I work from home hanging out with all our animals.

Things CAN get better. There’s never a guarantee but it’s worthwhile to not give up. You can climb that mountain, dig that tunnel, whatever you need to make that journey through the darkness.

And I left a LOT of shit out of that story.

The line is clearly at 50%.

Half live in harmony, half die.

Perfectly balanced, as all things should be.

All I can say is that I was born that way and it was corrected as an infant.

No insight from living with it or any ability to compare my life with it having been done.

I’d say I’m glad that was done and not so glad about the circumcision.

https://www.litterboxcomics.com/second-born-problems/

I knew the comic you meant and just googled ‘second child exorcist comic’.

In my understanding a lein doesn’t usually lead to disclosure, they just make sure they get paid when it’s sold.

The result should be a solid thermal mass that also insulates, similar to strawbale or cordwood masonry homes.

You don’t need to be thin to date. I’ve been a fat man my whole life, introverted and introspective, spent most of my life alone.

My first relationship wasn’t until about your age. I married her because I thought I’d always be alone otherwise. It was a mistake and I was wrong.

Took a long time to figure myself out, only had two other real relationships and a few nonstarters, then met my wife when I was almost 40.

I’m still fat. So what?