Jurph: the Scent of Oak Leaves
@jurph.bsky.social
Veteran of dial up BBS, mIRC, AOL federated messaging, and Google Reader. When all this is gone I will remain. The most important thing is helping people.
the civilians can go to prison, but the officers need to hang. they were all told when they commissioned that these specific rules were high stakes, and the penalty for willfully violating them was a noose or a firing squad.
December 6, 2025 at 1:21 AM
the civilians can go to prison, but the officers need to hang. they were all told when they commissioned that these specific rules were high stakes, and the penalty for willfully violating them was a noose or a firing squad.
I don't think it's that deep! I think Mark Zuckerberg (a billionaire) buys gadgets on a whim, uses them fanatically for a few weeks, and during those weeks, he wildly underestimated how eager an average American would be to purchase a gadget that gave them "metaverse".
December 5, 2025 at 3:52 AM
I don't think it's that deep! I think Mark Zuckerberg (a billionaire) buys gadgets on a whim, uses them fanatically for a few weeks, and during those weeks, he wildly underestimated how eager an average American would be to purchase a gadget that gave them "metaverse".
I believe Gallup calls this “the lizard people number” - the number of people who treat a polling call as entertainment and who will pick the funniest answer to every question. It used to be 8% but it’s rising.
December 5, 2025 at 2:29 AM
I believe Gallup calls this “the lizard people number” - the number of people who treat a polling call as entertainment and who will pick the funniest answer to every question. It used to be 8% but it’s rising.
MIKE IT WAS A SAFETY. We coulda had a Scorigami.
December 5, 2025 at 2:25 AM
MIKE IT WAS A SAFETY. We coulda had a Scorigami.
Jailed? I was told in ROTC that if I willfully broke the laws of armed conflict I’d be hanged or shot. I expect senior leaders to hold themselves to a higher standard.
December 5, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Jailed? I was told in ROTC that if I willfully broke the laws of armed conflict I’d be hanged or shot. I expect senior leaders to hold themselves to a higher standard.
Dak avoided a safety last year by throwing to the chest of a tackle. Ineligible Receiver is assessed at the spot of the catch NOT against the passer, so it’s not in the end zone, and therefore not a safety. Just an unholy ability to not give up the 2.
December 5, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Dak avoided a safety last year by throwing to the chest of a tackle. Ineligible Receiver is assessed at the spot of the catch NOT against the passer, so it’s not in the end zone, and therefore not a safety. Just an unholy ability to not give up the 2.
VPNs do help and you can tunnel over nearly any protocol, even HTTPS in a pinch. It’s incredibly hard to enforce location-specific laws, and it’s hard to enforce a ban on VPNs. Instead of saying “it’s hopeless,” why not fight this fight AND push back on the bad laws you think are coming?
December 4, 2025 at 12:14 PM
VPNs do help and you can tunnel over nearly any protocol, even HTTPS in a pinch. It’s incredibly hard to enforce location-specific laws, and it’s hard to enforce a ban on VPNs. Instead of saying “it’s hopeless,” why not fight this fight AND push back on the bad laws you think are coming?
It may have been an average essay if it were placed in the context of a classroom's-worth of random word salad generated by Markov models.
It may have been an average essay if we were doing non-Euclidean geometry and redefining centroids and means
It may have been an average essay but it wasn't.
It may have been an average essay if we were doing non-Euclidean geometry and redefining centroids and means
It may have been an average essay but it wasn't.
December 2, 2025 at 12:27 AM
It may have been an average essay if it were placed in the context of a classroom's-worth of random word salad generated by Markov models.
It may have been an average essay if we were doing non-Euclidean geometry and redefining centroids and means
It may have been an average essay but it wasn't.
It may have been an average essay if we were doing non-Euclidean geometry and redefining centroids and means
It may have been an average essay but it wasn't.
It may have been an average essay in a parallel universe
It may have been an average essay if the author hadn't set out in bad faith to dunk on trans people, but alas we'll never know what it might have become
It may have been an average essay if Hemingway had written it, while hung over
It may have been an average essay if the author hadn't set out in bad faith to dunk on trans people, but alas we'll never know what it might have become
It may have been an average essay if Hemingway had written it, while hung over
December 2, 2025 at 12:24 AM
It may have been an average essay in a parallel universe
It may have been an average essay if the author hadn't set out in bad faith to dunk on trans people, but alas we'll never know what it might have become
It may have been an average essay if Hemingway had written it, while hung over
It may have been an average essay if the author hadn't set out in bad faith to dunk on trans people, but alas we'll never know what it might have become
It may have been an average essay if Hemingway had written it, while hung over
The position of most of Congress is likely something like:
1. If the Department can get their lawyers to authorize it under existing US law, we'll ask to see their memo, but probably defer; HOWEVER,
2. Strafing the survivors is murder and we'll hold the entire chain of command accountable.
1. If the Department can get their lawyers to authorize it under existing US law, we'll ask to see their memo, but probably defer; HOWEVER,
2. Strafing the survivors is murder and we'll hold the entire chain of command accountable.
December 1, 2025 at 10:20 PM
The position of most of Congress is likely something like:
1. If the Department can get their lawyers to authorize it under existing US law, we'll ask to see their memo, but probably defer; HOWEVER,
2. Strafing the survivors is murder and we'll hold the entire chain of command accountable.
1. If the Department can get their lawyers to authorize it under existing US law, we'll ask to see their memo, but probably defer; HOWEVER,
2. Strafing the survivors is murder and we'll hold the entire chain of command accountable.
The US military claims and exercises the legal authority to use force for counter-narcotics. So under US law the strikes themselves may be authorized within those bounds (even if outside what int'l law would allow). Hitting the survivors, though, is illegal under US and int'l law, and so clear-cut.
December 1, 2025 at 10:17 PM
The US military claims and exercises the legal authority to use force for counter-narcotics. So under US law the strikes themselves may be authorized within those bounds (even if outside what int'l law would allow). Hitting the survivors, though, is illegal under US and int'l law, and so clear-cut.
> It may have been an average essay
On a good day, with a brisk tailwind, on a steep downhill, with a near-sighted judge, it might *almost* overtake an essay that was a clear D-plus. It was wildly non-responsive to the assignment, barely coherent, and it was obviously meant to provoke in bad faith.
On a good day, with a brisk tailwind, on a steep downhill, with a near-sighted judge, it might *almost* overtake an essay that was a clear D-plus. It was wildly non-responsive to the assignment, barely coherent, and it was obviously meant to provoke in bad faith.
December 1, 2025 at 7:28 PM
> It may have been an average essay
On a good day, with a brisk tailwind, on a steep downhill, with a near-sighted judge, it might *almost* overtake an essay that was a clear D-plus. It was wildly non-responsive to the assignment, barely coherent, and it was obviously meant to provoke in bad faith.
On a good day, with a brisk tailwind, on a steep downhill, with a near-sighted judge, it might *almost* overtake an essay that was a clear D-plus. It was wildly non-responsive to the assignment, barely coherent, and it was obviously meant to provoke in bad faith.