Derk

Not a bot… or am I? A lawyer of modest repute, an economist of no repute, and a dabbler in the art of throwing heavy objects.

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@cremieuxrecueil Might it be because insurance companies aren’t calling the shots?

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@CultureExploreX

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@CoreyWriting Once upon a time, not so very long ago...

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@Aristos_Revenge

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@dsonoiki He wrote both those songs when he was early 30s. Yet they reflect the maturity of a man looking far back.

[Henrick Johansson @compliantvc]

A trolley is about to hit 5 people laying on the track

You can redirect the car, but the other track has not yet reached regulatory approval or completed its 1 year environmental testing period, so operating a train car on it is a violation of transit regulations

What do you do?

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@ChristianHeiens This:

[The Daily Signal @DailySignal]

🚨 BREAKING: D.C. Bar Ethics Enforcer Under Scrutiny for Inflammatory Social Media Posts

@tzsmith uncovers now-deleted X posts of Senior Assistant Disciplinary Counsel Jack Metzler, whose office wields great power over the D.C. Bar disciplinary process. https://t.co/MZCKnd9itZ

[Derk @Paytpup]

I went up to my chamber, all for to take a slumber
I dreamt of gold and jewels and for sure 't was no wonder
But Jenny drew me charges and she filled them up with water
Then sent for captain Farrell to be ready for the slaughter

Mush-a ring dum-a do dum-a da
Whack fol my daddy-o
Whack fol my daddy-o
There's whiskey in the jar

[Daniel Franke @dfranke]

You buy a German anvil. It contains 83 moving parts and requires winding twice a day. It's forged from excellent steel, holds tolerances across all three striking faces to within three microns, includes a beautifully indexed horn-adjustment mechanism nobody asked for, and requires a proprietary 11-point spanner should you need to replace the rebound calibration bushing. It runs flawlessly for years, but one day it starts up in limp mode because the onboard anvil-management system detects that it's overdue for its 50,000-strike inspection.

You search AliExpress for a Chinese anvil, and are presented with a multitude of offerings from such household-name brands as DUKXJYIBF, HDBTGMXI, AND UEJQIP. They're all priced to within a few pennies of each other, appear completely identical except for the nameplate, and obviously all came out of the same factory. You text your blacksmith friend to ask if they're legit. He tells you he got one like that from KIXJBU a few years ago, and that it's been great and a terrific deal. You thank him, but KIXJBU seems to have folded so you buy the one from UEJQIP. When it arrives, it feels suspiciously light. You scratch it and realize it's iron-plated aluminum.

You buy an American anvil. It's five times the price of the competition, but it comes from a brand that your great-grandfather used to love. It comes boxed with a warranty registration postcard, twenty pages of safety instructions, assay certificate, and a regulatory slip which lists its FCC certification and ITAR registration. It looks just like your friend's KIXJBU. There's a "Made In China" sticker on the bottom.

You buy a Russian anvil. It arrives coated in cosmoline, wrapped in newspaper from 1974, and weighing 40% more than advertised. The finish looks like it was machined with a shovel. The face is not flat, but somehow this does not matter. You drop it off a truck, accidentally leave it outside for six winters, and use it to straighten a bulldozer blade. It's fine.

You buy a Swedish anvil. It comes flat-packed in a long cardboard box with cheerful Neo-Grotesk lettering and a line drawing of a smiling man assembling it with an Allen key. The instructions contain no words, only pictograms showing the anvil face, horn, waist, feet, and 112 identical-looking fasteners. Halfway through assembly, you discover that the pritchel hole was installed upside down, but only because you used peg B17 where you should have used peg B71. Once assembled, it is clean, stable, and works better than it has any right to. You immediately wonder whether you should have bought two.

You buy a Japanese anvil. It arrives wrapped in rice paper inside a paulownia box, accompanied by a certificate bearing three generations of signatures and a photograph of the first production example being presented to the Emperor. The face has been hand-polished by a seventy-eight-year-old master whose family has made striking surfaces since the Muromachi period. You are given detailed instructions for oiling it with a cloth folded in a specific way. It is the most beautiful object you own. You never quite work up the nerve to strike it.

[Mike Carbone 🇺🇸 @mikecarbone]

update: the flatiron building lit up for the first time tonight

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@nypost Am I the only one who thinks this looks like a Master Lock padlock?

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@Nerdrotics @kangminlee "Roly-poly fish heads are never seen drinking cappuccino in Italian restaurants with Oriental women."

[Erick Erickson @EWErickson]

What we have are:
•The assassination of Charlie Kirk.
•Two assassination attempts on Donald Trump by known progressives, plus a third in Butler, PA, where the kid was clearly mentally ill.
•The attempted assassination of Brett Kavanaugh.
•The attempted assassination of Josh Shapiro and his family.
•The attack upon the Alvaredo, Texas ICE facility that left a local police officer wounded.
•The attack upon the McAllen, Texas ICE facility that left three officers injured.
•The attack on the Dallas, Texas ICE facility that left one dead and others critically wounded.
•And what CNN calls “Rep. Steve Scalise shot,” which was actually a mass assassination attempt on 24 Republican members of Congress, in which 4 people, including Congressman Scalise, were shot by James Hodgkinson.

https://t.co/uhgqP9Kis5

[U.S. Senator John Fetterman @SenFettermanPA]

We were there front and center.

That venue wasn’t built to accommodate an event with the line of succession for the U.S. government.

After witnessing last night, drop the TDS and build the White House ballroom for events exactly like these.

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

Big Ten Education – Giants 1st Round Pick Arvell Reese Says He Went From a 0.4 GPA in High School to a 3.7 at Ohio State https://t.co/C97e5EBLc6

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@mattforney She messed around with a bloke named Smokey
She loved him though he was cokey
He took her down to Chinatown and showed her
How to kick the gong around

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@ScottMGreer https://t.co/DG3Sicp1Rx

[1926 Live @100YearsAgoLive]

The construction of a new University of Michigan stadium is approved.

When completed, it is expected to be the largest stadium on Earth.

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@iowahawkblog Don't undersell the '83 convertible!