Lawyer Dog

Writer, editor, lawyer. Irascible & generally untrustworthy. Brevitas vitae nos ad spem longinquam fovet.

[Intelschizo @Schizointel]

You know this administration could do the funniest thing ever and sell 170,000 hellfire missiles to Ukraine because it would be cheaper than going through all the bureaucratic red tape and environmental regulations to dispose of them in the United States

[Matt Bramanti @mattbramanti]

the ellipsis reads "if by decency & propriety of conduct they appear to merit the enjoyment."

[Gareth Harney @OptimoPrincipi]

1) Excellent ancient Greek humour: a large bronze battering ram – one of very few to survive from the ancient world – dedicated as an offering to Zeus at Olympia ...and decorated with, well, it had to be..

[travis4nh @travis4nh]

55/

...because Big Theory libertarians will insist on what they see as ideological purity ("borders don't real", "if you don't like a coal furnace next door just move", etc) that absolutely nuke the end goal of flourishing-with-liberty.

[travis4nh @travis4nh]

10/

"IP lasts too long" is orthogonal to "IP isn't real property and shouldn't exist".

I agree that copyright lasts too long (and I think patents arguably last too short).

These are knobs to be adjusted.

https://t.co/a6Pt5Wu4ee

[Lawyer Dog @TheClarksTale]

@MorlockP Very McArdle sentiments, as I suspect you know.

[Lawyer Dog @TheClarksTale]

Words matter.

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

Road workers set up a CCTV to uncover who was moving the safety traffic cones. It turns out a Kea parrot (considered one of the most intelligent bird in the world) moved them to get attention from humans, in the hopes to get fed or maybe just to mess with them - New Zealand

[Roman Helmet Guy @romanhelmetguy]

There’s a story that when Saladin besieged the Order of the Assassins, they sent an envoy to negotiate. The envoy requested to talk alone, but Saladin refused to meet without his most trusted bodyguard, a man whom he had known since he was a boy. The envoy accepted, and when the three of them were alone, made a small motion towards the bodyguard with his fingers — upon which the bodyguard drew his dagger and held it to Saladin’s throat. Upon another flick of the envoy’s wrist, he withdrew his dagger and then plunged it into his own chest and fell down dead. Saladin made peace with the Assassins. The Epstein files are never going to be released.

[Lawyer Dog @TheClarksTale]

@eigenrobot +1 song ref

[Lawyer Dog @TheClarksTale]

@MorlockP *phallus optional

[Napoleon Bonaparte Appreciator @NapoleonBonabot]

Why are they doing everything by hand?

[Lawyer Dog @TheClarksTale]

@hradzka Chess: if you are 50th best in the world, can you make a living?

[David Hines @hradzka]

wildest thing about elite sports to me is how you have to be born a freak, work insanely hard, get to the top of your profession, and only then get to find out if somebody else who did everything you did was born an even bigger freak

[Lawyer Dog @TheClarksTale]

@willrobinson22 @sgodofsk Dude, use Google.

[Steven Godofsky @sgodofsk]

If the Air India crash was pilot murder-suicide like it appears to have been, that would make murder-suicide the probable cause of 781 deaths since 2014, likely more than any other cause in airline accidents. Weird to think that might be the most salient issue in aviation safety.

[Michael F Kane @MichaelFKane]

Unrealistic coastline. No one with a fifth grade education will believe it's real.

[Carlos That Notices Things @QuetzalPhoenix]

Reminder that Porn for women has not changed in 100 years

[Lawyer Dog @TheClarksTale]

☠️

[Jen @JadesSabre]

@GentlemanRascal You’re like, within two weeks of my birthday, making us the same age. So whether we are old or not kinda depends on how you feel about college being like 20 years ago.

[Lawyer Dog @TheClarksTale]

@IzaBooboo @_Semper_Virilis Just joined a Chicago-based firm, I hope they bring me out for a visit.