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Ish Dalal @ish.tax · 30/09/2026

"Look ma, the Protocols have been hiding in plain sight for millenia!" 🙄🤬😱 THIS is where all the promise of the Information Age has led to?

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Ish Dalal @ish.tax · 30/09/2026

At least old Clippy was polite enough to ask whether you wanted it to just shuffle off its mortal coil...

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Ish Dalal @ish.tax · 03/09/2026

I'm with ya floof, just that kind of day. May need a midday nap.

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Ish Dalal @ish.tax · 02/09/2026

I bet they would say the same for adults if they could. A lot of vulnerable Europeans had to tough it out without A/C during the recent heat waves, and it wasn't pretty. Saw a recent 1950s promo reel of the first jet aircraft carrier, USS Forrestal, being fully a/c for crew comfort...

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Ish Dalal @ish.tax · 02/09/2026

What could be the summer equivalent of "in my day, we trekked uphill to school both ways in the snow?"

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Ish Dalal @ish.tax · 02/09/2026

Thank you, Rabbi. Axiomatically, a religious person visits a place of religion primarily to pray. Merely labeling such ordinary prayer as "practices" reeks of othering and antisemitism.

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Ish Dalal @ish.tax · 31/08/2026

And I thought you might be kidding...then two replies down, BANG! What the heck even is a "Talmudic ritual?" Did he get hungry after "storming" it and pop open a pack of certified-kosher chips on the grounds?

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Ish Dalal @ish.tax · 30/08/2026

Even a disposable plastic butter knife is dangerous once it snaps (ask me how I know 😁).

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Ish Dalal @ish.tax · 30/08/2026

Geotargeting 101.🤷‍♂️ And we know what GMaps does in the US from the Gulf and Denali/McKinley situations.

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Ish Dalal @ish.tax · 30/08/2026

With geotargeted display only, they believe they can have their cake... IIRC, the reason everyone offered for the Gulf of Mexico was "just following ord.., er, the USGS."

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Ish Dalal @ish.tax · 30/08/2026

Score one for Microsoft/Bing Maps?

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Ish Dalal @ish.tax · 30/08/2026

I believe conforming to the USGS is a choice, not forced by their terrain/map data. In the rest of the world, GMaps still shows Ontario.

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Ish Dalal @ish.tax · 30/08/2026

And they have the fig leaf of "we're just [voluntarily] following the USGS." I believe they said that for the Gulf or Mt. Denali.

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Ish Dalal @ish.tax · 30/08/2026

The counterpart to caveat emptor: caveat venditor?

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Ish Dalal @ish.tax · 30/08/2026

With long days, post- events, and dinners, etc. there's a decent chance I'd end up the same way, sans any jacket or tie.

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Ish Dalal @ish.tax · 30/08/2026

They named it after the :hugging-face emoji 🤗 Now whether the emoji/unicode/ISO/ANSI powers-that-be should have officially called it that in the first place...

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Ish Dalal @ish.tax · 30/08/2026

Makes me want to crack some rusty knuckles and see whether, with RECAP's API, we could have a browser userscript that finds the referenced documents PDF and embed the link.

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Ish Dalal @ish.tax · 30/08/2026

I could swear they used to regularly upload opinions to DocumentCloud in the not-too-distant past. What @barbmcquade.bsky.social said: *immensely* frustrating and a disservice to readers.

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Ish Dalal @ish.tax · 28/08/2026

They carved out an implied indigent/IFP exception a while ago. But tons of folks who *can* pay filing fees can't afford the insane *minimum* half or full-day per-diem for private reporters. This 2022 article has those at $800–$2,000 in LA. Plus hourly and per-page. abc7.com/post/court-l...

abc7.com

Public will have to find and pay for own court reporters in many LA civil cases

Los Angeles Superior Court will no longer provide free court reporters for family law and other civil cases. Private reporters could cost $800-$2,000 a day.

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Ish Dalal @ish.tax · 28/08/2026

Cal. Gov. Code § 69957(a): A court shall not expend funds for or use electronic recording technology or equipment to ... make the official record of an action or proceeding in circumstances not authorized by this section. [which is limited to infractions, misdemeanors, and civil cases under $35k!]

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Ish Dalal @ish.tax · 28/08/2026

This was long overdue. Hallelujah! And to be fair to the courts, it is a *statutory* prohibition.

In this context, given the significant cost of
hiring a private court reporter, we do not imply some absolute
standard of indigency. Instead, any litigant who cannot afford
to pay a private reporter may apply to proceed in forma pauperis
and qualify as indigent for this purpose. (See fn. 3, post.)

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Ish Dalal @ish.tax · 28/08/2026

University police are signing 287(g) agreements!?

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Ish Dalal @ish.tax · 28/08/2026

This is a beginning-of-summer recommendation, not beginning-of-fall!

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Ish Dalal @ish.tax · 27/08/2026

I miss when we used to make light of W's Bush-isms like "nucular" and "is our children learning" 🤷‍♂️

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Ish Dalal @ish.tax · 27/08/2026

The poor thing is pretty much a kid himself.

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Ish Dalal @ish.tax · 27/08/2026

And why is our largest city ultimately named after some foreign town? Time to rename it New America.

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Ish Dalal @ish.tax · 27/08/2026

LOL at the asymmetry. Most credit cards used to offer that. I've never had a CC with an annual fee, but a friend recently explained how cards like the Chase Sapphire or Amex Platinum pay for themselves in concrete, usable credits, plus contingent benefits like trip insurance.

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Ish Dalal @ish.tax · 27/08/2026

Yeah, the Amtrak refundable-until-the-last-minute option is usually a nominal upcharge. I always get it. Airlines, too, offer 100% credit for anything above the cheapest option. I wonder if the much lower capacity of a bus is the reason?

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Ish Dalal @ish.tax · 27/08/2026

It's the American Universe...

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Ish Dalal @ish.tax · 27/08/2026

Bus refundability is weird, even for Greyhound (now owned by FlixBus). Amtrak operates like a proper carrier.

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Ish Dalal @ish.tax · 19/08/2026

Congratulations, Dean H! 😀

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Ish Dalal @ish.tax · 19/08/2026

Documented pawcity of pawfessors in those areas.

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Ish Dalal @ish.tax · 17/08/2026

Then we renumber: Step 0. Get these mushrooms.

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Ish Dalal @ish.tax · 16/08/2026

Anthropomorphized animals can make the best workers! May need to be a few months older, but show her the illustrations in Richard Scarry's Fire Station picture book and narrate/simplify the bubbles. Lots of firetruck action! www.rhcbooks.com/books/161282...

rhcbooks.com

Richard Scarry’s A Day at the Fire Station – Author Huck Scarry; Illustrated by Richard Scarry – Random House Children's Books

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Ish Dalal @ish.tax · 16/08/2026

SUPERVISOR FLOOFZILLA TO THE RUFFSCUE!

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Ish Dalal @ish.tax · 16/08/2026

ASK BORKSKETBOL THOTS ONLY WEN AWAKE

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Ish Dalal @ish.tax · 16/08/2026

I think it's telling you to open the World Wide Web for proper instructions on using the dryer!

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Ish Dalal @ish.tax · 13/08/2026

Have the courts given us a retrospective clue yet on #WITAOD?

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Ish Dalal @ish.tax · 13/08/2026

Suggest that SecDef consider making it available as a "supplement?"

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Ish Dalal @ish.tax · 08/08/2026

Malpractice. Quotes foll 4 relatives for split: 1 started pet. to ban, objects to "some of [M's] associations." 2 "disagrees with his politics" and doesn’t know if "could stomach" M attending. 3 has no problem. 4 wishes Muslims weren't scapegoated. Art. disclaims any idea of pet. signers. 😱

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Ish Dalal @ish.tax · 08/08/2026

let's not forget that he stopped responding to the client after "the intimate relationship soured," including not informing her about a hearing that had happened in her matter. And ad hominem attacks on the referee and client too.

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Ish Dalal @ish.tax · 08/08/2026

Boasting about being a violent thug wouldn't even fit the "bad boy" stereotype, would it? Puzzling.

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Ish Dalal @ish.tax · 06/08/2026

Step 2. Enforcement via fear of punishment. The usual flogging (hopefully!) or death are out under 8A. What about garden-variety one-to-three year prison terms?

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