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heck yeah the 70s had some great music and fashion. peak han dynasty.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3n6n45bHUyM

well you are certainly not judge gerald hardcastle

https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/hardcastle-says-hell-quit-bench/

He drew controversy in recent years for his handling of the Brittney Bergeron case. He refused to grant Brittney's request to terminate the parental rights of her mother, Tamara Schmidt.

Authorities said the girls were stabbed in January 2003 by two Utah teenagers in revenge for a bogus methamphetamine deal orchestrated by the Schmidts, who were girlfriend and boyfriend at the time.

Brittney, then 10, was paralyzed from the waist down, and her 3-year-old sister, Kristyanna Cowan, was killed.

Hardcastle's decision was on appeal to the Nevada Supreme Court in February when Tamara Schmidt, still a prisoner, formally relinquished her parental rights and signed an open adoption agreement with the foster parents who have shared their home with Brittney for five years.

"This job is pretty hard on people, especially in Family Court," Kathy Hardcastle said Wednesday.

She said Gerald Hardcastle builds model ships for relaxation, and she still has one on display in her office.

https://lasvegassun.com/news/1999/nov/05/judge-plays-solomon-with-beanie-babies/

"This isn't about toys. It's about control," Family Court Judge Gerald Hardcastle told the couple. "Because you folks can't solve it, it takes the services of a District Court judge, a bailiff and a court reporter."

There was snickering among the five or six people in the gallery.

"I don't agree with the judge's decision to do this. It's ridiculous and embarrassing," said Frances Mountain, moments before squatting on the courtroom floor alongside her ex-husband to choose first from a pile of dozens of stuffed toys.

The courtroom was silent for about three minutes while the two took turns picking babies.

yeah but how tho?

hydrogen fuel-cell firebomb, maybe?

thanks, that'll do

American households are allocating so much money to U.S. stocks that the valuation of the whole market is now dependent on their appetite, according to JPMorgan. Individual investors have become the most important holder of U.S. equities, owning around 60% of the universe, the Wall Street firm said. This record level of ownership creates a lockstep movement between the price-to-earnings ratio of the S & P 500 and the retail flow into the market. “The higher the appetite by US households to hold equities in their portfolios, the more expensive the equity market becomes and vice versa,” strategists led by Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou said in a note to clients. This correlation also means that if households start to flee the stock market, their action could effectively lower market valuation.

sure, but at what cost?

thanks, i couldn't remember quite how it goes

you try drawing ytterbium

first

also apparently the pope died right after meeting jd vance. what a world.

here's a link to a source to make this an officially acceptable top comment: https://apnews.com/article/vatican-pope-francis-dead-01ca7d73c3c48d25fd1504ba076e2e2a

absolutely my biggest concern here is that the west is able to copy this technology. but while on the one hand i completely agree with you, on the other hand i'm also not looking forward to this getting dropped nearby when the ruling class of my country inevitably makes the decisions that capital dictates they must.

here's the thing. this lowers the bar. non-nuclear weapons that can achieve similar effects to nuclear weapons are going to get used (as oreshnik has already been used). as @plinky@hexbear.net says, these aren't much worse than conventional explosives, so why not use them? it's not mutually assured destruction with these weapons, not in the global civilization ending sense, so we're back into the realm of tactical ballistic exchanges being a weekly or monthly occurrence.

i really don't like where all of this is headed.