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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • This is a pretty interesting article on the Right’s recent strategy to undercut environmental protection, by claims that the original congressional mandate was focused on the immediate health risks and not long term concerns for the climate.

    Recent papers highlighting original studies are helping the current generation of lawyers locate the less immediate/imminent/was-all-over-the-news reasons behind the adoption of the EPA. There was quite a bit of focus on climate damage, but what sold all the public arguments was smog and one of the Great lakes bursting into flames.

    All the more reason that originalism is dumb, but I guess it’s the way the court wants to be right now and you’ve got to work with what you’ve got.

    It’s easy to forget how much good the EPA has done.








  • The holes on paper aren’t bigger than a bullet. Bullets go fast. .223/5.56 is better than mach 2. That’ll breeze right through a surprising amount of material.

    He definitely didn’t have a bullet go through his ear though. Even at a magical angle a bullet wouldn’t be able to go right through.

    I kind of think it either barely touched or he got cut when he reached up to touch his ear or something, or a chunk of shrapnel from something else popped him. Honestly, that last one might make the most sense.