The drug protocol was a massive single dose of pentobarbital, which is a barbiturate. Followed by a second backup dose of the same size if required.

This is a different and simpler protocol than the 3 drug combo of, like, midazolam, pancuronium bromide, and potassium chloride. The barbiturates work solely off of sedative-like effects, and lethality is achieved by using a massive overdose.

This is what I’ve pieced together from news and court filings:

This drug works well if it gets into the blood stream. If it goes into the muscles and other parts of the body besides the veins, it doesn’t have its psychoactive sedative effects. The drug is very basic, as in high pH, so it causes burns.

Injecting not into vein also causes pain and swelling simply from mechanically forcing a largish volume of liquid into the body where there’s not a lot of free space to accept it.

So the story seems to be that the execution people struggled for a long time to get a good needle stick into a vein. The victim had prewarned them and the court that she has tiny veins, like a lot of people. It seems like they possibly gave up on the vein and just dumped two whole vials into what was effectively an intramuscular injection.

There was a witness report that one of the multiple needles that were removed from her arm was bent at a 90 degree angle.

Ladies and gentlemen, Justice Kavanaugh’s solo concurrence from Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo:

Immigration stops based on reasonable suspicion of illegal presence have been an important component of U. S. immigration enforcement for decades, across several presidential administrations. In this case, however, the District Court enjoined U. S. immigration officers from making investigative stops in the Los Angeles area when the stops are based on the following factors or combination of factors: (i) presence at particular locations such as bus stops, car washes, day laborer pickup sites, agricultural sites, and the like; (ii) the type of work one does; (iii) speaking Spanish or speaking English with an accent; and (iv) apparent race or ethnicity.

…

Under this Court’s precedents, not to mention common sense, those circumstances taken together can constitute at least reasonable suspicion of illegal presence in the United States. Importantly, reasonable suspicion means only that immigration officers may briefly stop the individual and inquire about immigration status. If the person is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter. Only if the person is illegally in the United States may the stop lead to further immigration proceedings.

Okay. Now go to File Explorer and right click to create a new text file and try to name it “con”. That’s three letters: con. You can’t do it. Not allowed. Because CON has been reserved (in every directory on every drive) for piping to and from console since MS-DOS 2 or so. (I think 2 is when they stole pipes from Unix)

Okay. Now, open just about any kind of desktop window and double click in its upper left corner. In > 9 windows out of 10 that action still closes the window even though the “close window” button was moved to the upper right corner by Windows 3. Even though a bunch of modern applications don’t even have any icon there at all any more.

Linux requires at least 32 bit machine words, and it always has. Linux was originally written for Intel 80386.

Linux requires a hardware MMU to support virtual memory. There are patches that can make a no-MMU kernel, but it drastically changes the experience to do so.

What’s going to happen is:

• The big players know that the token pricing crisis is coming up.
• When the price increases hit, regular users are going to scramble for alternatives.
• Local models will be an attractive alternative for many users. The cost of hardware and energy will constrain local model power, but many will be willing to live with it.
• So these would-be cartel members want to hit the local and open weight models with the “safety” card. Otherwise they might be holding the bag on all of those data centers.

“You see, it’s just too dangerous to humanity to experiment with AI at home. You need to use a safe provider like Open AI.”

Where the heck are those “I did that” stickers?

It doesn’t disqualify you from the FBI any more.

The man said it under oath, so it must be true. 100%.

Don’t forget the literal golden shower.

Roberts, Barrett, and Gorsuch appear to actually stand up for federalism. They might actually think the postal rule is illegal because it usurps power reserved to the states.

Kavanaugh thinks the rule is probably legal, but it’s too close to the election to implement.

Alito and Thomas dissented. They think the rule should go into effect now.

There’re a bunch of legal shenanigans that happened this afternoon on this topic. I’ll try to summarize.

1. Kavanaugh really did rule in favour of the democrat-leaning map. All by himself.
2. The emergency application that Kavanaugh denied came to the supreme court on appeal to from the supreme court of Missouri.
3. In a separate lawsuit in federal court, a federal district judge ruled in favour of the Republican map (forcing MO to change its behaviour with a court order). The main reasoning for this decision is the Purcell Principle. A rule that federal courts can’t meddle with election maps right before an election.
4. #3 happened just minutes after the Kavanaugh decision was posted.
5. Despite that, the #3 decision does not disobey the Kavanaugh decision because it was decided on a different rationale. Also the Kavanaugh decision didn’t come with an opinion.
6. The #3 decision was immediately appealed to both the 8th circuit and to Justice Kavanaugh on the supreme court.
7. Kavanaugh asked for a response on this new appeal by next Tuesday.
8. Kavanaugh is handling all these emergency appeals because he is assigned to handle the circuit that includes Missouri.

Bottom line: Despite the Kavanaugh ruling, the Republican-leaning map is still the current map right now.

Why is this federal district judge probably wrong? In the Alabama and Texas cases, the Supreme Court pretty well established that the Purcell Principle restrains the federal court system, but not state legislatures or state governments. Other court precedent says that the supreme court of Missouri is the ultimate decider of the meaning of the Missouri constitution and the Missouri laws. Federal courts are supposed to defer to state supreme courts if they need to know what a state law means. Here we have a federal judge telling Missouri that their supreme court is wrong on the laws of Missouri, and he’s incorrectly applying Purcell to the state supreme court.

Put some “Copyright © Patnou, [year]” notices in prominent places on the manuscript.

The main flavour components of butter are not going to infuse through water. If you want to add butter flavour to the final product, it would be better to baste the food in melted butter after it Congress out of the pot.

If you have enough water in with the butter to actually simmer instead of fry, the butter won’t do very much during the cooking process. Water boils at 100 C, and the boiling will stabilise the temperature at 100 C and prevent it from climbing higher. A frying or saute process doesn’t have the water, and the temperatures can go much higher than 100 C.

The normal seafood boil recipe is no fat in the water, but do add a lot of seasoning to the water. Add a lot more seasoning to the water than you would normally add directly to the food.

Then for the boil, only boil the seafood for a short time, 1-2 minutes. Then turn the heat off, cover, and steep the seafood in the over-seasoned water like tea, until done. This gives the food more contact time to infuse with the seasoning without overcooking.

Draft age gonna change in any real war.

If you, as a consumer, directly paid one of the illegal tariffs, you can get a refund via the shipper who acted as an agent for you.

For example, here’s the form if you shipped something over the border using UPS and paid an illegal tariff to get it released from customs.

Without the monocoque, I doubt it can pass modern crash safety tests. Nor is there any safe place to install air bags.