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The President is roughly like a federal version of a state governor. State governors are modeled after Tudor monarchs.

Over time the symbolism has evolved - the American people tend to want more pomp and ceremony than the presidents themselves.

We are looking for something like the Venetian Doge - a very showy anti-monarch.


Me too. Good style says to avoid creating words with dashes - it’s Un-American. But clarity matters more than rules.

Is there any American style guide that insists hyphens be avoided even when a closed compound would cause ambiguity? I follow Chicago, but I imagine other style guides also already emphasise clarity.

Wouldn't "code sign" be two words in English? And "code signing" rather than "code sign"?

Mostly yes, and I prefer it that way, but it does get smashed into a single word sometimes. "co-design" I've mostly only seen hyphenated, though I don't see it often enough or in broad enough contexts to really claim anything about the frequency in a general sense.

Maybe it's caused by `codesign` tools? Like `codesign --extreme` which probably requires two signers to sign one thing?


We’ve been raised to believe “experiences make you happy, not things.”

Everything as a service is the modern marketing ideal.


Opus 4.5 burns through tokens really fast.

I've been noticing it's more on par with sonnet these days. I don't know if that means Opus is getting more efficient, sonnet getting less efficient, or perhaps Opus is getting to the answer fast enough to overcome the higher token spend.

I've noticed. I'm already through 48% of my quota for this month.

Americans are often shocked when they reread the classics in their 40s. But that's one of the nice parts of the classics - you get something very different from them depending on where you are in life.

"Orgiastic future" - Fitzgerald simply assumed the word "orgiastic" existed, as a more clinical word for "orgasmic". His editors pointed out it did not, but he liked it more and insisted it be used.

And this doesn't include the messiness in the decisions themselves. Judges often edit the decisions for some time after they are published.

For example, Souter was editing his published opinion in Lee v. Weisman nine years after the case was decided.

https://balkin.blogspot.com/2025/05/a-justice-souter-anecdot...


> Having received my letter, Justice Souter notified the Reporter of the error, and at 535 U.S. i appears an erratum, directing that “Homer nodded” be inserted—eight or nine years after the opinion was delivered.

I would guess corrections so long after publishing are relatively rare - but if they're also marked as such, it seems a slight stretch to say it's still being "edited" 9 years later


That doesn't really solve the problem - what are the human's parameters? Protect the company from lawsuits? Spit out a link to a suicide hotline?

What does the human know - do they know all the slang terms and euphamisms for suicide. That's something most counselors don't know.

And what about euthanasia? Even as a public policy - not in reference to the user. "Where is assisted suicide legal? Does the poor use assisted suicide more than the rich?"

Smart apps like browser recommendations have dealt with this very inconsistently.


History is filled with countries that wanted their leader gone, but rejected foreign influence.

I think most Venezuelans want freedom, prosperity, peace, and sovereignty.

I’m not sure in what order.


Time will tell if this move brought them any closer to those goals.

Yeah I remember Occupy protesters. I got trapped in a gaggle of them shouting “Tahir Square!” again and again. I literally lost hearing in one of my ears.

It never really recovered. Probably need a hearing aid, but I can just use the other one.


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