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They'll go to jail for contempt if they refuse. I'm honestly surprised a preliminary injunction would require this though.

Edit: they've already filed an appeal on that order (interlocutory appeal) today https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67630985/united-states-v-abbott/

Judge pretty much says the state isn't even offering a defense so

Defendants shall, by September 15, 2023, reposition, at Defendants’ expense, and in coordination with the United States Army Corps of Engineers, all buoys, anchors, and other related materials composing the floating barrier placed by Texas in the Rio Grande in the vicinity of Eagle Pass, Texas to the bank of the Rio Grande on the Texas side of the river

I'm a nurse and was on a murder jury trial with a sheriff deputy. They're not allowed to ask your profession in voir dire. What you cannot do is provide expert testimony as a juror in deliberation. You are, of course, expected to use your experiences in your decision.

I don't even see how a jury would follow something like that. It's a college course in the way of information overload.

Attribution biases, confirmation biases, and xenophobia are human conditions. Some are greater affected by personality than others (which you can't change as an adult). All you can do is acknowledge that you do it and work to reduce it. Anyone who says they're immune is delusional.

Any US technology has NSA backdoors. I'm surprised it took them this long to realize, since they do the same thing.

Pumas don't dislike water as much as some other cats. They're not quite as good swimmers as Jaguars, but some of them live on islands and swim for over a kilometer to go to new territory.

I think it's real, just not the way its presented. I think he likely went to Amiga, talked his company up on how important they are in vague ways, and then jumped on whatever they said to promise that "yes, we can do that." That's his MO.

make something decent

But importantly, not what was asked for/promised.

I'm sure even Iraq doesn't allow double jeopardy.

A long and storied career in running cons. He obviously went to Amiga first.

His house is described as "something like an occult bookshop under permanent renovation, with records, videos, magical artefacts and comic-book figurines strewn among shelves of mystical tomes and piles of paper. The bathroom, with blue-and-gold décor and a generous sunken tub, is palatial; the rest of the house has possibly never seen a vacuum cleaner."
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2002/feb/02/sciencefictionfantasyandhorror.books