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There very well might be a culture of poor ethical conduct in the Supreme Court, but there is no moral equivalency between justices accepting rides on private jets to vacation with friends who had cases before the court and Sotomayor talking about her books and her life to a crowd of mesmerized young readers.
The standard royalty rate for authors is less than 10 percent of the sales price. I don’t know anything about Sotomayor’s deal with her publishers, but 10 percent would make her cut of the 1,500 books our foundation purchased approximately $2,250 — for which she had to fly to Mississippi and give two presentations. During the hottest month of the year.
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The Washington Post: Opinion | Sotomayor attending book festival is lesson in Supreme Court ethics https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/08/07/sotomayor-book-festival-mississippi-ethics/
Eagerly reaching for the A volume of our Encyclopedia Britannica set to try to learn a bit about AI. Wait...Do we have AI? Prolly we don't have AI. Alligators then.
Alison and her husband raised two children, barely making ends meet and moving frequently from one hardscrabble town to the next, where he bet on dart games in dive bars. The one thing he had going for him: His aim was true.
I would like to be able to invite friends to Mastodon and make it a bit easier by recommending the instance that I am on, which happens to be @sfba.social. That would remove the hurdle of choosing an instance, right?
Is this feature (menu item, "invite") a possibility?
I would choose "invite" from a menu, provide an email address for the person who I want to invite, and my instance is the default in their signup form. (They can change it, but best to not stress that point so that people don't start agonizing over whether they should change it and if so, what is currently the best instance available in the Fediverse to meet their individual needs.)