Arizona Bar exam, which is the lowest bar of entry,

You are completely and totally incorrect:

" Last fall, Arizona lowered its minimum passing score for the bar exam from 273, what was previously the highest in the country, to 270. The new score is still the nation’s highest, though it’s shared by 18 other states, including Colorado, Oregon and Pennsylvania.

Many University of Arizona law grads who fall short within a few points often leave for New Mexico or Utah, where the passing score is 260, said Jessica Findley, director of bar and academic success and professor of practice at the UA’s James E. Rogers College of Law. The goal of the ALAP is to keep aspiring lawyers in the state."

Arizona had the highest bar exam requirements in the Nation. And is now on par with 18 other states. The cutoff for this program is 10 points under passing - so 260. Equivalent to New Mexico.

The problem is that there is literally lower bars in bordering states - and they go there instead. Sure, we could just dismiss them as flunkies, but I doubt that a score of 260-270 indicates that they’re “incapable”.

Thank heavens, the way the consolidation was going everything was going to be Kroger. The merger would make like 1/2 of all grocery stores here Frys. With the other half split between the rest.

If anything will empty the pews, its this.

IIRC, infertility has been a growing problem due to PFAS exposure. We may well inherit a future where IVF is required to maintain a replacement population.

These regressive idiots are essentially ensuring their beliefs will die with them. Good fucking riddance.

Huh, that’s a pretty bold move for the AZ Dems. IIRC, I don’t think Beshear got an endorsement from his state party. Though I suppose that could still happen.

Oh yes, totally understood. I’ve seen families destroyed from sports gambling and other, less boisterous forms of it.

If I like anything, it’s scratchers and it’s because they’re soooooo satisfying to “play”. But it’s only something I indulge in occasionally.

Anyways, I tried to get into MMO’s back in the early days with all my friends. I tired of it fairly quickly. I guess the novelty seeking part of my brain overwhelmingly rejects typical “gambling” mechanics. Loot boxes don’t do anything for me and never have.

More recently I’ve grown completely frustrated with franchises like Forza Horizon and their little slot machine / skinner box mechanic. I love racing games, but it made me stop playing.

I can be addicted to things, but it just isn’t gambling for me somehow.

I do resent MMO’s for destroying so many of my friend’s lives though. Weird to lose people to that ecosystem, it’s the video game equivalent to losing someone to an MLM.

Also fuuuuuck, MLMs, almost did the “vector marketing” (cutco cutlery) and “rainbow vacuum” thing - the only thing that saved me was that Youtube had existed for like 5 years by then and there was enough people out there with their stories.

I never understood this one. I have ADHD and autism and I find gambling boring as hell. With maybe the exception of blackjack. Where my autistic brain tries to count cards.

I remember the day I turned 21. I decided to try out a casino. I spent $50 there and promptly left. Maybe I just lucked out and they didn’t hook me with an easy win early on?

I’d much rather spend $50 on a video game that I can entertain myself with for hours.

One unique tip that I have is to go to a CBD/Hemp store and snag some CBD heavy strains to mix in with your normal bud. Making sure to increase the % of CBD each time you grind.

It might not help immediately, since CBD is supposed to be a calming substance, not a stimulant. But quitting smoking is a whole lot easier once you are mostly on the CBD stuff.

Definitely avoid the CBG heavy hemp as that’ll just give you the gnarliest munchies you’ll ever have in your life. Some people swear it’s “smart weed” - but for me I can’t think straight when munchies are knocking.

I’m really surprised no one mentioned Terra Invicta!

Basically if the Three Body Problem series was a Grand strategy game.

In terms of grand strategy it is quite grand. So massive and complex that even 100 hours in, I haven’t completed a game.

That being said, it’s so addicting. I haven’t really played any other Sci-Fi games where you can take over multiple countries on Earth, take over other bodies in the solar system, and field space Navy to defend the planet.

Eh, didn’t come across like that. More like a sort of nihilistic defeatism. It didn’t make Kelly appear like a bad senator. But perhaps my definition of “hit piece” is a bit narrow.

This one was especially hard to parse. Is he serious in that he thinks that Biden == Black Caucus? Is this satire? I agree about Biden being treated unfairly, but I don’t really agree that replacing Biden is less dangerous than not replacing him - and I’ll vote for whoever the democratic candidate is regardless.

All in all, this opinion piece is one of the worst I’ve ever read from Mr. Morlock. It didn’t serve to clarify anything and didn’t really say anything about how Mr. Kelly actually operates as a U.S. senator - just considering him too “soft” - which is really really bizarre.

I like how the response infantilized Mrs. Wadsack by assuming she doesn’t know the difference between persecution and prosecution. 😂

You go, Tucson Mega-Karen, you do that Karen thing. Let’s see how it works out come election day.

I normally like your takes, but this one doesn’t really garner conversation the way your other posts do. It’s a bit slapstick, IMO.

This information has been shared with Pima County Dems and they’ll be helping us organize a bit.

Grrr, tucsonsentinel mucking with their “archive re-releases” again. I wish I could exclude them on the RSS feed.

Thanks for mentioning it!

You know, I thought so too, until I did some googling and found that it’s not quite that straight forward:

https://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2024/03/28/no-the-saudis-havent-stopped-pumping-arizona-groundwater/

TIL!

Fair point. But I also know a few of examples to the contrary. My sister and my father both had medical cards. They’ve stopped renewing them, because for them the recreational side is sufficient. It’s just less stress. Although I’m very much not sure about the prices. It seems like they are making short-term decision on the expensive paperwork and in so doing paying a lot more long-term in excise taxes.

I don’t even have a medical card. But I am just incredibly tired of ever increasing THC percentages in the products. I need a substantial amount of CBD in the product to not be stuck in a mind-racing, anxious hell. So a majority of the recreational market just does NOT appeal to me.

I lived in Portland, Oregon for about 7 years after they legalized. Their market was so different. I could find almost any combination of cannabinoids that I would want. Even on the recreational side. I wonder if it has anything to do with the markets maturity in a given state? Perhaps people trend away from high THC strains after a few years?

It’s because the “Medical” side of the market doesn’t actually exist. Want CBD heavy bud? Nope, not, “enough demand”. Just higher and higher concentration of THC for the medical patients.

It’s fake as hell. Not every medical patient has the same needs, so why the hell is it all the same weed?

Nowadays the hemp/CBD flower shops are more “medical” than any of the “medical” shops.

For here in Tucson, I recommend Healthful Flowers over on Speedway and Craycroft. The only legit “medically valuable” hemp/cannabis dispensary in town.

So yeah, to the “medical” dispensaries out there, it’s adapt or die, and most are choosing to just make “medical cannabis” into “discount recreation cannabis” and wondering why their medical patients stop showing up.

No idea, but it’s not a left or right thing - IMO. I’ve noticed a trend where it’s “restorative justice for those in my tribe, but retributive justice for those in that tribe”. It’s really challenging for people to feel that everyone deserves restorative justice - often due to their own traumas. It makes me wonder how in the heck the Nordic countries managed to even get to their current prison system. Like, how do you get society to trust your reforming institutions that much?

I mean, no, not if we want to repeal the Ban.

But yeah, apparently we did in the 90’s!

Not the person you were responding to, but - uh - hello? This is tucson.social and last I checked Arizona is one of the aforementioned swing states.

I can tell you that his campaign is more effective here for this move. It might not be completely convincing for those center and center-right, but it will be a point in a “for” column - hopefully for enough people to matter.

Arizona is primarily made up of registered Republicans, then Independents, then Democrats source. It’s the Republicans who only need to “turn out the base”.

There is something to note, however. Looking only at recent registration data, it’s Independents leading and by a staggeringly wide margin.

• 350,768 new registrations in just April. For no party in particular.
• Democrats got 219,182, a distant but respectable second.
• Republicans were right behind that fetching 214,957 registrations.

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Appealing to the left isn’t the winning strategy. Appealing to the independent vote in Arizona is - and hopefully picking up just a couple %'s of the moderate Republican votes in the process. Sure, some of those independents might be disaffected democrats who want to distance themselves from Biden, but I’d bet that’s a pretty small portion of independents. Generally speaking, those that would pass on the Biden vote would likely register as green party, or “no labels”, or something equally communicative of part of their identity. True independents would be the ambivalent, the “both siders”, the “enlightened centrists”, and many others - usually far more persuadable than the ideological hard-liners. Compared to Trump, who would likely still get most of his voters from the Republican base who, in their pride, would be emboldened to register as Republican over “no party”/Independent. Sure, he might bring over some libertarians, “no-labels” folks, but I think he’s largely burned the bridge with the electorate in a much more visceral way - and wouldn’t garner much of the Independent vote outside of that.

Further, I’ll add that we’re different here at tucson.social - we strive to be a reflection of our local community, and I make a point of going out and talking to real people, in real places about all sorts of things as well as tucson.social itself. And wouldn’t ya know it? There’s a lot of people who have weird combinations of beliefs that don’t fit what the internet would have you believe. Even here in bright blue Tucson/Pima County.