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Puzzles, essays, music, all kinds of personal issues. Future former lawyer. Rural NC succumbing to exurban sprawl. He / him.
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I didn't think the Dean Scream was a big deal and the next day the cover of the New York Post said THE WHEELS COME OFF and there was, as I recall it, a caricature of a screaming Dean with steam coming out of his ears driving a car with its wheels falling off.
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I bought a new mattress like a year ago because of back pain and every one I lay down on that cost more than the rock-bottom price felt about the same and I bought one anyway and it did zippo for my back. No mattress can change the fact that God does not intend me to sleep
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Have now watched 2 episodes of the new season of "The Bear" and absolutely nothing has moved forward in terms of plot development. Did you know that Carmie and Richie sometimes bump heads with each other?
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I mean, it's not like it's LAW law. Just asking for a little money here and there
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You know what, I'm bored. I'll email you at that address and look into this.
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Since trademark registration for use in interstate commerce and the Lanham Act are exclusively federal law, would they even have to have an Oregon lawyer?
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This is called "trademark trolling," and you are correct that they are intentionally asking you for just a hair more than it would ordinarily cost to retain a lawyer and start fighting them on this.
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I'm not your lawyer, but I am *a* lawyer, and I would advise my client to note this letter is not from a lawyer or a law firm and I would write them an email telling them to pound sand. I think this may be the same trademark troll that was hassling the "Fuck the LAPD" guy. Can someone @ him?
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are India & the US. And we're on the brink of losing democracy entirely because of a combination of apathy, selfishness and social media disinformation. We're all back in the same situation that gave rise to the birth of communism, but everyone's got enough bread and circuses now to distract them.
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We don't talk enough about *how many people on the planet have this in common.* Everyone living under a militarily aggressive dictatorship and / or mafia state, which includes China, Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia... The largest countries like this that have some semblance of actual democracy...
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I'm concerned that people don't know, for instance, that Asian-Americans were denied the right to vote until the mid-20th century.
We've really only had some semblance of universal suffrage since 1965.
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He radiates domestic abuser.
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Please, please if there's anything you can do to help prevent Mark Robinson from becoming governor, do it. He's not a normal, calculated level of crazy for a GOP candidate. He's really deranged and dangerous.
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TIL that since 1979, the Bundestag has had a member, Jakob Maria Mierscheid, who does not actually exist
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakob_M...
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I am always glad to see a picture of pizza
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It's not uncommon for people to assert that the Internet ruined everything, but this obscures the degree to which television had already ruined everything by the time the Internet came along. FDR attack ads would be all slow-motion rolling.
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Casus Bello
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as he toiled at his workbench that fateful day in 1693, Steven Hotdog could scarcely have predicted
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Saw an AI fireworks show and a guy lost all 7 fingers on one hand.
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This is called interacting with another human being in a friendly way. If this is how they feel about interacting with children, God forbid an adult should want to share a moment with one of these people.
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Just learned that the primary source of income for the al-Assad regime in Syria is the manufacture and sale throughout the Middle East of an illegal drug I'd never heard of before.
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someone else's power? Stripping them of everything they'd worked for over a whole career? It's a flex!
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But now they have an opportunity to derail Biden's campaign. So they'll do that instead, because every scalp of a powerful person they collect is another sign of power. That's why they worked overtime to push Harvard's president out of her office. What better show of power than taking away...
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Feinstein or Ruth Bader Ginsberg retire? Power. They didn't want to give up their power. Why is the NYT seemingly determined to tank Biden's campaign? Because if they did, it would show how powerful they are. They know they can't derail Trump's campaign. They sort of tried and no one listened....
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Just like I saw it from Pete Buttigieg. And Ted Cruz. And most of the Republican elected officials who aren't religious crusaders. Ronald Reagan was a starry-eyed idealist compared to them. Why does the Supreme Court keep arrogating power to itself? So it can have power. Why wouldn't Diane...
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using it against somebody. "Veep" correctly answered the question "Why does Selena Meyer want to be president?" by saying "Because she wants to be president." She has no real agenda and no real beliefs. She just desperately wants to be in charge of things. I see that radiating from Gavin Newsom...
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Everything in society makes more sense when you look at it as a battle for power *for no particular reason.* The purpose of amassing power is to have power. It's far more important than money. You must get it, keep it, and find ways to wield it, because it doesn't really exist unless you're...
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consider that racism might still exist in the American South to the degree that it could affect the way elections are conducted. No more Voting Rights Act. Rather than calling the President a king now, we should ask: if someone else decides what the king can and can't do, who's really the king?
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In the affirmative action cases the majority *declared racism over,* in a temporal sense. They'd decided upon a time horizon of 25 years about 25 years ago, at which point affirmative action would have fixed racism, and the clock ran out. In Shelby County Roberts said that it was tawdry to even...
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the gun cases and Trump v. US (I mean bases, not basis) are just completely invented at this point. When you have the power to interpret the Constitution, you control it. It's not hard to make it say whatever you want and to ignore the parts you don't like (SCOTUS has a long track record of this)...
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When you take the federal courts, and the legislature is too scared to remove you, you have a whole new deep-state-like apparatus that doesn't have an eight-year limit on power. SCOTUS just gave itself a veto over every executive branch regulation. The legal basis of its decisions in Dobbs...
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the entity making the strongest play for the power to declare the "state of exception" may be the Supreme Court, rather than Trump.
And I'm wondering if what the conservative legal movement is really after is something akin to chekism in Russia.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chekism
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He's good on the point that the law doesn't really exist until jurists issue rulings upon it, at which it comes into being in the manner in which the jurists choose. But they're not outside the law the way the sovereign is. Thinking about this, I think there's an argument that in the US...
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I was revisiting, as one does, the authoritarian phiosopher / jurist Carl Schmitt, who famously argued that there are always contingencies the law cannot capture, and the true sovereign is the person who decides upon "the state of exception." (He was a big fan when Hitler arrived.) ๐งต
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I know this is going to shock people, but the don't vote guy is a goober whose whole career is due to right-wing affirmative action. If you weren't aware, the NYT op-ed section is always desperate to hire "intellectual" Republicans for ideological balance and it always means Catholic dweebs.
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My Dinner With Andre Over the Edge Videodrome I Saw the TV Glow Escape From New York
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Good to know. He's apparently a "spiritual" author in the Marianne Williamson vein so it's probably perfect for New Age life coaches who can't get away with shilling the Law of Attraction to their female clients anymore.
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Not sure why they'd be hard to find given that a friend of mine showed me her dating app feed and it was 100% bearded guys who love camping with their dogs
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As I said, I think SCOTUS specifically wants to ensure that if there's another Minneapolis-2020-level uprising that the President can send in the National Guard to shoot everyone. I also think a Dem POTUS might now make the same choice.
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Anyone out there a British citizen who could fill out a little attestation on my citizenship registration application? TIA
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I think they think if Trump can't do whatever the fuck he wants for another 4 years, *then* he won't leave office. This is so wrong that only a 76-year-old Republican establishment figure could imagine it. And "he's an oaf who must be placated" is exactly how the Germans got Hitler.
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Trying to understand what set of circumstances SCOTUS is even contemplating coming about and all I can come up with is: Trump is an oaf who must be placated for another 4 years. Then he'll be replaced by another George W. Bush type. And we need to make sure he feels emboldened to kill protesters.
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It's not a secret in North Carolina that the state going for Obama in 2008 was the motivation for a 16-year effort - a very successful one - to prevent Democratic voters from ever unseating Republicans.
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I was thinking last night that it's the combo of Obama's election and the BLM protests that have brought us to the 21st century version of the crushing of Reconstruction. Better no democracy than a non-white democracy.
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*before 1965.
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Not entirely sure what you're talking about, but I meant *before* 1965. Every Black American in the South who remembers life before, at the earliest, 1965 remembers Jim Crow. My point was simply that that's millions of people.
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This includes, at a minimum, all Black Americans born after 1965 or so. A huge number of people.
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They apparently played a reunion show in NoVA 5 years ago (SR as only original member). This was his high school band. They were pretty good for teenagers! He went by Spooky (no e) Deil back then
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I used to see him play in Transilience in my hometown in VA when he was in high school. He's had quite the career since then
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"Hey, naughty boy, remember we're letting you do *almost* anything you want. But if you take it too far, then you report to us." It's basically the majority saying "fuck up the country but don't step on our personal toes." Will probably be followed by Thomas / Alito retirements if Trump reelected.
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