Disabled folks have been creating art since forever, what the hell are you talking about? My sibling in Persephone, go look at some Van Gogh paintings and reconsider your entire life.
There is nothing inherently worse about re-used cooking fats than first-pass cooking fats. Stop trying to justify your wrong opinions.
unpaywalled link to Gia Kourlis's take on the whole kerfluffle (Kourlis is a dance critic & has been for over 25 years; she knows the world she's talking about here)
i am audhd and i am tired of people implying that i'm too lazy and stupid and disabled to use my goddamn brain
What we're not gonna do is fearmonger about the use of common sources of cooking fats. I might not be able to use them (pork makes me very sick), but no they're not "silent killers," as made clear by the fact that in places it's more commonly used (e.g. UK), health outcomes are *better* than here.
He *did* become an addict. He may not have been ingesting the meth he made, but he was pretty clearly addicted to the power, the money, the danger, and eventually the pain that he could inflict on other people by virtue of the the power/money/danger.
Bestefar worked on ships in Norway & then cabinet-making once his wife made him stay on dry land after they came to the U.S.
Grandpa Joe was career Navy, used the GI bill upon retirement to go to photography school & later on got his real estate license.
No, I don't get seasick, if you're curious.
Between ADHD, post-COVID, perimenopause, and ::waves hands generally at the world::, the fact that I could conjure "zhuzher thing" is in itself a miracle.
Which is to say: yes, somewhere in my brain resides the word "grogger," but that was inaccessible in the moment so I did my best.
I can't remember if it was open the last time I was in there. I haven't been with a kiddo since my godson moved out of my house in 2022.
It was representation of royalty, and remains so, long before Christian appropriation.
Make noise (drum, trumpet, zhuzher thing), dress up (mask, jester hat), overthrow royalty (fleur de lis)?
Pappacino on Woodstock.
A good clue for the recipient would be "is the person's name not only misspelled, but misspelled in a way that is not an actual variation on that name, in the sender's email address?"
"Racheal," when you spell your name Rachel & -eal is a misspelling, should have clocked it as fake.
Fines are part of contempt.
A court judgment is garnishable. You don't get to hide from those, they take it out of your paycheck or bank account if you don't pay it, and most states have statutory interest on unpaid judgments, too (e.g. in OR it's 9% per year).
I don’t believe for a second they never bought any oil at all. No one’s putting bacon grease in cake batter or bread dough. No one’s using bacon grease in dishes that call for olive oil.
I just did a settlement for a client. Opposing party agreed to pay $$ within 2 years. That doesn’t mean they have $$ cash on hand, they may have to sell the house we were settling ownership of to satisfy the agreement. Same here. Anthropic has to pay authors 1.5B & may have to sell assets to do it.
Same. I thought it was like lizards in space.
Not defending just drawing a distinction in the scale of it. And that’s fair.
Lebanon, Libya, and Iran-Contra may not have been called wars, but he wasn’t exactly a peacenik.
Right. Except that because computer programs like Claude aren’t human, the liability flows to the creator of them. This is what happened with the DoNotPay guy in California.
For corporations it is very different, and shelving media for tax purposes is a well-known thing that studios do.
My husband is a senior Atlassian systems team lead, 18 years in tech jobs. He has a BS in music production from a state school, paid off his debt after 10 years & makes 4x what I do.
I'm a probate/estates/real estate attorney with ten years in practice & a quarter million in student loan debt.
"How much could a JD cost, Michael? Ten dollars?"
Once you're in practice, most jurisdictions require continuing education (MA is an exception). Sometimes, a CLE is free, but $1,000/year is a reasonable estimate (OR CLEs commonly cost $70/credit; 45 credits every 3 yrs). Law isn't a learn it once skill like typing, it's fluid & you have to keep up.
A lot of people get scholarships, or have partners who carry the living expenses burden, or have trust funds, or live more frugally than $40K/year for living expenses, or get jobs before bar results. But it is not unreasonable to estimate $500K before you get business cards with "associate" on them.
Then there's the cost of taking the bar exam, the near-mandatory bar prep course, 3 months between graduation & exam when you can't work because you're studying 12hrs/day 6 days/wk, 3 more months of unemployment before results, and we're easily at about half a million dollars.
At my alma mater, tuition is $61,000 per year now. Tuition goes up a little each year & you're not allowed to have a job during the year, so living expenses on top of that. So let's say $300,000 for the 3 years.
And you need a four-year degree (another $100K for a state school) before law school.
So no, this isn't just a "database" like Westlaw is, because it's producing an end-product, with the bonus round of "that end-product wasn't even created by a human being, so it's neither work product nor privileged," before we even get to accuracy.
[chidi you understand how that's worse dot gif]
Here, in the technology age, Westlaw is the library^. The search results list are the card catalog, the cases themselves the contents of the volume, Claude etc. is the unlicensed librarian & the prompt is your boss's question.
^Physical law libraries still exist, of course, but stick with me anyway
