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@J54881531 @No_Toilets Parody Law protects the use of copyrighted material without permission.
There are two elements which must be present to qualify, you must reference the original product and it must change the nature of the product in a distinct way outside of merely “satire”
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Copyright and trademark laws exist for a reason. She tempted fate too much and got sued. The fact that they’re suing her for $1 makes it apparent they’re not trying to ruin her. But if she’s going to build her branding around THEIRS, no shit they’re gonna defend their trademark
kristofer thomas@kristoferthomas
I’m sorry, but if you spend even five minutes reading about this stupid-ass case and emerge vaguely defending the corporation ‘Patagonia’, you are a profound loser lol
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@No_Toilets Pretty sure it’s all protected under parody law, furthermore trademark only applies to specific industries. Pattie is selling merch yes, but it’s not hiking gear like Patagonia. And the merch is really just promoting her drag persona.
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@shooting6lasers It wasnt 57 minutes ago when I tweeted this. It's always been obvious that Gallrein was going to win by a large margin.
The fact that Massie even had 40-60 odds is an indictment on this platform.
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Betting markets are a remarkably ineffective tool for predicting the outcome of elections.
If you think otherwise, you've fallen for their marketing. It's not true.
Polymarket@Polymarket
BREAKING: Ed Gallrein surges in KY-04 primary odds after polls close. 85% chance he defeats Massie.
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@AlexGodofsky I think most likely not. The judges didn't seem moved by the court posting argument during oral and the referendum language didn't fall under this case. They actually got the timing right for the abortion amendment because it was planned earlier.
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I believe this also will cancel the remaining referenda scheduled for the fall, including the abortion amendment.
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Glad to see this and I think it was the right decision. Merits of gerrymandering aside, the actual process was IMO obviously defective.
Seung Min Kim@seungminkim
!!! RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia Supreme Court strikes down voter-approved congressional redistricting plan, dealing a major blow to Democrats.
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@MostlyMonkey @s0ymalia Could be grad school and poor financial diligence until more recently
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@s0ymalia Yeah I think they make way less, otherwise 450 makes no semse at that savings rate
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Brother, I hate to break it to you but you’re not hitting any kind of fat fire number in 7 years with a tech salary
Ramit Sethi@ramit
"Is pushing for a 60% savings rate destroying my marriage?" Yes
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@SpacedOutMatt @AaronBergman18 1. Ignoring my last message
2. Making quite the assumption wrt the degree of loadbearingness of consent in evaluating actions
Quit it man
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@J54881531 @AaronBergman18 But consent only does meaningful legal/moral work for acts that would be wrongs without it (what I was referring to above as "a special kind of act")
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@SpacedOutMatt @AaronBergman18 OK cool so you admit that your original message was wrong, and the view of OP is not divorced from any of those things, because the rationale for different legal treatment is the nature of the act, not the nature of consenting to a thing.
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@J54881531 @AaronBergman18 Except that there's already broad legal and moral agreement that sex should be treated as a special kind of act. A ten-year-old or an Alzheimer's patient can buy a slice of pizza, but can't sign a contract or consent to sex
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@SpacedOutMatt @AaronBergman18 Key insight being that, in general, people treat the drunk as having consented to the consequences of their own drunken behavior upon getting drunk
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@SpacedOutMatt @AaronBergman18 It includes virtually all of the situations that a person can be in when either drunk or not drunk. The point is that sex is treated as a special/weird/different decision.
Specifying that only cases that "are similar to sex" count is obviously Bing the Q
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@J54881531 @AaronBergman18 This is false - a consent form for participation in a medical trial would not be considered valid if signed while drunk. For contracts more generally there can be some nuance, but if you're seriously drunk and your counterparty can tell, chances of it being enforceable are low
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@SpacedOutMatt @AaronBergman18 There's a difference but clearly OP is closer to capturing how society treats consent. In virtually every other case, your behavior while drunk is expected to have the same rights/consequences as your sober behavior.
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@AaronBergman18 Conditional on taking drunk to mean "drunk to the point of meaningful impairment to decision-making capacity," this view is divorced from how we understand consent in essentially all legal and ethical contexts
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@PosterInternet @MostlyMonkey @bilal_akh Withdrawal restrictions are irrelevant to responsible people
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@MostlyMonkey @bilal_akh The TFSA is Roth with no withdrawal restrictions, the RRSP is trad 401k with similar restrictions. Limits are substantially lower.
TFSA is marginally better than Roth IRA but RRSP far worse than 401k for an equivalently high earner with access to mega backdoor.
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The TFSA and RRSP are so much better than their US counterparts, it’s not even funny
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@AlexGodofsky Tax cuts only if they make the overall tax burden more progressive are not especially good signs for entitlement reform.
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Democrats going in for tax cuts fills me with hope for Social Security and Medicare.
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@MostlyMonkey an argument could be made that universe is functionally discreet
but that's just retarded
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@MostlyMonkey Not to be goofy, but where in America do local Ds not use tax money to import dysfunctional people via public housing and subsidizing unit requirements
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On the other hand, my town is heavily Democratic, but the budget is run reasonably, the schools are nice, and our police etc are functional. Partly because dysfunctional people can't live here, but partly because funding via property tax means it's actually their money
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San Francisco spends almost $20,000 a year per resident. Take out 1k per resident for the police. How many people would rather have an extra 19k in their pockets than the "services" thus provided?
Overeducated Gibbon@MostlyMonkey
@AlexGodofsky @charlescwcooke It's hard to look at any major blue city's public services and think they're a good deal for the money.
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@yhdistyminen Yes good job you failed the (extremely easy) test again. For the purpose of owning the cons. Hmmm
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Conservatives will do any of these things, provided they can be convinced it will own the libs
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@Skogur2 @LinkofSunshine Please elaborate on how this supposed "focus" on a social tide shift is related to an assassination. I expect you will say something like "I dislike the people who thought it was bad to assassinate a person I despise." Ultimately you just want to justify your bloodthirstiness.
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@LinkofSunshine I think a large part of it is that it happened right at the inflection point when being an edgy young conservative stopped carrying any cultural caché. Everyone sees them for being misogynistic dorks now and Charlie's assassination brought that into sharp focus
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@MostlyMonkey Your most loyal followers know that you tell us the truth to make us grind harder.
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@MostlyMonkey @signulll Pre-Biden, buyback-exclusive shareholder returns were objectively correct corp finance. MKL + BRK committedly do not pay dividends, GOOG used to. I'm sure some other companies don't. Of course, in practice you are correct and especially so if someone (wisely) wants INTL exposure.
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@signulll It's almost impossible to completely avoid income from investments. S&P dividend yield is like 1.2%, excess cash generates at a 4% rate, etc
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so like if you are already worth $100m or something & do not really generate returns on your assets (since you don't sell), only borrow against them, & make less than $200k, do your kids get free tuition at yale?
Polymarket@Polymarket
BREAKING: Yale tuition price being lowered to $0 for any families making under $200k/year.
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@shinboson @sporadica The eternally open to voting Republican centerleftist. Always leaning on the same lie for rhetoric.
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