Jozoken

I'm new to the study of law, but can't figure out what kinds of areas give legitimacy to a noncompete past 12 months, at the most. Idk about M&A but I know a few people in software who get screwed by not reading employment contracts, and get pushed out of the industry for 5 years (a lifetime in tech) over noncompetes that were only intended to prevent talent poaching. 6-12 months seems like a reasonable ask. 24 months? You're out of your mind.

@SellersCounsel @SBA_Matthias Nuance matters. Some buyers really do ask for noncompetes that, literally read, would not allow a seller to work at all, virtually anywhere. Negotiating a noncompete is not in and of itself cause to scotch the deal. Refusing one, or trying to limit to 2 years? Big problem.

The moment the non-compete terms are being questioned in an M&A deal, the best thing that you can do as a buyer is to call the deal off I’ve seen it numerous times after closing where litigation comes up specific to the non-compete. Put your foot down during the deal process and don’t budge.

By acclimation what we’re dropping today is the most explosive video criminal evidence of election fraud in history by an investigative reporting team. It’s not circumstantial evidence. Felonies caught on tape. I’m proud of this team. The Justice League goes live in one hour.

The biomechanics of pharmecuticals should be far more accessible to the everyday consumer. How do Tylenol and Advil functionally differ? What about different cough syrups and decongestants? What about heartburn medications? I studied biochemistry and know a good deal more than the average person but this should be much more accessible.

Watching a documentary on the Fukushima Meltdown. Experts in the field say nuclear power or far far safer now, using small modular nuclear reactors. I understand the idea of redundancies and layered safety mechanisms. Smaller reactors means, worst possible case, a smaller disaster. But I have questions about very specific aspects of the safety plans. What is the backup power situation if the plant loses power? What measures exist if a plant cannot pump water? More questions to follow I'm sure. But any nuclear engineers have info they can share? Any thoughts from @elonmusk on nuclear power plants?

at least we’re letting japan know about it first this time

Fair point to add the context, but it's still just as heinous a statement for any world leader to utter. Good cannot win because evil is more brutal? These are the words of school shooters.

What a retarded take. Yes, both nations benefit, yes one benefits more, and it isn't the US. Polling on what people think is true when there's an objectively right answer, and pretending to be shocked when most people get the question right. How stupid can you be?

A physicist goes to see a therapist. He's sitting in the chair with his head in his hands, visibly upset. The therapist asks him, "Hey doc, what's the matter?" The physicist looks up, existentially, and responds, "It's all atoms!"

youtu.be/7mX64ytr8Po?si… 1:45 to 2:10 What will it take? I ask, how does one end a war, when nobody is willing to go all in?

All of these innovations are supposed to bring about abundance. How to solve abundance in a market is a worry of many from Marx to Friedman. But the historical evidence is that the market simply doesn't produce that much abundance, out of industry self preservation. I don't know the answer, but I'm skeptical of anyone who claims to know where things are going.

And if it isn't clear, I am at least honest in wanting a society in which super contributors are given unequal wealth to allocate in the markets. I'm not That said, I don't think the Tech AI Billionaires are understanding that privatising the corpus while making fun of anyone made redundant who isn't sufficiently entrepreneurial to adapt is not going to work out well. I dunno. Call it a hunch. Markets must be the answer for everyone. Or roll the dice and get a lot more Mamdani / California type solutions everywhere.

Dignity & purpose, however, remain manditory. We can't wish away what is about to happen in the medium term. We have to *work* on it. A tiny number of AI HNWI may have to get even more fabulously wealthy at a SLIGHTLY reduced pace if we want to avoid *Revolutions*. Which I do.

@RealSLokhova Speaking of corrupt ex-spooks. Whatever happened to Eric Ciaramella?

It kinda depends on the question though, right? And based on their explanation, they are lying when they say 150 calories, but that lie is permitted by the FDA and so they will likely get any suit on it's basis rejected. The explanation explicitly makes clear that the bar does contain more calories than the label suggests. However, the body doesn't extract all of them, and 150 reflects the amount of calories thale average human will extract from digesting the bar. But to say 150 is all that are in the bar it an untrue statement. For one thing, some peoples digestive system are more or less efficient than the average and may extract a higher or lower amount of the available calories. Someone may eat the bar and receive only 100 calories, or even 80, while someone else might get 200 or 225. To say the bar contains instead of, for example, labeling it as "150 bioavailable calories", is not a correct statement. However, the FDA rubber stamps this slight of hand so honestly, who cares.

David bar is telling the truth.

Is there no place to simply get news on Iran, Israel, the Gulf, US forces and the Middle East? Everyone is cheerleading for something or the other. I want to know what is actually happeing to first approximation. How are you accomplishing this if at all? Thx in advance.

Would be an hour and 15. Like I get you're making a point but that's not really the right vector to attack the problem. You bill for your time working on the case regardless of what tools you're using for the case.

Regarding Utah v. Kouri RICHINS, I don't know, at this point in the trial, how the state can ever overcome "beyond reasonable doubt" - Everything I've seen was circumstantial evidence. At the end of the day, her husband, with a history of illicit drug use, at a time when many drugs were laced w/ fentanyl, went to bed drunk, and high, but alive. And his wife woke up to find him dead beside her in bed. There isn't any way to prove whether she dosed him, or he dosed himself. With no way to know "beyond reasonable doubt" I can't figure out how to convict even if I think she definitely killed him.

New armbar defense just dropped 🔥

@DietCoke_Esq Opens the door for the judge to grant you more than what you thought to ask for, in case you forgot something that you may be entitled to if judged in your favor.

What are we actually asking for when we say "and such other and further relief as this Court deems just and proper" (serious question, for once)

Everyone’s missing the real story here. Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses need human data annotators to train the AI. When you say “Hey Meta” and ask the glasses to analyze something, that video gets sent to Meta’s servers, then routed to Sama, a subcontractor in Nairobi, Kenya. Workers there manually label objects in your footage. They see everything you recorded, intentionally or not. 7 million pairs sold in 2025 alone. Every single pair generates training data that flows through human eyes in Kenya. Workers told Swedish journalists they see people undressing, using bathrooms, having sex, and accidentally filming bank card details. One worker said “we see everything, from living rooms to naked bodies.” Meta’s automatic face anonymization is supposed to protect people in the footage. Workers say it fails in certain lighting. Faces that should be blurred are sometimes fully visible. The person you recorded without knowing? A stranger in Nairobi can identify them. Buried in Meta’s terms of service is one sentence doing enormous legal work: the company reserves the right to conduct “manual (human) review” of your AI interactions. That’s the legal cover for routing intimate footage from Western homes to a $2/hour labor force operating under NDAs, office surveillance cameras, and a strict no-questions policy. Workers say if you raise concerns about what you’re seeing, you’re fired. This is the same company, Sama, that TIME exposed in 2023 for paying Kenyan workers $2/hour to label graphic content for OpenAI while being billed at $12.50/hour per worker. Workers described the experience as torture. Sama ended that contract, then pivoted to labeling Meta’s glasses footage. Same workforce. Same rates. Meta markets these glasses as “designed with your privacy in mind.” The privacy design is a tiny LED light on the frame that most people don’t notice. The data pipeline behind it routes your bedroom footage to a contractor with a documented history of worker exploitation, failed anonymization, and union-busting lawsuits. And the next generation of these glasses? Meta is planning to add facial recognition. The same system that can’t reliably blur faces in training data wants to start identifying them on purpose. The LED light on the frame is doing about as much for your privacy as the terms of service nobody reads.

@schamorro357 @lazarusatgate @cspan Good catch, I thought it was published already. But it's a big misconception that the president can't direct the DOJ. DOJ has no authority at all except what it derives from the office of the president. He can give them any legal order or direction he so pleases.

@Jozoken @lazarusatgate @cspan Big misconception that people think the president can reschedule drugs, he can't, by law the DOJ has to follow a process, he can direct them to do it.

Justice Gorsuch asks what it meant to be "Habitual Drunkard" in old days of America: "Eight shots of whiskey a day only made you an occasional drunkard...to be a habitual drunkard you had to do double that...James Madison reportedly drank a pint of whiskey every day..."