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- Comment on How far do you wear your daily shoes out before bothering to replace them? 1 day ago:
When they start getting wet when it rains. Currently my favorite pair wears out in less than a year.
- Comment on Do old people still remember their childhood? Do people just start losing their memories and their sense of self as they get older? 1 day ago:
Everyone loses a lot of memories. The brain only stores what’s important. You’ll keep your most defining memories until Alzheimers starts destroying your brain.
- Comment on Seems like Trump waited for winter to escalate his ICE agenda but why did he go after Minnesota? People who are completely acclimated to frigid weather. 2 days ago:
BLM. That’s why. It’s a racial suppression movement.
- Comment on I'm about to get fired. How do I make sure my next job is a better place to work? 3 days ago:
Not a great idea for lawyers to do that. Your boss gets the fees whether your client wins or loses, but your client could lose their entire case. Law is kind of messed up that way.
- Comment on Can someone please ELI5 the legal issue with genericized trademarks? 3 days ago:
No, this is just a legal question about the degree to which companies are allowed to restrict their competitors’ marketing.
- Comment on Can someone please ELI5 the legal issue with genericized trademarks? 4 days ago:
Trademark inherently can’t be generic. It has to refer to something distinct.
For example, apples have nothing to do with computers, so the name makes you think of the exact brand Apple computers. But if you tried to trademark your apple company Apple, that would be taking away the ability of competitors to describe the product they’re selling. Which is not ok.
So, when your brand name becomes the common word to describe a product, you have to stop your competitors from using your name to advertise their products in the first place. Otherwise, your brand name doesn’t just refer to your products, so it’s not distinct. You’ve become Apple apples.
- Comment on How do you build and cultivate revolutionary optimism, given what's happening in the US? 5 days ago:
You need to get together into groups, strategize, and campaign. Use comedy, costumes, and music. Go to university campuses, host talks, hang out on quads, get attention. Changing a country is not a thing you do at home by yourself without disrupting your entire life. And since you’re fundamentally campaigning against the monied and powerful, it’s not a thing you do while being financially secure and well fed.
- Comment on Why do crappy parents defend their child when they are masively publicly misbehaving and being shitheads? 5 days ago:
Some people respond to correction by lashing out. That’s true for literally everything. Telling them you can’t smoke there, not washing their hands is gross, you need to take off your shoes in my house, etc.
- Comment on Is there no instution or person that Trump go after? Or we are all just screwed? 6 days ago:
They could literally impeach him tomorrow. This is not a one man show. It is a choice. They’re choosing to make themselves richer and make you poorer, to make themselves more powerful and to make you more vulnerable. Not just Trump.
- Comment on At this point, what should we do about the ICE raids? If an ICE agent breaks in without a warrant or holds you at gunpoint, what do you do? 1 week ago:
Personally I’d just comply. They’re thugs, not law enforcement. They’ll hurt you and there will be no recourse available. If they’re there for someone else, I’d probably comfort that person and ask if there’s someone they’d like me to call.
- Comment on Why is kissing? 1 week ago:
It’s just part of our mating dance. It feels good and gets us in the mood.
- Comment on Is there anyway I can screw around with ICE? I need a new hobby I come from a long line of immigrants. If i send my home address and phone number will they actually come and deport me to choose a cntr 1 week ago:
Possibly, and you could possibly be injured while being arrested and then charged with committing some crime along the lines of interfering with law enforcement.
The actual way to fight immigration enforcement is to convince your neighbors that immigrants aren’t hurting them.
- Comment on Why does everyone here think they're autistic or ADHD? The memes all describe normal human foibles. 2 weeks ago:
Social media in general attracts autistic people, because it’s much easier to socialize without being judged or excluded.
By definition Autism and ADHD are disabilities that negatively impact your life relative to other people.
It’s important to have a word to label what the issue is in a neutral way, because if you don’t use the word autism, you get called words like “weird,” “creepy,” “stupid,” or the r-word. When none of those things are true. Your brain just doesn’t intuitively understand things the way other peoples’ does.
The ADA defines a person with a disability as a person who has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activity. Socialization is a major life activity. Loneliness is a major cause of depression of death, and not being able to socialize well impacts your ability to maintain employment. When these issues aren’t managed, your ability to function in society is significantly impaired.
To me, this post is no different from saying “You’re not dyslexic, you just needed to try harder in spelling class.” When people have an issue, telling them it doesn’t exist isn’t helpful.
- Comment on What should the next President of the United States do? 2 weeks ago:
If it were me, personally, I’d prioritize every effort on putting as many of the people who broke the law in jail as possible, especially via state courts, and remove everyone who acted in an authoritarian fashion who did not explicitly break the law. And when I say prioritize, I mean we’re cutting budgets from other departments to fund hundreds of more judges, hundreds of more investigators, hundreds of more prosecutors. Failing to do that was Biden’s biggest mistake. He wanted to govern with gentleman’s agreements and cordiality like a normal president. But the rules don’t exist unless they’re enforced, so it’s time to enforce them.
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- Comment on Could you be relatively healthy if you replaced traditional carb sources with skittles and multivitamins? 2 weeks ago:
no, you do in fact need grains and fruits.
- Comment on How open are you about yourself to others online in general? 3 weeks ago:
I think it’s a myth that your online accounts can’t be connected to you. Even if you’re exclusively using burner phones connected through a VPN, people could trace you if they really wanted to. I’m honest online and in person, and I’ll accept the consequence of anything I post.