Powderhorn @ Powderhorn @beehaw.org

Unemployed journalist, burner, raver, graphic artist and vandweller.

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I was actually finishing bingeing Hornblower as you were posting. I just did a full writeup over on Entertainment after concluding the series.

Not the ruling itself, but corporations file all sorts of motions before and during the initial trial specifically so that if a motion is denied, voila! Now the jury verdict and compensation decision isn't what they're challenging, but rather technical aspects from rulings by the judge overseeing the trial court ... admission or inadmission of evidence is always a popular one.

To suggest that anyone else has the sort of law firms on retainer to play this game all the way to the top is folly. It's just another way in which the system is rigged.

Not at all ... it's just that corporations, unwilling to take no for an answer, have functionally unlimited funds to throw toward several rounds of escalating court cases while defendants ... don't. It creates an inherently lopsided situation the legal system wasn't explicitly designed for, but now this is just standard.

Companies walk into these trials essentially seeing the first round as a rehearsal.

It's sort of weird to have a "transcript" of a written document.

I guess no one was available to poison his tea ...

Awesome tip! I've run into his channel before but had no idea what was going on, as I never use CC.

I hate that this is how our legal system has evolved. Trial courts mean nothing when a corporation loses, because invariably an appeal is filed, and if the circuit court upholds a ruling, well, time to talk to SCOTUS.

My T-Mobile 5G hotspot works quite well, but billing has been an absolute nightmare.

Several months back, when I still had a credit card, I requested my billing date be moved to the 19th (from the fifth) of each month, as autopay on the card hit on the 18th. After going through the whole "this month will be more expensive, as you'll be paying for six weeks," which I was fine with, they tried to take payment out on the 17th, and -- lo and behold -- it didn't go through.

I spent six hours on the phone with them to try to untangle the mess. One representative said I needed to cancel my account and dutifully did so for me without my consent. The ensuing bullshit ate up the better part of the day, as I tried explaining I don't want my account closed, and rep after rep said it couldn't be undone.

Eventually, I reached someone who apparently could reverse the cancellation, but holy fuck what a nightmare -- especially since when I signed up for service in 2023, my credit score was in the 700s ... starting a new account with a score in the 400s would have meant a hefty deposit I couldn't afford, as well as having to return the hotspot via UPS so I could eventually get a new one.

There is no earthly reason that taking a payment out before what I'd agreed to should eat up an entire business day.

It's definitely promising. I just meant that he has that gift of oratory. The next couple of cycles could be interesting, as the DNC won't abandon money, even as more and more voters, especially younger ones, see no representation across the country.

Thank you for your service.

While I agree with the premise, these juxtaposed images don't convey what you're hoping they do.

In my defense, this was just a YouTube suggestion after finishing another video. I do share NPR text links here regularly, but only when the text version is what I run into. This is somewhat the difference between being paid to provide news and volunteering. But I get where you're coming from.

Dragging Hanlon into this?

Being able to see facial expressions and hear inflection allows for a deeper experience. I tend to read transcripts most of the time because it's just faster. But for understanding who Mamdani is as a full introduction, text alone won't get you all the way there, and I'd only so far seen clips.

Just wait until hurricane season really ramps up. They're going to need a lot of Sharpies.

I tip my hat to you for compressing so much bigotry into such a small space.

This said, stop beeing an asshole on here. If you want to espouse othering ideals, this is not the space in which to do it.

Your level of ignorance of modern economic factors should win some sort of prize. I'm sure your response, as always, will be projection, but I feel your consistent efforts to espouse gestures broadly something is in bad faith. If you had a thesis for anything you've posted on this instance, we could engage in conversation.

But you don't.

This is a cavalcade of nonsense you get defensive about. Oh, you just learned about AI and are unaware that hundreds of billions have been thrown at it? Then shut the fuck up until you grasp the topic so you can craft a sensible question.

It's pathetically hilarious to me that you then -- on Beehaw -- opt for sexist language only to trump it with "you only count if you serve capital" bullshit, which is such a significant failure to read the room that I'll say nothing. This isn't your home instance, and I'm not aware of anyone who's enjoying your participation here, so take your ball and go home.

In Trumpian Washington, swamp drains you.

OK, so. A majority of Americans did not do so. Grossly simplified, one-third did, one-third didn't, and one-third stayed home. If you're being fed the line that a majority of voters wanted Trump, it simply isn't true. Millions stayed on the sidelines because of Gaza and feeling like there was no point (which, in many states, there isn't; there are like seven where your vote matters).

You don't have to be nice to her. But how often have you seen "bitch" used as a pure pejorative on Beehaw? Consider your audience.

Tone it down a bit. Most of us didn't vote for him, if only because a significant chunk simply didn't vote.

But "bitch" is a bit beyond the pale for Beehaw. That's objectively not Beeing Nice.

That the establishment is flailing tells you this is a movement with legs. I don't think they can shut it down like 2016 Bernie, so ... it'll be interesting to see what comes next.