xmunk @ xmunk @sh.itjust.works

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I don't care at this point. We've shifted off of buying US imports (I'm even buying Turkish Pistachios because I fucking love Pistachios) and we intend to stay that way.

American businesses can get fucked.

Businesses hate chaos and this fucker is 100% chaos.

Don't you dare besmirch the name of Lionel Hutz - terrible lawyer: yes; actively enforcing racism and denying people's identities: no.

... as he requests a massive budget increase to try attract actual talent to his shithole.

And don't worry, once the price goes up due to tariffs it'll never come back down.

As an aside - Whitehouse was my hope for Dem Presidential election candidate back before Harris was anointed. He is absolutely excellent on climate change and a really reasonable person.

I will be deeply disappointed if activist residents don't repaint the current pattern.

I'm pretty sure they were actually talking about the niche Total War Warhammer Content Creator.

Don't. The tech world has been aware that Musk is a piece of shit for more than a decade.

Anyone working for a Musk company approves of his craziness.

That matches what I'm seeing on the ground. My work has a slack chat for discussing Canadian business alternatives and Canadian products are flying off the shelves.

Sorry, bub, we actually prefer good whiskey up here.

You should never confide in your employer. Employment is an adversarial relationship and people have gotten fucked over by bad bosses for disclosing things they really shouldn't've. Only disclose information if it's advantageous to you.

Even after being hired I'd discourage revealing disabilities unless you're specifically using the disclosure to request accommodations.

No and you shouldn't. You should not disclose any information to a potential employer before a contract is signed and even afterwards you may want to withhold disclosing until after your probationary period or ever at all.

Employers don't need to know personal health information unless you're using it to request accommodations and the more information you give an employer the more likely they'll somehow use it to fuck you over.

Modern employment is an adversarial relationship and if you think it isn't you're getting fucked.

Calves? I do my push ups with only my toes.

By hack judge from Florida I assume you mean Aileen Cannon the person voted by me to be most deserving of being struck by lighting two years running.

I'm sure he'd love to get her on the court and I'd fucking hate it.

Well a DUI isn't that bad - at least he wasn't looking at porn. /s

Fuck 40 day boycotts - find a different supplier. Canadian Tire offers pretty solid deals and you could probably find someone to ship shit to you.

You know what would be awesome... if Trump threw a temper tantrum and packed the Supreme Court.

At this point it'd just shred the last remnants of legitimacy that Roberts is desperately trying to cling to.

It'd also suck, of course, but it's going to suck regardless.

The closest example to this you're likely to find is in the Norse realm where, for example, Neil Gaiman (shitty rapist) packaged up "Norse Mythology" which has his retellings of various found and fabricated stories. All of them have elements from quite old tales but were built out into complete stories by adding details. You can absolutely use the old tales to build your own full stories but there are embellishments added in by the author that are their original work - so derivatives of "Norse Mythology" will likely be discernable and copyright enforceable.

Another big example I can think of is Bram Stoker which would be a nightmare for copyright if he was alive today. So much of what we consider generically vampire is just his creation - but it's so fucking old that all those properties have now become the common mythos and the estate has no right to anything.

And as a last example... you ever wonder why D&D has a race called halflings? It's because they're technically legally distinct Hobbits. The Tolkien estate has been pretty loose with derivative works (a MUD I worked on had special permission to use the setting specifically granted by the estate) but they're sticklers about some things and the word Hobbit (due to the book title) is one thing they're really defensive about.

So my TL;DR is that a mythos can never be privatized but a mythos can be expanded and that expansion can absolutely be a private property. Sorry about using Gaiman as an example but he's literally the only person still alive that I could think to reference.