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  1. On 5/10/2022 at 9:25 PM, mchookem said:

    i kicked some guy in the nuts at a frat party bc he was blocking the door and wouldn't let me leave his room. i guess if i was a 'good girl' i never would have gone up there with him in the first place. too bad he had to pay for my mistake 🙄

    I have coached my daughter repeatedly: kick, grab, punch an attacker's sack with impunity. If that fails, claw they's eyes out.

  2. On the Howard line, it is a lot of suspension of disbelief. It seems like Jimmy and Kim expected to be caught and followed with the ends of having the PI see the fake mediation judge doing something that will trigger a settlement. Howard will fall into the trap because he'll assume they were not planning on being followed.

    I do not think Kim leaves because of legal stuff but because of the cartel; however, it is not obvious why she would be at risk but not Jimmy unless Lalo figures out that she knows he is alive and that puts her in danger so she orders a Hoover repair. The trouble here is Lalo must be alive in BB (which seems impossible) or there is another reason she never returns. I think she is still alive and is the phone call Saul gets every year at 3 p.m. on his birthday, which means she was not actually around during BB and we just didn't see her.

    I think Lalo ends in the lab. That's the evidence he's looking for - the cartel will forgive lieutenants fighting but likely not Gus going rouge and building a super-lab outside of its realm. Guessing he finds it and there is the Gus-Lalo confrontation. Capt. Obvious but it's a shame Lalo wasn't in BB ... he would have made a great foil with Hector although the bell is a TV classic.

    Still don't really know what to think of the Lalo / Nacho comment in BB. I think Jimmy was just throwing out two random cartel names that where top of mind because nothing else really makes sense ... I would seem clear by then he knew both were dead.

     

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  3. 31 minutes ago, Thatguy said:

      You keep going with your smug, dismissive attitude. Ohio State 2019, 229 rape cases and 1670 criminal offenses that year. Texas 2019, 24 cases of rape and 79 criminal offenses same year. Anyone who has set foot on tOSU's campus is not surprised by that stat one bit. Close to downtown. Campus mixed in with regular housing and pretty spread out. Not well lit or patrolled. Any parent of a female would be student should be concerned with that. But of course, we are overreacting right? You sound like every white person I know being dismissive of the whole black people are having negative run-ins with the police thing. You have no idea what women go through and the measures they take for their own safety. Watch a guy at a gas pump stand outside his car and pump gas. Now watch a woman hustle back to her car and close her door. Try talking to a few without mansplaining. You might learn something.

    https://www.skeptic.com/research-center/reports/Research-Report-CUPES-007.pdf

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  4. 3 minutes ago, Bateshorn said:

    Perhaps I wasn't being clear:  The Alito draft brings into question a broad range of assumptions we have all worked with if they aren't specifically mentioned in the Constitution or were understood to be deeply held rights at the time of it's signing. If it goes the way it looks now, States could be banning or empowering all sorts of activity that we usually take for granted when traveling domestically.

    It will likely look much more like our system for regulating alcohol, which leaves the discretion almost entirely to the states.

    I have not read the entire draft, but parts I have indicates it is pretty narrow. I think a lot of the disinformation is designed to create artificial hysteria. The reality is with live with this fact today around things like guns, marijuana, capital punishment, and I'm sure a host of other issues. Just for the record, I am consist on my support of federalism independent of a particular issue, which is why it is frustrating to discuss with 99% of folks who have a different POV depending on the particular issue.

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  5. 14 minutes ago, Bateshorn said:

    From a policy perspective, if the Alito draft holds, it’s clear we are moving to a much more federal system similar to the anti-bellum arrangement. We are likely going to see a wide range of rules and laws with no basic national standard. 
     

    It’s reasonable to take that into consideration.

    Not to distract from the OP, but that is one of the the geniuses of federalism it allows concurrent diversity and cohesion. I've never gotten the "we need to divorce as a nation" argument form either side because we actually have the ability to live "in separate bedrooms" if you will.

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  6. I have a son and a daughter. I worry about both ending up in this terrible, complicated situation. I think the college, drunken date rape is one of the most difficult situations to navigate, and I do not have a lot of confidence in universities' ability to fairly deal with it. Traditionally, the've seemed to approach it on the edges, which rarely has turned out well for the parties involved.

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  7. Ozark was a fever dream of weird conspiracy theories and paranoia where only Karen is good and wins in the end. It was a caricature of the caricatures Karens everywhere believe is reality.

  8. 28 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

    If they previously allowed him to pay the group back later, it would seem he has a pretty solid case.

    but I’m in the camp that you don’t pay people back later for lottery tickets unless it’s explicitly agreed.

    Agreed. No idea what the Canadian case law is but curious what our brilliant barristers would apply assuming this was in the U.S. Spot on though ... lottery groups probably need more detailed paperwork than a family trust.

  9. 2 hours ago, Brothahorn said:

    Philip is the type of asshole that wouldn't pay his student loans even if he had the money.

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    My first thought but didn't want to trigger betaflake. Guessing the guys kicking the delinquent in the nuts the hardest are gnashing their teeth the most in the crazy room demanding working people pay for Ivy League grievance studies degrees.

     

  10. 37 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

    Did they purchase the amount of tickets that they had money for, or the amount of tickets based on all group member participation?  
     

    if they bought the normal amount of tickets, they essentially loaned him the money for his tickets and he gets his piece less the balance owed of $30.  That winning ticket may have only been purchased because of the money spent based on his participation.  Someone essentially staked him without payback terms or implied no interest terms. 
     

    if they bought fewer tickets because he didn’t pay, then he wasn’t a part of the group that won.  He gets nothing. Good day sir. 

    I think this and @irishtexan have the best takes. It is a fascinating issue. Not a lawyer, definitely not a Canadian one, but if they consistently left his allocation in the total pool, which seems to be the case since they were actively collecting from him for his lapsed payments, he effectively remained in the pool and the others floated him and implied he was continually participating. Greed is a Cardinal Sin for a reason. What sucks is the they're going to spend more on attorney's fees than just settling for 50% or something.

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  11. 7 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

    Random, but I found it odd that Gus wore a clip-on tie with his work clothes.  Uniform or not, as fastidious and thorough as Gus is, I'd like to think he would wear a real tie.

     

     

    Easy to change out if he gets grease or "Gus Sauce" (don't be dirty perverts) on his tie.

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