Gravitiger

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The NBA logos have definitely suffered the most.

The Hawks are moving in the right direction though.

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I was well into adulthood before I interpreted the Hawks logo correctly. In my mind I always focused on the right side and it looked like a weird messed up Pac-Man to me. I had no idea what it was supposed to mean until I saw it in one of the recent rebrands.

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I wonder if they have to abandon all personal belongings? Do they ever get their stuff back?

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They only got to take phones and legal documents

No it's not. They were not originally built for defense.

Not using them is not using them.

Blowing cities up with them is.

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The US is still the only country to have used nukes offensively.

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What all countries have used them defensively?

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And secondly, LSU still reserve the right to admit low test score students based on "holistic review" which is how a lot of the students who don't deserve to be at LSU will be at LSU.

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How do you think most of the athletes get in?

Similar problems in Indiana

State coming down on autism therapy providers for abusive billing practices

No, "a country" is not obligated to do that. But any country with a republican constitution based on natural rights that are worth a shite should.

"No one else does, why should we?"--Because we are better than they are. That's the whole fricking point of the USA. Do you think that should be our moral standard--treat people the way other worse countries do? Or are we our own thing with our own values that actually mean something? Seriously, you're better than this attitude, Klark.

This particular back-and-forth is discussing when illegal immigrants would make "good citizens" living the "American dream." That is literally the only thing I was responding to. These are literal quotes from the original post that I am referencing.

An American citizen who sells meth to kids and goes through pretrial diversion is a "good citizen" (and yes, this absolutely happens in every jurisdiction). A legal immigrant with a work visa and a joint is subject to deportation. It's stupid.

And many "good citizens" smoke weed. Probably some of your favorite neighbors. I'm not saying doing drugs is the American dream. Maybe not the best example, but point stands.

ETA: It’s also 3 am and I'm still at work, so I may not be expressing myself as clearly as I'd like.

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Similar to personal injury lawyers - they rarely go to court.

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Personal injury lawyers may not go to jury trial very often, but they are in court a lot compared to most practice areas. Multiple motion hearings every week, if not every day. Many of them serious dispositive motions.

PI lawyers also probably actually try more jury cases than anyone except the criminal bar. And there is a decent overlap among those practices anyway--those are the two areas where you will typically find the really talented trial lawyers.

It's funny to see people who apparently know so little about the practice of law make comments like this. Because I'm sure you respect the lawyer who shook your hand at your real estate closing and hasn't even seen a courtroom in person since they were sworn into the bar.

I've known three lawyers who had an immigration practice. One worked entirely for one large company and did all their foreign worker visa stuff. He was my immigration law professor in law school.

The other two were part of bigger firms who wanted that as part of their book. One was an older white guy who spoke fluent Spanish and the other was from Iran.

The Spanish speaker was a true believer who loved the work. He was also a HELL of a criminal defense lawyer--got a jury nullification on a felon in possession charge that would have been a life sentence as a third strike, all because of very strategic voir dire. He taught ESL classes to immigrants at night and was a deacon at a multinational Catholic church.

The Iranian hated it but it was what she was useful at, due to language, so that's how she made money for the firm. She hated most of her clients and also hated going to court. Said African clients were by far the worst--according to her, blatantly lying or exaggerating about important shite is just the norm in many cultures there, which made her job very hard. It's assumed or expected there that people are full of crap, but obviously a problem when someone is under oath or needs to tell their lawyer the truth in the American legal system.

She was a really good negotiator but a lousy litigator. Got too flustered in court. Yes, many (not all) immigration attorneys go to court a lot.

Honestly, if I were someone that loved sitting outside the courtroom negotiating all morning and shooting the shite with the fed gov attorney waiting to see if my case got called, then making ad hoc arguments off the cuff at trial and not relying on discovery, I would love immigration court. It's basically criminal practice on steroids, as far as what you actually do in court (though the transactional side is totally different). There are almost no rules of evidence or procedure, at least compared to federal district court or most state courts of record. But that actually terrifies me as an attorney.

It's a horrible bureaucratic system with all sorts of technical BS that postpones so many cases that actually need to be heard, but now for PR reasons expedites things that should be much more deliberate.

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A rotisserie chicken at Sam's is $5 and will feed a family of 5 easily.

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Great, I'll drive an hour plus to the nearest Sam's and grab one. What savings.

A Sam's rotisserie chicken yields ~1.5 lbs of edible meat. That's about 5 oz per person. Would teenage you have been satisfied with that for dinner?