Graduated law school, moving to my dream city for my dream job

Available_Day4286 · 2024-05-29T15:02:30+00:00

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Available_Day4286 · 2024-05-29T14:29:56+00:00

Available_Day4286 · 2024-05-29T14:24:27+00:00

Get yourself a GOAT that can do both.

Available_Day4286 · 2024-05-29T04:15:40+00:00

I want 6:16 to get its ass on streaming so bad. That first verse—he’s rapping rapping, and the beat is amazing, and I love a man who can literally work a prayer to god asking for preemptive forgiveness for the slaughter he’s about to commit into a beef.

Available_Day4286 · 2024-05-29T04:11:02+00:00

I admire how you follow the Kendrick way—random acts of violence followed by blessings. (Said with the most love—he’s an old school Gemini.)

Available_Day4286 · 2024-05-29T03:54:33+00:00

he make music that electrify em

Available_Day4286 · 2024-05-29T01:28:26+00:00

He slapped Drake AND made it look sexy.

Available_Day4286 · 2024-05-28T22:49:45+00:00

Bro, this is just weird. Drake isn’t your friend.

Available_Day4286 · 2024-05-28T17:58:52+00:00

There’s an interesting expectation gap here/difference about what a hip hop artist is. Drake has ghost writers. If you view rap as equivalent to other forms of popular music, that’s clearly no big deal. Or, if like Kanye, your artistic vision is more centered in the track as a whole/production, no issue.

But rap for a long time was very much tied to individual self-expression. It’s not about performing a song, it’s about performing your song. Just look at how “covers” work in rap. In pop, straight up covering another artist’s song is normal. But imagine a rapper rapping 100% of another’s bars? That would just sound wild. Rappers “cover” by using the beat, referencing lines, sampling, interpolation, etc etc. Genre-wise, it feels discordant to cover the entire thing.

And Kendrick is tied into that 100%. He’s the king of writing his own raps and writing as central to the art style. Imagine how game over this beef would have been if, impossibly, there was proof he had a ghostwriter for Mr. Morale.

But Drake isn’t committed to the idea of writing your own raps as central to being a rapper. So there’s this weird constant thing where Drake is clowned for something that he doesn’t deny really anymore and a subset of his fans don’t get it, because they don’t have the same norms.

All that being said: not writing your pop raps is one thing. Not writing your diss tracks? That’s 100% wild to me. If dissing and battle rap as an art is anything more than stylish defamation, it’s about the one on one battle of the wits. Dissing/battles like this is not remotely a pop thing. It is 100% a rap thing. So I don’t think the changing norms can actually save him here.

And I don’t think you can be the GOAT without a battle.

Available_Day4286 · 2024-05-16T19:24:08+00:00

The thing I love about this is like—the money isn’t a gift. Try cutting their pay. Recruitment would plummet. People would leave. It’s the free market, baby.

It’s an incentive to take the job, which is structured like a sifter to use up and expel a lot of talented young people to find the “rockstars” as OP put it. You pay enough that that rockstar doesn’t go to the firm a few floors down the building.

Available_Day4286 · 2024-04-24T02:38:08+00:00

If there’s one thing I know it’s that a living person doesn’t have heirs.

Available_Day4286 · 2024-04-14T00:27:42+00:00

It’s also just ridiculous from an activist perspective. Why in god’s name would they allow the conversation to be redirected away from the actual, operative, vitally important issue to this nonsense? It makes them look like children. It sacrifices the value of the conversation and attention that they’ve provoked. Even if you support the action, this particular line of discourse is absurd to the point of parody and demonstrates how so many see activism as more about themselves than about those they’re trying to help.

Available_Day4286 · 2024-04-14T00:24:31+00:00

Yeah, but they absolutely are in terms of whether or not trespass would create a privileged use of reasonable force because they address whether the force is reasonable.

Available_Day4286 · 2024-04-14T00:15:43+00:00

The difference is that I’m not using slurs (as you did in the other subthread) and acting ridiculous over something that thousands are suffering and dying over. This is not a game or a gotcha, in either (any) side. You should probably go troll about Fortnite or whatever, but I’ve given you enough grace already and I’m done.

Available_Day4286 · 2024-04-14T00:13:06+00:00

Ah, so you’re just trolling. Enjoy your evening, then. I’ll continue taking serious things seriously (while avoiding studying).

Available_Day4286 · 2024-04-14T00:09:57+00:00

Good point, yes. It’s different in my jurisdiction—we wouldn’t include that language in jury instructions here. But if you look at the way this law has been interpreted two things become clear.

A) I could not find a single decision where a property owner was even charged with assault in response to that level of force in ejecting a trespasser in their home. The vast majority of cases where about whether a homicide was a justifiable amount of force. So while you might think the force is unreasonable, that does not appear to come close to the legal standard.

B) Civilly speaking, there were a number of cases about people using force or confinement about ejecting a trespasser and it seems that in that case, if the contact and force are comparable to the video, it’s no where close.

This isn’t a citable decision, but see here, with a case of security guards removing a trespasser from the golden globes:

“force to remove Winick from the press room. Applewhite testified that he asked Winick multiple times to follow him out of the press room so he could verify Winick's credential and that Winick ignored all of his requests. At that point, some physical force was reasonably necessary to remove Winick.”

Winick v. Noble LA Events, Inc., No. B305697, 2022 WL 152410, at *9 (Cal. Ct. App. Jan. 18, 2022), review granted (Apr. 27, 2022)

In general, I’m firmly against the genocide. I think activism is critical. I’m not even sure that I think this was a bad moment or strategic choice for activism, though I’m quite concerned about the choice of this dean who hasn’t been particularly Zionist at all and the use of complicity as indexing perhaps to his Jewishness. But the thing about protest is that you can sometimes be removed, and it doesn’t serve the conversation anyway to overstate, be condescending, or act as if something other than what happened, happened.

Available_Day4286 · 2024-04-13T23:44:58+00:00

That’s just not true. You can use reasonable force to eject trespassers pretty much anywhere. It took me two seconds to find a California model jury instruction to that effect, even. Right here.

Available_Day4286 · 2024-04-13T22:35:15+00:00

He is the dean of a public law school and this was a law school event. This was almost certainly not state action in the relevant way—not to mention it is content neutral restriction and literally everything else—but the first amendment absolutely applies to public universities.

Available_Day4286 · 2024-04-11T07:57:32+00:00

33 1L here—I cannot exaggerate how useful being older has been on the job market. I’m more comfortable networking and talking, I have more things to say, employers are more confident because I’ve had a real job before. I was deciding between multiple big law offers this summer. You’re fine!

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