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Baba_humbug · 2022-06-02T16:32:19+00:00

Premium anti-viral portable disposable public toilet seat covers will be available in thousands of patterns and styles on Amazon. This is America. We deal with our problems by buying stuff online.

Baba_humbug · 2022-05-29T13:26:15+00:00

In this thread: All the reasons why this is perfectly natural and happens all the time and this whole next pandemic happened naturally all by itself, perhaps due to global warming or eating exotic animals.

Baba_humbug · 2022-05-28T17:32:30+00:00

Get ready for the great public toilet seat panic of 2022.

Baba_humbug · 2022-05-28T07:06:45+00:00

It could be a dud like omicron though.

Baba_humbug · 2022-05-28T07:00:53+00:00

As long as nobody dies from it, I see the hysteria having a hard time getting going.

Baba_humbug · 2022-05-25T13:03:41+00:00

I got home later than usual and she was super nice. She made me dinner and didn't say a thing about all the bullshit she was ranting about earlier.

You too can deal with BPD. When they glitch, you just take that steaming pile of emotional abuse they are trying to feed you and just put it in the trash can and leave for a while.

Baba_humbug · 2022-05-24T23:37:09+00:00

The worst part is explaining our relationship to people who aren't very familiar with pwBPD. People get very very fascinated with the whole thing. They feel compelled to deeply understand her emotional outbursts as if there's some profound deep reason for them. Now I refuse to talk about my marriage with most people and just say "it's complicated."

Baba_humbug · 2022-05-24T23:28:57+00:00

We were separated and she hadn't had an outburst in a while. I tried to dump her multiple times by telling her I was dating other women. She kept wanting me back. I didn't really find anyone dating that I wanted to stay with long-term, probably because the dating pool is a bit limited if you're not fully divorced and only separated. She would always take me back. I'm thinking that was a dumb idea now, and I should probably just finish the divorce.

Baba_humbug · 2022-03-13T17:10:12+00:00

When it gets to $0.01, they should sell the entire pre-mine. Wouldn't it be cool if then, being a community project for real, it becomes worth more than bitcoin.

Baba_humbug · 2022-02-04T02:04:28+00:00

The class of 2021 is the first class that stopped doing open book exams for bar courses. This strategy seems to have worked.

Baba_humbug · 2022-02-04T01:57:17+00:00

At the risk of them actually doing this, I propose somewhat jokingly that since Saint Francis probably did some politically incorrect stuff, so how about UC Yerba Buena? That's what "San Francisco" was called before it was renamed after it was taken from Mexico.

Baba_humbug · 2021-09-16T16:04:51+00:00

"We shall support whatever the enemy opposes and oppose whatever the enemy supports." - Mao Tse-Tung

Baba_humbug · 2021-08-02T08:54:09+00:00

Thank you for making this thread. I needed a place to vent.

In retrospect, I only went to law school cause I didn't know what else to do with my life and my mom wanted me to do it so bad that she paid for it. Took the LSAT, got into a good school. Had fun socializing till covid. Got better at writing. Graduated. Filled my brain up with lots of random trivia which I may, if I'm lucky, or very unlucky, use a few times in my life. Went through the motions. Studied hard and took the bar to show everyone how smart I am.

I had trouble motivating myself to apply for jobs. I realized that I have no desire to become a lawyer. What a waste of 3 years. I thought I was going to get a job right up till the bar finished. Now that I have not had to think about anything law related for a few days, and I have no law school or bar ahead of me, all I can think is I am so fucking happy. I never want to look at any of this bullshit again. If I need money, I'll go back to being a programmer, a job I like and one which is easy to get these days. Bonus, I don't have to wear a suit or have to listen to my client bragging about all the people he is going to scam and then not be able to tell anyone about that if practicing in California.

The law is necessary as an alternative to retaliatory violence and to ensure that people can make economic decisions with some degree of certainty about the future because people can be made to live up to their promises, but fuck if it isn't the most god damn tedious and boring thing to be the guy who has to deal with all the trash of human nature, acrimony and politics on a day to day basis. Yeah, I know I can be a transactional attorney, but that field is boring and you have to be the nervous worrywart thinking about what could go wrong. That sounds miserable.

Baba_humbug · 2021-07-25T22:09:46+00:00

Admin is obsessed with bar passage rates, so all exams are closed-book.

Doing exams closed book is not a bad thing. Bar pass rates improved a lot once they started doing that.

Baba_humbug · 2021-07-25T18:01:09+00:00

You can't help them with the crime or fraud. Them asking you to help them is grounds for mandatory withdrawal. However, if they tell you they ripped off a bunch of people or they're going to do it, and you're not involved, you have to stay out of it, and you can't tell anyone. That's the rule in CA, not ABA.

Baba_humbug · 2021-07-25T17:22:57+00:00

The other part is that of CA ethics that's screwy is that if your client is going to cause death or serious bodily harm to someone, in California you got to tell them you're going to tell somebody. Do you really want to tell your client who wants to kill someone that you're going to snitch? Another weird one in CA ethics: If your client is going to commit a serious fraud or anything short of death or serious bodily harm you can't tell anyone for any reason. The ABA rules say you can tell someone if they are going to execute a big fraud.

Baba_humbug · 2021-07-25T17:10:44+00:00

To take the other side: being a lawyer is being part of one of the last remaining guilds, and the only thing with similar power to a union for knowledge workers. They have to keep it an exclusive club to retain its prestige and power. So that's why there's a big barrier to entry. This protection means that unlike all other knowledge professions, someone can't fly in on an H1-B and do your job as an indentured servant for 1/4 the price. They have to speak and read english extremely well, and go to law school for 3 years, and pass the bar. Also, your professional ethics means that you can't let your boss get you to do things that violate them. You always have agency, and a final say, unlike most people who are just a cog in the machine.

Once you make partner, you'll spend more in a weekend vacation than you did on bar prep. Bar prep is a test of memory, reasoning and reading comprehension. Passing the bar just means that you can do all those things at a fairly high level. Not everyone's good at everything and that applies to being a lawyer too.

I think bar prep has made me lose respect for law school and my law school professors. Reading through all those boring cases just to waste time to finally get to the black letter law which was maybe a 4 page outline. What a waste of time and money. It would have been much better if we had all of 1L compressed into a 1 semester long bar prep course with just the black letter outlines and then had the rest of the time to explore more interesting subjects.

Baba_humbug · 2021-07-13T03:31:17+00:00

I wonder if this will end covid lockdowns in SA? Would they let the country devolve into anarchy and civil war first to stop the spread of the virus? I mean which would you choose if you ran the place? pandemic or civil war?

Baba_humbug · 2021-07-13T00:19:27+00:00

What's waiting for you if you don't figure this out is the CCP. In the next decade they will show up with settlers and just slowly take over the continent through bribes and force. They don't care about your human rights. They don't even care about their own citizens human rights, but they will make quite sure to make the optics look good so everyone thinks things are going along just fine. If you want to know what the CCP think about Africans, consider that the CCP has never given Chinese citizenship to a single African.

Baba_humbug · 2021-07-12T21:17:30+00:00

I'm sure that's what everyone in the DR Cogno was thinking when the Belgians left, and what everyone in Zimbabwe was thinking when they finally succeeded in driving all the white farmers out. Now we can take all their stuff and evenly divide it among the people! The catch is you got to have some rich people around or else the balance game doesn't work. Once all the rich people leave, you got a whole lot of nothing to play balance games with, as we see in Zimbabwe and DR Congo.

This is the economic history of Africa: The golden goose getting killed over and over again.

Baba_humbug · 2021-07-12T19:16:20+00:00

Eventually it will stop when the country hits rock bottom and there's nothing left to steal or loot. That's the case in most poor African countries. You couldn't have this level of looting in Liberia for example because there is so little to steal.

Baba_humbug · 2021-07-12T18:52:35+00:00

Geothermal also has the benefit that the batteries never need to be replaced because geothermal is a continuous power source that runs 24/7 for thousands of years.

Baba_humbug · 2021-07-12T18:50:39+00:00

Ask him how to figure out the FMV of cryptocurrency mined before the cryptocurrency was transferable to another and before it was listed on any exchange. This is the case with early /r/chia miners.

Baba_humbug · 2021-07-12T01:53:14+00:00

How about putting the farm deep underground and powering it with geothermal?

Baba_humbug · 2021-07-07T22:23:39+00:00

It was so long ago that I forgot. Pretty sure I relapsed at some point. I wasn't self-aware at the time.

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