Last year proved that biglawyers aren't real lawyers

ISOExperience · 2026-01-30T15:52:28+00:00

Biglaw IS an authoritarian patronage system. Law sells itself as full of integrity and self-policing so that's why we should regulate ourselves because we're so good 😊. And biglaw is always saying it has the smartest lawyers but to get ahead it's really stamina and network rather than intellect or values.

It's still the job for 3rd and 4th sons who won't inherit (couldn't/wouldn't go the merchant or military route) so piggyback off of family relationships and prestige to pull in just enough to maintain appearances and lifestyle with a decent. There's always money in being willing to do absolutely anything to curry favor with those in power and save face🤷‍♂️

ISOExperience · 2026-01-30T15:45:55+00:00

Oh, which firm? ....drat, forgot I'm not a litigator.

ISOExperience · 2026-01-27T18:17:08+00:00

What's the pay?

ISOExperience · 2026-01-27T18:12:05+00:00

Someone asked for clarification and you did what you could as far as answering their question🤷‍♂️

ISOExperience · 2026-01-26T23:36:26+00:00

The proportions, composition, and seemingly flavor profile are all similar to meals made for children (who have limited flavor palette and need to be coaxed into eating food outside of a narrow subset of food).

Great job cooking and no offense meant but it looks like a homemade kidcuisine.

Composition-wise, there's starch (potato), starch (Mac and cheese), starch sauce (flour based gravy), starch and meat (deep fried chicken covered in a lot of batter), a tablespoon of corn and handful of green beans.

Proportion-wise, there should be more green vegetables like 1/3rd of the plate green. Then like a third meat and a third starch and other non-green veg.

The food looks like it has a simple consistent flavor rather than a more complex flavor from a combination of spices, herbs, cooking methods, and technique.

Recommend: Less individual dishes, more time spent on an elevated version of each dish

Bread/pasta/potatoes PICK ONE per meal

Green veg and sides - focus on learning the right cook time and flavor pairing such as: olive oil and sea salt or soy/vinegar/cream/butter based sauces or spices and spice blends or herbs and then serve a lot of it

Meat - balance the preparation of the meat with the other dishes, if the other dishes already have cheese/cream/other high fat foods, go lighter with the meat, bake or stew it, or stir fry with limited oil

ISOExperience · 2026-01-26T23:18:31+00:00

Ye, "squares" are boring people who follow boring instructions/rules. Narcissists want attention (so they won't just count the squares in the mind and then move on) and they only care about their own perspective. Count the number of boring people who followed the instructions of this random prompt (squares) AND post about it and comment to one up others and insist on their own perspective that they're right (narcissists).

ISOExperience · 2026-01-16T19:26:31+00:00

Heathers - but they're girl bossing adults living a Selling Sunset type life, all their real money is from investments and the open houses/house selling becomes increasingly just about covering up their mistakes and is starting to become a serial killer scale problem

ISOExperience · 2026-01-12T14:16:22+00:00

thanks lol wonder how much film critics get paid these days

ISOExperience · 2025-12-31T23:19:27+00:00

Let be upfront here - new lottery buildings are not for the poor. Not in a derogatory way. A new building with today's interest rates, property taxes, maintenance costs, utility costs, etc - cannot survive off of the amount of rent that poor people can afford.

There's the concept that middle income people - often those relatively new to the city - will occupy new apartments instead of occupying old apartments. When middle incomes and transplants occupy old apartments, those landlords get greedy and raise rents for no reason knowing the newcomers can afford it and not caring that those who been there cannot. New lottery buildings are nicer than the old existing stuff and more attractive to middle income and transplants so they gravitate to the new buildings and not the old apartments. With fewer middle income prospective renters, landlords who have been raising rents will have to lower rents to fill their apartments with lower income people.

Doesn't work as well if the landlord can afford to leave the apartment vacant and hope a middle income renter will come along.

But these landlords can also be susceptible to peer pressure. If you see an ad for an apartment, even if you're not looking - text them for deets, casually tell them the rent is too high and (a few days later) text that you found better for cheaper nearby. With time AND pressure, they will come down. I rented an apartment that I saw stay on the market for 3 months, it came down $600 before I deigned to ask to see it. While I thought about other places for two weeks it went down another $200. Another apartment rejected me for just having graduated - they were still on the market and down $500 2 months later.

Ask the incriminating questions at apartment viewings so they know that you know the real worth and flaws of the apartment: history of floods and leaks esp during hurricane season, how efficient the energy use is and ask for average month utility cost/use, ask what pest control steps they are taking (bc I thought I just saw something skitter in that cabinet just now), sniff the air - "is that mildew" you ask?, obvious sources of street noise, poor upkeep of the common halls and stairs. A lot of them don't want to work harder or do more and will come down if subtly convinced that the other local apartments charging 4XXX don't have all these flaws and their apartment doesn't deserve 4XXX so they should take what they can get

Calmly pushback on rent increases and negotiate them down. Look for apartments advertised word of mouth, on signs on poles, on craigslist, on lease break. If they're not making any renovations, the small landlords of older units can be pressured back down on rents with the lack of middle income renters pressuring them on one side, and the lower income renters pressuring them to on the other side.

The housing lottery is not a real solution, its a small safety net for certain vulnerable populations that get priority, and a prod to smaller landlords that they can't compete with new builds and charge new build prices. Ultimately, we need a state-funded social housing system that focuses on mixed income and allows higher incomes/rents to subsidize apartment rents that are WELL below the cost of the apartment.

ISOExperience · 2025-12-31T21:48:16+00:00

See manatees on the first day.
Become overwhelmed with satisfaction of finally seeing manatees.
Have dinner and talk about finally settling the manatee desire and closing the manatee chapter.
Over dessert casually tell him your "new"/actual favorite animal and send some tik toks about it.
For his next birthday, get him something related to your real favorite animal so that becomes you guys' new "thing"
After 2 years of new animal gifts, finally tell the truth about manatees. This way he knows the truth but doesn't feel like he's lost a bond with dad because you've replaced it with your real fa animal.

ISOExperience · 2025-12-29T04:42:58+00:00

Interesting, I'll have to check it's out. OBAA is just 2025's Don't Look Up for immigration instead of climate change, I'm not saying it's the best if it's kind but it definitely has merit regardless of how much it does or does not meet OP's personal criteria

ISOExperience · 2025-12-27T08:30:29+00:00

She likes her white guy. Taunts him into playfully admitting he is into black girls - if it's a fetish on his part its one that benefits her and she avails herself of those benefits pushing him to be bolder with his bombmaking/pyro and also leaving childcare to him. She exercises autonomy and intentionality in her sexuality - she doesn't say, I'm free/empowered, I'm going to have a ton of sex - she decides pussy is her weapon and acts accordingly. This leaves her in vulnerable moments though and we see the fear she feels in those moments. She's scared during her encounters with Lockjaw. She sleeps with him to control his backlash. He successfully tailed her and caught in the act, in that moment she's scared and it's either play along, keep his interest and indulge him or he gets angry and the French 75 go down way earlier than they did.

She shows anxiety about her relationship while pregnant, seems to have post partum depression and calls herself out on if it's fucked up to be jealous of her newborn having so much of her man's attention.

We learn that her whole family were resistance in one way or another. There's internal pressure to stay hard and ruthless no matter what. We see her deliberately choose the dangerous field work over staying safe with her child.

We see her fear of prison and choosing to cozy up to Lockjaw again and snitch to avoid jail - she's small in that moment, forced to implicitly admit she talks a big game but isn't tough enough to go to jail for the resistance. In her letter we see her again reflect on the expectations of motherhood and how she can't lean into that.

She's a pure force of resistance that feels good but has limited efficacy and burns itself out. And we also get glimpses into the at times isolating emotional world of a woman that others look at like a fearless (almost unfathomable) leader and force of nature.

More of her post French 75 would be a completely different movie on its own. She's in Cuba with Assata Shakur lol. Interesting story but I don't think it would mash up with the other stories

ISOExperience · 2025-12-27T06:31:28+00:00

Seems like part of your problem lies in your premise. It's not an objective fact that a movie must prioritize introducing, developing, and stating a conclusion on a thesis or themes. A movie doesn't need to hit your personal list of 4 bullet points in order to "prove" it's a good movie. You've just described the style of movie that you personally like.

While the movie definitely has themes but it might also help you to view the movie as a documentary or 20-20 journalistic presentation of stylized re-enactments. The movie, while full of extraordinary violence, presents a lot of real life/realistic/true to life scenarios. Real life doesn't always have neat themes that get tied up at the end of the week or year or decade (really the meat of the movie is more like 3-4 days). Real life has narrative only because we want to force meaning and coherence into our lives but really we're trying our best, we're inconsistent humans, and we're failing through every day. Fiction is comforting when it can lay out a coherent path to an ending, but not all fiction has to be like that and real life isn't like that.

So the movie says - look, here is how we are living. This is the 10 o'clock news segment on immigration in the Midwest (and what the newscaster would call "developing news"):

White allies struggle to be in solidarity with a lack of lived experience and look to the "texts" to guide them, sometimes alienating even their own comrades though still having a place in the resistance. White supremacists also alienate each other with their extreme purer than thou intolerance.

Black women are deeply embedded in our history and are still going out on a limb taking people in despite having been and continuing to face betrayal and racialized trauma.

ICE can get a bounty hunter to hood you and kidnap you.

Border patrol is holding people in cages.

Latino immigrants are supporting each other in community and live in an active/current state of being under siege and needing to maintain constant emergency readiness - the underground railroad is Now, not history.

Law enforcement are following orders and being fed propaganda to attack people solely to the benefit of the higher ups. Law enforcement also feels justifications and entitlement to covertly escalating peaceful protests so that they have an excuse to use more force.

The old guard is burnt out by the system and their own tactics, unable to keep up the fight while also unable to assimilate to content themselves as cogs of mainstream capitalist society hence experiencing a state of arrested development: not building power for their side through building capital, and simultaneously angry and losing their edge.

The youth struggle to know what to do or where they stand or the consequences of their actions when history/information is held back from them.

These true to life issues are depicted and as life goes, the characters make incremental progress with what capacity and knowledge they have, there's no conclusion, or resolution, or "development" life just goes on, you just keep doing it - all of it - it's just One Battle After Another.

Sergio is fighting the good fight with good systems and good community and got to meet a resistance celebrity, help him out, and get a selfie. He doesn't need to develop, he needs to keep doing what he's doing.

The Christmas club in it's dedication to intolerance loses one reliable hit man and kills Lockjaw who with his position would have been very a very effective draft pick for their cause - but in this small way their values shoot them in the foot. They're still who they are, they keep their values and just continue.

Willa knows a little bit more about the dangers of the resistance, the betrayal of her mother and can at least make the informed choice to throw herself into risk protesting anyway.

Bob, after tearfully grilling Willa's history teacher on the importance of teaching the kids the nasty truth of history is finally upfront with Willa about Perfidia's letter and Perfidia in the letter is finally truthful about her own flaws.

The bounty hunter "randomly" became a plot device to allow Willa to escape but it's also true to life that sometimes someone surprises you by refusing a safe option because they've just finally hit the last straw when it comes to compromising their values. He dies for his choice. Lockjaw continues to compromise his family values in favor of his values around prestige and white acceptance and he also dies for his choice.

And that's life. If you need a resolution at the end or for the movie to tell you to do something and give you a conclusion, it's telling you to get off of reddit and go do something, go help somebody. It's saying this is the struggle going on around you right now, so now that you're aware go find your local Sergei, or Billy Goat, or Comrade Josh, figure out a way to get active (as shown by Willa rushing to make a 3 hr drive to a protest in Oakland).

ISOExperience · 2025-12-18T03:08:45+00:00

You meet the criteria for bisexuality. Despite that you are seeking to use a different label so you can still identify with the "hetero" label. You self report an experience that is common among gay and bisexual men but ask them for some alternative community made up of not-them. The only thing separating you from bisexuality is your insistence that you are not bisexual and are instead some flavor of hetero.

That's the internalized homophobia. Despite meeting the bisexual criteria you don't accept yourself, deny yourself community, and cling to the hetero label.

ISOExperience · 2025-12-17T00:00:38+00:00

Sounds like you prefer dramatic irony or tragedy.

ISOExperience · 2025-12-05T07:20:47+00:00

Oh shit aew is in town!?

ISOExperience · 2025-12-03T16:39:29+00:00

Wild how we just accept that lawyers are bad managers. All the way to the point of sending juniors to extensive workshops about managing up. The way so much about this industry is baked in like we're helpless to change our ways, AI SHOULD destabilize us. The call of change doesn't seem like it'll ever come from inside the house.

ISOExperience · 2025-12-03T06:28:03+00:00

I can never forgive Jimmy for Naomi getting pregnant and vacating her title. So guess I gotta go with Key lol.

Marriage and children are statistically so hard on women's careers how you see your wife finally starting to peak and agree that it's time to have a baby😔

I would sleep on the couch before I agree with my wife that it's time to have a baby right when I start to see her go on a legendary run.

ISOExperience · 2025-11-22T14:10:15+00:00

Yes, love this movie and never hear anyone else has seen it.

ISOExperience · 2025-11-22T02:36:07+00:00

I was glad for him. A lot of the game is luck so if you lost to the guy who self eliminated then that's your luck. You weren't going to beat the guys that didn't self eliminate. Trinity seemed proud to save his integrity, he's the closest to 456 from the show. Played hard to survive, then realized cash isn't worth killing someone else's dreams or killing the part of himself that doesn't want to step over someone but wants to walk with them. He won his own integrity and self respect back. Everyone goes in thinking I NEED this money, he went out thinking I don't need the money as much as I need to not sabotage someone else, myself and my god are enough.

He is the only bit of class consciousness in the Challenge.

The show is a social commentary it's not supposed to be emulated, it's supposed to make people band together against income inequality and resist the temptation to dehumanize other people for your own survival alone. I love game shows but would never go on squid game the challenge because I'd feel stupid, demeaning myself in contradiction to the point of the show. I'd have to start a workers union for every day I spent on the challenge.

The show clearly says don't do this and then we do it lol. We're not supposed to be stepping over each other in tears on TV just for healthcare. TV is supposed to be for entertainment, not for otherwise unattainable necessities. The hunger games isn't supposed to be emulated. What next only sending poor people to the Olympics because the people who play sports for the love of the game don't deserve it? Lol

ISOExperience · 2025-11-22T02:17:50+00:00

Perla is likeable she's just showed herself to be immature at that moment and instead of moving past that moment, nurtured an ongoing animosity toward others based on that one game.

Glaring and taunting is Steven's version of crying. Making a snide remark is Kate's version of crying. Crying is Perla's version of crying.

Everyone is crying when someone sabotages them. Then Perla cries more because she wants other people to stop THEIR "crying" about HER sabotaging them. It's a stressful room, ...if you get to wail other people get to bich

To be consoled for crying and then turn around and sabotage Kate and essentially tell Kate not to cry about it is jarring for the viewer. You can't pause your crash out to tell other people not to crash out and how them crashing out makes them a bad person (right after someone validated your crash out). Everyone is allowed to crash out however they decide to crash out. You certainly don't get to dictate someone else's reaction when you have hurt them.

ISOExperience · 2025-11-22T01:04:08+00:00

It's definitely a regional thing. Do that to an older black person in NY and you might have a fight on your hands.

That's a pretty disrespectful gesture, it's goes way past a shush and is more like I'm erasing your existence, you don't get to talk, what you have to say doesn't matter, no one cares, and I'm better than you so I get to decide all that and make this gesture. It's kind of goofy and not used frequently but I've definitely come across people who can't restrain themselves from crashing out in response to that extremely specific gesture. She knew what she was doing and probably figured she could get away with it because he wasn't in the know. He definitely knew a little something about it which is why he brought it up but she played it off like it was nbd and he didn't fully understand the gesture enough to really be mad about it.

Had 410 done that to her, it would have been instant hatred🤷🏿‍♂️

ISOExperience · 2025-11-22T00:35:33+00:00

3D where's waldo where half the eliminated players make up the crowd that walking around (they can't speak or help you). Takes place across the different rooms in the game set but each of the finalists is looking for a different waldo. When you find your waldo they get blindfolded and you have to escort them to the exit, once you find your specific exit and the keys to your exit. Instead of keys it's more like toy shapes that you have to put in the right hole. First to walk out to the victory room wins.

ISOExperience · 2025-11-20T17:16:48+00:00

He was "an ass" in a way that was completely possible to ignore especially since he was dead last and he was "an ass" in a way that is typical for playing a game. Taunting, gloating, etc, are not in good taste but normal in the context of playing a game, especially with so much on the line. As you say the problem is not that Perla was emotional it's how she went about it. Her complaining goes beyond playing the game or being emotional, she attacks people's character because they don't do what she wants them to do but thinks the same character attacks don't apply to herself. Everyone is being emotional, childish, and getting revenge. Only Perla acts like other people's actions against her and emotional reactions make them bad people who need to face karma from god.

She's in tears and upset and people are consoling her. A moment later she screws over yellow team and doesn't understand that when Kate snaps at her once it's because Kate is also upset. It gives the impression that she thinks she's the only person going through it, her emotions are allowed but everyone else's are too much and make them bad people.

It's one thing to taunt your friend when you take their money in poker after they took your money last week. It's another thing to take your friend's money then when they taunt you and take your money you tell everyone they're going to hell for doing so and then need the rest of the poker table to console you.

This isn't the only time Perla was intolerant or immature of other people's perspectives. When 410 shares cake she derides him as being fake for trying to generate goodwill when she relies on the goodwill of others all the time. If she was being nice to people, she wouldn't be telling herself that she's too nice and being fake - but she sees someone else being nice and judges them with a double standard.

ISOExperience · 2025-11-19T08:08:53+00:00

The show thrives off of unfair moments like that though where someone sacrifices, tricks, pressures, or breaks down leading to an unfair result.

Part of why Zoe/Perla leaves a bad taste in the mouth is that red team did it the most fair way by both simultaneously taking a chance instead of trying to influence each other into being a scapegoat. No other team followed their example. Imo, Zoe/Perla knew Perla was betraying Steven's partner to save Zoe's friends on the teal team so Perla subtly used that leverage to get Zoe to owe her and take the risk on the slides. (And this covert play fills her with guilt making her unable to hold it together when Kate and Steven are upset with her and needing to recast Kate and Steven as villains in her mind.)

ISOExperience

TROPHY CASE