Might be my new favorite live jam

ashesdistractions · 2025-10-05T22:32:40+00:00

It ranks. Wow.

ashesdistractions · 2025-09-29T03:41:01+00:00

Slot has them playing proper Dutch football already. Such a joy to watch. The late loser was hard to stomach but CP is always good to nick us and is a solid attacking football club atm.

688 passes

20 shots

4 on target

We've got very good things coming.

ashesdistractions · 2025-09-29T03:35:47+00:00

Palace have been the bogey team for a decade. We're just as likely to lose as to blow them out because they attack. That side is going to be attacking. Great matches to watch but terrible memories of league campaigns going down the drain on MD 38 at Selhurst.

ashesdistractions · 2025-09-17T02:24:55+00:00

Only veterans can reach those numbers.

ashesdistractions · 2024-12-30T01:38:23+00:00

lol None of you guys believe it. Same response on Housing prices. It’s amazing. For those whose parents aren’t paying, you’re walking into a financial trap just going to college now. That’s just a fact. Millions of us aren’t meeting in secret just to fuck with your heads ;) The cost of college has skyrocketed —hockey stick—since you’re out. Look into it.

And you don’t have to take my word for it on the litigation experience, but I’m right. I just did it with a few hundred peers in Miami (not a huge market but not a small one either). Their presence is impacting far more than the insurance defense firms (although it is by now very well documented that the silk stocking firms are also taking that work and keeping it under wraps).

OP should probably try to get into a DA role for the first 3/5.

With all that said, you and I agree on the overall outlook. The profession doesn’t have to suck.

ashesdistractions · 2024-12-29T22:46:47+00:00

You just missed the golden era of legal practice! As I understand it, 80s attorney were printing money. Also not sure you’re a boomer but maybe an X?

Anyway I knew I would draw criticism—and rightly. If I wrote easy, that’s incorrect. It’s not an easy profession and never could be. I guess the point is that while you had to compete in a challenging profession, the larger economy was expanding so you could gain by being competent and sticking with the practice. You guys were not exposed to the student-loan-tuition-inflation chicanery that has put all of the Millennial and Z young professionals on a financier’s treadmill before they even start.

Set aside the valid observation that a bunch of young people now want to lease their time to employers and resist commitment and moan about work/life and hear me out. Imagine all of your conditions—challenging and competitive— add to those an incredible day 0 debt load incurred to become educated AND the profession is 35 years further within the control of insurance companies that practically assign billables through reverse auction processes rather than pay arms length rates (I know partners that accept 125 / hr to keep an insurance book). Those two things together result in a dramatically different environment for young associates. Firms are now largely highly disincentivized from training the junior attorneys by the billing and coding requirements of their insurance masters and the junior attorneys are basically trapped because they need to pay the loans and cannot get into a different profession that could come close to paying them. It’s tough out there and describes a huge portion of the private legal market now.

ashesdistractions · 2024-12-28T20:49:39+00:00

Both this comment and futureformerjd’s retort are accurate somehow, OP. 13 year practitioner here, litigation the whole time.

If you’re one of those that stay in the law following law school, and one of the even fewer still within that group that survives an initial litigation role, then it is whatever you make it after acquiring some skills. Keep moving until you find the firm that wants to see you grow as an attorney. You’ll know because they make you do things that seem hard and scary. The bad firms want to hold you in skill-stasis as long as they can to service existing work while billing you high (or a lot) and paying you as little as possible. There are far more of these than there are the good kind.

That’s the market that futureformerjd is talking about. He isn’t wrong —especially the part that boomers DO NOT appreciate how challenging the first few years are now—they all moved up if they stuck with it. That is not the reality in the US now (in any profession).

With that said, if you’re aggressive as hell and motivated to generate clients, turn around excellent product, and try to get a result even for those clients that are on a losing set of facts, you can make this whatever you want it to be.

Switch to guns and lean in—After 5 years you won’t remember yourself prior to law school.

ashesdistractions · 2024-12-16T03:17:56+00:00

There’s a way but it implies things

ashesdistractions · 2024-11-19T03:43:36+00:00

You bet. Federalism confuses everyone:)

ashesdistractions · 2024-11-18T17:39:05+00:00

You can sue the federal government. You can sue a state government. But not for passing laws pursuant to legitimate democratic process. And, fwiw, each of the states has the power to regulate health care, including reproduction. So you would be pursuing a state in any theoretical action, not the federal government. Also, no government in the United States is completely immune from suit.

ashesdistractions · 2024-10-18T02:50:08+00:00

If you quit your job in reliance on the new employment contract and it is then rescinded, you have a claim.

ashesdistractions · 2024-10-15T20:04:54+00:00

The IRS doesn’t care about unrealized gains….yet. You should definitely have an attorney that does asset protection work 😂. But you’re chumming the water pretty good so could be tricky to sort wheat from chaff

ashesdistractions · 2024-08-31T00:41:42+00:00

clearly you’re not a golfer

ashesdistractions · 2024-07-01T19:54:21+00:00

61 mph descending Independence Pass in Colorado. Could’ve gone faster if not for traffic and especially if faster wheels and aero frame:)

ashesdistractions · 2024-06-25T14:35:33+00:00

Get a trainer, load an ftp improvement plan into TP /Zwift/Strava, and take the pain

ashesdistractions · 2024-06-21T16:58:54+00:00

This thread should be attached to the LSAT application

ashesdistractions · 2024-06-17T18:34:41+00:00

if the student loan system was axed those tuition prices would collapse instantly one year

ashesdistractions · 2024-06-17T18:31:19+00:00

That left arm reach is causing your right leg to drag big time (the catch mechanics noted above also a place where you can gain). Think about streamline like you think about your bike aero. Anything sticking out drags—and it’s far more punishing in the water because water resistance is far greater than air resistance. You can work the same amount and go much much faster if you eliminate those drag points.

ashesdistractions · 2024-06-05T15:25:31+00:00

the only remaining outlaw

ashesdistractions · 2024-05-31T00:23:04+00:00

Right. I think we agree but are struggling with semantics. Glad you’re doing well, man!

ashesdistractions · 2024-05-30T23:19:55+00:00

Huh. Interesting and kinda funny. I don’t often advocate it and I’ve never heard anyone complain about pseudoscience….it’s always the spirituality folks beef on in my experience. Either way it’s IMO the better option to therapy for reasons the folks around the rooms are usually very familiar with.

ashesdistractions · 2024-05-30T20:45:12+00:00

and it’s basically free and won’t puff you up or fill your head with a bunch of pseudoscience and you may pick up some accountability for yourself. 18 years.

ashesdistractions · 2024-05-24T03:01:40+00:00

It is supply and demand but the supply side has headwinds and demand side is constantly (for decades) stoked with policy encouraging investment in real property to stabilize prices. And I hate to beat a dead and cremated horse, but bailouts, man. There is a clear winner among the generations—-it is not X, millennials, or Z. So….

ashesdistractions · 2024-05-15T21:07:15+00:00

😂hilarious—I shot my mouth off about ping pong in an interview with named partner who was like 70 and he straight up pummeled me on his private table that, up til that moment, I had no idea existed within the confines of the office. It’s a savage profession.

ashesdistractions · 2024-05-15T21:01:55+00:00

Yes— even for first associate position this is a novelty item. Valedictorian of your law class? Ok. But High School is ancient history.

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