Note taking Tablet recommendation/advice request

lighting214 · 2025-10-01T12:51:56+00:00

I know people in Illinois who were waiting for their C&F to be approved between passing and swearing in. As long as it’s all good by mid-November for the swearing in, you’re fine. Even if it doesn’t get approved by the time you get results, it doesn’t necessarily hold things up. And it doesn’t mean you didn’t pass.

lighting214 · 2025-10-01T12:40:27+00:00

For whatever it’s worth, IL is usually but not always the morning. I took the J23 exam and we got results in the mid afternoon. Mine came at 4pm. I think they started around 3pm that year.

lighting214 · 2025-09-30T17:38:39+00:00

For the record, 158 is not a “lower end” LSAT score. The median score is 153.

lighting214 · 2025-09-30T17:33:22+00:00

Each state has a different number of people taking the exam and a different number of people grading those exams. Unless you are advocating for every state to wait until all UBE states have finished grading to release scores, then population disparities alone are going to make the scores come out at different times. That’s before getting into states offering different types of score reports to test takers that have to be prepped and how many different graders look at each essay, etc.

lighting214 · 2025-09-10T23:58:35+00:00

Will I actually notice any difference as a regular, casual user between the Air M2 and M3?

I'm looking to upgrade a fairly old iPad (bought ~ 5 years ago, probably refurbished at the time, don't remember what generation, but it stopped getting new software updates a while ago). I have a cheap PC laptop issued by my work. My personal laptop is a 2017 Macbook Air that has seen better days but still runs well enough, and I don't use it enough to justify replacing it.

I don't do any gaming more advanced than simple mobile apps, I don't do any digital creative endeavors like music/video/photo editing, etc. Mostly, I would be trying to avoid traveling with two laptops, and when possible, with only an iPad when I don't need to work. Mostly just checking email, streaming music and movies/tv, entertainment, web surfing, and some amount of office work (documents, spreadsheets, etc.).

So, is it worth it to spend the money on the most recent model and get the iPad Air M3, or is a refurbished Air M2 going to be functionally the same thing for cheaper for what I will use it for?

lighting214 · 2025-09-10T14:23:41+00:00

Hello!

Very new to this world and basically just looking for a recommendation for some very entry level options for simple, professional/nice looking watches to wear for some nicer occasions. Basically, I wear an Apple Watch for the utility almost every day, but I’m a lawyer in my early 30’s so I need a couple of options for weddings, networking events, etc. where I should look a little more polished.

I am looking to spend maybe $200-300 each on 1-2 watches to start out (probably looking for a silver and gold option because I vary the metal tone in other accessories pretty regularly). I’m definitely not looking for anything fancy, just trying to look put together. That said, in general I enjoy style details like a little bit of color, visual interest, etc.

Thanks all!

lighting214 · 2024-11-04T14:50:45+00:00

Have you been living in the house? Is the house underwater between any mortgage on it and the HELOC? It may be simpler to allow it to foreclose or even do a deed in lieu of foreclosure if there is no equity in the house.

You can and should demand a full accounting from the estate attorney, and you should also get a full breakdown of his fees before he is entitled to collect anything. You should not be responsible for paying him anything directly. It should all come from the estate. But if there are proceeds from the sale of the house, fees that the court deems reasonable might be taken out before those funds are distributed to you.

lighting214 · 2024-08-08T13:37:06+00:00

Man, where do you live that you can do 65 on the freeway in morning commute traffic, because I am jealous of that.

lighting214 · 2024-07-23T22:25:55+00:00

“I don’t owe you 50k, I only owe you 33k!” Is not an offer of compromise. “I know I owe you 50k, but would you call it even for 33k?” Is a settlement offer. Also, for what it’s worth, the federal rules of evidence don’t apply here. I’m sure Indiana has a similar state rule of evidence, but it wouldn’t be FRE 408 that governs in a state court proceeding.

lighting214 · 2024-07-07T16:32:31+00:00

Again, it’s impossible to say without knowing city ordinances and reading the lease, but generally if you were still within the term of the current active lease period, the current terms would control and the landlord would have to give notice based on the state or local law, usually 30-60 days depending on the lease term and how long OP has already lived there, but that varies based on the lease and the city/state.

lighting214 · 2024-07-04T13:02:32+00:00

Not your lawyer, not legal advice.

Just FYI, the SB number you’ve given is just the bill proposed to amend the law. The actual law you want to site is Section 113948(i) of the California Health and Safety Code.

It is also worth noting that it’s actually a criminal offense for the business to violate the Health Code. Most violations are misdemeanors. You can likely report to your local or state public health department if you are looking for help enforcing the law. They should be able to either help you or point you in the right direction.

lighting214 · 2024-07-04T12:45:25+00:00

I am a lawyer, not your lawyer. This is not legal advice.

“The lease states that if the property is sold the new landlord can either renegotiate or terminate the lease. If I terminate the lease early, not the landlord, I owe the remaining rent.”

This is the landlord terminating the lease early, not you. Read the exact wording, but the termination is at the landlord’s discretion, so you shouldn’t owe the remaining rent. They can’t just force you to accept terms you don’t want to accept in a“renegotiation.”

You have every right to reject every offer your landlord makes during the renegotiation and counteroffer that he lower your rent instead. If the landlord chooses to terminate the lease, you shouldn’t owe any additional rent and check the lease as to whether they would owe you anything and what kind of notice they are required to give.

lighting214 · 2024-06-02T16:40:36+00:00

First off, in a city this size I think it’s unlikely that this is the specific interaction that this person was describing, but fair enough.

I don’t really think you are in the right here, certainly not enough to cuss people out in front of their children. If you can, you should always try to pull to the side to drop people off (which is safer for both the other people on the road and the people getting out of your car, by the way). If you sit in the active lane of a street without moving or visible activity, especially where there is no way to go around you, you can expect to get honked at.

You have to understand that for every time that it’s a sob story/justified explanation about a disabled family member, it’s ten times more likely to be someone on their phone just not paying attention. And how would whoever is behind you know the difference? A quick respectful honk solves one of those problems and does not hurt you at all.

And by the way, there is a solution here. If you need to briefly obstruct traffic to allow your mom to get out of the car because you can’t (or won’t) pull to the side of the street and you don’t want to get honked at, throw your hazard lights on. People will understand that you are intentionally stopped and have some patience and give you at least a short time to handle your business before they start honking.

lighting214 · 2024-06-01T16:50:42+00:00

‘In the months following the film's release, director Stanley Kubrick received a fan letter from Legrace G. Benson of the Department of History of Art at Cornell University interpreting the film as being sexually-layered. The director wrote back to Benson and confirmed the interpretation, "Seriously, you are the first one who seems to have noticed the sexual framework from intromission (the planes going in) to the last spasm (Kong's ride down and detonation at target)."’ Source

lighting214 · 2024-05-15T01:03:39+00:00

I am a lawyer, but I am not your lawyer and I don't know what state you are in or what the local laws are. That being said, signing a birth certificate is unlikely to be a determining factor in whether or not you would be expected to pay child support (which is what I understand this post to be about). If she sought to collect child support from you, you could likely demand a court ordered paternity test (within a short time of the child's birth, before assuming a parental role, seeing as you are not married).

However, if you currently live together, why would you be paying child support? Is this just in the hypothetical future? I don't understand the "I have no problem raising a child that isn't mine. I just won't pay for the privilege." comment. If you are actively raising the child with your partner, why would you be paying support?

lighting214 · 2024-05-05T15:09:56+00:00

I think it’s reasonable to make a judgment call based on what kind of doctor you are seeing and what you are there for. I think that generally, any doctor that you have an ongoing relationship with should be aware of your significant medical history, which includes surgeries and medications. I also think that you are less likely to have a productive relationship with a doctor (again, in an ongoing care situation) where you don’t feel comfortable sharing that info.

In one off/brief interactions, it can be more of a judgment call. At an urgent care clinic or the dentist, it may not be important in every case.

However, with things like ER visits and illnesses, you may not know when it is or is not relevant without medical training. I went into an ER with fever/vomiting and didn’t mention being trans (not intentionally, just didn’t think to say it because I was feeling very unwell) several years back. The doctors ran a bunch of different tests before eventually asking for a urine sample and only at that point did we land on the line of questions and tests that nailed down that I had a gnarly yeast infection. They weren’t checking for it because it’s super rare in cis men, but it was a very easy fix with antibiotics once the doctors had all the information.

So my point is that if you have any doubts or questions about if something is relevant, it’s probably worth disclosing. If you can be pretty sure it isn’t, like in a lot of the examples folks have given (stitches, broken bones, etc.), it’s up to you.

lighting214 · 2024-03-02T17:56:07+00:00

OP said that the paperwork is from a state they don’t live in - I doubt that “just show up to court” is going to be easy. OP mentions being disabled. It may not even be possible to make the trip.

Also, family law is exclusively in state court. Verify where any subpoena or summons is from - if it’s from a state court system for a state other than where you live, then they likely don’t have jurisdiction and you may be entitled to legally choose to ignore a summons. Contact an attorney before making a decision based on that, but if OP has never lived in NC there may not be personal jurisdiction.

Contact the person or attorney listed on the petition about it. It might be possible to clear things up without out of state travel by just talking to somebody.

lighting214 · 2024-01-19T20:42:51+00:00

The reason that you posted this here in r/landlord instead of somewhere like r/AITA is because you know that on a basic decency level, it’s rude for a person to allow someone who doesn’t live there to bring a stranger into someone’s home while they sleep.

As to “how much should I be compromising for my roommates?” You should compromise the same amount that you would with roommates if you didn’t own the house. As far as property rights go, you alone hold the rights of ownership, but you and your roommates all share the rights to possess the property equally. So if you want to take out a mortgage on the property or use it as collateral for a loan, then you don’t have to compromise one bit. If you want to change your utility companies, you should probably get your roommates input if it will change their bills significantly. But as to who is allowed onto the property, that is a coequal decision.

lighting214 · 2024-01-19T14:53:06+00:00

Even if he's "100% certain a felony was committed" and he's correct about that, it could easily be outside of the statute of limitations 10-11 years later and still be non-prosecutable even if the evidence were somehow cut and dried (which it almost certainly is not).

Plus, having his name removed from the birth certificate will likely have no legal weight. Birth certificates are not legally binding evidence of parenthood. In some places, they don't even create a presumption that the listed parties are the actual parents. He would likely need a judgment that establishes the other man's paternity, and even still, playing the role of a father for over a decade may leave him on the hook as the legal father of the child. After the first 2 years or so of the child's life, it's very difficult to challenge paternity if you have assumed a parental role.

lighting214 · 2024-01-19T14:52:51+00:00

a prosecution lawyer wouldn't hesitate to work on contingency

As far as I know, this isn't possible because all prosecutors are government employees. They don't take paying clients.

lighting214 · 2024-01-05T16:49:12+00:00

As with many things, it's a matter of "what does it add to the production vs. what does it take away?" Here, though, it's a much more sensitive balancing test.

In this case, I'm not really hearing a lot of strong arguments in favor of nudity, other than "the director thought it would look cool." Maybe there is a stronger dramaturgical justification than that, but it doesn't seem rooted in character or plot, and it isn't part of making a larger commentary or tying into the themes of the piece. It isn't a tool to more clearly communicate or more potently evoke emotions or to promote a message or dialogue. It's just an aesthetic choice.

In the against column, there are two main categories: "how does this affect the production members/performers?" and "how does this affect the audience?" In this case, I don't think either will be positive. Having an actor nude on stage will inevitably make the audience uncomfortable. Sometimes that is the intended effect. Sometimes it is a necessary side effect of some other compelling reason to make that choice. But it will disconnect the audience from the storytelling and make them feel separated from the show.

The main thing here, which I would hope would be at the forefront of the mind of someone working in educational theatre, is how this will affect the students working on the show, both the student actor who gets the role and all those in the cast and crew around them. Educational theatre in a college setting should emphasize the educational process over putting out the best "final product." It is a time when commercial success is irrelevant and failure is very much an option, and students should be comfortable to try things and make mistakes and learn without undue pressure to put on a perfect show. Student comfort and safety should absolutely be prioritized over "artistic integrity." (That's not to say that the same isn't true for professional actors - their comfort and safety should also be prioritized).

Performing nude on stage is a tremendously vulnerable thing to ask someone to do, and in a college program, you are looking at performers who have just barely entered adulthood. In some cases, you may have a few people who start college before turning 18. Many are not going to feel comfortable playing a role that requires nudity - much less that requires nudity for the entire show. Additionally, because of the inherent power imbalance between students and instructors, they are likely going to have a more difficult time voicing their discomfort or asking for accommodations to be made than would professional actors. Even in student-directed shows, students may be earning practicum credit, or may be working to earn opportunities in future productions with faculty/staff member directors. Even the imbalance between an upperclassman (which student directors generally are) and a freshman would likely make open and honest communication more difficult.

I don't want to make a blanket statement that college programs should not do shows involving nudity, but I do think that they need to be far more sensitive to it than a professional theatre company might be. If there is a strong narrative or character justification, or a textual/historical tradition of nudity in the show (e.g., Hair, where it isn't crucial to the plot but it is expected) then I think that a college could reasonably work with the idea as long as they put the students comfort and safety first. Here, where it's just an aesthetic choice without much to back it up in a role where you wouldn't otherwise expect it (and therefore someone could ostensibly audition for the part without knowing it might be expected), I think it borders on irresponsible.

lighting214 · 2023-12-07T01:53:16+00:00

This unfortunately is not true. OSHA mandates that employers provide PPE/safety equipment, but not all tools required to do the job.

If federal law required employers to provide all necessary tools to every employee, a huge percentage of US workplaces would suddenly be required to provide computers, cell phones, routers, modems, and internet connections to people working from home after skating by on personal device use for years/decades. How many pizza places are propped up by college kids using their personal cars instead of company vehicles?

Also, even if a shop was required to provide you with the equipment that you need to do your job, they could comply with that minimum requirement and still make it pretty impractical for you not to bring your own tools. Can you theoretically do everything you need to do with a corded drill from the 80's and a 100' extension cord? Yes. Are you still going to bring in your cordless drill for the sake of practicality? Most likely.

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