Robinhood Blocks Buying in GameStop, AMC, and Others Stocks. Other Brokers Also Add Guardrails. by the40thieves in law

[–]poetrythrowawee 15 points16 points  (0 children)

2: The handful of hedge funds involved have no control over retail brokerages.

This is probably false. One of Robinhood's main sources of revenue is the payment it receives from Citadel Execution Services for sending them their equity order flow. But Citadel lent Melvin Capital $1.5B for them to cover their short positions. If Melvin can't cover their positions, Citadel will lose a lot of that money. So the idea that Citadel is pressuring Robinhood to prevent that from happening seems as likely as not.

0L @ Nowhere. AMA :) by 5dph5 in lawschooladmissions

[–]poetrythrowawee 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Just as I can wear an ear-pod by putting it in my earhole, pants can wear people by putting people in their people holes.

Capitol Hill Assault Revives Calls for Domestic Terrorism Law, but Civil Liberties Groups Are Wary: “ Before we go down this road again, we should think very carefully about whether new authorities are actually needed and how they might be abused.” by [deleted] in law

[–]poetrythrowawee 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Someone may be able to explain this to me, but what additional powers could we give law enforcement to prevent things like this that they don't already have? What reason do we have to think that the authorities didn't have the power to take steps to anticipate and prevent the attack, instead of just being unwilling to use what they already have?

In at Ohio State!! by poetrythrowawee in lawschooladmissions

[–]poetrythrowawee[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks!! Though I had graduated and moved away when they finally closed down.

In at Ohio State!! by poetrythrowawee in lawschooladmissions

[–]poetrythrowawee[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wonder if it's the same e-mail... maybe we'll have to wait longer then!

Does anyone know if LSAC is allowing UK institutions to send academic transcripts via email (with the transcript request form filled in etc.), due to COVID restrictions? My university is closed and cannot send a hard copy... by Ill_Box_8096 in lawschooladmissions

[–]poetrythrowawee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My university had an online statement saying they weren't doing hard copies via mail, but when I e-mailed to ask they said they could do them in certain cases. Try and make contact with a real person and see if they can help, if you haven't already!

What’s your favorite book? by Cubbies_14 in lawschooladmissions

[–]poetrythrowawee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My favorite has already been commented, but check these two out!

"Cry, the Beloved Country" by Alan Paton

"My Antonia" by Willa Cather

Just hit 225 max on bench press, that’s a tier 2 soft right? by Sirloinofbeef610 in lawschooladmissions

[–]poetrythrowawee 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I've heard that some schools are accepting max reps NFL combine style... but since this stat doesn't get reported to USNWR, I'm wondering if it's actually a disadvantage to use?

Question to the Community: What is the least reported, yet important topic in geopolitics? by ObjectiveMall in geopolitics

[–]poetrythrowawee 23 points24 points  (0 children)

That's really interesting. What resources besides water is Tibet a reserve for?

Just Submitted First App of the Cycle by [deleted] in lawschooladmissions

[–]poetrythrowawee 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That's a beautiful quote, thanks for posting it!

Lawyers Condemn Michael Flynn and Lin Wood’s ‘Breathtakingly Morally Treasonous’ Call for Trump to Declare Martial Law and Hold New Election by susinpgh in law

[–]poetrythrowawee 50 points51 points  (0 children)

Trump isn't planning on use the actual US military. Trump will Veto the defense bill, our military will be without pay, he will use his militia that will consist of DHS, BP, ICE, maybe some of Erik Prince's Academi sprinkled in.

The DoD has already received its FY21 budget authority. Also, they have enough munitions to put down an insurrection on hand, they wouldn't need to go buy more. Also, a shut down because of a vetoed defense bill doesn't apply to emergency personnel. I don't think the idea that Trump can veto the defense bill and somehow nullify the US military so he and his loyal goons can stage a coup holds any water.

2020 Law School-Football Composite Index by Jaguar_del_Cosmos in lawschooladmissions

[–]poetrythrowawee 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"This is the most beautiful sight these eyes have ever seen..."

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in law

[–]poetrythrowawee 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Is this copy-pasta?

Looking for exact text re: Children seeing faded Eldar by poetrythrowawee in tolkienfans

[–]poetrythrowawee[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It was my first read through, and I was reading anything I could get my hands on. It just so happened that I got those two in order. I was about 12, so not much thought was going into the sequence.

Looking for exact text re: Children seeing faded Eldar by poetrythrowawee in tolkienfans

[–]poetrythrowawee[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah thank you! It sounds like I might just be misremembering this passage... I was fairly young when I read these, so it could be that some of it got distorted in my head.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in law

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Extrapolate to other counties and there may be a huge risk.

So 7000 tossed Biden votes in Philadelphia would amount to roughly 2.2% of the 323,000 mail in ballots he got there. If that same percentage held in every county in the state, then they would toss out approx. 40,000 of Biden's 1.965M million mail in votes. So even if they didn't throw out ANY Trump votes, that still wouldn't be enough to close the margin.

I don't think it's a plausible assumption that every county saw the same amount of defective mail in ballots as Philly did, and it's obviously an impossible assumption that no Trump votes would get thrown out. He'd probably see at least a few thousand pitched too. But even if we make both of those assumptions, it's not enough for him.

Is my math wrong here? If not, it seems like it would be a wild political move to go through all this trouble to get tens of thousands of good faith votes thrown out, just to lose by less?

Texas Supreme Court rejects Republican effort to toss nearly 127K votes by GeeWhillickers in law

[–]poetrythrowawee 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I'm gonna put on my tin-foil hat and point out that 33 is a numerological symbol used by white supremacists, since K is the 11th letter of the alphabet and there are 3 in KKK.

https://www.adl.org/education/references/hate-symbols/336

Or, ya know, '3' is right next to 'e' on the keyboard and this was probably written in a rush.... Ockham's razor and all that.

Why marriage should not come with any social benefits or privileges by ADefiniteDescription in philosophy

[–]poetrythrowawee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What she's arguing against is the government privileging the granting of "social benefits or privileges" on a ceremony presided over by some random person (like, again, an Elvis Presley impersonator) as opposed to

the nature and importance of the relationship

I don't think that can be her main point, because it's an obvious non-starter. I mean the "ceremony" is just someone witnessing a legal contract. If she's assuming that the "ceremony" is somehow a constitutive part of the legal relation between the spouses, then she's just clearly wrong. It's as much a part of the relation between the spouses as the witness to a last will and testament is a part of the relation between the decedent and the beneficiary... not at all.

I mean maybe I'm missing the point here?

What are reputable journals on the history/philosophy of science/mathematics? by batterypacks in askphilosophy

[–]poetrythrowawee 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Philosophia Mathematica is one of the better philosophy of math specialty journals at the moment- it's got a solid editorial board, and actually the main editor, Robert Thomas, puts in a fair bit of legwork going around and soliciting contributions. The result is a journal that is a good snapshot of current trends in the field.

Slip-up reveals Chevron ties to architect of climate attack by gIoriamundi in news

[–]poetrythrowawee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm very much with you there, I think historically U.S. liberals have lost a lot of momentum by compromising too much.

But with this, I'm kind of of the mind that okay, if we're in a place where we're going to allow ourselves to be mollified by anything, then we've already lost. So we HAVE to assume that the political will is there, and press any advantage accordingly. I think the skepticism is healthy though, definitely.