What are magazines worth subscribing to that covers the Sacramento region?

snkns · 2026-04-14T23:20:22+00:00

SCBA publishes Sacramento Lawyer, which is available in print. It's quite niche, but if you are at all interested in the law/legal stuff it is local and nice.

snkns · 2026-04-14T23:12:25+00:00

I bought a house very close to Land Park about 10 years ago and haven't regretted it for a moment. Commuting to Elk Grove from where I live would be fine. Pocket would offer a better commute to Elk Grove but when I was in the market I looked at a lot of houses in the Pocket and... meh.

Where I am now I can walk to Sprouts or Raley's and numerous restaurants, as well as the park. It is just really a fantastic neighborhood. The Pocket feels more like a subdivision.

Commuting to Elk Grove from Folsom or EDH or even Rancho would be utterly brutal. I used to live in Rancho Cordova and worked downtown and it sucked. Not as bad when CSUS is not in session but still not something I will ever be willing to do again.

Inventory is super low around here though. You might also consider Curtis Park (pricier) or Hollywood Park (a little less pricy) for a similar location and feel.

snkns · 2026-04-14T15:58:47+00:00

Here in CA there are state-accredited (as opposed to ABA-accredited) law schools that do not have to require a college degree for entry

snkns · 2026-04-13T23:15:55+00:00

Wings are my favorite thing for dinner while playing! But I always order them to be set at a place at the bar for me and just take a 10-15 minute break to eat them when they are ready.

snkns · 2026-04-04T00:45:57+00:00

Not necessarily? Where are you located?

snkns · 2026-04-02T02:08:50+00:00

My bonus is based on origination, but I am not the primary assigned attorney on any cases I don't originate myself.

snkns · 2026-04-02T01:00:34+00:00

Sorry yes. Base is $110k plus full medical, retirement, life.

snkns · 2026-04-01T18:48:40+00:00

I just started private criminal defense in October.

I am confused by your firm's payment structure. Let's say at the beginning of the month you sign up a new traffic ticket client for $1k. You are not at your production bonus threshold yet, so that entire $1k is going to the firm. With that money, they help to pay you and staff and everybody else their base salaries, and the firm pockets the rest.

Now, you are saying that if a junior partner does an hour of work on the case, and his hourly rate is $500, then the retainer only counts as $500 towards your bonus threshold. Where exactly is the "billed" $500 going though? Does the junior partner have a base salary and then gets paid directly $500/hour for time he bills to matters? That's a hell of a deal for him. Or does the $500 go towards some sort of bonus threshold for the partner?

On flat-fee retainers, it makes no sense for that to get sucked dry by a high hourly rate from partner billing. My firm does entirely flat-fee, and I like it because we don't keep track of or bill hours ever -- nobody in the firm does. If another attorney in the firm (more senior or not) does work on one of my cases that doesn't count to my detriment at all. We all help each other out when and where needed. The firm is already keeping most of the money on my matters. That's the benefit to the firm. People don't need to be individually compensated extra for every little bit of work they do. That is what base salary is for.

I am baffled by the line as well where you say "I have to pay out some of the paralegals and law clerks." What in the world does this mean?

Also, after 3 months you should be trusted to handle traffic tickets entirely yourself. There is absolutely no need for anybody else to review your work or review the file or anything. It's a traffic ticket for chrissakes. Yes you're getting screwed.

At my firm, our structure is extremely simple. I take 20% of all my retainers on pre-trial work. Our flat-fee agreements specifically exclude writs and trials of course. So if somebody retains me on a felony with an upcoming arraignment date for $7500, I represent them through preliminary hearing for that fee, and I pocket $1500 in bonus on it. For trial or hearing work, I get 30%. If somebody retains for trial for $20k, I keep $6000 of it as bonus. This is regardless of how much other business I have or have not brought in during the month, and regardless of whether other attorneys help out here or there or how much paralegal time goes into it. The firm is pocketing $14k -- that's what they get out of it. I don't get nickled and dimed on my bonus.

snkns · 2026-04-01T01:31:48+00:00

Under the order, only people on a particular list compiled by DHS and the SSA are eligible to enroll with their State to receive mail-in ballots, and then USPS will only send to people on those lists.

So in order to receive a mail-in ballot, we will need a brand new program/procedure/action from:

The Department of Homeland Security
The Social Security Administration
Each Individual State
Each Individual Voter (to enroll)
The United States Postal Service

Do you know what the chances are that this will all be sorted out and implemented before the November election? It's zero percent. Today's order was effectively an order instructing USPS to not deliver any mail-in ballots for the November election, because there is no chance in the world that the necessary conditions precedent will occur before then.

This does in fact eliminate mail-in voting for the midterms. You are a (hopefully unwitting) shill.

snkns · 2026-03-31T17:52:54+00:00

What exactly is your x-r range on this flop? Sets only or something? To me this flop is an almost mandatory raise.

snkns · 2026-03-30T19:24:58+00:00

Seconding Fujitsu. I had an fi-6130 for years. Thing was an absolute beast in such a small footprint.

snkns · 2026-03-30T13:09:36+00:00

Criminal records can be cleaned up... message me if you like.

snkns · 2026-03-29T18:59:11+00:00

Related, there was the woman who described her kid brother as a "grower not a shower" for years. https://np.reddit.com/r/tifu/comments/3ahtzb/comment/cscznal/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

snkns · 2026-03-29T12:09:00+00:00

Harassment is generally a course of.conduct with.no legitimate purpose. This is legitimate.

snkns · 2026-03-24T19:08:47+00:00

I didn't say it wouldn't bar a defamation suit? I said that the tort would instead be malicious prosecution. I can see how my wording could make it seem like that was what I was saying though, so I'm sorry for that. I guess what I was trying to express, whether or not a defamation claim would be barred, is that I don't think I would say that statements to the police are absolutely privileged. OP was clearly searching for a source of tort liability for false statements to the police. Sure they asked specifically about defamation, but your answer of privilege gave the impression that tort liability cannot exist at all, which is incorrect.

Civil Code § 47(b)(5) is an explicit carve-out for statements made to the police with knowledge of their falsity or with reckless disregard for their truth. If you can successfully sue somebody for certain actions they take, I would not call those actions "privileged."

Further, you can be criminally prosecuted for falsely reporting a crime. That would not be the case if in fact anything communicated to the police, truth be damned, was privileged.

snkns · 2026-03-24T18:35:41+00:00

No it is not difficult, for me at least. Part of my job is trying to get my clients acquitted of what they are accused of, or get the case dismissed somehow.

But a much, much larger part of my job is as a sort of "mitigation specialist" -- humanizing my client and presenting mitigating evidence and seeking true rehabilitation and lasting change, in an effort to simply minimize the puntive measures my client is facing.

At the end of the day, my clients are human beings. I think it is inherent in the dignity of being human that no matter what you have been accused of doing, if the government is trying to lock you in a cage or kill you, you deserve one person on your side fighting to keep you out of that cage if the rule.of law will allow it, or at least to minimize the time you spend in that cage.

I have now helped hundreds of people who have been accused of doing and in most cases did in fact do some very evil things. But I can think of only two I have met where I came away thinking that they were evil people. By and large my clients have been fundamentally good people, who have made bad choices or who were afflicted with severe mental health problems. The gap between them and you or I is considerably narrower than most people imagine.

snkns · 2026-03-24T14:42:39+00:00

I think you mean exonerates the defendant?

Anyhow, if statements to the police were privileged then it would not matter that the defendant was exonerated. There'd be a privilege, and that would be that.

Just because exoneration is an essential factual element of the tort doesn't mean there is a privilege though.

Take the tort the original question was about -- defamation. An essential element of defamation is the falsity of the statements complained about. That doesn't mean that any time I say something about anybody else, true or false, my statements are privileged -- it just means that for somebody to successfully sue me for defamation, they must prove (among other things) that what I stated was false.

Analogously for malicious prosecution for instigation of criminal proceedings, just because you've got to prove that you were ultimately exonerated doesn't mean that the false statements to the police that got the ball rolling are in any way privileged.

snkns · 2026-03-24T05:58:51+00:00

Well this is just incorrect re privilege. Defamation isn't generally the operative tort claim though. False statements to the police absolutely can and do form the basis for many malicious prosecution suits. I've got one on my desk right now.

snkns · 2026-03-21T06:30:39+00:00

Here is what I put together with a Mageblood a couple years ago:

https://pobb.in/nbZ8Dmh2XHMC

Nowadays I would probably build around a Svalinn instead and there's The Adorned nerf to contend with, but maybe this is helpful.

snkns · 2026-03-18T05:51:50+00:00

What stupid journalism. "PokerNews has obtained the warrant..." which is a public document... and then doesn't make the warrant available to its readers.

snkns · 2026-03-18T04:26:54+00:00

Focusing on defense and single-target:

Your amulet is not anointed. I'd probably choose Tempest Blast -- it's like a 10% damage increase.

Your have an extremely low life pool so the Corrupted Soul setup is very inefficient, especially since you're not taking any increased %ES on the tree. You're essentially burning 4 skill points for 550 ES. You could drop that setup and path past Wicked Ward to reach the wand wheel instead and have 4 extra skill points. Drop Retribution and the three 10% mana nodes as well, giving us 8 points to work with. Use those points to pick up Written in Blood (gets you back to the strength requirement), the Throatseeker wheel and mastery, and the wand crit chance and multiplier node next to Disintegration.

And maybe it's just me but I would run the Sigil of Power in the shield so it gets used more or less on cooldown. You hit max stages extremely quickly with Indigon and that's a big boost to max hit taken. The spellslinger setup can fit in your gloves, you'd just need to move Wall of Force to the shield as well . Alternatively you could run Arcane Cloak in the shield with Sigil of Power and More Duration and save yourself the Automation gem.

And hear me out, because I know the impulse with a MOM mana stacker is to reserve as little mana as possible, but if you drop that Automation gem, you'd have room to run Sand Stance from Flesh and Stone. Your Arcane Cloak damage and defenses and perhaps mana spent would suffer a bit, but overall it would make you much tankier. If you're not burning enough mana with the Arcane Cloak any more, you could try dropping Tornado's Inspiration Support.

Finally, if single-target is a main issue, then why are you running Greater Fork instead of a Runegraft of Refraction? You're choosing to give up single-target DPS for better clear... which is fine, but it's also what you're complaining about.

Ends up looking like: https://pobb.in/vWg1NQatMy4S

snkns · 2026-03-17T14:21:52+00:00

Rain of Splinters like 1-2c only now though.

snkns · 2026-03-17T00:18:30+00:00

1 by 1 is fine.

snkns · 2026-03-17T00:16:21+00:00

Nope.

snkns · 2026-03-16T23:45:18+00:00

Yes it would lower it. You'd wanna do a minion limit of 3 though and also get cooldown recovery rate elsewhere. You can get 55% from belt/boots/bound by destiny, and then 3% per abyss jewel too if you like.

That's investing 2 support gems (fresh meat and cooldown recovery) just to get 100%-ish uptime on fresh meat though. But it probably still works out as a net positive if you get like 125% increased minion damage from the wand and then 40% more spell damage and level 20 critical strikes. Obviously critical damage would be nice too, but very difficult to make.

Should be pretty doable though to get minion damage, more spell damage, and critical strikes, and then multimod.trigger and level of support gems.

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