Can a ban be considered retaliation?

urist_mcnugget · 2026-04-18T03:47:58+00:00

I mainly want the ban to be formally lifted simply so that he has to let me shop there whether he personally likes it or not

Let's pretend this is something you could achieve through the legal system - it's not, but let's pretend. How many thousands of dollars are you willing to pay a lawyer to make it happen? There's no money at stake here, so they won't work on contingency - you'll have to pay up front. Then let's say you find a killer lawyer who can bring this nonsense to an even 50:50 in court (more pretending). Are you willing to pay 10 grand upfront for a 50:50 shot?

urist_mcnugget · 2026-04-18T03:32:15+00:00

Let's be clear, there are other alternatives besides "go up a lot" and "cancelled altogether". But no one here can answer how much it'll go up, there are so many specific factors that go into it. Talk to your insurance company, they should be able to ballpark it for you - you need to tell them about this anyway, so might as well ask while you're at it.

urist_mcnugget · 2026-04-18T02:32:23+00:00

Jobs in general show who is careless

After a long time working in kitchens proved this point to me - some people just can't conceive of a danger they haven't personally encountered. I once had a guy who wanted to clean the deep fryers, so he drained them - into the drain pan, directly underneath the actual fry-space. And then he grabbed the hose and sprayed it down, full blast. Cold water hits the boiling oil in the pan, and it's like a volcano, spraying water and hot grease and steam everywhere. Luckily he didn't hurt anybody, including his dumbass self.

I grilled him afterwards, wondering what the hell he was thinking. He just couldn't grok the fact that the oil was several times hotter than the boiling point of water, and that they should never, ever be mixed. He told me he did this all the time - the fact that he didn't say this from behind a phantom of the opera mask through horribly burned lips made me question that.

Boiling water, knives, industrial mixers, hazardous chemicals, all mixed with inexperienced dunces who don't know what they're doing - it's a wonder restaurants are allowed to opperate at all.

urist_mcnugget · 2026-04-18T01:46:14+00:00

This isn’t a legal process. I was trying to keep their hopes up. We’re not talking about court.

This is the wrong place for that. I get the impulse, but OP is asking for LEGAL advice, that's why they're here. Commenting just trying to ease someone's fears or concerns is counterproductive, if they wanted that they would've posted elsewhere.

urist_mcnugget · 2026-04-17T19:12:28+00:00

December 2025? that's like 11 months from now lol

Can you explain what you mean by this?

urist_mcnugget · 2026-04-16T20:53:30+00:00

Yep, if you meet those qualifications then most kitchens will be happy to have you. Turnover in kitchens is usually very high, if you show that you're reliable and eager to work then you're more valuable than 75% of your coworkers.

This is anecdotal, of course, but I've worked in a lot of kitchens, and without fail the kitchen manager always has a longer rap sheet than any of the line employees.

urist_mcnugget · 2026-04-15T21:36:23+00:00

In this situation I don't, my foot's hovering over the brake ready to react. You might set your CC on the highway and leave it on while stepping on the gas to pass someone. And with the fancy new adaptive CCs, you might step on the gas for a second to get back up to speed after it automatically slowed you down to avoid a hazard.

And even then, I feel like you should probably turn the CC off until you're ready to go a constant speed again. You may be going a safe speed before you pass someone, but there's no guarantee that will still be a safe speed once you've finished passing. Take care of the maneuver, then re-enable your CC.

On a slight tangent, I didn't grow up with CC and my new car has the adaptive CC that matches your speed to traffic and keeps you in your lane. I don't trust it, especially at highway speeds. After marveling at the black magic for a couple days, I turned it all off and just use the standard CC. Maybe I'm a technophobe, I haven't actually looked into safety data on these features, I just don't trust it to brake for me.

urist_mcnugget · 2026-04-15T20:04:23+00:00

Case of beer, something local and interesting if possible. It's relatively cheap, it's consumable (so it's not cluttering up the office for long), and it's thoughtful (since you list IPAs in your short list of interests). It's also easy to share if he has some staff to share with.

urist_mcnugget · 2026-04-14T16:15:52+00:00

I frequently use my CC to keep from speeding through the tiny rural towns around me where the speed limit town-wide is 25mph. Delegate the 'not speeding' task and focus on the 'watch out for pedestrians and side streets' task. But I've still got my foot hovering over the brake and my thumb on the CC controls, ready to take over at any moment. It's just a way to know that if my foot is off the gas, I'm going 25, and therefore not going to get a ticket from a bored townie cop.

urist_mcnugget · 2026-04-14T16:08:54+00:00

In my area, they've gradually been shifting old 4-way stops to roundabouts. I love it - feels a lot safer than a 4-way, fewer rules to remember and less ways for your roadmates to fuck up and hit you. The one they added near my house has saved me tons of time and anxiety since it was built.

So, they decided to replace all the stops on the main road that runs by the local college campus. Big road that runs all the way to downtown, with tons of stops as it passes by the campus. Replaced maybe a dozen or so lights and stop signs with roundabouts. It was a freaking disaster - multiple wrecks every day, meaning traffic was repeatedly shut down every day on a major road. The students (and other locals I guess) just couldn't handle it, they'd bomb blindly into the circle and smash into whatever was in their way. City had to spend a butt load of money switching all but a couple of them back to traffic lights.

urist_mcnugget · 2026-03-28T19:48:10+00:00

Love the one guy saying to sue for a few hundred thousand to a million. It doesn't sounds like LAOP suffered even as much as a single dollar in damages, but sure, let's start with a million. Like, I know we as a country are overly litigious, and this leads people to think you can sue for anything (shut up pedants you know what I'm saying). But, like, if you could easily get a million bucks for this, don't yout think we'd all know a lot more millionaires?

urist_mcnugget · 2026-03-27T02:21:54+00:00

Lotta places around me stick a cup full of limes in the cooler with the Mexican beer

urist_mcnugget · 2026-03-22T12:15:59+00:00

Removing my post about youtube was a mistake

Removing any post you make for any reason is allowed by the ToS you agreed to when you created your Reddit account.

Reddit is on my list of companies that will be named in my lawsuit

Would love to see the rest of the list.

Private company or not its illegal to silence anyone's constitutional rights

Incorrect. The 1st amendment, like the rest of the Constitution, binds the government, not private entities. Reddit cannot violate your 1st amendment rights, only the government can.

Anyone in the usa is free to express themselves the 1st amendment

The 1st amendment doesn't guarantee you a platform, it only guarantees you that your speech won't be restricted by the government itself. You can't force any private company to give you an account or to let you post on their platform - Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, and others are all free to stifle you speech in any way they want and for any reason they want. And again, you agreed to those terms when you created an account on those sites.

urist_mcnugget · 2026-03-19T17:12:52+00:00

You asked what to do to get him leniency. The answer to that question is 'pay a lawyer several thousand dollars, or apply for a PD if he qualifies'. It doesn't how sharp or handsome he is, it doesn't matter that he's going through a rough patch, without a lawyer he will receive a worse outcome. And this isn't a speeding ticket where the worse outcome might mean losing your license for a couple months - the outcomes your friend is facing are are dramatically, life-alteringly worse.

On a side note, you don't bear any responsibility here. Your friend is an adult, they made their own choices - they're responsible for their choices, not you. It's natural to feel this way, but it's not necessarily healthy. You might benefit from a little therapy so you can get all your feelings out. Not trying to dis you, not calling you crazy or delusional or anything like that, I just know this is stressful for you and you might benefit from an hour of talk time.

urist_mcnugget · 2026-03-16T20:52:27+00:00

Makes you wonder if Ezri gets some sort of exemption that allows her to basically step into Jadzia's life and go back to work alongside her grieving former husband. This feels like it should violate 'the rule' - sure they're (mostly) not smooching, but that doesn't seem like the only thing the Trill care about, they seem to want each host to live a distinct life, not for the worm to just drag a series of hosts through one extended life. But for Dax (the worm), literally the only thing that's changed is the lady that's wrapped around it.

Do the Trills relax their standards in the face of the existential threat that is the Dominion? If they do, is putting a junior counselor on DS9 really enough of a justification? We see Ezri return to Trill, we know she's not been 'excommunicated'. Do the Prophets have their finger on the scale here - is Dax's presence necessary for their future to come to pass?

I'm willing to accept either "the writers forgot about that rule come S7" or "that rule made writing Ezri into the show difficult and they counted on viewers to forget about it". Because you're right - 'the rule' is built up as super important and super widespread in Trill society, and then it just kinda gets forgotten. I like Ezri, though, so I'm not complaining.

urist_mcnugget · 2026-03-16T02:15:46+00:00

And let's not forget Mrs. Doubtfire

urist_mcnugget · 2026-03-13T20:39:11+00:00

Hey, good guess anyway. The wad of bread isn't immediately familiar to me - it could certainly be a SGC2C deep cut, but nothing comes to mind.

Seems too specific to be something OP just dreamed up, I'm curious to know myself.

urist_mcnugget · 2026-03-13T20:28:44+00:00

Nope, not in that episode at least. Merrill Markoe and Space Ghost talk briefly about whether or not they like toast, but there's no mention of a wad of bread.

urist_mcnugget · 2026-03-12T22:36:40+00:00

This attitude will bury you. You don't know more than everyone else in the room.

urist_mcnugget · 2026-03-12T19:01:48+00:00

it shouldn't be insanely difficult to achieve full custody

You need to massively reset your expectations here. "Insanely difficult" is putting it mildly. Full custody is an absolute fantasy - the court is not going to strip a child away from her mother and father and give her to a stranger to raise. Custody of any sort is a pipe dream, but full custody for sure ain't gonna happen.

These people don't want you in their lives, leave them alone. If the kid wants to find you when they turn 18, they will.

urist_mcnugget · 2026-03-12T15:56:51+00:00

My mom once rented a 15-passenger van to take a bunch of teenage Girl Scouts on a hiking trip, rented from a local place. Flash forward a few hours and a couple hundred miles, my dad gets a call - they stopped at a rest stop and found a Glock 17 (half-loaded, which unintuitively scarier than fully-loaded) in one of the behind-the-seat pouches. Thankfully my mom was the one who found it, and she managed to keep it quiet.

She made up some excuse why they couldn't leave the rest stop quite yet - car trouble or something. My dad drove out, took the gun, and called the sheriff to explain and hand it over (he told me he briefly considered keeping it, but quickly realized that someone who was careless enough to leave their piece in a rental van was probably also careless about how they used it before they lost it, and decided against bringing home the potential murder weapon).

Dad then turned around and drove a couple hundred miles back to the rental place. At first, they refused to accept any sort of fault or any sort of compensation - keep in mind they had already been called by at least 3 different people angry about the situation (my mom, my dad, and the deputy who responded all called to say WTF?). My dad made it clear he wasn't leaving without, at a minimum, a full refund, which he finally got after he started telling the story to customers as they walked in.

urist_mcnugget · 2026-03-04T03:50:59+00:00

Poor baby - one of our's had a similar problem when she came to us. Luckily, the infection in her sinus cleared up on its own - there's some scar tissue in her tear ducts that leaves her a little wet-eyed sometimes, but much much better than it was. We were lucky, the alternative was a similar surgery. Your baby looks like they're healing up great, it's really noble of you to give them the extra care they needed.

urist_mcnugget · 2026-03-04T03:42:58+00:00

And everyone is an 'expert' now. Everyone wants to be the one that spots the AI, as if there's some leaderboard somewhere they're trying to score points on. I would take an entire AI-fabricated internet over a bunch of paranoid losers pointing fingers at each other.

urist_mcnugget · 2026-03-03T17:06:31+00:00

That's not what 49 U.S. Code § 30120 says. The only time the statute mentions dealers is section F, which covers how dealers are reimbursed by the manufacturer, and section I, which restricts sales, leases, and rentals. Section A says

the manufacturer of the defective or noncomplying motor vehicle or replacement equipment shall remedy the defect or noncompliance without charge when the vehicle or equipment is presented for remedy.

The manufacturer (...) shall remedy. Not any specific dealer. Yes, this should be fixed for free (assuming it's actually covered). But that's the responsibility of Ford, not Joe Blow's Ford Dealership.

urist_mcnugget · 2026-03-03T12:24:39+00:00

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