Texans’ right to carry firearms on land owned or leased by governmental entities.

Like the courthouse, police station, and state capitol building? Can I carry my gun there? No? Wow, I wonder why.

I hear it’s amazing when the famous purple stuffed worm in flap-jaw space with the tuning fork does a raw blink on Hara-Kiri Rock. I need scissors! 61?

Agreed. We should come down like a ton of bricks on anyone who coerces anybody to enter into prostitution, and leave everyone else alone.

Like content recognition can’t recognize text, if that’s what it’s been configured to look for?

That would require us to deal with both Reagan and Nixon over and over again, though.

I guess their bullshit would be reverted when each loop resets. But still.

That particular strain of nonsense is actually specifically an Amazon thing, because you cannot sell “non branded” merchandise on Amazon, a policy that’s in place allegedly to combat generic whitebox goods from flooding the site. Your product has to be sold under a registered trademark, but the loophole is that said trademark does not actually have to make any sense whatsoever.

Now there are brokers who will assist anyone in registering a trademark that is literally just a random string of letters for this express purpose. All you have to do is concoct a combination that no one has used yet, and register it with the USPTO.

Therefore the entire scheme falls flat on its face, and manifestly fails to make any impact in the problem it purports to solve. But it does probably give Amazon a legal escape hatch to accusations of being a dumping ground for Chinese knockoff products, because they can point to all those trademark registrations and say, “No, see, everything sold here is all totally from a 100% legitimate brand!”

I turned one of my coworkers on to knockoff shit on Wish, and he is heavily into fishing and pretty much agrees with all of your sentiments listed here. He’s been buying knockoff lures like mad ever since.

I will further add that a lot of fishing gear is consumable. Not just line, but also hooks that can just plain break or wear out, and especially lures and so forth in that they are inherently prone to getting lost, irretrievably snagged in a tree, outright eaten by a fish and dragged to the depths never to be seen again, etc.

It is therefore bonkers to pay a premium for most of this stuff which is ultimately disposable.

I’ve got my tricorne hat on and everything.

Right under the Tree Of Liberty.

“But that’s just an exaggeration taken out of context!!!”

…And it’s also literally the slogan on the license plates in our nations capital.

I found this on the matter:

https://www.reuters.com/legal/legalindustry/column-mass-arbitration-target-valve-accuses-law-firm-litigation-funder-2023-12-08/

religious reasons

I’ve just remembered. We’re all Shakers.

Why yes, the rest of my deck is Millstones, Ancestral Recall, and Ball Lightnings. Why do you ask?

With a Nixie tube display like that, you’re usually looking at much earlier.

I found this on that model: https://www.oldcalculatormuseum.com/monroe620.html

That blue spell was probably Ancestral Recall, but I’m sure there were others of its ilk.

Anyway, while we’re at it I like to trot this one out every now and again for everyone to gawp at.

1. Destroy Power Substations
2. ???
3. ???
4. ???
5. Race War!

I think there are a few critical steps in the middle that are missing, there. Fuckmunchery aside, how did this person expect that blacking out Baltimore would somehow magically trigger a race war?

A revocable license for a virtual “product” whereupon they absolutely do not give you back your real world dollars if they terminate said license.

There’s no power imbalance in this transaction at all, no siree.

Anyway, I’m all for making backups of things. So you de-licensed me. Big whoop. I still have the file and I can still play it, and nobody can physically stop me.

At least I can generally go into Microcenter and they’ll have what I need.

And TigerDirect also obtained the rights to the CompUSA name. That didn’t last long in the retail space either.

In my town, TigerDirect resurrected the actual physical defunct CompUSA location and reopened it, and then that location tanked again shortly thereafter.

Apropos of nothing, our long-abandoned Circuit City building is apparently finally being revamped into… An Aldi. For fuck’s sake.

And here we thought baraminology would never be useful for anything.