This is another âhot coffeeâ lawsuit, meaning, âcustomer got life-threatening injuries from lack of safety mechanisms, and the company has convinced the press that itâs actually Karen Bitching About Breaking A Fingernail.â
Whenever you see these: Remember that even sleazeball ambulance-chaser lawyers are not going to take on mega-corporations like McDonaldâs or Disney if they donât think they have a real case.
It is, in fact, a crime and a violation of lawyer ethics code - like, the kind that can get them sanctioned or disbarred if itâs bad enough - to take on cases that they know are bogus; itâs considered a waste of the courtâs time, which is a waste of public resources. They are literally not allowed to present a case to the court that they know damn well is not a valid claim for damages.
If you drop a coffee cup on your foot, and it is bruised and sore for a week⊠no lawyer is going to help you sue McDonaldâs for having slippery coffee cups.
But thatâs the kind of thing they are trying to claim happened here, tried to claim happened in the Liebeck coffee case. (âŠDonât google for the images unless you have a strong stomach.)
Things that are going to happen in 2024 according to Star Trek:
1) the absolutely giant homeless-population of the USA (or was is just New York? Idk, Iâm from Europe) is going to start a civil-war fighting against the upper class and police.
If you see that Amazon is a great place to work, you know it was an article paid for by Amazon.
amazon has 1.3 million worldwide employees according to a quick google search. approximately 1000 injuries per 10000 employes - aka one-tenth of all the people who work full time in amazon warehouses.
a conservative estimate would probably put the amount injured at 100,000 people. ONE HUNDRED FUCKING THOUSAND PEOPLE.
FOLKS, PLEASE…DO YOUSELVES A BIG BIG FAVOR AND STOP USING TURBOTAX! IT IS USELESS NOW!!!
THE IRS website will let you fill out and file your return THERE ON THE IRS SITE. You pay like $12 for the actual electronic filing process, and THAT’s IT!
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The IRS website is EXCELLENT. They allow you to look up your past returns, and have every bit of information you MIGHT POSSIBLY NEED!
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LIBERATE YOURSELF FROM IT!!!!!!!
Friendly reminder as well that if you’re making less than $66,000 a year, you don’t need to pay to file your taxes and also all tax-paying softwares (eg rhymes with FurboFax) have a free filing option hidden in their websites.
I really love the baklava scene in the old guard, in fact the whole opening scene because it establishes their characters and their relationships so much! Like Andy and Booker don’t hug when they meet, but she’s got Don Quixote for him and he checks in with her about her year out. Booker says he’s in Marrakesh for family at the hotel. Andy hugs Nicky so tenderly and slow it shows the depth of their love for each other, just as Joe giving her a great old bear hug and swinging her around and joking with her shows their relationship too. Booker spikes his own tea, showing he’s hurting, even amongst family and none of them comment on it, showing how they’ve let it slide. Nicky has baklava for Andy, but it’s also for Booker it’s their game together. Even before we know that Joe and Nicky are together, we know that Joe puts up Nicky’s half of the bet money. They’re all so comfortable with each other, and joyful too!
Like in some films we’re shown a team *cough* marvel *cough* and they’re supposed to be close so that later it can be messed with and played around with for kicks and drama but often it’s not believable because there’s no genuine love there, just manufactured and wooden. Here in the first scene we’re left with, firstly a great first impression of each of their characters, but more importantly we’re in no doubt that these 4 aren’t just work colleagues, no Andy, Joe, Nicky, and Booker love each other so much, they’re family, and that’s what makes the emotional pay off so much more heartbreaking later.
I love star trek fans & I think the reason why it’s so much more bearable than most Fandom Spaces I’ve been in is because it’s old enough to have like, developed a stable ecosystem. You know. Also you have to be a very specific type of person to get really into star trek. It’s like a secluded forest
We have our little arguments sure but trekkie discourse is so nothing. Compared to the psychological warfare happening everywhere else
nobody warns you this but addiction happens without you noticing and one of the first things that it attacks is your ability to care. if you find yourself using recreational drugs every day, stop and take one day a week sober. if you struggle with this or if you don’t see the point of the exercise, you are likely already addicted and you need help.
nobody ever taught me the warning signs for drug addiction, only that “it costs lots of money and destroys your life!!!1” which is not helpful if you can’t recognize a developing addiction in yourself.
so here’s some things to watch out for with recreational drug use:
planning your day around drugs e.g “i’ll give myself an extra half hour before heading out so i can get high first”
rapidly switching emotions around drugs. you love them but you hate that you love them so much. you hate the way you feel on them but you hate being sober. feeling guilty after using even when you didn’t give a crap beforehand.
caring less about spending money. if you are budgeting for drugs like they are food, you are likely prioritizing them more than is healthy.
getting high to do household chores and other unpleasant things because it would suck less and be more bearable on drugs
feeling anxious or restless while sober, not knowing what to do with oneself, feeling lost or ungrounded.
thinking about doing drugs constantly even while sober. maybe it’s the first thing you think of when you wake up. maybe when you’re bored or otherwise have free time, drugs are one of the first things you can think of to occupy yourself with.
going to work or school while under the influence, especially if it happens regularly and if you’re seeing your performance suffer as a result.
the idea of taking a ‘tolerance break’ sounds good to you until it’s actually break time, at which point you can come up with 20 very reasonable sounding points to explain why it wouldn’t benefit you actually and you should just keep doing drugs regardless.
even if you succeed at quitting the drug, you keep your dealer’s number on your phone “just in case”
you pretend to be sober when you aren’t. you worry about other people noticing how much time you spend high. you make efforts to hide your drug use or minimize how much other people think you’re using. you’re scared of other people’s judgement if they were to find out.
you have mood swings laced with self-hatred, regret, financial worries, and guilt. these mood swings are then very quickly wiped away by feelings of “but it doesn’t matter, i can do what i want, and clearly i’m doing just fine while using drugs frequently”. news flash, if you are rapidly switching between feeling numb-ok and hating yourself more than anything because of your drug use, you are mentally ill.
yes this applies to weed. weed is a drug and you can get addicted to it like any other substance. addiction is not the same as physical dependence; it is psychological and it can happen to anyone. you are not immune to addiction.
The time limit is picked, at random, by a Republican man. Itâs his opinion based on anecdotal stories he heard from other conservative men with no medical background.
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