Patius

joined 1 year ago
[–] Patius@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

There's a man in the clouds who blows really hard.

But the plants he eats grow in sunlight.

[–] Patius@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What if the turbines are hooked up to an electric milling machine ?

[–] Patius@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Unless the board is just lying, it sounds like they got everything that they were asking for?

If that's the case, how is it a bad move?

[–] Patius@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

When skynet comes online, I'll die quickly, being mopped to death. You'll have to struggle in the post apocalyptic hellscape where humans fight robots with A-10s for some reason.

[–] Patius@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Well, that's as good of a reason as any to delete the app.

[–] Patius@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You can't garnish wages in Texas state cases unless it's for child support. The US Code allows for it in federal cases, but it's mostly in case this guy gets money on a book deal or something insane like that.

[–] Patius@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The ADA issues at play in the lawsuit largely stem from ADA claims against websites.

It's a real issue where some small business makes a non-ADA compliant website and gets shaken down by sketchy law firms that hire disabled people to be straw plaintiffs (AKA "testers") to find websites that are in violation.

From the article:

The ADA permits a plaintiff challenging a violation of this rule to obtain an injunction requiring a non-compliant hotel to fix its website, and it allows that plaintiff to have their attorney’s fees paid by the defendant if the plaintiff prevails in court. But the plaintiff may not obtain money damages if they prevail.

So some small business has to fix their website that the "tester" never would have used on their own, and they have to pay the law firm that hired the tester's legal fees too. And then the law firm pays the tester.

The ADA is a pre-internet rule, and its enforcement mechanism and regulations around have never been updated for the digital age, so scummy lawyers are making a killing off it.

For the record, the solution is easy: update the ADA like disability advocates have been calling for ages.

[–] Patius@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When did people read the article on old reddit?

2004?

[–] Patius@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

Don't worry, he'll upset Putin soon enough.

[–] Patius@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Another way to rank them how other states have first/second/third degree felonies.

Kind of like how burglary is a bad, but not as bad as murder or rape.

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