Ullallulloo

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[–] Ullallulloo@civilloquy.com 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Nope, during COVID they stopped taking or checking photos. They've had to spend the last few months getting everyone to get a new card now.

[–] Ullallulloo@civilloquy.com 0 points 10 months ago

That's not how that works. Guardianship is a totally separate concept. To be married, someone would be simultaneously emancipated and legally treated as an adult from thenceforth.

I wasn't trying to be misleading. I was just to trying to counter what I thought was very misleading language. When someone says a man has "a kid in his home" as an underaged spouse, the scenario that pops into your mind isn't that it's a 17-year-old emancipated girl who's just married her 18-year-old boyfriend, which is essentially the only legal scenario in Florida.

[–] Ullallulloo@civilloquy.com -2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

The laws have been restricted a lot in the last few years, so that isn't really relevant anymore. California, Mississippi, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Washington are the only states without a minimum marriage age.

And I was just talking about Florida like in the article. It is one of the strictest states on child marriage in the country.

[–] Ullallulloo@civilloquy.com 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

California, Mississippi, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Washington are the only states without a minimum marriage age, and Hawaii and Kansas are only states below 16 as the minimum. In any case, it also requires parental consent, judicial approval, and/or emancipation. Florida is one the most strict states in this regard.

[–] Ullallulloo@civilloquy.com 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, and Florida, all allow 17-year-olds to marry, not really "children", and most limit it to marrying someone only a 2 or 4 years older and require judicial approval.

[–] Ullallulloo@civilloquy.com 9 points 10 months ago

In Florida it's actually illegal if the non-17-year-old is more than two years older.

[–] Ullallulloo@civilloquy.com -3 points 10 months ago (4 children)

You have to already get judicial approval to marry, and it's literally only 17-year-olds being allowed to marry 18- and 19-year-olds. It's not really "having a kid in your home".

[–] Ullallulloo@civilloquy.com 11 points 10 months ago

I am a lawyer, and that is correct. You can use old Mickey for general purposes, but not as a mark.

[–] Ullallulloo@civilloquy.com 4 points 10 months ago

A trademark just has to be "used in commerce as a mark". In layman's terms, that basically means distributing goods or services with it as a logo or a name. A stuffed animal could be infringement, but using something a logo for your software is much closer to the classic infringement fact pattern.

[–] Ullallulloo@civilloquy.com 4 points 10 months ago

The Supreme Court will have to rule whether or not the 14th disqualifies him. We can't have states disagree on who the president is.

[–] Ullallulloo@civilloquy.com 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Even $100 billion is nothing compared to the power that comes from controlling a nation state. Just in real estate terms, $100 billion is enough to maybe buy a really small city if no one noticed what you are doing. To control a whole country of land, people, and wealth is incomparable to anything achievable in capitalism.

[–] Ullallulloo@civilloquy.com 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Not alone. It would have to lose ~3% relative to other states to lose a vote. However, this is just one year and southern states are all gaining people at twice the rate New York is losing them, so theoretically a blue vote could be flipping to a red vote every few years just from the amount of people leaving blue states.

Note that when New York loses Congressional seats, the legislature will presumably gerrymander them such that the Republicans in New York are eliminated, so it shouldn't affect Congress at all.

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