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  1. My word. So, I could look it up, but is Javier Bardem Hispanic?
  2. Guess our newfound block will be tested.
  3. Nothing against UW, really, but always kinda liked BSU as a scrappy underdog and that win over OU cemented that.
  4. That was the easiest one.
  5. Are we worried about Wiscy or nah? I know it's probably fair to worry about any opponent at this stage, but they are a 3-seed and Wiscy hasn't quite been Wiscy for a few years now.
  6. I dunno, man. On the baseball theory, sliding is slower. Three defenders got there anyway. Huge chance he downs himself before getting the ball across.
  7. https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2025/dec/09/donald-trump/foreign-corporate-investment-18-22-trillion/ The White House website lists $9.6 trillion in investments, half of the figure President Donald Trump cites. But that $9.6 trillion includes aspirational, multi-year goals, and future purchases or sales of products, rather than only capital investments. The White House’s total includes large commitments from governments such as the United Arab Emirates and Qatar, whose pledges are multiple times larger than their countries’ annual gross domestic product, which calls the pledges’ feasibility into question.
  8. More fucking gold from the grimy little pimp.
  9. You fucking stupid cunt, the Immigration and Naturalization Act does not require citizens to carry immigration documents.
  10. It was a bigger scandal how bad we were from 1984 to 1997 or so.
  11. When you say the toilets won't flush, does that mean the water goes nowhere from the bowl? And I am sorta confused about how the tub drained through the ceiling. Was the drain sluggish/stopped and it somehow leaked around it? Or backed up into the space between floors?
  12. Although there is probably significant overlap, we need to differentiate between what the Estate has and what the DOJ has. The Estate is presumably a collection of Epstein's memorabilia, not evidence collected as part of a criminal investigation. As such, it may be freely released, subpoenae'd what-have-you. Knowing what a weird fuck Epstein was (see above), his Estate may contain evidence of a crime, or maybe not. The DOJ stuff is evidence collected in a criminal investigation. It potentially could be withheld subject to an ongoing criminal investigation, whether real or concocted. Despite what happened with Epstein's first prosecution, I find it very difficult to believe that DOJ is in possession of "smoking gun" evidence of a crime other than by Epstein and Maxwell, who were prosecuted. That includes CSAM implicating Trump, Clinton, or anyone else. Most of it is association and innuendo stuff, I'm relatively certain. Some of it, like Trump's birthday card, weirder and more sinister than others.
  13. Yeah, I think GPA and MCAT are neck and neck for number one considerations. Rigor of undergrad program and institution are lower priority but not irrelevant.
  14. Felching? What? I haven't been keeping up.
  15. RIP. Solid character actor. And, "Zed's dead baby."
  16. So, is it your position that no humans are being smuggled under the Trump Administration? And that Biden was just waving trucks full of immigrants across the border? Bienvenidos! Are we at all concerned about the number of migrant deaths in ICE custody? Do we care about family separation?
  17. It is true that all the pro leagues are very aggressive about enforcing their trademarks. That doesn't mean that their positions aren't faulty or flat wrong. That Houston Oilers Trademark is very cancelable for abandonment, as would any others for basically a football team. Others may not be, which might prove a continued barrier. And you can bet that the league would litigate that to death, beyond all reason.
  18. The question really isn't whether UM can or will be held liable by a jury. The question is more what kind of damages can she allege and prove and what kind of immunity does a state institution have in Michigan. Those factors push the value of any suit way down, for UM, at least. As noted, Moore probably has substantial assets and his exposure might be pretty large. One thing, though. The law recognizes that unequal employment relationships compromise consent. But there is still an element of consent on her part and a jury is likely to take that into account, especially in awarding damages.
  19. That's kind of the definition of transitory.
  20. If she has damages, they are mostly of an "intangible" or "dignitary" sort, pain, suffering, humiliation. Although those are awarded in lawsuits, they are generally tied to actual economic damages. That is, I actually lost $5 in this deal, but it was so humiliating I ask you to award me $10. There are cases, such as defamation, where reputational damages are all there are, but even those tend to be tied to a number, as in "I'm going to need to spend $50k on a PR campaign to restore my reputation," and then you might get some multiple or fraction of that for the "dignitary" part. So, I'm not sure she would have any theory supporting large economic damages, so it tends to follow that the dignitary damages would be small also. One factor at work, though, is that UM would probably prefer to avoid exposing the sordid details and so might pay more than the case is economically worth to make her go away. And UM, as a state entity, might have some sovereign immunity protections.
  21. How do you pronounce "Poggi"? Is it pogey or pozhi or what?
  22. There were actually deaths at the southern border as a result of human trafficking? And the Biden administration denied this? Show your work. Also, if there was a lot of human trafficking occurring at the southern border (there probably was, but not simply "border crossers"), who are the undocumented immigrants remaining in the US? The victims or the perpetrators? Guess it doesn't matter, deport em all, just in case, right?
  23. Isn't the thinking something along these lines. Cubans in Miami hate all things SoCIaAlism because Castro. Far from all of them were landed gentry that were actually screwed over by Castro, but they all see themselves that way. And, I think a lot of Cubans view themselves as European white Spaniards, regardless of their actual ancestry. Texas Hispanics tend to see themselves as having "done it the right way" (whether they really did or not) and subsequent immigrants are making them look bad. There's probably also a good bit of contempt for the Central Americans by the Mexicans. Common to both of them is that machismo and the more conservative aspects of Catholicism.
  24. I am perhaps more familiar with the way textual output is generated, but I'm not sure it matters very much. There are two theories or ways that copyright is infringed by AI, both implicating the reproduction right. First, training a model almost inevitably requires making a copy of a work to feed it to the network. And, in many cases, the AI companies admit using pirated copies of works for training purposes. The second is the output of the network, which may be substantially similar to the original work on which it was trained, thus infringing the reproduction right. That is, it looks like say, Mickey Mouse, instead of some temu version. I'm guessing Disney's license gave them the right to train on Disney content and also to return substantially similar results to Disney works. So you can prompt it to do "Mickey cornholing Minnie" and get it. You can make a sort of metaphysical argument that somewhere between input and output, at least partial images or text fragments that may be infringing (substantially similar to a training input) are used as the pattern that is recognized, but that's getting pretty abstract and is probably likely to be found "transformative fair use." So, license or otherwise remove those infringing aspects of AI, and there's no copyright infringement. If there's some other theory, I'm interested to hear it.
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