BehoId, The Underminer!

Wrapped up litigating one within the last 6 months or so. It’s a very personality-specific thing. Employer felt sort of like dad and needed to teach the kid that rules are rules.

Texas SOP on this to now has been to pair it with trade secrets. It has to be “ancillary to otherwise enforceable agreement.“ You signed your agreement when you first employed agreeing that you’re going to be exposed to confidential and proprietary information. In exchange for them letting you in on their secrets you promise not to compete with them for 6+ months upon leaving. This is done in the guise of protecting those secrets. The truth is, it’s just an ordinary noncompete and the sort of secrets that they’re giving you are frequently the most ordinary of business practices. Maybe their pricing list, their suppliers, whatever. It’s all just bullshit to minimize competition.

We call them “little people”

99% of noncompetes are complete bullshit. This is excellent news to compete against this. This chart is my pet issue that I think most of our ills stem from. Anything to combat it is good.

Surprised to see Rubio on that list.

That was my thought at first but I’m coming around to the differences in election seasons from this time and last. I’m of the opinion he’ll bleed support every day trials are running. Politics are all about images. Pictures of him as a weakling will be his undoing.

convicted, punished with a slap on the wrist.

i voted that because of this. nothing of consequence happens, he loses election. that answer was the closest to what i thought would happen.

my favorite celebrity death was joe paterno. it was right after all the [redacted] came out. he died and everyone was just, "ok." that would be wonderful to recreate here.

that's an odd caveat. both sides just realized what the statute says?

is this true? no more truth social dude on jury? if so, that's the best news on this affair yet.

The constant refrain about how unfair the media (and everyone applauding with rep) is the aggyiest thing this board does. Please find below direct links to the stories about polls from minor outlets WaPo, USA Today, NBC News and Reuters. Biden’s polls improve as Kennedy and third-party factor shifts Two new high-quality polls show Robert F. Kennedy Jr. taking more support from Donald Trump than President Biden https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/04/22/kennedy-biden-trump-polls/ Donald Trump leads new 2024 poll, but Joe Biden appears to be closing the gap https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/04/21/poll-trump-biden-elect Biden closes in on gap with Trump in latest NBC News national poll https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/video/biden-closes-in-on-gap-with-trump-in-latest-nbc-news-national-poll-209415749558 What does the latest swing state polling show for the U.S. election? https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-has-slight-edge-over-biden-us-swing-state-election-polls-2024-04-23/ NYT likes to report on their own poll. Biden Shrinks Trump’s Edge in Latest Times/Siena Poll The president’s popularity has ticked up slightly, though voters still view Donald J. Trump more favorably and have dour views of the economy. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/13/us/politics/trump-biden-times-siena-poll.html Of course, most media outlets simply maintain pages dedicated to polls that take 3-5 seconds to find. ABC has 538. NYT and WaPo have politics/polls pages. Anyway, carry on with persecution complex.

he's #6 in hard hit percentage, per fangraphs, ahead of a bunch of pretty cool names. https://www.fangraphs.com/leaders/major-league?pos=all&stats=bat&lg=all&qual=y&type=2&season=2024&month=0&season1=2024&ind=0&pageitems=30&sortcol=18&sortdir=default&pagenum=1

i also like that the platform is just 'russia,' to allow the reader to fill in whichever of the diametrically opposite things GOP is saying he wants.

Them not convicting him might end up being the difference between a R and D president in 2024. We saved Trump! That's great! We'll see.

rage against the machine releasing a new album?

unless you are doing louisiana stuff, green bell peppers serve no purpose.

i have the opposite reaction to those questions. he will research something to ask a question, but it always feels like it is just a question to show off that he's researched. here, it was "your birthday is the same as the day they launched the show. any significance to that?" that, like all of those similar ones that he tries to come up with for his guests, comes off to me more of "look what I found" than an interesting thread to pull on for discussion. it's a weird thing to complain about but they always seem teacher's-pet-ish to me and designed to get the guest to be impressed by him.

This guy's brother.

Beyonce is probably the second most famous female on planet earth.* Someone might be a little gullible. *as I type that, I realize it's probably not hyperbole

sborz nears, which is nice.

leftwing version of #chemtrails. stock has changed prices! this is manipulation!

"I already did" is a great line. That lady needs a show.