Best posts made by Ganymede
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RE: Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff
@too-old-for-this said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:
I feel like I've finally hit some sort of achievement where a company is going to fight to keep me in my position!
Hail to our conservative overlords, who have brought us back to the 50s.
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RE: Random funny
@hella said in Random funny:
You know, in case you ever wanted to hear Nickelback's 'Rockstar' as a slappin' sea shanty.
There's sea shanties, and there's sea shanties.
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RE: Good TV
Season 2 is where it breaks out. Season 6 is when it is at its best.
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RE: RL things I love
@Macha said in RL things I love:
Forget a dime, brother can you spare a job? (I'm happy for you if you're happy.)
That depends. Do you like bouncing at bars or running karaoke events?
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RE: 2022: A New Year, New Dead Celebrities
She will always be Jon Arbuckle’s grandma to me.
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RE: 2022: A New Year, New Dead Celebrities
Oh, put a sock in it, dearie.
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RE: Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.
I do not know all the specifics, but it is safe to presume that Alex Jones' attorneys are probably competent.
As I said, just because you give a document to your lawyer does not mean the document is protected by attorney-client privilege. Communications with your attorneys are protected and these communications can include e-mails, letters, and other written correspondence made directly with one's attorneys. In this case, text messages were produced by the attorneys from Mr. Jones' phone. Unless those text messages were exchanged between Mr. Jones and his attorneys (or someone else with whom Mr. Jones may claim a privilege, like his spouse, his priest, or his doctors, or his psychologist), there's a good chance that they are discoverable, which means their production can be compelled. Had the messages been actually privileged there would have been all sorts of motions filed by now.
From what I've read, the text messages reveal that Mr. Jones knew that he was spreading false information, but didn't care. It also showed that Mr. Jones likely perjured himself on the stand. In either case, I am glad this case is moving forward because this is probably the only way to rein in these shock-jock faux-news shills, short of beating the shit out of them publicly.
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RE: Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.
@Misadventure said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
Well, that's some fine lawyerin' there.
Just because documents are produced to your lawyers does not mean those documents are protected by attorney-client privilege.
Sounds to me like those text messages were requested through discovery and properly produced.
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RE: 2022: A New Year, New Dead Celebrities
Honestly, Anne Heche is kind of -- well, no, she really is my favorite gay icon from back in the 90s.
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RE: 2022: A New Year, New Dead Celebrities
I am good with that. I suppose I see her as I see her because that’s how I first got to know her.
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RE: Good TV
Like, episode 5 dark?
I must be the only person in the world who didn't find Ep. 5 terribly dark.
Which might say a lot about who I am, I suppose.
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RE: Good TV
Man, Stranger Things 4’s ending did not work for me.
Well, onto The Sandman.
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RE: Good TV
That’s a good way to put it.
But, I mean, there were points where I was thinking: “what sort of lazy DMing is this?”
And as an English major: “why did this happen to this character?”
It was like watching The Rise of Skywalker, except knowing that there is probably going to be another season of long-ass episodes and shit writing.
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RE: Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff
I personally found the concept of categorizing a perfectly good relationship as a “rebound” to be astoundingly superstitious.
I do not yearn for what I have had and lost, especially when its end, though bittersweet, was for the best. I choose to embrace what comes next, and see it without trying to measure its color against a memory.
I am sure this new boy will prove to be as memorable, but not in the same way. And that is a good thing.
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RE: Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.
@Macha said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
So I got called and blamed because the guy who was not named in any of my paperwork, or invites, called me on a crappy connection, and I didn't take him at his word.
... this is probably not a good sign.
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RE: RIP, Brus
I am genuinely sad.
Brus was a true gentlemen. I never saw him lose his shit. He had strong opinions, but they were thoughtful and insightful.
The world is worse now.