Not a great idea for lawyers to do that. Your boss gets the fees whether your client wins or loses, but your client could lose their entire case. Law is kind of messed up that way.

No, this is just a legal question about the degree to which companies are allowed to restrict their competitors’ marketing.

Trademark inherently can’t be generic. It has to refer to something distinct.

For example, apples have nothing to do with computers, so the name makes you think of the exact brand Apple computers. But if you tried to trademark your apple company Apple, that would be taking away the ability of competitors to describe the product they’re selling. Which is not ok.

So, when your brand name becomes the common word to describe a product, you have to stop your competitors from using your name to advertise their products in the first place. Otherwise, your brand name doesn’t just refer to your products, so it’s not distinct. You’ve become Apple apples.

You need to get together into groups, strategize, and campaign. Use comedy, costumes, and music. Go to university campuses, host talks, hang out on quads, get attention. Changing a country is not a thing you do at home by yourself without disrupting your entire life. And since you’re fundamentally campaigning against the monied and powerful, it’s not a thing you do while being financially secure and well fed.

Some people respond to correction by lashing out. That’s true for literally everything. Telling them you can’t smoke there, not washing their hands is gross, you need to take off your shoes in my house, etc.

They could literally impeach him tomorrow. This is not a one man show. It is a choice. They’re choosing to make themselves richer and make you poorer, to make themselves more powerful and to make you more vulnerable. Not just Trump.

Personally I’d just comply. They’re thugs, not law enforcement. They’ll hurt you and there will be no recourse available. If they’re there for someone else, I’d probably comfort that person and ask if there’s someone they’d like me to call.

He’s a beautiful goat. ❤️ first impression is that all 3 of my new professors this semester are great. I thought I would miss class this morning because of the dentist appointment, but my dentist did not think I needed a crown. Just a quick filling, I was out and walked into class right on the dot. And the smoothie place would not take my order for some reason, so all I had for lunch was a latte. I’m very excited to go home and eat soup.

I had a bit of a rough time with my first civ pro reading, but the professor was amazing. Like I had a moment where I reflected in amazement that the horrible reading and awesome lecture covered the same material.

Soup party sounds awesome.

I’m waiting on laundry, then I’m going to go to the gym, then I’m going to make mushroom stroganoff. Yesterday I managed to read 3 whole pages of Monday’s reading assignment, so hopefully today I can beat that.

This is normal . They think that saying hello to people you know is being polite and that polite people still don’t treat the people they hate badly. It’s not just women. I had a prolonged issue with a male coworker involving that.

It’s just part of our mating dance. It feels good and gets us in the mood.

Possibly, and you could possibly be injured while being arrested and then charged with committing some crime along the lines of interfering with law enforcement.

The actual way to fight immigration enforcement is to convince your neighbors that immigrants aren’t hurting them.

Social media in general attracts autistic people, because it’s much easier to socialize without being judged or excluded.

By definition Autism and ADHD are disabilities that negatively impact your life relative to other people.

It’s important to have a word to label what the issue is in a neutral way, because if you don’t use the word autism, you get called words like “weird,” “creepy,” “stupid,” or the r-word. When none of those things are true. Your brain just doesn’t intuitively understand things the way other peoples’ does.

The ADA defines a person with a disability as a person who has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activity. Socialization is a major life activity. Loneliness is a major cause of depression of death, and not being able to socialize well impacts your ability to maintain employment. When these issues aren’t managed, your ability to function in society is significantly impaired.

To me, this post is no different from saying “You’re not dyslexic, you just needed to try harder in spelling class.” When people have an issue, telling them it doesn’t exist isn’t helpful.

one time when I was talking about a video I saw about Moldova, someone commented “I rarely see people know about my country”. Moldova is on Ukraine’s southwestern border (so opposite of the Russian side). It’s mostly impoverished rural backwater, and its city is in decay from the soviet era.

Well, there was a good news/bad news element.

Good news: there was no clog that I could get to. not in the drain, not in the overflow, not with a snake, not with a plunger.

Bad news: that means I absolutely have to wait for the landlord to send someone over.

Shower is badly clogged with hair, so I need to go to Home Depot. Sunday bus schedules + 30F/0C weather is going to suck. Then I have to clean the gunk out AND clean the shower.

Plus I’m doing a 1 credit wellness course next week, so I’m still working on tomorrow’s readings for that.

no, you do in fact need grains and fruits.

Applying for summer internships. Or I’m supposed to be anyway. Really it’s been a lot of reading listings, hitting “save”, and then not applying.

I’ve found that buying shoes online usually goes badly, but buying shoes in person also usually goes badly. At least online you have a chance of something you like and that fits. If it’s in your budget, maybe a custom shoe maker would be the best route. The issue for me there is that it’s difficult to find one who makes a vegan shoe, and I imagine you’d likewise have an issue finding someone who makes stilettos.