My main issue with this is that this is not about paying artists what they’re worth (for which I am very much in favor). This is about changing the nature and purpose of rights laws to better support large corporations in the changing landscape of the internet.

If you assume that the US is a universally fair place in comparison to Mexico you’re the uninformed one. The US is a huge country with complex systemic and social striations, and “unfair” is both relative and widely varying based on the color of a person’s skin, their income, their geographic location, their gender…

Replying to myself so others know—at the Radar link is a link to a police report that outlines more of what was found in more detail. You can read the item descriptions for yourselves and come to your own conclusions. I somehow missed the animal torture bit (couldn’t find it, but I was skimming because...) and I think…

I don’t know for sure if anything new has been found—or if a number of item descriptions were never released—but the original stash that was publicized didn’t list anything like that. (Had it, it would have been all over the news.) I believe Diosabella is referring to the original records of the pron, which to be…

He had though—he almost destroyed the Night’s Watch through lack of strategy. What Jon did was honorable, and there may not have been a better way to handle the broad strokes, but the way he mismanaged the enemies within his own forces was disastrous from a strategic standpoint and got him killed. This was evident the…

Disagree, they had a great strategy, it was just Sansa’s and not Jon’s. Her strategy included knowing that while Jon is an excellent commander and fighter, he’s a shit strategist. He didn’t listen to her and therefore was put on a need to know basis episodes ago. She saved his life with the Vale army, and had he died…

Not distrust in his motivations (Jon is so honorable it’s impossible not to know in the first five minutes of meeting him, I’d imagine, even the men who betrayed him admitted they thought he thought he was doing the right thing) but distrust in his strategic prowess. Had Jon had the Knights of the Vale, he would have…

Completely disagree.

Yeah, that’s Seattle. I’m referring to the Bubblegum Alley in SLO. I understand the Seattle Gum Wall’s been cleaned thoroughly.

I’ve never seen it do that (run/pool), so I assume it hardens as it stands? In SLO at least the city encourages it because we have a tourist economy, it’s several decades old, and it has become a “thing.”

That too, we do have some very picturesque spaces!

Haha, this is actually NOT the one in Seattle. But yes to all that, besides. ;)

Oh, haha, k! So, to explain my other comments to you in the other thread, I thought you were SLOcal.

Really, in the past couple months? I was just saying to someone else that I didn’t think so, but even though I’m in SLO regularly (currently living in north county) I rarely go to bubblegum alley for obvious reasons. :)

Hahaha EEEWWWW. It’s pretty narrow as it is, five foot, maybe? I always walk right down the middle.

No, they’ve “steam cleaned it” a number of times (see: making gum moist) and in the 1970's Wiki says they cleaned it but, again, the gum wasn’t removed. They’ve never pressure washed it... though God knows there’s been an ongoing battle to do that for awhile. I remember serving at the Good Morning SLO breakfasts…

It probably needs more decades to really... ferment.

Hi neighbor. ;)

There is nothing like the smell of 70-year-old gum.