Well, I guess we found the new community manager Niantic hired

Again - probably needs more info on the area’s court system than I have. I know what I’ve seen at my firm in a red state, which is that lawyers are very, very loathe to sue the city in any area that they are practicing or intend to practice in. The catch-22 is that you need a lawyer that knows the courts and the…

I’m not familiar with Kentucky court systems but it’s possible. But keep in mind, depending on how far from her, the client will probably end up paying for travel for the lawyer (which is expensive) as well as however the lawyer is going to obtain the needed court documents (in TX, certain counties sometimes charge…

It’s not just criminal defense - it’s any lawyer that practices in those courts in that county, especially smaller counties. There’s a county here where lots of lawyers straight up refuse to work in - everyone knows it’s super corrupt. Our firm gets lots of people who want to sue the city for whatever reason (and in…

If they end up taking it. There are far more people who have had fucked up jail experiences than ACLU or SPLC can represent. there is so little recourse for people who have been screwed by the law/city/etc.

The sad thing is, she is probably not going to find a lawyer willing to help her sue. Lawyers know that if you sue the city you are basically fucked in all your future cases.

...because humans are not cats or dogs and we’re not being vaccinated for rabies and such?

I looked into relocating back to Taiwan when I was there in 2014, but it didn’t seem like a good match career-wise, due to what I wanted to do. So now I’m looking at maybe retirement there (decades down the line, maybe we’ll all be living on ISS by then), or maybe I can visit more + longer if my brother chooses to do…

Thanks! I was dubious about hearing that cost of living was high - it was against everything I had heard/known from my relatives AND it came from lawyers, but at the same time I was like maybe it’s changed and I just don’t know?

Oh man that’s so cool - last time I was back was in 2014, and I only stayed in Taipei due to which relatives I was staying with (dad’s side vs mom’s side). I’d love to see what Tainan looks like now. I know one thing that surprised me about Taipei was how much industrial design/design in general has really blossomed…

I wonder if the reason children outperform adults in pronunciation (and this is based on my very anecdotal, small small sample group of experience) is because most adults already have a fairly definite “idea” of what words sound like, and what other languages are “supposed” to sound like, that is usually wrong,…

Oh for sure Taiwanese is hugely symbolic (if you can’t tell already, I’m Taiwanese-American, lol). I guess that shows even the level of “brainwashing” among Taiwanese residents - they felt Taiwanese wasn’t that useful, and also my cousins didn’t want to stay in the more rural Tainan/Kaohsiung area as opposed to a more…

One of my beginning Spanish teachers was Portuguese-Spanish and I just...never had any idea what she was saying, including my name (which she pronounced VERY oddly). She also didn’t allow us to have Spanish-English dictionaries in the classroom. I don’t think I learned anything in that class.

I actually clicked through to the article and researched the lawyer representing her and it is...mystifying. He says their stance is now “The EFL program has a one-hour Spanish component per day that can be taught by any teacher in the program, and not exclusively the English Reading and Comprehension teacher. By…

I think my ability to pick up languages has actually gotten better with age - French and Spanish gave me SO issues when I was teens/college (and I even had a STRONG Latin background, as in agricola/agricolae) but seems so much easier to pick up now in my 20s. I really believe that the idea that you must learn at a…

This is true, and I’ve read from Rebecca Schuman about how colleges sometimes opt for finding a native speaker instead of a PhD trained in the subject, and how the pedagogy of language is different from just being able to speak it (also, someone who teaches a language who is not native can possibly more easily…

Ha, that's basically my situation - I took Spanish in college but felt like I barely learned anything. However, I've done better slowly slowly learning it at work and Michel Thomas. Every time I have an extremely basic phone convo with a Spanish Speaker on the phone I feel like I've won a goddamn gold medal

Although according to some of them, they don’t understand what the fuck the rest of the Latin world is speaking because it’s not (Castilian) Spanish

If I was the opposing counsel this would be my entire argument before the judge: