As a lawyer who works directly on SEC regulatory matters, I’ll briefly touch on the legality side. In 2000, the SEC introduced a new rule, Rule 10(b)5-1, which provides an “affirmative defense” against insider trading. It basically requires public company insiders (and everyone named in this article would be…

Two things that I think are overlooked here:

Article is out, and right off the bat starts off with the famous “masturbating in front of a comedy duo” story. It had for a long time been attributed to Garfunkel and Oates who denied it, and now we know why- it was Dana Min Goodman and Julia Wolov. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/09/arts/television/louis-ck-sexual-mi…

An ex-boyfriend bought me DA:I when it came out, which was during my second year of law school. Mainly due to law school, but also due to the game reminding me of a shitty relationship, I stopped playing it for a long time. I decided out of the blue to pick it up just this week (I have it for XB1 and I’m burning…

A different way to say democratic republic is to say a republican democracy, which is precisely what I said in my third sentence.

The third sentence of the post you responded to clearly stated “we are a republican democracy”. I’m very aware of our form of government.

Stephen (and team): I sincerely appreciate this. I would like to remind anyone reading this and feeling the way that you and I are feeling right now: democracy is a participatory sport. Yes, the US is a republican democracy, so some of the weight is off our shoulders, but if all you did leading up to this election…

This is generally my response. I had a convo with a friend today who was annoyed that spawns in NYC swapped today, invalidating some of his weekend plans to hit up some known spawn points for things. And while I don’t play the game that way, and don’t at all find it to be fun, I would never tell him that he’s playing…

Non-Hispanic white individuals make 63.7% of the population; non-Hispanic black individuals make up 12.2% of the population. By your own stats, There’s a statistically notable difference.

I may have had to ask one of my group chats “what’s that word where, like, you like old memories and want it to feel that way again?” I’m nostalgic for the times I could remember the word nostalgia at will, apparently.