OK, but how do you compost anything without attracting raccoons and rats?

The defense doesn’t have to ‘prove a negative’ - they just have to point out that the other side didn’t prove its case, which is why J&J has won some of these lawsuits. I assume you know that.

They’ve done that.

That’s because they’re not funny, they’re not smart, and they think just being an edgelord means be not-funny and stupid but still be a comedian. No more worrying about whether your jokes fell flat or putting effort into fine-tuning your routine: if the audience doesn’t laugh, they’re the problem for being too…

“Deliberately tongue in cheek” is a lot of syllables to say “bullshit”.

Last I heard he lives in Tiburon, which is the part of Marin County that is rich even by Marin County standards. I assume it’s so that he can be the lone loudmouth asshole in a sea of people minding their own business, which is his entire gig.

The upside is, she shouldn’t be hard to identify!

She wasn’t ‘comfortable’, she was trying to hit him up.

The Dead Fish is a neighborhood fixture. I bet her drunk ass is a regular barfly there, and that’s why they didn’t bounce her.

Force majeure might have made sense if the film had been planned for release in early 2020.

Interesting! I despise running, but I figure I should probably do C25K because I have friends who are runners, God bless them, and sooner or later if we’re not all dead of COVID they’ll eventually want to run together.

I’m sure the firm has its own in-house or on-retainer equivalent.

That’s fair. I’m sloppily referring to that Silicon Valley/LA video game and entertainment ecosystem these rich dudes move in. They’re not looking up law firms through a search engine, it’s all networking and connections to find whatever prestigious BigLaw  outfit they think will sell them a “neutral”, “unbiased”…

Yes, I got what you meant; “it isn’t true because I’d rather it not be true” is not only a flatly unconvincing argument, it’s an attitude that enables creeps and assholes to get away with their behavior.

If you’re talking about the guy pretending that ‘male spaces’ are full of well-intentioned men making witty japes about sexual assault as a form of bonding? Yeah, he’s full of shit. Men who do that are either rapists who are testing out their friend groups to see who will let them get away with/enable them being…

Yeah, “I don’t want to believe it because that seems very bad” is a shit take.

They’re going for a ‘prestigious big law firm’, probably because the exec know somebody who knows somebody that’s a partner there (Silicon Valley is a big small town in that regard). 

They don’t have to do that. They just figure out who the “troublemakers” are, gin up reasons to fire them, and make an example of them so everybody else with kids to feed and rent to pay learns to keep their mouths shut. Maybe in a few years, the NLRB might give Blizzard a wrist-slap for improperly firing union…

I am so sorry you went through all this. Your ‘friends’ are awful people who are in denial about their own trauma and handled it in part by spewing it onto you.

I’m trying to make sure I understand the arguments you are purportedly making with a straight face: believing that the ‘oh, the carpet was like a Cosby sweater’ is retconning bullshit is exactly like believing that there is a basement pedophile ring run out of a pizza parlor with no physical basement? And that because…