chapotraphouse

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BREAKING: US Supreme Court releases opinion on birthright citizenship case

[7 minutes after the hour]

The document has just dropped from the Supreme Court. It's 119 pages long, we're reading through it currently. It appears that it will not be a clear upheld or rejected decision from the court. Stick with us.

I'm putting links to good, clear Bluesky threads into the comments.

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Law Bluesky is a trip. Who gives a fuck?

Prediction: Footnote 18 from the universal injunction opinion will not stand the test of time

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who describes herself as the “anti-work girlboss” 💪

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I am alive because of hexbears. Shoutout @corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net for letting me crash while I simultaneously prepare to go to a psychward, figure out which shelters are safe around me. (It is zero. On god.) and just.... Try to get help. Chat, I love ya all.

Edit: Ill make a comment tomorrow after I meet a client, explaining how I went from a recovery home in the city, to the boonies a state away bc I had no choice. (I actually didn't relapse to get kicked out! Crazzzzy)

Double Edit: https://youtu.be/dtLMo17MxXg this song is legit one of the only things other than y'all keeping me like from not giving up

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Gex is a bourgeois imperialist

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glee

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tldr: YT turned off notifications, feed, basically everything on Ch.5's new video regarding Native American land rights being taken away by copper mining companies. Ch.5 discussing it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uud5xHMIXdw

apparently this is the most shadow-banned topic (native american land rights) on the site? is that true? does anyone know why?

the shadow-banned Ch.5 Docu is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCpgv4OOJCs

edit: bot below has non-YT links

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At least eight killed in deadly Kenya protests: What we know

Several protesters were killed and at least 400 others were wounded on Wednesday when antigovernment protests in the capital, Nairobi turned deadly.

Kenyan officials have not disclosed the number of casualties. Reports from media and rights groups varied, placing the number of dead between eight and 16.

This is the latest outbreak of violence in the East African country where young demonstrators have frequently taken to the streets in recent months to protest myriad issues including police brutality, government corruption and high taxes.

The demonstrations on Wednesday were held to mark the bloody June 25, 2024, protests against tax rises when police opened fire on large numbers of protesters, killing at least 60, according to rights groups

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Its just an instance where dex users can exist in an echo chamber without having to critically think.

If you want you can see some of my invasions here and watch these morons dodge superior armument after superior armument, put swords into my mouth, and project some basement dwelling weeb who makes similarly insecure weapon choices which exists inside their head onto me: https://old.reddit.com/r/darksouls/comments/oq1be5/i_used_to_be_a_dex_player_i_have_seen_the_error/h68v9pg/

Edit: there’s also this thread: https://old.reddit.com/r/darksouls/comments/oq1be5/i_used_to_be_a_dex_player_i_have_seen_the_error/h691pl2/ You must log in or register to comment.

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My HOA sent me gore photos after complaining about the AirBnbs.

These were included in a cease & desist packet threatening to sue me and several other homeowners for defamation after speaking out at City Hall about AirBnb businesses taking over our residential condo tower. After so many egregious incidents including a cataclysmic office fire, before employing THIS tactic, our HOA may have overplayed their hand to such a shocking extent that it could backfire and end the worst kinds of short-term rental (ie: AirBnb) business practices entirely.

After months of paying inflated HOA bills while also taking care of my elderly mother, my own financial situation is in serious jeopardy. After raising enough funds to get three months of savings back into my personal account, I will use proceeds from this fundraiser for large-scale collective legal efforts that will improve the situations of many, many people beyond just myself.

There's a very good chance that if we can escalate our related lawsuits to a guilty verdict and avoid settling, precedents will be set to ensure this never happens to anyone, anywhere, ever again. But the road there will be very expensive, including not just the lawsuits themselves but also potential foreclosures, receivership, and other as-yet-unknown but predictable hardships. After all, they did send us gore photos!

So if all goes well, the money we raise here will be paying for (in this order:)

HOA Lawyer Retainers: Multiple HOA lawyers who have experience winning against corrupt HOA's need a five-digit figure for their services to escalate these cases to the levels they should go. This GoFundMe will help fill in a big gap in the community's existing legal fund to get those lawyers paid and moving onwards faster.

Foreclosure Defense: Under Georgia law, HOA's have some legal authority to attempt foreclosures on households owing more than $2,000 in unpaid dues. Over the past few months, our HOA has been billing us a "capital budget contribution bill" and attempting to bill us special assessments whose prices seems poised to exploit that $2,000 HOA foreclosure loophole. The foreclosure process does allow homeowners fighting these bills several "second chances" to defend themselves, and I would like the most vulnerable of us, particularly the elderly, to be financially prepared for that possibility.

Defamation Defense: Intimidating C&D packets threatening to sue victimized residents for defamation are not rare in HOA disputes, but actually following through with a defamation lawsuit is. But after sending us gore photos, it seems reasonable for us to expect the worst. In the event that a defamation suit does happen, I would once again prefer for us be prepared for it with a healthy legal fund ready to go.

Receivership Survival: There's a chance the building will undergo a period of what's called "receivership," where state authorities briefly take control of incompetent HOA boards to get things back on track. However, this usually results in a period of increased expenses for the most victimized homeowners. In the event this happens to our building, this GoFundMe will be used to help our most financially vulnerable homeowners (especially the elderly) endure a period of receivership that will likely be much harder to endure for AirBnb investors who own multitudes of units, versus smaller homeowners who own one.

Insurance Fraud Survival: The HOA is currently being sued by two entities with alarmingly expensive cases behind them: a fire insurance company is alleging some kind of fraud over the January 2024 fire, and a fire repair company is alleging some kind of breach of contract over the work they were hired to do. In the event the HOA loses these lawsuits, the expenses may be end up being passed down to victimized homeowners who do not deserve to suffer for the incompetence of a HOA board whose legitimacy is facing so many questions.

Set Precedent & Reduce Temptation to Settle: In the event this GoFundMe becomes very popular, the funds raised may end up being competitive with expected settlement offers from our opponents. Reducing the temptation to settle by relying on GoFundMe funds to survive all this hardship will help ensure that these lawsuits get seen to their full completion, so that a final verdict will set a precedent that will be followed in future lawsuits against allegedly corrupt HOA's & short-term rental companies. This can effectively "change the laws" around how Georgia courts handle HOA & short-term rental matters, which could also snowball into those precedents being followed in other U.S. states as well, and perhaps even other countries on a global scale!

Funding Repairs & Maintenance: In the event this GoFundMe does become very popular and raises a large five or six-digit sum, and in the event control of the HOA board does return back to members who live in the building and are materially interested in improving the building for their own life's sake, these surplus funds will be donated back into maintenance & repair projects that will help ease the heavy wear & tear our building has endured over the past few years ever since the AirBnb business became popular.

Buying Back Equitable Shares of the Building: Last but not least, as a final fantastical pipe dream in case we raise seven-digit "property-purchasing" levels of funding, and in the event our opponents end up selling their interests in the building for some reason, large portions of these funds will be used to put ownership of the building back into a majority of homeowners, ensuring a more equitable distribution of property ownership and a more democratic system of decision-making over our HOA matters for the long-term foreseeable future.

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Tag yourself. I am stuck in backed-up traffic in Lenin Tunnel in my state-funded BYD in our mandatory polycule/carpool.

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Alaskan holy relic

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