I am against animal agriculture for the same reason I am against sexism, racism, ableism, classism and homophobia.
The circumstances of a creatures birth does not dictate what it is “meant for”, every one deserves to live happy, healthily and with dignity, but some simply want to live.
You’re going full keyboard warrior in this thread despite acknowledging Rowlings bigotry. They are children books, no one needs you to defend every plot hole, racist caricature or political grievance she decided to include. You’re an adult, why are you putting this much effort into defending a terrible person and her terrible writing?
Surely you have better things to do. There are better books to read. There are better authors to stan.
Dear leader says food and fuel is cheap! We love him!
Dear leader says it’s gulf of amercia! We love him!
Dear leaders trade war isn’t hurting farmers! We love him!
Dear leader says it is Lake of America now! We love him!
Dear leader says he isn’t a pedophile! We love him!
In his ruling, Hittner mentioned Dolly Parton, whose death was announced Tuesday, and criticized the law’s definition of banning performances that “[appeal] to the prurient interest,” citing people who would chastise Parton “as a voluptuous sex symbol because of her big hair, flamboyant clothes and breast exposure.”
“There are ‘erotic’ elements in countless popular performances that could be subject to both civil and criminal penalties under S.B. 12,” he wrote.
One of the plaintiffs in the case, a drag queen who performs under the name Brigitte Bandit, impersonates Parton in her performances. Bandit celebrated the ruling on social media Tuesday, posting a screenshot of the decision and captioning it, “Drag is free speech, bitch.” She announced she would also perform as Parton, who gave her a rhinestone guitar as a gift in 2023, at an Austin bar Saturday in her honor.
Even from the grave, Dolly is making the world a better place.
If anything of consequence happens on Twitter, you’ll hear about it elsewhere.
It honestly is onion style satire.
The collector was listed for $18 on Liquid Death’s website and quickly sold out. Despite the campaign telling customers to send the contents to “the data center of your choice,” the company includes a disclaimer making it clear people shouldn’t actually mail their pee.
It is also an easy way to make $18.
Well, I don’t want to argue so it seems like we’re gonna have to agree to disagree. But I do feel like you are misunderstanding how trademark works.
Trademark only protects against customer confusion, not other projects becoming popular. Reasonable people looking for the band who instead find links to the movie are not likely to think the movie and the band are the same project or brand.
Look at the examples from the patent office .
When a consumer knows what goods or services you offer, what other goods or services might they reasonably expect you to offer?× For example, if you sell hot dog buns, a consumer may expect you to sell hamburger buns and loaves of bread.
It’s irrelevant that the movie is now showing higher on search results. The relevance of trademark will apply to other touring bands selling music under the name Demon Hunter, or names like “D. Hunter” / “Demons Hunted” or if the movie characters were styled after the IRL band, they might have a case. But an all male metal using Christian imagery and prayer band is quite different than a fictional all female pop band that does dance fighting. The content of the 90+ minute film is sustainably different than the content of 3-4 minute religious metal song.
However I’ve said my piece and I don’t wish to belabour the point further. Time will tell who wins, but according to actual mechanics of trademark law the court will only rule for the band if they can show reasonable people confuse the musicians for a movie, which I think would be an unrealistic accomplishment.
The risk the band took when naming themselves behind a concept. Irrespective of their personal harm, reaching across mediums to claim the name from a movie is the same as reaching to a video game. The concept of hunting demons is exponentially older than this bands formation in 2000. Hell, the Abrahamic demons they sing about aren’t even in the same mythology as Korean shamanic demons. The band should not get to lay claim all these different interpretations from their name alone. This is even more egregious than Buc-ee’s sueing any store with a cartoon animal logo, since at least they are both stores selling physical goods. Demon Hunter the band can’t even muster that much of a claim.
Well see how this plays out. While I’m definitely not rooting for Netflix, I am decidedly rooting against cross genre, cultural and medium trade mark overreach.
I see what you mean and I understand how it’s more serious than it sounds as first. However, a band shouldn’t be able to lay claim to every version of demon hunter in media. Will they go after Wow for the class named such? How about the various animes with some variation in their title? Sure they can protect brand in a musical space, but that extends over to movies? When the movie title quietly literally describes exactly the protagonists?
You’re right. They might be able to win this case, but shouldn’t.
Cult behavior.
Not to victim blame but killing a former spouse is the biggest red flag possible.
Do you got a source for that? I wasn’t finding anything to explain why or if this is true. Not trying to call BS, I just need to know more.
Precedent is utterly meaningless. Remember when placing a supreme court nominee the year before an a election would be Obama bias, and then the same exact people rammed through a placement literally while voting was happening?
Precident doesn’t mean shit. Whoever is in power will just do what they want.
Taylor Farms was contracting labor from the Arizona Department of Correction, Rehabilitation, and Reentry for the low, low price of just $4.75 an hour — far below the cost of a non-incarcerated worker the federal minimum wage. (And to be clear, that’s not the hourly wage paid to the inmate, which is capped at $1.50 in Arizona.)
The state of Arizona makes more than twice the money controlling prisoners than the people doing the actual labor.
ACAB. All the way up and down the chain. It’s all slave catching shit.
It’s cold comfort knowing that everything I was upset about as a teenager was exactly as bad as I predicated.
The lengths we’ll go to not do gun control.
Anything but paying teachers a decent wage…
Medical transition is a whole separate hemisphere of trans life. Despite what most media depictions imply, the majority of trans folk never pursue surgery. Trans folk have always existed, long before medical options were possible. It’s even more recent for them being wildly available. I think most of the community would agree that transition begins when you decide to start pursuing something else, not necessarily after egg crack/coming out/hormones/surgery.
He refused with disgust while counter questioning - “Would that make me more trans?”
Well… good! I am super happy for him! It would be far worse if he felt he had get surgery since that means he’d been suffering.
Honestly this isn’t unusual. I myself did only social transition before deciding ~6 months later to start HRT. Fundamentally he is on a super healthy wave length. We can’t always control how the world perceives us, but so long as you know yourself and are supported by the people who matter, then everything else is just noise.
Transition is all about finding a better way to exist, if he doesn’t feel the need to do any sort of physical changes, that is great! If he changes his mind someday, also great! That day never comes? Still great! The reality of transition is baby steps into something new, then stopping to reflect on if that helped. Him coming out to you sounds like one of those steps. Up to him to decide the one after that. There truly is no wrong answer.
Since you already talking about medical transition, I think you should make it clear that if he does decide to do that, you’ll support him. And then never bring it up again. He knows its an option but you don’t want him to feel like it is an expectation. It’s not for everybody and surgery itself is in no way a reflection of “how trans you are”. We’re all different.
Oh no, we need to encourage Zuck to keep going! It’s been a string of failures one after another lately, he could tank the whole company at this rate.
Don’t let the haters win Mark! You’re a genius! NFT’s are due for a comeback, you could corner the market if you reinvest!