Stalemate rules mean that a player in a heavily disadvantaged position still has the opportunity to play for a draw, whether that comes from their own clever play or a mistake from their opponent (what happened in the comic).

They almost certainly caught it from someone who was old enough to have been vaccinated but wasn't. If vaccination rates continue to decline like the current republican administration wants, more and more infants will contract measles even if their parents plan to vaccinate on schedule.

First they sent the lender some form that they didn't understand, claiming that the form itself was sufficient payment for the loaned they'd agreed to pay. The lender sent back a letter that probably said something like "no, you have to pay us real money like we agreed to" and the person responded with more forms that they don't understand instead of paying their bills.

This very predictably led to their car being repoed, since they weren't paying the loan, because they have been lied to by the people in this FB group who think notaries (people who have been licensed to confirm "this was signed by the person who's name is on the the page") and certified mail (the post office got a signature from someone to prove it was delivered, nothing else) have magic powers to make a document legally binding.

The entire idea is based on the self-contradictory argument that laws can only apply to YOU if you consent to them, but any and every oddly worded clause from any law or court decision, from anywhere and any time in the past, binds everyone else, as long as you know the right magic words to invoke.

It doesn't say or suggest that the person voted for Biden in 2020.

Have you ever been stuck on a problem (school, work, personal, whatever) and as soon as you go to ask someone for help, you start explaining the problem and figure it out? You basically use the duck for that - explain the problem out loud to "someone else" and sometimes you'll see what you were missing.

No, because the settlement was a bribe, not a decision that CBS made because they were concerned about losing the lawsuit. The owners were trying to complete a merger that required governmental approval and decided that paying that settlement would be better than getting the merger blocked.

Also horses are one of Poseidon's things - so it wasn't just that he was sneaky instead of fighting "honorably" but he also specifically used a fake tribute to Poseidon as part of the plan.

State legislatures can be highly gerrymandered, and it would also eliminate primaries for the senate candidates which which means senators would functionally become whoever the party leadership wants per state.

The sale contract with the dealership probably has some language like "contingent on final approval from the loan company," and the lender probably has their own rules about only approving loans for people with a valid driver's license. The dealership should know those rules, but I think this person is getting caught in the very unfortunate but definitely real bureaucratic nightmare where it's often your own responsibility to know that someone who you believe knows the rules better than you is wrong.

That said, everything up to the last few sentences sounds like they're trying to do things the right way, but if they try using One Weird Trick(tm) to keep possession of the car they're probably going to cause much bigger problems for their future self.

Yes, the fines are legally enforceable because (generally) you have to agree to them in order to purchase the house - joining the HOA and being bound by its rules either literally or functionally becomes a permanent part of the deed to the property. There isn't a legally viable argument that you only signed that part under duress because you could have chosen to live somewhere else instead. You could technically get a like-minded group of neighbors to run for the HOA leadership roles and eliminate the petty rules, but the rider contract to the deed still exists.

The Prop 65 warning is on so many things because it's way cheaper to put the label on everything, regardless of whether it's technically true or not, than it is to run the tests to prove that the specific substances called out are not present.

Yet another data point for my "AI is for people who hate their family" list. I feel like every single consumer focused ad is targeted towards either that or people who are looking for regular reminders on how to do complicated things like "breathing."

My issue with pointing out the math error is that it isn't even the actual problem - the entire concept is based on the incoherent idea that having a trade deficit is inherently a bad thing for some reason. The entire formula is junk, not just the one variable.

Plus, even if all illnesses could somehow be limited to just the people who actively drink it, they give it to their kids who have no say in the matter.

Why would 2024 statistics be relevant to a conversation about HIV prevalence in the 80s?

CBS's settlement was a bribe, nothing more and nothing less.

That says it's for 10 years, so "only" 1/10th of that each month. Still very much a thing only businesses and very well off people can realistically afford though.

Plenty of people have tried to make that argument. Those people typically wind up spending years of their life in prison once their delinquent taxes have built up enough (and losing the property that they were trying to avoid paying taxes on, also).

Anyone who tries to tell you that they've successfully argued in court that the law doesn't apply unless you sign a contract agreeing to it is either just plain lying or got lucky on a small enough case that the judge or prosecution just didn't want to deal with the headache.

By the way, keep in mind that property rights aren't a naturally existing phenomenon. You own your home because the state agrees that you are the rightful owner. Is a different system theoretically possible? Sure, probably, but the state-based enforcement of property ownership is the one that exists today.

Personally I would even prefer if they went all the way back to FO1/2 or Morrowind style conversations - I usually skip half of the voice acting anyway once I've read the subtitles and only needing VOs for portions of what major characters say gives the writers so much more room to go wild with everything else.

Yes, it's a very solid tactical combat game. It has room for character RP moments but the meat of the system is in the mech design (which gives you plenty of opportunities to make adjustments to your build) and on the turn-based combat map. It's less crunchy than Battletech (you aren't tracking damage to specific limbs, etc) but IMO the action economy is usually more interesting than 5e - there's a lot more opportunities to build for "when you do X, if condition Y is true, you can follow up with Z for free" combos.