I’ve deposed lots of people, including lots of people who try to give evasive answers. I think I can tell the difference between people who think they’re handling themselves well and people who don’t. He probably doesn’t feel remorse, but he’s absolutely embarrassed in this moment.
Entirely possible they didn’t. Especially with private companies, but even with public ones in a lot of cases, sometimes the best you can do is paper the risk assessment and say “it’s your money.”
I’m an in-house product compliance lawyer, and you could probably get rid of me, not replace my functions, and you wouldn’t notice for six months or a year. But when you noticed I was gone you would really notice, and the fix would cost orders of magnitude over my salary.
And he almost certainly would have siphoned votes off, too. Him running in the Dem primary and supporting the winner after he lost was far better for the party than running outside of it.
Do you think it would have been better for him to run as an independent and directly compete with the Democrat for left of center votes in the general?
This is basically the case in the US as well. 20 years ago you needed to go to a middle eastern or international market to get sumac. Today it’s pretty easy to find. This is either (1) rage bate or (2) someone noticing things because they’re in a new environment they would have tuned out before.
I’m not saying it never comes from internalized ableism. I’ll bet it does often. But I also think, especially within the neurodiversity movement, that it often comes more from a fear that it minimizes the extent to which the disability is socially imposed.
I get it more with Tourette’s. I only know one person with Tourette’s, but she says she doesn’t view her tics differently than her need to blink, and it’s disabling in the same way as it would be if she couldn’t blink in job interviews or on dates without stigma.
it’s not possible to order society in a way that completely removes the disability for everyone. It’s not possible to order my house in a way that completely removes the disability for everyone! But I get the impulse, because society can do a lot to accommodate ND people that it doesn’t do…
Everyone in my household is ADHD, Autistic, or both. Where I disagree with it is I think there are inherently disabling aspects of executive function dysfunction, sensory sensitivities, difficulty with social cues, etc. I also think, with autism specifically, the effects are so individualized…
there is something inherently limiting about the condition, when all the limits are externally constructed. I know lots of autistic people with this view, too. I don’t really agree with it, but I don’t think it’s necessarily coming from internalized ableism. (Speaking generally, not for this guy).
IME, some people within the neurodiversity movement push back on identifying as “disabled” because of a belief a condition isn’t inherently disabling-the disability comes from how other people interact with the condition, not the condition itself. The idea is that identifying as disabled concedes…
This is something every litigator should hear, even if they’re never going to argue an appeal. I’ve seen so many lawyers brush off a judge’s question because they want to get back to the brilliant points they were about to make instead of wasting their time on what the judge is interested in.
Common depo prep advice is that you answer “yes,” “no,” “I don’t know,” “I don’t remember,” or, if none of these work, the shortest truthful answer you can give. I’m sure he said something like “5 words” a ton of times during prep.
I work in a heavily regulated industry, and I’ve seen applicants from our main regulator who would have held out for a middle management position two years ago applying for entry level jobs.
I understand its true, but it’s still so hard to believe. People viewed DOJ honors as on par with V20 firms and Article III clerkships, and this was only ~10 years ago.
This is wild because when I was in law school JAG was considered a hard job to land.
There is a pervasive bias in journalism that there are two equally valid sides to every issue.
The local news reported she parked next to their van and did this while they were set up for filming. She either wants to get caught or is not thinking clearly.
She also sits next to the building afterwards for several minutes while being filmed. This is either someone who was doing this as a protest and plans to get caught or someone who is not thinking clearly.
No, the local news was there doing a story about how the owners said the building would not be sold to the government, and she pulled up and did this while they were there filming.
Ok that’s incredible. I really got into this song because of the performance art aspect. Lots of people have sang *about* having a drunken breakdown after a breakup, but he’s having the breakdown through the song. I just assumed these were all extras though.
I have not seen one, either. As far as I can tell, this is the official video. My French is middling, and I don’t think I would have picked up “fort minable” without the subtitles.
The video for “Formidable” has English captions:
I am into watches and that Piaget helps me remember how personal taste is.
It was probably the biggest gap I’ve ever seen between language mastery and accent mastery. Guy could speak solid conversational Spanish with basically no attempt to make the words sound Spanish.
But also, there is probably no major bank in the world with a stronger track record of being willing to work with literally anyone.
Noam Chomsky, famous defender of Israel.
I have sat in court waiting for my turn, watched the same thing happen, and then watched in horror at the slow motion car crash of the second lawyer snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. It’s so important to learn to read the room and just shut up sometimes.
I second this. My wife did a class that was like 3 hours once a week for 4 weeks, and it really helped. Also, you don’t need to go high end, but it helps to get something decent. The really cheap ones seem finicky in a way that makes them not fun to use.
