meghantheattorney.bsky.social
Tech nerd, legal geek. I spend waaaaay too much time writing contracts (and deciding if crypto is a security or not). Oh, and I travel a lot. Licensed in California, not Canada, because my post history is confusing.
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The headlamp is what sells that outfit hahaha. And I want that burrito
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It's well deserved 🍄✨
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Welcome to the unmedicated gang! Some of us are here by choice, others aren't. Then there's those like me, who can't keep it together long enough to make the appropriate appointments and I can't decide if that's 1 or 2, because making decisions involves executive function and I don't have that ✨
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I mean, I say "kitschy" but you don't *have* to hire me
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Where I'm from at least, winter tent camping is actually a pretty common activity. And the weather definitely doesn't stop long term tent-based settlements from cropping up either (see: Purple Hills near Durango, CO, which lasted about four years)
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I want this as my wallpaper. And also on a long dress. So I can stand in front of the walls of my old victorian home and blend in to spy on my family and party guests to hear what they're saying behind my back and then jump out and scare them, embarrassing them in the process. I love it.
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Same. The fam and I travel full time and just got back "home" from five weeks of car/tent camping. It's basically being homeless by choice, which is a very weird realization. Couldn't do it without an extended family to rely on.
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This spring was the first time I'd ever been able to legally light a campfire in Colorado since we moved there five years ago. It was a special moment.
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Honestly, you can even tent camp through winter. Just use, idk, a winter tent, maybe, and not a sad lean-to you built in summer? It's tragic, all around.
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Can confirm. I live for the drama of having to scold my clients for their tweets. It was a high point in my life when I got to scold a B-list celebrity client.
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Yeah, I'm definitely super qualified for this, just like Trump's Florida attorney
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I'm here, you plead the fifth and also not guilty
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Real answer: Trademarks are a use-it-or-lose-it system, so probably Meta, but I haven't actually checked
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Also, fwiw, I absolutely could not have made it through law school and taking the bar without my husband's support. He's the best. I'm glad I married him ahead of time and he was stuck with me by then hahaha
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That said, because conversation, I genuinely think something like what you said would be fine. It's okay to be proud of your accomplishments and it's great to acknowledge your partner's support and part in your successes. But it sounds like the OP is an insufferable braggart and needs to stop
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Lol it was a shitpost, wedding was well before law school and no rank was mentioned hahaha
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Now I'm getting flashbacks, ugh
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This person was the one that sat in front and answered every hypo in torts with "does any of the parties have insurance coverage?" (Oh wait, that was me)
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Well, I casually mentioned that I graduated in the top third of my class in law school during my wedding vows (which happened like five years before I graduated from law school) in a way that made my spouse look good and this definitely isn't a shitpost 👍
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Which is exactly why they should have a lawyer involved, even with the disparity in bargaining power. I've been passed some really bad contracts that agents thought were okay- at least after the review everyone is going into it fully informed, even if it can't be changed
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Oh yeah, it's not at all a slight against your folks who I'm sure anticipated and accounted for it. When people are first starting out though, their agents don't always know to look out for things like this and then that lack of transactional knowledge gets taken advantage of in the contracts.
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For anyone just starting in the entertainment business, this is why you have to have an actual lawyer negotiating on your behalf and not just your agent (no offense, Neil)
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The Fugitive Slave Act didn't end so well the first time around, why would they think it'd go better this time?
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No. I refuse to give them breathing room. I'd like to smother them with a pillow, actually.
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You joke, but I just paid $200 to the E.D. Cal court so I could be someone's attorney. Then I paid $225 so an out-of-state attorney could do all the work for me. That's $425 passed on to the client, just so they could have an attorney. Oh, and we have to pay per page for copies of documents filed.
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I'm in a similar boat. I'm not more conservative ideologically, but I have kids and responsibilities now. Between that and having refined my views and learned how to engage with people I disagree with, they definitely think I've started to lean to the right. I haven't; I've gotten left-er.
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Ha, my wifi casting from my phone is "it's bigger on the inside" because of him
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Agreed. I need the high clearance to drive to my off the grid home. We tried really hard to use our subcompact, but it got stuck in the snow and a truck had to drag us out. There are absolutely use cases for SUVs.
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And as for used but unregistered: no, it's unregistered that should have the stronger rights here. If it's not registered, it's probably an individual's work. No one is benefiting from my teenage poetry being PD, even if there may have been a publication incident.
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My personal (& professional) thought on this is that we need to delineate between individual creators and corporate ones, and have different rights accordingly. Also, there's a lot of good reason why CR holder might not want older stuff available in the PD (see: Song of the South and Mulberry St)
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The logic behind this is that other IP rights have to be registered/used. Copyright is inherent. All works of authorship are protected by CR upon creation, ergo those rights shouldn't be lost just because they're not enforced/used immediately
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This is why I hate online shopping and only do it on very rare occasions when I'm looking for options I don't expect to find in stores. Most of my family lives in rural areas and relies on Amazon and don't get my need to shop in a brick-and-mortar store
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I like the convenience of digital passes, but backups are good. God forbid your phone dies. Or you drop it in the airport toilet.
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...this is basically my job in a nutshell, accurate to the hourly rate lol