#legal security

[icewindandboringhorror]

(also feel free in the tags to clarify Why you made the choice you made!! :0c)

[rudarpratapblogs]

Tragic Loss in Las Vegas: The Aftermath of Dennis Prince and Ashley Prince Shooting Incident

The Las Vegas community mourns the tragic loss of attorney Dennis Prince and Ashley Prince, following a devastating shooting incident on April 8, 2024. This event has led to the closure of the esteemed Prince Law Group, a prominent legal firm in Nevada for the past five years. The shooting, which occurred during a custody dispute, highlights the need for increased security in legal settings. The legacy of Dennis and Ashley Prince endures in the legal community, remembered for their contributions to personal injury, insurance law, and commercial litigation. This article explores the incident, the impact on the legal community, and the lasting legacy of the Prince Law Group. 

Read More: https://globaltimesnetwork.com/dennis-prince-shooting-incident/

[fuscoinsuranceagency]

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[chloesimaginationthings]

Michael doesn’t even know who FNAF Edwin is

[sha-brytols]

the circle's laws on marriage is so awesome btw. apostates can't legally marry. mages can't marry each other in 90% of circles. but a mage can theoretically marry a non-mage outsider (logically unsustainable given that 90% of mages cannot leave the circle and non-chantry civilians can't enter a circle and all communication between the circle and outside is heavily monitored) so mages do have marriage rights! hurray! ^_^

[jupiterjelliez]

its bedtime now

[opensuse-official]

I think it is very cool how tech companies, schools, employers, and universities make it actively difficult to distance yourself from Google, Microsoft, and Apple.

Yes most Linux distros are very stable, way more secure, privacy friendly, and way more customizable. But every institution is built to make technological independence as difficult as possible.

Yelling on the internet that everyone should switch to Linux and FOSS really ignores how much of the technological world is designed to not let that happen.

[generallemarc]

Heard a radio ad by the DHS that was basically a campaign ad

I know it was them because they said they were the ones who paid for it at the end. It was full of dramatic music and campaign-style talk about Trump's immigration crackdown. Supposedly it was directed at illegal immigrants, telling them to leave of their own volition and they would be allowed a chance to return legally, but I would be very interested to hear of literally any examples of criminals deciding to cease doing whatever law-breaking activities they're doing because an advertisement told them "hey, stop doing that and maybe one day you'll get to do it legally". But the worst part by far was the references it made to "weak politicians"-I don't care if Trump wants to insult everyone under the sun, but while no names were named it could not be more obvious to which former government officials he was referring, and that was done with my tax dollars, and yours, and everyone else's. As far as I'm concerned Trump just used tax money for a campaign ad, and he didn't even do it during an actual fucking campaign. Hope the lawsuit was worth, what, trying to boost two special elections to the Mississippi state house and some ballot measures in Louisiana? Anything else happening electorally this month I'm missing?

This is absurd and nobody should be supporting this. It would be a total waste of money anyways, because again there are no criminals who stop breaking the law because the government asks them to on the radio, but with this added in it's easily the worst thing he's done so far that hasn't 1. killed anyone(sad that that's just something Presidents do now, but 9/11 sure was a thing 24 years ago) or 2. been done explicitly in the name of bigotry(the trans army ban and passport bs).

[snickerdoodlles]

its so weird seeing posts that mock uncle jim for worrying about li ming's queerness as though his dead boyfriend's parents (legally) stealing his entire life savings and leaving him to manage a restaurant business specifically because gay couples aren't legally recognized as couples wasn't what put him in a cycle of crushing debt and endless poverty in the first place

[serpentface]

Question about Couya! Since she is a bastard what are the reasons about her being brought into the main family by her father. Was it genuine care for his child or a way to save face politically/socially? Is her birth mother alive? Do you think she would have had a better life growing up anywhere else?

This is in large part due to how cultural perceptions and legal punishment of adultery varies between male and female citizens, looped into the very strictly patrilineal kinship system.

By legal definition, the word for 'adultery' applies only to situations where a man has an affair with a married woman, or a married woman has an affair with any man. Other forms of affairs (eg a married man having an affair with an unmarried woman) are wrapped into a broader set of sexual misdemeanors and aren't often charged or punished in practice, and the punishments are comparatively minor (if an unwed woman's father pursues charges, the man in the affair is likely to just pay a fine). On a social level, extramaritial affairs in general are certainly not Approved of and seen as lowly and dishonorable, but the average response is significantly less harsh/more willing to entertain Nuance with men than with women.

In this society there's differentiated shades of bastardry depending on the contexts of the child's birth, as well as a distinction for 'nameless bastards' (has not been claimed by their biological father or maternal grandfather, or claimed in adoption).

a) A child born to an unmarried woman via an unmarried man: non-issue for father, potentially serious social harm for the woman (especially if she has never been married and expected virginal, much less severe as a widow or divorcee). The child will not be notably disadvantaged in of themselves (their status will depend more on whether they are claimed and thus provided the social security of a family patriarch), the father will experience no hard disadvantages in claiming them.

b) A child born to an unmarried woman via a married man: mild sexual misdemeanor for the father carrying levels of social shame, even more serious social harm for the woman (often framed as not just loose but a manipulative Seductress of a married man). The child might experience minor to moderate social disadvantages, the consequences of the father claiming them are purely social and will not typically be severe. (Couya is this)

c) A child born to a married woman via an unmarried or married man: both man and woman have committed a crime and can be severely punished. The biological father can technically claim the child but will be disincentivized from doing so. This is the form of bastardry most comparable to the conventional definition, in that it is heavily stigmatized and has effects on concerns of kinship and inheritance.

In addendum to this, if the adulterous wife's legal husband claims the child, this may be punishable if determined to be active concealment of adultery (which is also a crime), and has EXTREME social consequences either way. (Either you're a cuckold too stupid to notice that your wife has been skipping out on you, or you're a MEGAcuckold adultery-accessory willingly rearing another man's child after being horribly shamed by him).

(This is separate from adoption- a man who marries a woman with an unclaimed child after the fact (whether it was a product of adultery or just a general out of wedlock birth) and claims the child is an adoptive father, he is not concealing adultery or being cuckolded.)

A child born in an affair can be considered an heir to their biological fathers (descent and kinship is fully patrilineal and on a Basic level it doesn't matter who the mother is), and can very smoothly and legally be claimed when the affair was not considered criminal adultery. The concern on that front is social perception rather than material legal consequences or kinship issues.

Couya's birth mother was an unwed servant working as a housekeeper for her father Saizen, so the Crime of adultery did not take place. It would be considered a minor sexual misdemeanor, and the woman's father was not about to pursue charges against a nobleman who could Ruin him (and had also formally expressed that he would claim the child, which meant he would not be saddled with a nameless bastard granddaughter). So the concerns here were entirely social.

The affair might have started beforehand but the pregnancy that produced Couya occurred after his wife's third viable pregnancy ended in the premature birth of a underdeveloped boy deemed necessary to euthanize (and tbr would Not have survived either way). This was after Livya Haidamane had a couple early term miscarriages, two viable but very difficult pregnancies wherein one child was very weak and sickly for the first several years of life, and struggled to conceive every time. A lot of people are going to be at least a little sympathetic to a married man having an affair and claiming a bastard in this context. It's definitely ideal and practical to have more than two children, and his wife (while not outright infertile) clearly could not reliably bear healthy children. (The average response is going to be "Well he shouldn't have done it but like, I get it")

Couya being claimed by her father was a mix of genuine care and saving face. Initially it was MUCH more the latter than the former. Saizen made attempts to hide the servant's pregnancy and to keep his own wife out of sight during the late term (to prevent the baby appearing after his wife had been seen Extremely not pregnant). But there's some levels of care involved, he could very easily have fired the pregnant servant and had nothing to do with his bastard and she would have no recompense whatsoever. The choice to keep and claim the baby and ensure its entrance into the world bore as little social scrutiny as possible is an act of care for his own progeny.

This was Not an act of care for Couya's birth mother (beyond the fact that concealing her pregnancy would benefit her in hiding that she is not only Not a virgin prior to marriage but had a child). She probably would have been about 17-19 at the time and was fired a few months after giving birth, and most likely never saw Couya again after this point (if she did, it would most likely be in the context of seeing her as an adult Odonii in public and noting her to look Scarily familiar). She has an Okayish chance at still being alive, she'd be around 50 (and a person who survives the high infant mortality and birth casualty rates stands a good chance of hitting their 60s), though she could very well be a casualty of the drought+famine.

Whether or not Couya's life would have been better is kind of a mixed bag. She had an awful fucking childhood in large part because her adoptive mother Livya Haidamane hated her. (Livya was ultimately a pretty horrible person but not just like. An Evil Bitch. She had A Lot going on and Couya was a living breathing insult to her and reminder of like, every one of her dashed hopes and dreams). Couya is also autistic and presented very intense symptoms as a child in a society that is Not equipped for a mass-understanding and support of cognitive differences. But she still did have an immensely privileged life with profound physical/economic levels of security inaccessible to the vast majority of people in this region, including her birth mother. Saizen also actually Liked her and cared about her, he just wasn't a routine physical presence in any of his children's lives.

Had she been left with her biological mother, she would be in a very disadvantaged situation as a nameless bastard to an unwed mother. Her biological grandfather may or may not have been willing to claim her, and her mother would have great difficulties in finding a husband (which is ultimately necessary for the security of women in this society). I think her mother was a relatively kind person but not like, a perfect angel. She would probably have complicated feelings about her bastard daughter, especially one whose very existence materially disadvantages her and was very, very difficult as a child. So this probably would not have been a good situation for Couya either.

If you broaden the question to ANY other family completely divorced from the circumstances of her birth, yeah it definitely could have been better. But in her case it's like either "Life of grotesque socioeconomic privilege but in an abusive household" or "Life of profound socioeconomic disadvantages in a household that Probably wouldn't have been this abusive but certainly wouldn't be healthy". There wasn't really a good option for her.

[laurellala-comics]

I had the craziest crossover event this Halloween and finally cleaned up my comic diary about it enough to post! I love being cringe

[cleromancy]

i think one of the many dumb things about the "jaytim is INCEST!!!!" malarky is that people will openly say "they may not have grown up together or have a brotherly relationship or any personal connection except through bruce but shipping them is still deviant and perverted and you're going to hell for being a fagg i mean a freak"

[baravaggio]

I keep my mouth shut about this for the sake of my own sanity because I think the culture war around it has been mostly lost but I will never get over how people treat homophobic slurs as though they are first and foremost in-group terms of endearment and not ways to violently dehumanize people. Maybe it's because I have had homophobic slurs directed towards me in an explicitly violent context, but this whole "they think of us ALL as faggots 😇" thing has always read to me as so insulting because why do some people strip that statement of what weak political relevance it has and almost act like they aspire to be on the receiving end of that kind of violence lol. Like you do realize it's a privilege to walk around free from having that target on your back right. Your priority shouldn't be insisting that others validate you're a member of the club your priority should be putting yourself between the people who are most vulnerable and those who'd seek to do them harm. This feels like a no brainer, and yet

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Greg Owen at LGBTQ Nation:

Not to be outdone by his one-time rival for the presidency, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis piled on Target this week for the company’s past support for DEI and the LGBTQ+ community, grabbing the culture wars spotlight from President Donald Trump if only for a moment. DeSantis appointed a new attorney general this week, who promptly sued Target for “misleading” investors about the deleterious effects of the retail giant’s pro-DEI and LGBTQ+ policies. Those inspired a conservative-led backlash in 2023 that hit the company’s bottom line. In the suit filed in Fort Myers, new Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier argued that Target violated the Securities Exchange Act by failing to disclose “the known risks” of its DEI and Pride Month initiatives, the AP reports. “Corporations that push radical leftist ideology at the expense of financial returns jeopardize the retirement security of Florida’s first responders and teachers,” Uthmeier said in a statement, referring to retirement funds’ investment portfolios. “My office will stridently pursue corporate reform so that companies get back to the business of doing business — not offensive political theatre.” With his appointment this week, Uthmeier pledged to use the state’s legal muscle to “champion an America-first agenda” and challenge what he called “the left.” [...] In the lawsuit filed in federal court this week, the state argues the company’s 2023 LGBTQ+ Pride collection was uniquely harmful to shareholders. “The Campaign provoked immense consumer backlash and boycotts that caused Target’s sales to fall for the first time in six years and wiped out over $25 billion in Target’s market capitalization—leading Target’s stock to experience its longest losing streak in 23 years,” the complaint says.

Newly-named Florida AG James Uthmeier (R) files frivolous lawsuit against Target over its LGBTQ+ Pride Month collection displays.

See Also:

The Advocate: Florida's new Attorney General sues Target for selling products for LGBTQ+ youth

[agalychnisspranneusroseus]

Thinking about Raised in Amphibia AU and how the girls get married when they're still teenagers, and I get that it might be controversial but I actually really like the fantasy vibes that comes with characters getting married so young, it helps to make the world feel more old timesey and medieval and culturally alien, like, marrying at 16 sounds insane to most people nowadays but in fantasy frog land Sprig and Maddie were engaged by their guardians at age 10 so I think it not only makes perfect sense for Marcy and Sasha to get engaged for political reasons at 14 and then get married at 16 - dragging Anne along with them - but also... something something kids forced to grow up to fast, something something fantasy politics, and these three characters having such a different way of seeing love and relationships than we do in the real world, that when Anne goes back to Earth and meets her biological parents for the first time, she has no idea how to tell them that, at age 23, she's been married for 7 years and has two wives.