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A Florida lawyer helping people fight and win against abusive and unfair debt collection.
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The former one, passive voice and all, may be even more hostile. "Be governed" means the governance comes from the outside.... "Obey, or you will be punished."
It's a subtle difference. And maybe I'm reading too much into it. Both phrases really mean "…and the horse you rode in on."
#legalese
There's a difference between "Please be governed accordingly" and "Govern yourself accordingly." I've always preferred the latter since I like to avid passive voice. It credits the recipient with their own agency and responsibility for the consequences of their actions. In other words, "You, there! Get your shit together or there will be consequences!"
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AnnaAnthro#Budapest goes 'Gray Pride' as 10,000 protesters use rainbow-less grey muted tones to mock #Hungary’s Pride ban law #lgbtq
Budapest goes 'Gray Pride' as protesters in muted tones mock Pride ban law
On Monday, the parliament is set to vote on a constitutional amendment that would strengthen the legal foundations for the prohibition of the Pride march. Waving gray flags, including rainbow flags turned monochromatic, more than 10,000 people joined the humourous demonstration with a serious cause in Budapest on Saturday.
ChatGPT just called me by my name for the first time: "Awesome project, Mike!" That was more disconcerting than I thought it would be. Any illusion of anonymity or privacy is gone. (Probably a good thing)
I'm guessing this is a by-product of the new memory features OpenAI just implemented.
My bad-ass wife just won another appeal—this one for a class-action suit against a debt collector.
"The appearance of impropriety exists when the trial judge adopts verbatim one party's one-sided final judgment, especially where the judge did not
orally announce findings or rulings during or at the end of trial."
https://2dca.flcourts.gov/content/download/2450338/opinion/Opinion_2024-0311.pdf
ImogenSupreme Court upholds order requiring administration to return Maryland man from El Salvador
The Supreme Court will require the United States government to facilitate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man who was sent to El Salvador in error.
The court upheld a lower court order.
Endorsed!