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A woman is standing in front of a supermarket shelf, contemplating a purchase. An employee comes up next to her, kneels on the floor with one leg sticking out behind him, and starts stocking the shelf. The woman notices the employee's presence. Nevertheless, 30 to 60 seconds after the employee's arrival, she walks away, trips over the employee's outstretched leg, and sustains injuries.
The woman sues the supermarket, but the trial judge speedily dismisses the case.
[The court] has stretched in every direction to determine how, in the absence of a case, rule, regulation, manual or anything else, this can be determined to be a dangerous condition created by the [supermarket] with which thus would have caused the injury to the plaintiff. And the court just simply cannot reach that conclusion.
A genuine issue of material fact must be created for a jury to consider. This strains the definition, in the court's opinion, of a genuine issue of material fact. This is a normal interaction in a supermarket. There are shoppers that are coming and going. Shoppers that could be kneeling down trying to obtain an item on a lower shelf. Shoppers moving back and forth. Employees moving back and forth, moving things onto shelves, off the shelf. Nothing here appears to be outside the normal operation of a supermarket, as the court would understand it or know it.
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The appeals panel affirms.
By her own account, plaintiff was aware of the employee's presence and activities for a significant period of time before she turned to leave. She was thus under an obligation to exercise reasonable care after retrieving her item and walking away.
Moreover, we agree with the trial court that the employee's extended leg did not create a dangerous condition subjecting [the supermarket] to liability because it did not create an unforeseeable risk of harm and there was no defect in the property itself. Plaintiff's failure to heed the presence of the employee who was performing a routine supermarket activity—where there were no visual or lighting impairments—does not create a dangerous condition of the premises.
Court opinion with hilariously hentai facts but also an interesting legal issue:
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One evening, defendant was sitting on the couch watching a movie with his daughter, age three, and son, age eighteen months. Defendant's daughter adjusted her position and brushed up against defendant's genital area. He became aroused. Defendant went to the kitchen pantry, put honey on his penis, and returned to the couch with his penis exposed. Defendant then allowed both children to lick the honey off his penis.
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The three-year-old informs the wife. The wife confronts the husband, and he confesses to her. The wife informs the couple's pastor. Both the wife and the pastor urge the husband to confess to the police. The wife and the pastor inform local police. Simultaneously but separately, the husband confesses, first to a 911 dispatcher, then to a municipal police officer over the phone, and finally to a state police officer in an extended in-person interview. The standard Miranda rights aren't read to him until he gets to the state police.
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The husband is charged with seven felonies, pleads guilty to two of them, and is sentenced to 15 years in prison (with the possibility of parole after 13 years). He appeals, arguing that the dispatcher and the two officers misleadingly implied in their interrogations that he was not a criminal suspect and would be able to escape with merely counseling rather than prison.
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The appeals panel rejects this argument. (1) "We emphasize at the outset that defendant was not in custody when he called 911 and spoke to the dispatcher." "The dispatcher's comments that defendant was 'doing the right thing by coming forward' and that [the municipal officer] would 'get [defendant] the best help' simply do not rise to the level of the repeated, explicit assurances made in [two cases where this argument was accepted]." (2) "Defendant is hard pressed to argue he did not believe he was a suspect in the crime that he had already confessed to. Furthermore, [the municipal officer]'s assertion that he was 'not familiar with the whole situation' was, in substance, true. And, finally, at the risk of repetition, this conversation occurred via phone. Defendant was not in custody." "Like the dispatcher's statements—and quite unlike the detectives' assertions in [a case where this argument was accepted]—[the municipal officer]'s reply does not constitute an affirmative representation that defendant will not face criminal charges or penal consequences." (3) "[The state officer]'s words do not in our view constitute an affirmative misrepresentation that somehow undermined defendant's waiver of his right against self-incrimination or was otherwise inappropriate, warranting judicial condemnation." "By comparison [with three cases where this argument was accepted], [the state officer]'s remarks are innocuous."
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A person buys a defunct group home, converts it to a six-bedroom single-family house, and rents out the bedrooms. The building has a sprinkler system, as the code requires of group homes, but the system is broken. The owner spends 4 k$ on repairs, but the system breaks again, and he declines to spend another 6 k$ on more repairs, since a sprinkler system is not required in a single-family house.
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Municipal code enforcement cites the owner for failing to maintain the sprinkler system. It argues that, once a sprinkler system has been installed, that system must be maintained and cannot be removed, even though it would not be required under the current use.
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The owner appeals, arguing that code enforcement's interpretation is wrong. The code-enforcement board agrees with him and rules that the sprinkler system can be removed.
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A developer buys a defunct golf course and submits an application to redevelop it with two warehouses. The municipal zoning officer denies the application, because (inter alia) it does not show all the existing steep slopes on the land. The developer appeals, arguing that the manmade steep slopes of the defunct golf course are not included within the "natural resources" that the municipal zoning code requires an applicant to identify.
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The zoning board denies the appeal, and the trial judge and the appeals panel affirm. "Natural resources" are defined in the municipal zoning code as "existing natural elements relating to land" and to include "steep slopes". The plain dictionary definition of "natural resources" includes manmade environmental features such as parks. And, under state precedent, any law that applies to "steep slopes" applies to both manmade and natural slopes unless the law explicitly states otherwise, since whether an originally manmade slope becomes "natural" 10, 30, or 100 years after its creation "is the sort of 'thorny bordering on philosophical' question best avoided by courts and left to legislation and policymaking".
Medicaid-subsidized nursing-home care has an asset limit of around 2 k$ (plus house of around 550 k$). Medicaid-subsidized health insurance has no asset limit at all.
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Google, citing two pages that are unavailable at the moment and are not in the Internet Archive (1 2) and one page that is available, indicates that "the Estate of Dashiell Hammett" does still exist (managed by a literary agency).
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I can't tell whether you're joking. If you aren't, see Baneposting.
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low-income adults utilizing expanded Medicaid will be required to demonstrate 80 hours of work per month starting in 2027
I feel obligated to point out a loophole that people constantly fail to mention: you alternatively can demonstrate monthly income equal to 80 hours of work at the federal minimum wage of 7.25 $/h (580 $/mo, 6960 $/a). This allows many "unemployed young men mooching off the system" to still qualify on the strength of the dividends from their investments. See § 71119 of the text.
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I assume it means multiple groups each comprising fewer than 100 people. The government response was quite large:
Iranian security forces halted and clashed with the protesters at the Istanbul intersection on December 29, according to Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC)-affiliated media and geolocated footage. Iranian security forces also launched tear gas and clashed with protesters on Boali Street in southern Hamedan City on December 29. A BBC Persian journalist reported that economic protests also occurred in Malard City, Tehran Province, and on Gheshm Island in the Persian Gulf, but did not provide footage of the protests at the time of this writing. Tehran merchants announced that they will continue to protest on December 30.
Also, that article is from Sunday, and the protests have escalated since then.
Protests continued to expand geographically across Iran on December 31. Small protests broke out in Tehran on December 28 and have since spread to 17 out of Iran’s 31 provinces.
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One article says:
Small-scale protests demanding that the Iranian government address the devaluation of the Iranian rial and high inflation rates have continued for the second consecutive day in Tehran and Hamadan City, western Iran, on December 29, amid a rapid collapse of the Iranian currency since November 2025. The value of the Iranian rial has deteriorated rapidly after November 2025, though its value has fallen for years due to sanctions and Iran’s general international isolation. Protests initially began in Tehran on December 28. Groups of less than roughly 100 civilians, who were reportedly Iranian ”businessmen”, marched from Lalezar Street toward the Imam Khomeini Square on December 29, demanding that the Iranian government intervene in the economy and address the high inflation rate and devaluation of the currency.
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You choose to join a group of 100 people. These 100 people can live anywhere, it's just the group you're a member of. You can leave your group if another is willing to accept you.
It might be slightly more practical to say:
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A normal-size group comprises 71–140 people.
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An undersize group comprises 51–70 people. Within one month it must become a normal-size group, by either merging with another group or taking on new members individually.
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An oversize group comprises 141–200 people. Within one month it must become a normal-size group, by either splitting into multiple groups or bleeding off members individually.
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Small City
Ackchually, according to the United Nations you don't hit "city" status until 50,000 people, so this would just be a mid-sized town.
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mandate browsers usable in their country not respect that part of the unicode spec
The PRC has been actively participating in these technical discussions. See, e. g., document N2893 on this page, in which the PRC expresses the position that Han+Hangul characters can be kept in the existing CJK Unified Ideographs block, but Han+Bopomofo, Han+Hiragana, Han+Katakana, and Han+Latin characters should be moved to a new CJK Hybrid Characters block.
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This is a joke, right?
It's maybe half a joke. It's far from impossible that the next version of Unicode will add the "⼴K" character, and then somebody in the PRC or in Japan will try to register that as the name of his child.
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Transnational culture war: For at least a decade, Chinese-speaking people who identify as "nonbinary" or "agender" have been using "X也" and "TA" as makeshift gender-neutral pronouns, replacing the original default "他" ("人" = "human", nowadays interpreted as "male" in this context) and the female-specific "她" ("女" = "female") that was invented only a hundred years ago as a result of contact with the West. Now (actually, back in September), activists have successfully gotten Unicode to codify a new hanzi for this purpose—a combined version of "㐅也". (At the time of writing, the actual character won't show up on your screen properly since it hasn't yet been added to the fonts on your computer, but it is "".) The parallel to Western neopronouns like "ze" is obvious.
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Kiwi Farms compilation of background information, including technical discussion of weird multi-script characters like "X也" and "⼴K" "⼴O"
Characters that combine Han components with Latin, kana, or other scripts challenge the fundamental definition of what counts as a “Hanzi”. China has repeatedly emphasized this point: while such hybrids may function as ideographs in practice, they exceed the established understanding and technical definition of Han characters. Including them indiscriminately in the CJK Unified Ideographs (CJKUI) would blur the line between alphabetic scripts and Han, undermining both sinological theory and practical assumptions in computing.
The discussion of script-hybrid characters highlights both the practical needs of users and the importance of maintaining a clear scope for CJK Unified Ideographs. These characters do exist, but their inclusion within CJKUI raises unresolved questions of definition, procedure, and implementation.
Creating a separate block is the most balanced and forward-looking solution. It allows these forms to be encoded without altering the Han-only scope of CJKUI and gives space for tailored procedures to be developed.
Leaving hybrid code points unmapped in GB 18030 [the PRC's separate copy of Unicode] could serve as a pragmatic fallback if hybrids are nevertheless placed in CJK extensions. This would keep China’s implementation consistent.
Two new entries in Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names incoming:
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People's names are written in any single script.
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Okay, fine, a person's name may contain characters from multiple scripts, but surely no single character in any person's name contains multiple scripts within itself.
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Associated Press says:
It wasn’t known why Israel made the declaration Friday or whether the country was expecting something in return.
Earlier this year, U.S. and Israeli officials told The Associated Press that Israel had approached Somaliland about taking in Palestinians from Gaza as part of U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan at the time to resettle the territory’s population. The United States has since abandoned that plan.
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Mottizan
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Mottizan = TheMotte partisan = bad
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Mottizen = TheMotte denizen = neutral
Subject matter experts can write the best ‘depth’ posts by simple virtue of being able to contribute more (and more interesting) knowledge on the (interesting) topic of interest than the layman audience. People know the most about things that they have to know about because it is part of their job, or they love to learn about because it is their passion. Let us call these wonks and nerds, and celebrate both because of what they can bring to any topic.
I will reiterate what I said a while ago:
More people need to make lengthy posts about their cool jobs in the vein of my previous posts! I've been waiting with bated breath for the past
<ins>three</ins>year<ins>s</ins>to hear about the dreaded "scrum master", "daily stand-up", and "Git merge conflict" from some of the 10× programmers that supposedly frequent this website. Maybe we even have an architect who can complain about his clients' wishy-washiness and scoff at all the pathetic free (libre) attempts to compete with Chief Architect, or a paving contractor who can express his hatred of his local transportation authority's resident engineers and in-house designers in the strongest of terms.
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See also this map I made a while ago.
Somaliland has finally been officially recognized as an independent country (by Israel).
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A ski resort has been in operation since year 1969. It includes a mountain face that bears not only several ski slopes, but also part of a gravel municipal road that runs across the slopes. The resort has with the municipality an agreement providing that, during the ski season (from November 15 to April 1), the municipality will close the part of the road that intersects the resort.
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In year 2008, a person buys a large lot on the gravel road, adjacent to the resort, but still accessible by car during ski season if you drive on the part of the road that does not intersect the resort. He builds a vacation home, and subdivides the land into several lots, which he intends to market as "ski-in, ski-out" properties. In 2013, he tries to sell the house, but receives no offers. In 2014, he asks the resort about developing an alternative road leading through the resort to his properties, but the resort is not interested.
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In 2015, the person sues the resort and the municipality to force them to keep the intersecting portion of the road open during the ski season. This would close the intersecting ski slopes (which seem to constitute around one-third of the resort), and might force the ski resort to cease operations entirely. The judicial proceedings end in 2022, with the intersecting portion of the road "vacated" by the municipality and ceded to the resort.
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In 2021, the ski resort sues the person, alleging that his previous lawsuit was an abuse of judicial process intended to pressure the resort into developing the aforementioned alternative road. The trial judge grants summary judgment regarding liability, since the person literally admitted this under oath during the previous lawsuit. A jury grants damages of 600 k$ (400 compensatory and 200 punitive). In 2025, the appeals panel affirms.
In 1888, Chief Justice Bleckley of the Supreme Court of Georgia authored a famed two-sentence opinion (Pacetti v. State, 7 S.E. 867, 868 (Ga. 1888)):
A social, genial gentleman, fond of company and a glass, by occupation a cigar-maker, who keeps his sleeping apartment with the doors "blanketed", in a fit condition for privately gaming therein, and who invites his friends at night to refresh themselves with beer, but has in the room, besides barrels and bottles, a table suitable for gaming, together with 11 packs of cards, and 2 boxes of "chips", one containing 80 chips and the other 300, and a memorandum book with names and numbers entered in it, and whose guests, or some of them, retire hurriedly under the bed on being surprised by a visit from the police at 1 o'clock in the morning, may or may not be guilty of the offense of keeping a gaming-house. A verdict of guilty, based on these and other inculpatory facts, such as the rattle of chips and money, and some expressions about $7 and $12, heard by the police on approaching the premises, is warranted by the evidence, and is not contrary to law.
How would you rewrite these "two sentences"?
A social, genial gentleman—fond of company and a glass, and by occupation a cigar-maker—(1) who keeps his sleeping apartment with the doors "blanketed" (in a fit condition for privately gaming therein), and (2) who invites his friends at night to refresh themselves with beer, but has in the room (besides barrels and bottles) a table suitable for gaming, together with 11 packs of cards, 2 boxes of "chips" (one containing 80 chips and the other 300), and a memorandum book with names and numbers entered in it, and (3) whose guests (or some of them) retire hurriedly under the bed on being surprised by a visit from the police at 1 o'clock in the morning, may or may not be guilty of the offense of keeping a gaming-house. However, a verdict of guilty, based on these and other inculpatory facts (such as the rattle of chips and money, and some expressions about $7 and $12, heard by the police on approaching the premises), is warranted by the evidence, and is not contrary to law.
The defendant-appellant in this case is a social, genial gentleman, fond of company and a glass, and by occupation a cigar-maker. He kept his sleeping apartment with the doors "blanketed", in a fit condition for privately gaming therein. He invited his friends at night to refresh themselves with beer, but had in the room (besides barrels and bottles) a table suitable for gaming, together with 11 packs of cards, 2 boxes of "chips" (one containing 80 chips and the other 300), and a memorandum book with names and numbers entered in it. His guests (or some of them) retired hurriedly under the bed on being surprised by a visit from the police at 1 o'clock in the morning. This man may or may not be guilty of the offense of keeping a gaming-house. However, a verdict of guilty, based on these and other inculpatory facts (such as the rattle of chips and money, and some expressions about $7 and $12, heard by the police on approaching the premises), is warranted by the evidence, and is not contrary to law.
Survey: The proportion of USAians who "display decorations with a religious meaning, such as a Nativity scene", for Christmas is 54 percent, down from 68 percent in 2010. Presumably, this number can be taken as an indicator of how many people consider Christmas a religious holiday as opposed to a secular one.
Actual numbers:
| Phone | Diagonal size (inches) of screen | …of phone | Weight (oz) |
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| Google Pixel 1 | 5.0 | 6.3 | 5.0 |
| Google Pixel 4 | 5.7 | 6.4 | 5.7 |
| Google Pixel 10 Pro | 6.3 | 6.7 | 7.3 |
| Unihertz Jelly Max | 5.0 | 5.6 | 6.3 |
I said "hilariously hentai facts". I would not be surprised to find a similar storyline in a literal hentai manga.
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