You might want to read the filing. The second last page is the request for relief, which very much requests damages for economic harm, trebled where law permits, plus interest.
Their case isn't frivolous. A lot of states have anti-boycott laws (fuck you very much, AIPAC). Decide on your own not to do business with an asshole, fine. Collude with others to make sure none of you do business with the asshole, not so fine. And they judge-shopped themselves Reed O'Connor, who is a favorite of right wing causes. This suit will not be throwm out.
Oh, and Musk isn't pursueing advertising, he's looking for damages (cash).
Um, no, I don't agree with that at all and don't see how that follows from a judge being reluctant (though not completely unwilling as he said) to jail an unconvicted former president and nominee for future president. If you're trying to get your mope on, kindly do it at someone else.
He has been sanctioned, just not for this behavior. But prior BS behavior no doubt contributed to the judge's willingness to sanction. The difficulty is there's no punishment between a 1000 dollar fine and incarceration, and the judge really does not want to jail a former and nominally future president.
...except he is not on the fediverse. He's on threads.net, which is a walled garden you can't interact with, and the content the president's PR flacks will post there is hardly unique. I mean, I could set up a script that reposts the whitehiuse.gov RSS feed to mastodon with a #potus tag. Would that mean the president is "on" mastodon?
No, I don't, and I don't regard walled gardens as any kind of open web. Do you?
The president's threads posts being copied to the fediverse is just effectively an RSS feed. You want a real milestone for the fediverse? How about the white house sets up their own mastodon instance, accounts available only to white house staff, like the BBC did.
You think threads.net is the open web? FFS the president can and does have press releases typed up and posted to a government web server that anyone can read and link to. That's posting to the open web.
"Cafe Lock" is a thing for short term stops where you're mostly somewhat keeping an eye on your bike, but I would never use any lock that is vulnerable to a pair of diagonal cutters.
@Schnuckster Any particular thoughts on why it is so dead today? Is it driven mainly by corporate-affiliated accounts who are taking off the christmas-new years week?
> if landlords arent making the most of their property by leaving it empty, then why would banks want to avoid the chance of profit as well.
The banks' problem is that as long as the landlord maintains the fiction that the property can be leased out at $50/foot, the banks can carry the loan on the books at full value even if the property has sat unleased for years, so long as the landlord continues to make payments on time. But the moment the landlord leases it at a more realistic price (say $25/foot), that creates a mark to market event where the bank has to reduce the book value of the loan, and revalueing loans lower tends to interfere with one's annual bonus. So you see banks have a powerful incentive to maintain the fiction that it will lease at $50/foot *someday*, even though a property pulling in at least *some* income is arguably the more valuable loan. 1/2
If the bank employee takes an action that forces the bank to book a loss this year, on a loan where the book loss could have been postponed 10 or 15 years, the bank's management and colleagues' reaction is going to be: "you asshole". Add to that banks being highly leveraged (they carry only 2-7% reserves, depending on their line of business and quality of their portfolio), just one loan going declarably bad can trigger a lot of regulatory scrutiny and possible close examination of their remaining loans carried at book value. (see prior comment about bank runs)
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