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Patrick says

The cruelty of nature!

I had to check on that one to make sure it wasn't AI... Apparently Hippos can spray out poop like that.

Yes, hippos spray poop as a territorial and communication behavior, using their spinning tails to fling feces over a wide area (sometimes 10 meters or more) to mark their presence and warn off rivals, a dramatic action sometimes called "tornado poo" or "muck-spreading". This powerful scent-marking is especially triggered by unfamiliar hippo calls, signaling "stranger danger" and establishing dominance or marking turf.

I was thinking it might still be AI, but OK, it's hilarious anyway.

Tenpoundbass says

Kieser College fucked me out of about $40K, I went to a lawyer. I had to write up all the dissertation, and outlay everything for him. Because he took my retainer fee, and promised to write up the case, but weeks and weeks passed and he did nothing. Kept asking me about the details again every time I called for an update. But he kept telling me it was a slam dunk case. Finally he met with their legal team, to discuss a settlement. He wasn't about to go against a Liberal institution owned by Washington Post(Bezos) who had recently acquired Keiser college. Their Indian staff were the ones that terminated my contract and refused to pay for about 30 days of work I had already performed. Because they wanted me to help them integrate what I did for Keiser into their own systems, without getting more money, and the Indians were too stupid to understand it.
He came back from the meeting and told me, that I had no case against them, and they were willing to settle for 7K. He still wanted his 40% cut. Which in our early discussions he said he was going to sue them for over 100K which is why I agreed to it.

@Tenpoundbass Thanks for posting this! Real world examples with lawyers are very educational.

Maybe you can make a whole thread out of this, where others can post their experiences with lawyers too.

I did at the time, but I withheld the names to protect the innocent. And NDAs.

https://x.com/JaimeeUSA/status/2009038433843302665

Tenpoundbass says

I have a feeling the next two elections isn't going to be decided by Democrat voters vs Republican voters. But Ugly people vs Beautiful people.

I see what you did there with "butt ugly."

Patrick says

https://x.com/JaimeeUSA/status/2009038433843302665

I am surprised the Denmark lady does not send the Muslims to Greenland.

Don't give her any ideas! That's future US territory and Muslims do NOT belong in the West at all. They are violently intolerant of free speech, freedom of religion, and they continuously commit massacres of random non-Muslims.

Literally every day, Muslims massacre non-Muslims somewhere in the word, because that's what Islam teaches them to do:

https://thereligionofpeace.com/attacks/attacks.aspx?Yr=Last30

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/honor-among-thieves-friday-january

Earlier this week, Hilton Hotels International narrowly avoided being Bud-Lited. The Wall Street Journal ran the story below the headline, “Hilton, ICE and the New Playbook for Handling an Online Crisis.” The subheadline explained, “The hotel company severed ties with a Hampton Inn less than 24 hours after allegations that it canceled rooms for immigration agents.”

The fight began quietly, with a few blunt emails and a hotel clerk who figured no one would ever see them, and ended with a crane literally ripping the “Hampton Inn by Hilton” sign off a Minnesota hotel as the entire country watched.




Several federal immigration and DHS officers arrived in Minneapolis, already under siege from the Biden-era border crisis that has spilled deep into the country’s interior, suddenly found their government-booked rooms were canceled, and were rudely informed in writing that the property was “not allowing any ICE or immigration agents to stay at our property.”

DHS blasted the move in a searing tweet titled, “NO ROOM AT THE INN!” The agency accused the entire Hilton chain of a coordinated effort to blacklist federal law enforcement and effectively side with the very criminal networks those agents were there to confront.

When Nick Sortor tweeted a viral independent video showing a front-desk worker still turning agents away —even after corporate assured the public and DHS that the problem had been resolved— the online backlash from outraged Americans was instant and ferocious, forcing Hilton to act again within hours. ...

In a rare and very public rebuke of one of its own franchisees for failing the basic test of equal treatment and public accomodation, Hilton cut the Lakeville property completely out of its system, declared that Hilton-flagged hotels must be open to everyone, and immedately ordered workers to haul down the trademarked flag (the Hilton sign)— a steel-and-neon warning to every other woke-minded business thinking about discriminating against the men and women who enforce the nation’s immigration laws.

Hampton Inn hotels are independently owned franchises and are subject to a dizzying array of contractual requirements. Apparently, refusing service to federal employees and then lying about it breached Hilton’s franchise agreement, probably in multiple paragraphs. I’ve represented hotel franchisees. Believe me that this de-flagging process usually takes months, with franchise locations usually getting multiple warnings and chances to fix problems. Big brand owners like Hilton try to avoid lawsuits from their franchisees, so they are usually slow and cautious.

Not this time. Hilton International obviously had no intention of waiting around for the country to sort out the distinction between the corporate brand and a local franchise. The whole thing was over in less than 24 hours. Buh bye.

Booger says

Hyena tries to sneak up on a Hippo:

Male version of "squirting" LOL !