• flicker@lemmy.world
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    are jus’ as powerful

    You gained zero time by putting an apostrophe where a letter goes! This is an absurd waste of time!

    • anton
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      Com’on, just 'cause it ain’t faster, doesn’t mean it’s a waste of time. They can give a text a relaxed and casual tone.

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    I read the UCC quite a bit during my business law classes. Years later and I testified as an expert in a criminal case and while waiting for a procedural hearing, some nutter starts going off to the judge about how his signature on some court paperwork doesn’t count and starts citing sections from the UCC. Being criminal court, the judge and attorneys didn’t recognize the references and lectured the guy about wasting time. Later I told one of the attorneys he was quoting the UCC, which has absolutely no bearing on criminal proceedings. We had a laugh, good times.

    Google gets these folks into so much trouble.

    • BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.worldOPM
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      This one sovcit group I’m in is called Secured Party Creditors. They are the ones who are obsessed with the UCC. I’m still not quite sure what kind of meth they use.

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    If you’re totally off the grid, you don’t have electricity or internet, so I think that would be right.

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        Where I live, there’s totally open and free WiFi hotspots dotted around the area.
        They’re set up by idealists and political activists.
        If you’re in reach of one of them, you can be off the grid and still get internet.
        But you’d better know a thing or two about network security before you connect.

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          Hm, that’s on the borderline of what is or isn’t “off grid”. The Internet itself is a “grid”, so if you’re connecting to it in any way at all then i think that’s “on grid”. IMO