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[martinuzz]

Texas oil company won a lawsuit against Greenpeace, accusing them of insult during the protests against the North Dakota pipeline.
Greenpeace is to pay 667 million dollars (666,666,666.666 dollars) fine.
If the appeal before a higher court in the Netherlands fails, Greenpeace will be bankrupted. Greenpeace has about 85 million in total assets, and gets about 100 million per year in donations. Greenpeace does not have 666,666,666.666 dollars.

It would be cringe if they have to pay. All the money people donated to fight oil industry will then fill the pockets of an evil oil baron.

[Great Order]

Alright, what's the legal definition of insult there? Because I can't see 666m (Lel number of the beast lel) being for saying "Your company is shit and you should feel bad"

[martinuzz]

According to Energy Transfer, Greenpeace instigated the protests by the Standing Rock Sioux and supporters, by spreading misleading information about the environmental impact.

Energy Transfer first went to Federal Court. Greenpeace won there. Then Energy Transfer took it to North Dakota court claiming corporate damages, and demanding Greenpeace pay about double that amount, and won.
It goes to appeal court in the Netherlands now. The EU has (new and untested) laws against SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation) cases like this one.

[Lord Shonus]

It isn't "going to appeal courts in the Netherlands". There are separate legal proceedings going on against the company in the Netherlands. Appeals for this case will be handled within the North Dakota appellate courts, where there is a very high chance it is going to be thrown out due to judicial misconduct (several jurors had significant financial ties to the petroleum industry, disclosed them, and said straight up that they would favor the oil company - the judge seated them anyway).

[Jopax]

A while back I finally caved and allowed Windows to update itself to 11. Today I fire up my tablet to do some drawing, haven't done that in a while, but as it turns out it's fucked. Windows for whatever reason no longer recognizes it as a display screen, the tablet part still works fine but I get no display on it, which was kinda the main reason I bought the fucking thing in the first place.

Googling potential solutions shows a thread with the exact same problem as me and a generic bot reply with zero useful info that then locked the thread.

So now I either accept a half functional piece of hardware or go trough fifteen layers of hell that is wrangling windows into a version it very much does not want me to use :I

[Loud Whispers]

It isn't "going to appeal courts in the Netherlands". There are separate legal proceedings going on against the company in the Netherlands. Appeals for this case will be handled within the North Dakota appellate courts, where there is a very high chance it is going to be thrown out due to judicial misconduct (several jurors had significant financial ties to the petroleum industry, disclosed them, and said straight up that they would favor the oil company - the judge seated them anyway).

Lmao got to admire the jurors for their honesty. I've been in active jury service since november. My work misses me very much 

[martinuzz]

Doesn't jury service usually last justabout 10 days? That musts be one hell of a complex case they put you on.

[Loud Whispers]

Doesn't jury service usually last justabout 10 days? That musts be one hell of a complex case they put you on.

yes ;_;

[martinuzz]

We don't have civil juries over here. I would not mind at all being called for such duty though. Unless I would have other people depending on me in my regular job, like you do.

[Loud Whispers]

We don't have civil juries over here. I would not mind at all being called for such duty though. Unless I would have other people depending on me in my regular job, like you do.

I had a whole courtroom full of lawyers laffing when I told them it would have terrible impact on my work and clinical trials. They said it is no different from you being sick and the whole thing shouldn't fall apart if it's missing one person, so they said that's their problem

To be fair I've been saying the same thing to my boss for a long time but it's also another thing to actually pull the plug and open the gates of hell

[Great Order]

Alright, so my medication may have fucked me over.

See, I started on duloxetine a month and a half ago, and until about three weeks ago I didn't realise what effect it was having on me.

Derealisation, apathy, emotional disconnect, a bunch of fun things.

I'm not the most driven person at the best of times, comes with my maybe-ADHD. The feeling that literally nothing here was real combined with the apathy meant that I had literally no impetus to do things that needed doing but weren't immediate, for example... university assignments.

I have one that's nearly a week overdue. I also have a dissertation I've done almost no work on for the exact same reason (Plus severe anxiety for the first term).

I'm gonna ring the doctor tomorrow, explain what happened, and try to get a note off of them so I can go to the university and say "Hey, my doctor put me on a medication and it actually fucked me up even more. Can you make a special exception for me?"

Hope it works, if not I'm absolutely fucked, especially on my dissertation since it's due on the 30th of April and my supervisor won't be present over the Easter holidays which end on the 28th.

Goddamn my rotten fucking brain, and double goddamn the medication that broke it even more. The only reason I know it's the medication is I stopped taking it on Saturday to check and today's the first day in a long time that everything has felt real, I'm actually feeling somewhat driven, and I'm feeling my emotions properly.

Granted it worked for my anxiety. Hard to feel anxious when nothing feels like it matters.

[Yoink]

Damn. I gotta get me some of that stuff.

[martinuzz]

I sometimes can't help but wonder if a lot of so called patients that are under perscription of antidepressants, anti-anxiety meds and whatever more psychiatrists push nowadays wouldn't be helped to cope with their life much more if the money spent on the psychiatric consults and medication would be added to their monthly income instead. Poverty stress is the underlying cause of so many afflictions of both body and mind.

[Lord Shonus]

If a patient benefits from antidepressants, that means that they need antidepressants - they only work if you have chemical imbalances. The same is true of anti-anxiety medication and pretty much any other psychiatrist-prescribed medication. You're literally spouting the same pseudoscientific nonsense as "ban the drugs and send them to the farm" RFK is.

[Great Order]

Damn. I gotta get me some of that stuff.

It's not a fun derealisation. There's no joy in it, there's no much of anything really. It's like I was just sat around existing, except it felt like I was existing as a character in a video game. Day in, day out.

Just glad it didn't come with delusions of unreality as well.