While not a “review” in the traditional sense, I hope it would fall under the CRFA anyway.

https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/resources/consumer-review-fairness-act-what-businesses-need-know

The Consumer Review Fairness Act makes it illegal for companies to include standardized provisions that threaten or penalize people for posting honest reviews.

They can’t necessarily use a “contract” as a defense.

From the king of “free speech.” 🙄

It’s no coincidence this happened just days after ICE dropped all age requirements. Racist old man begs to join the gestapo, and the other racists in charge are all too willing to oblige.

The real answer is, it’s complicated. Involuntary commitment (and related acts) is a pretty extreme measure for when an individual is a danger to themselves or others. There’s no evidence that he’s trying to hurt himself, and the “other” usually has to be a specific person, not just a hypothetical class of others to have standing.

And it’s even more complicated by the idea that the president has been gifted broad immunity regarding anything remotely tangential to official powers. So you can’t even say you, specifically, are in danger due to things done by the government, so long as there is some whack job theory under which it’s being executed.

If he came alone to your house naked and covered in nacho cheese with a knife threatening to hurt you, you’d probably have a case. Depending on the state, it probably takes something similar even for a family member or acquaintance (but check your local laws).

Teachers: You can’t divide by zero.
Nature: Hey guys, check this shit out.

front for money laundering

Or worse

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobby_Lobby_smuggling_scandal

In other news, sales of the caveman fad diet books have cratered.

I’m not an expert, but there are a few bullet points I’m aware of:

1. Any strong alcohol has to be purchased at a state run store. 5% ABV beer can be found in grocery stores, but any hard liquor or wine or stronger beer goes through the state. Even restaurants, so it ends up being more expensive with the extra layer of profits. This was (basically) how it worked when/where I grew up in Washington (since changed), so it’s not totally up to date with most places, but it’s also not too far removed from being pretty normal.

2. No ordering alcohol at a restaurant unless you also order food. Not sure what other states do. Maybe pretty normal, maybe not? Bars are fine, but the licensing is different and more limited. There were rules about bar areas in restaurants having to be more ‘hidden’ from the main dining area, but I think that’s a thing of the past. And even older restaurants that haven’t remodeled in the last decade+ still have drinks available. It was always a minor, performative hurdle.

3. (edited in) The DUI limit in Utah is .05, which is lower than most states’ .08. Whatever you think of alcohol, don’t drink and drive.

For me, who just gets a few 6-packs per month to drink at home, I don’t know all the other ins and outs. It’s always a little funny to hear outside people tell me how archaic the rules are. Maybe someone who spends every weekend at a nightclub is right, and it’s impossible to get a decent drink out on the town, but I don’t do that, so it’s not really a big deal.

As a Utah resident, I can confidently say this: the only thing UT lawmakers care about more than pushing their religion is money. They got a bunch of flak for having 19th century liquor laws in 2002 when the olympics were in SLC, so they updated them to be more in line with, say, 1950s liquor laws.

These are all good fun, but for the record, Uinta Brewing makes some of my favorite beers.

Get >50% of the vote? Straight to jail.

Must be an angel with wings, so they can also have a flying fuck.

Then you all get to hate that one person who already read a 15 year old textbook they found in the trash instead of me, who can’t teach as well as literal garbage!

Why even have communities if nobody is going to respect the individual culture and purpose of them?

Expanding on some of the other answers…

A court in the US or UK is going to look and act a lot different than courts in, like, Thailand or India or whatever.

But taking the US as an example, both sides will get a copy of relevant data, and whichever side wants to allege tampering will hire an expert to try to make that case to the judge or jury. The court itself doesn’t verify any evidence. Both sides present their version, and the jury decides what happens - with the prosecution in a criminal trial having a higher burden of proof, at least in theory.

“douche”

“If you’re not paying for the product, then you are the product.”

The phrase has its uses, but shit like this is what happens when it’s taken to the extreme.

Mathematicians: get novel ideas named after themselves.
Freud: No, no, it was totally that other guy.

Let’s take those in reverse order:

Why do people always respond to depressed people by recommending … going to gym?

You basically answered this one yourself:

I had seen studies that say that training or even just daily walks can highly improve mood, but I had never heard that they fully cure depression.

There is no permanent cure for depression. The best you can do is treat it. Getting out of the house for a walk, or to a gym, or just outside, seems to be a simple way to take the worst of the edge off for many people. But it’s not a cure, which leads into the other part.

recommending visiting a therapist

There isn’t a universal one-size-fits-all treatment. A therapist can help find what works for each individual. Sometimes that’s changing destructive habits, or getting more exercise, or yes, pharmaceuticals (even then, there are lots of different types that work for some people and not others). Getting the best treatment often starts with professional help.

Untreated depression can be fatal. If there are physical limitations that prevent someone from being more active, and financial (or other) constraints that prevent medical care, there are support groups for depression and other ailments around the US (and I assume elsewhere): https://adaa.org/find-help/support/support-groups

You work your whole life to be able to afford a little frivolity. If you’re just going to stand in your own way to deny yourself all but the essentials, that’s no way to live.