Comments by "Gilad Barlev" (@GSBarlev) on "LegalEagle" channel.

  1. I lost respect for quite a few of my AP English classmates the day after our teacher assigned us "A Modest Proposal" for homework reading. Of course a few weeks later we got an (unlabeled) essay that I completely read as serious and proceeded to participate straight-faced in a discussion about until one student (who incidentally was my high school crush) interrupted us all to say, "Guys, it's David Sedaris."
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  2. Chaos Lawyer's addition to the Legal Eagle lineup is so absolutely welcome.
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  3. Considering the competition (Sam Bankman-Fried and Elizabeth Holmes come to mind), you have to admit that it's quite an accomplishment.
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  4. My main takeaway from this is that Marques is darn lucky he didn't do this in Virginia. The Editor in Chief of Jalopnik, back in 2014, spent three nights in jail for going ~30mph over the speed limit on an unpopulated rural straightaway while doing a car review of the (then-)new Chevy Camaro.
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  5. 1:16 "Which one was the whale?" None of them, Donnie. There has never been a whale on any version of that test.
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  6. UberEats and the others also seem to be trying to obscure more and more the actual kitchen preparing your order–I know there's two locations of the virtual kitchen Pimp My Pasta: one always throws in extra garlic bread, the other always gives me food poisoning. I have to be really careful when searching for delivery that I get the correct location, which often necessitates typing in the physical address (if I remember it) or going to my order history to hit "reorder." Obviously this is UberEats being skeevy, but it's why overall consistency in a brand does kinda matter.
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  7. Objection! By clicking on a Legal Eagle video you agreed to a certain level of expected punnage—a level that could not have been met without the subsequent meat jokes.
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  8. All those calls to 1-900 numbers really add up. 😂 (for those of you younglings, "premium rate" phone numbers were a thing in the days before the internet that people used to call for... "entertainment" purposes)
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  9. If Don Junior shaved his beard, and you put him in a lineup with Hunter Biden, I wouldn't be able to tell the two apart.
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  10. I don't think you're quite appreciating how small a square foot is. One acre is 43,560 square feet. Let's say that all of these businesses combined, and over their lifetimes (bear in mind that there's no way anyone was doing large volumes of this in the '90s) comes out to 10MM square feet. That's just 230 acres of Scottish woodlands, and almost certainly consists of oddly-shaped plots between other properties that hold no market value. I'm not saying that no one is double-selling land allocations, because greed, but there's really no need for anyone to do so.
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  11. Lots of people support the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party—because they don't think the leopard will ever eat their face.
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  12. A beautiful idea, but the reality would be pretty nasty—The Onion is part of the entity formerly known as The Gizmodo Group, whose CEO is noted Herb Jim Spanfeller.
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  13. To be fair, Ben Franklin would totally understand blowing a ton of money on OnlyFans.
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  14. Gotta love the dig at 26:35. Since The Eagle Team includes employment litigation, I'm hoping you'll cover Linus Media Group's external audit findings once they conclude.
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  15. I recognize this video was released pre-She Hulk, but Jen Walters deserves placement as well.
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  16. Congratulations on giving the Tories the boot—I know Starmer isn't exactly a stalwart leftist, but here's hoping that y'all can reverse some of the damage that's been done over the past 14 years to drag your country towards our level of anarchy.
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  17. ​ @TheRealWilliamWhite Dude, this isn't a bulletproof Escalade. This is a homologated race car that costs more than I will make in my entire life. Not only is there nowhere to discreetly hide a handgun, but no owner is going to risk scuffing the paint, let alone getting a bullet hole in the carbon chassis monocoque.
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  18. Look—I lust over McLarens, but they are very British supercars. When Hill told the officer not to bang on his window, that was because the frame has incredibly tight tolerances and costs obscene amounts to fix. Further, when the Window only rolls down a crack, there's a distinct possibility that was because it jammed, likely due to the officer's abuse.
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  19. I know who Clint Eastwood is! He debated an empty chair in 2012!
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  20. You know the old joke about sub safety and how it's way safer than flying? There are a lot more airplanes at the bottom of the sea than submarines in the stratosphere.
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  21. @@studiouskid1528 I could be wrong, but my reasoning was that at its peak, Theranos was valued in the many billions which would have put Holmes in the billionaire club thanks to her stake in the company. Indeed, a quick internet search yields that, at Theranos' peak, Holmes' net worth was around $4 billion.
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  22. ​ @andrewdubose9968 For once this is a lot more coherent if you click on the "translate" button 🤣
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  23. How many can you name off the top of your head? - ...spoils the bunch - ...but satisfaction brought it back - ...of the covenant... of the womb - ...master of none Of course, @Craig Johnson above has the winner.
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  24. "Before you say anything mean about [Giuliani], pause. Take a minute. Then see if you can say something MEANER."
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  25. These videos are doing some good, though, in an educational sense. A friend of mine was awarded damages from an assault case, but they were thinking it would be pointless to try to collect because their assailant could just claim bankruptcy. I told them, "Actually, intentional torts are generally non-dischargeable!" so now they're just counting down until the enforcement period.
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  26. I'm so glad for Popehat that he left Twitter before seeing this day—his mentions would have been a disaster so bad Biden would have needed to declare it a Superfund site.
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  27. The sad thing about capitalism is that you don't need to be smart, you just need to have a lot of money you can afford to lose—something like 90-95% failure rates are common in the VC space. But if that 1 in 20 ends up becoming a billion dollar company ( at least for long enough for the initial investors to cash out) then the VC comes out ahead.
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  28. Yeah, I'd already written him off after letting Apple use his channel for anti-Right to Repair propaganda and then wrote him off again after the hilarity that was that wallpaper app. Still, could be worse: at least he's not Linus from Linus Tech Tips.
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  29. Literally in the screenshots he included. Can't expect a lawyer who didn't take the time to read the bogus case law to read the disclaimer that the case law could be bogus...
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  30. ​ @Henrik_Holst MoCA is just meant to detect early signs of dementia, and the fact that he: 1. Brags about it as if it were a MENSA entrance exam 2. Completely fabricates questions that were never on the assessment has me pretty well convinced that he did not, in fact, clear that extremely low bar.
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  31. Someone from The Washington Post¹ had a really good take on this—taking a stand against protests typically does not age very well. It's notable, however, that Biden referred to Vietnam protestors as "[butt]holes." ¹I want to say Aaron Blake
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  32. I live in Northern Virginia and have literally bookmarked his firm's website in case I ever have need of IP litigation or filing / defending from a contact dispute.
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  33. I love that you're writing this with that pfp. I feel like Elon must have watched Johnny Bravo growing up and thought, "Yes, that's what I want to be. But more."
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  34. Upon reflection, I think this is more an indictment of Americans not knowing the first thing about Communism (save that they're "against it").
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  35.  @Andrew-zq3ip  As a customer whose drivers have, on quite a few locations, called to tell me the restaurant address is closed or simply does not exist I apologize for the 🐮💩 y'all have to deal with.
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  36. Doesn't make me smile nearly as much as the thought of Musk simping and agreeing to let him back on only for Drumpf to respond, "Nah, I'm good." Imagine how much if a dumpster fire your platform must be if even The Orange Man wants nothing to do with it.
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  37. Agreed. Especially in areas when the other end of the line has been staffed by bots (or call center employees reading off a script) for years.
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  38. ​ @peterearden  Blood and Honey is going to look absolutely tame by comparison
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  39. He's probably going to be Amercia's next FTC chair. 🤦
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  40. Not to take away from your point, but obligatory mention that the Dunning-Kruger effect isn't real... except when it comes to people's understand of the Dunning-Kruger effect.
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  41. My guess: the original panel couldn't stomach the sitting through even one of the original Eleanor films. 🔥
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  42. Exceptions: Majel and Eugene Roddenberry
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  43.  @JS-oh2dp  - You're right about curiosity killed the cat (that dates to a 1598 Ben Jonson play) - Bad apples originates from Ben Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanack (1736) -- "A rotten apple quickly infects its neighbor" - Blood vs water is up for debate, with some citations claiming derivation from an Arab proverb where blood refers to blood-oaths - The first recorded use of a version of "jack of all trades" dates to 1592 and was used as a term of derision referring to none other than William Shakespeare. So of the four that I "literally" just grabbed from a tublr post, two are confirmed to pre-date their shortened forms, with one up for debate. 🤷‍♂️
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  44.  @JohnwesleyA  They do. It's a major source of revenue for many towns.
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  45. Liz "Chaos Lawyer" Dye featuring so much on this channel is honestly one of the best side-effects of all of these Trump Trials.
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  46. She's a regular contributor to "Above the Law" and has her own podcast called "Law and Chaos" (hence the moniker).
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  47.  @Fx_Explains  Well, most recently it's because he laid off his best writers and a ton of other staff. And before you say that was the CEO, Linus and Yvonne are 100% owners of LMG.
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  48. Who remembers this Pence tweet from 2016? "Our choice has never been more clear. We can either elect my running mate, a bold truth-teller, or the most dishonest candidate in history"
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  49. If you're saying Stephanie Hsu would do a bang up job running Twitter, I wholeheartedly concur
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  50. ​ @YoudonGettit  Google search has gotten legitimately worse with its summarized answers (this pre-dates the current crop of LLMs, btw). It quotes information completely out of context... though at least it still links to the source material, at least for now.
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  51. Can confirm that officially becoming a lord or lady costs somewhere in the ballpark of $320k* comprising four years of tuition, room and board to Kenyon College of Gambier, OH. Sincerely, class of 2009. *It's $80k a year now?! Jfc, I know inflation in college tuitions is a thing, but that's just ludicrous.
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  52. I'm struggling to get past the fact that the cat burglar's name was Katco
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  53. I get you're trying to score easy internet points, but dang, buddy. Certainly there are more deserving targets for mockery, like hospice nurses or elementary school teachers.
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  54. Spider-Man makes a living taking pictures of Spider-Man, doesn't he?
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  55.  @katrinabryce  YES! Amazon has had this problem for years, and my solution has been to Google "site:amazon product," but with Google pulling this 💩 now too, I guess I'm turning to DDG?
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  56. The list of law firms that Trump has stiffed goes a long way towards explaining why he's stuck scraping metaphorical gum off surface of literal parking garages.
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  57. Appreciate the use of Stable Diffusion (or Midjourney or DALL-E). It was the two-faced watch at 0:47 that clued me in, but those hands are also way too big. Oh, and they also have too many fingers.
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  58. SCOTUS allowing Youngkin to strike 1600 names from the voter rolls a week before Election Day was infuriating. At least we have same-day registration. And on that note, when I went to vote today, there was a pretty long line—when I checked in, though, my registration was confirmed, and I was directed straight to the ballot booths. So I'm pretty sure that line was for people registering (or reregistering).
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  59. 12:00 If Trump or one of his co-conspirators reached out to The Eagle Team to defend them, I'd like to think that Devin & co's commitment to the principle that all defendants deserve zealous advocacy would win out and that they would respond with: Works on contingency? No, money down!
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  60. 4:06 I'm sorry, no. The Oxford comma is antiquated, redundant and does nothing to clarify one's writing.
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  61. Paramount's mistake with the bar robots was to base them on Norm and Cliff instead of Morn and Hamm.
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  62. The irony of that Ben Stein clip circulating when he was a virulent right-winger and is quoted as saying, as recently as 2022, that "Nixon and Trump did nothing wrong."
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  63. Don't think the irony of using a clip of Ben "Nixon and Trump did nothing wrong" Stein at 1:34 was lost on me.
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  64. This whole time I thought the Streisand Effect was a reference to when the actress heavily criticized (and looked into taking legal action against) a little-known crudely animated show on Comedy Central causing South Park to enter the cultural zeitgeist and skyrocket in popularity
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  65. Just to be a wet blanket: we really don't want a society in which we have "Debtors' Prisons." Because realistically Giuliani would never serve a day, and instead the prisons would be overrun with people of color issued selectively prosecuted speeding tickets.
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  66.  @Nadia1989  Looked it up to make sure, but the new CEO did "commit to publish the findings." Doesn't mean they won't go back on that or that they might not release a report that's summarized or redacted beyond the point of uselessness, but at least we can't be gaslit into believing that the findings were never supposed to see the light of day.
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  67. Listen--my college had its own neutron source that they'd pull out of storage for a few labs a year. Giant vat of literal plutonium. Before pulling it out, my physics professor would warn us all that we were about to work with some extremely dangerous material--the LEAD BRICKS we were using for shielding. I can pretty much guarantee that those uranium kits exposed kids to less ionizing radiation than a cross-country flight, and I am seriously envious of any kid who got to experience a cloud chamber before they experienced puberty.
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  68. Horrible take! As a lawyer at Quinn Emanuel's Liechtenstein office and having practiced for all of 7 seconds, it's clear that you just don't understand any part of the law. 😜
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  69. 1:21 -- She formerly represented a parking garage company? Well, good on her for moving on to a client with slightly better morals. 1:30 and getting Trump a "Ladies' Man" honorific reminds me of the line from Futurama questioning Henry Kissinger's negotiating skills. Bender: "Is he any good?" Nixon: "Looking like that, he talked his way into Jill St. John's bed, 'nuff said"
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  70. I'd argue shouting "You can't shout fire in a crowded theater" is non-protected speech under Brandenburg as it is directed to and likely to cause Ken "@Popehat" White to fly into an unlawfully murderous rage.
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  71. So here's the thing--and let's talk about just the SRD. Copyleft licenses go both ways. If any part of the SRD text contains content written not by WoTC/Hasbro but adopted from a community contributor (as Dancey intended), then isn't it the case that Hasbro literally cannot re-license the SRD without the contributor's consent? I am not a lawyer, but this has been the explanation I've read about why, for instance, the Linux kernel is still on an older edition of the GPL--regardless of Linus' feelings on GPLv3, the Linux Foundation could not alter the license of the kernel without the consent of every single contributor (or removing the contributions from the hold-outs).
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  72.  @something-from-elsewhere  Subsequent studies have found that, on the whole, any "effect" is illusory, with confidence in one's abilities are, in fact, strongly correlated with ones actual performance. Yes, there are obviously individuals in both the "imposter syndrome" and "confident knownothing" quadrants, but they are the exception, not the rule.
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  73. From now on, I'm going to refer to getting legal knowledge hammered into my brain from your channel as "Getting Stoned."
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  74. Gotta feel for Giuliani's lawyer, who couldn't get his client to shut the Heck up and who will likely not see a dime in compensation. (this is tongue-in-cheek, especially since if I were representing Rudy or anyone else in MAGAspace, I'd insist on up front payment)
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  75. That black and white mouse associated with Disney? Nah. I associate it with the profanity-spewing recurring character in John Oliver's Last Week Tonight. That trademark application will never be approved.
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  76.  @HelloHuman1  On the whole, I thought the CGI in The 100 was great. It's just the superhero shows where they phone it in.
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