"Oil in my lamp" is not a phrase I've heard before, but it is very evocative.
What a blessing!

the law is real until it gets to SCOTUS at which point it becomes fake, which doesn't bother the six reactionaries at the top but does undermine literally everyone else in the profession

But doesn't he convince them he's offsite tech support or something to do so? That's social engineering.

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Right???????,

Maybe slap the person making you use the confidently wrong asshole tool?

Oh, thanks for the reminder that i need to figure out what I messed up with the site hosting most recently.
Also glad you like it!

#. Those thin synthetic facemasks you are already using are really great for keeping your face warm in extended periods outside. If the surface starts to freeze, don't worry about it, your masks will do great insulating your skin from that.

-Most- frequently by an academic tech employee who has to post course materials for a faculty member, when the faculty member is being edgy. (Our local policies say © is the instructor's call, but they need to make informed & reasonable decisions.)

Also, for clarity, i think of this as worker protection bc it's often asked by a low-level employee (here and at other schools) who wants to know their butt won't be on the line for a © decision they have qualms about but no power to change.

Tho I also pretty much always point out that if an institution -wants- to hang an employee out to dry, they will. And they'll sometimes do it to everyone involved in the action down the reporting chain.

Ah. In this context, it's about things like low-level employees, instructed by someone "above" them, to do something they -think- might be a copyright law violation. To my mind, it's a worker protection in that, if someone sues, it shouldn't be the low-level employee's butt on the line.

...in the much more common situations of exploitative/hierarchical working conditions that -don't- involve any atrocities is maybe further from mind.
(Hence my pointing out that illegality is in no way synonymous with immorality (& vice versa and verce visa and...)

Oh yeah, I think it was coming (relayed through friend) from someone who is, for very legitimate reasons, thinking a lot lately about the appeal of a "just following orders" defense around present atrocities.
And if you're focused on that end of things, the need for worker protections...

Among my other thoughts here, I did say "I hope your German studies friend can see the distinction between illegality and immorality" (in all the directions it may run)
And also, I don't think copyright can ever rise to the level of immorality where worker protections aren't relevant.

I mean the funny story here is "all the kids of your friends are faking disabilities" (i am not saying this is true, i am saying this is why they are having a hard time figuring out what to be mad about)

Yeah, "unitary exec - but for good" is how we -got to- the current idiocy with executive orders. It was bad when Obama and Biden used them, too.