@Jolenealaska Wow! Congratulations.

Where do you have ten millions reads?

Or is that on all yours posts together?

@Cerberus Ha

Weidner doesn't know any better.

Ah!

@Jolenealaska So how did you use that in your case?

I threatened them with making more noise than they would like if they evicted me.

So they're hoping I will fade away quietly.

I will not fade away quietly.

My voice will carry just fine from midtown.

These two documents were entered as evidence:

docs.google.com/document/d/…

docs.google.com/document/d/…

Those were from me to Weidner's manager in Alaska.

So you think maybe that intimidated them?

I have a good case and they know it.

If the federal court decides that Weidner did me wrong, their fine could be in the 10s of millions. And they will be forced to cease the late fee crap they're pulling on SSDI recipients.

That would be nice.

Yes, yes it would.

@GdD If you want the history, it's in the two Google docs above. The author has an acid quill. :D

@Jolenealaska SWEET VICTORY

@ElendilTheTall Yes!

<guitar sting>

are you still moving out anyway?

Oh yes. They want me GONE.

Moving will be easier with 5 months of back rent in my pocket.

haha

limousine for a moving van eh

Pretty much :D

time to buy all those exact replica GoT costumes you've always wanted

I am being as annoying as possible. I have until 5 pm on the 22nd to be gone. I'm in my place tomorrow.

But I still have more than a week to annoy them from inside.

a few dead fish in the air ducts

Even though the deposit is a non-issue, I am taking the high road on the place.

absolutely

I will leave my black lives matter window display (they hate that) and the other things that dramatically affect electric usage. And a long note explaining non-zero-sum-balance thinking.

And a final - "see you in Federal Court!"

hehe

you're the best kind of evil

I'm trying! :D

that too :P

haha

And now that it's happening, I am soooo happy to be moving.

The place is a step down, but I LOVE the neighborhood.

And the manager really likes me.

location location location

a friendly manager doesn't hurt I'm sure

The owner (who I have not yet met) is an elderly Korean.

The manager told me, "Oooh! If you speak Korean at him, he will love you!"

Good to know :)

cha-ching

I am even practicing.

My introduction includes words for landlord and apartment that are new to me.

But Google is my friend.

that's what they want you to think...

Ah yes.

There is that.

It's so cool though!

In this complex of over 1000 apartments, that is the ONLY Black Lives Matter display.

Authoritarian much?

have they been told not to put them up?

i just answered my first SA question in about 4 years

They have always required windows to be clear. Tenants have always hated that rule, because it's stupid. The windows bake these apartments, and then there's the light thing.

@ElendilTheTall Welcome back! :)

@ElendilTheTall and I came here just to comment on it ;-)

Welcome back!

They have not (that I know of) specifically forbidden BLM anything, but even they aren't that stupid.

@Jolenealaska because that would be limiting free speech?

No

It's not a first amendment issue.

The first amendment just says that the government can't make a law to shut me up.

There is no law that says a landlord can't make rules that limit my speech.

However

Landlords have to take extreme care with "protected classes".

And forbidding BLM displays would push that envelope hard.

Too hard in the current political climate (I think).

My lawyer and I chatted about it for a while and he's got a buddy at the ACLU who would love to make my acquaintance.

But Alpine has not taken the bait.

In America you have to be 17 (or with a parent) to see a rated r movie in all but the tiniest art-house. That is a convention of the movie industry. It is not a law.

A law requiring movie theaters to only allow adults to see certain movies would be against the first amendment. So there is no such law. Most Americans have no idea that there is no law preventing 16 year olds from seeing the Shawshank Redemption in the theater

Pornography has special rules, and is not protected speech.

@Jolenealaska OK, wow. That would be a victory and a half

@Mithrandir24601 And there is no longer any risk to me (except having made an enemy of a billionaire slumlord).