I have no idea about UK law, but in the US you might run into issues if you were specifically trying to delete stuff that would be the subject of a lawsuit after you know the lawsuit is likely. You might be able to argue that you deleted for unrelated reasons. I guess you could even argue that you were reducing harm to the plantiff by removing “mistaken” tweets once you realized you were wrong (thus demonstrating a lack of malice)… But, overall, just running around deleting stuff after you get word that a suit is coming is probably not great.
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If the boxer’s lawyers don’t already have copies of those tweets from before filing the suit they are bad and should feel bad.
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I would guess they have plenty of screenshots. But also:
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It’s a full-blown mental health disorder. There is no conceivable reason JK should be ready to set her money on fire over some trans panic nonsense.
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My 70 year old brother has the same affliction. He’s already a complete misogynist and hasn’t dated for years but he somehow thinks he’s going to get labeled a transphobe if he goes on a date and discovers it’s a trans woman and he won’t agree to be intimate with her. Just beyond bizarre. Dude was a complete hound into his 30s, had a failed marriage to a woman with all the neurosis of our mother, and then an LTR that ended when the woman decided she wanted someone more stable and stuck him in the friend zone.
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I think that when you have a billion dollars, you don’t really care about the money because she could waste a couple hundred million dollars with no impact on her lifestyle. What a person like that may really care about is finding a purpose in life after you’ve become so wealthy. I think that those of us that are not into the conservative nonsense underestimate how much of a sense of community and purpose these people derive from their shared delusions.
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Saw this tiktok of the blind sprinters in the paralympics. Very cool. Took me a minute to figure it out.
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I’ll be in Paris in a few days. Maybe I can check some of this out.
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Pretty sure the sitting volleyball analyst just said you have to take advantage when you have a blocker in front of you who’s missing a hand. Which sounds completely correct but is certainly odd to hear as part of sports analysis.
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There is a 17 year old Australian sprinter named Gout Gout that is insanely fast. He finished 2nd in the 200m at the U20 Worlds as a 16 year old! Anyway, I just think it is funny that his name is Gout Gout and he runs.
Looks like Gout Gout is injured…
Shin splints
On its face, it’s a nice gesture but it couldn’t do less to help with the destitution of the athletes. It doesn’t pay for their training (unless you’re competing for gold, you’re lost in the system). It’s not even given to them after their Olympics appearance to help with their future training. It’s given to them 20 years after their retirements in 4 25k yearly installments. In an interest bearing account, that could be worth a lot more in 20 years but it doesn’t appear that’s part of the plan.
In 2024, a 400 meter runner (might have been a hurdler) coached himself because he couldn’t afford a coach. This wouldn’t have helped his situation at all.
Because of the deferred nature of this, either the USOC is allowed to use that money for training as long as they make good later, or this has fishier purposes than stated.
It’s crazy that as sports centric as us culture is we don’t properly fund Olympic competitors. I agree they need money up front not when they are reminiscing.
These POSs just will not stop. They specifically called out Khalid by name in their announcement.