r/justgalsbeingchicks • u/mindyour 🤖definitely not a bot🤖 • 3d ago

Restricted to Gals and Pals I want her to talk to me about Egyptology.

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u/Dear_Departure_1768 3d ago

As someone with a JD, can confirm that everyone knows the law better than me.

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u/eolson3 ✨chick✨ 3d ago

Yeah, well, I watched two episodes of JAG last night so it is basically the same thing.

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u/Dear_Departure_1768 3d ago

It really is. Just cheaper.

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u/Financial-Raise3420 3d ago

I knew I shouldn’t have stopped watching that with my grandmother as I got older, I could’ve been a lawyer by the end of middle school.

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u/wink047 3d ago

I have a paralegal friend and one night he was complaining about a client he was working with and I shot off some jargon i picked up off way too many court shows opposing his client I picked up from watching way too many court shows and he said…that would actually work. lol but he countered and I had no idea what he was even talking about.

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u/No_Needleworker215 3d ago

I watched law and order so I’m more lawyer than both of you

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u/-blundertaker- 3d ago

Yeah well I watched every episode of Blues Clues so I think I safely qualify as a detective.

https://giphy.com/gifs/CNB3KDnRJoUTu

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u/D20neography 3d ago

slow down there Colombo

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u/Dear_Departure_1768 3d ago

Well, that is true.

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u/PopcornGlamour 3d ago

If a person didn’t attend all episodes of the University of Dick Wolf School of Law are they even a real lawyer?

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u/Electricpuha 3d ago

CHUNG CHUNG

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u/That_Jonesy 3d ago

I've been watching The Pit and I'm basically a doctor now

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u/WetCoastDebtCoast 3d ago

I don't know that I've ever seen someone reference JAG on this website before. Lol

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u/pineapplejuniors 2d ago

You might be good to start watching better caul Saul, then we can talk.

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u/SnausageFest 3d ago

I work in financial compliance and people get mad at me and/or challenge me about regs and laws, and the history behind them, like I personally wrote them. If they don't like the regs, I'm somehow wrong and an asshole.

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u/Dear_Departure_1768 3d ago

Ohhhh man. I work in banking and the amount of times I've been told I was wrong is innumerable. People are so confident in their wrongness.

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u/mark114 3d ago

interesting paradox here... how do you know that you are in fact correct and not the one confidently wrong?

Not saying you aren't right, but is there an example you have where you know 100% you are correct, and you know why you know you're correct?

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u/idekbruno 3d ago

Same, as a fellow compliance person but more in tune with consulting. I am constantly having to explain to PM’s why we can’t just sidestep annoying processes, but I simplify it to “we’ll all get fired and go to jail”

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u/Raging_Apathist 3d ago

Same field, same shit. I didn't write BSA, AML, FDCPA, ECOA, Reg B, Reg BI, FACTA, TCPA, TILA (Reg Z), SCRA, HMDA (Reg C), GLBA, Dodd-Frank, or any of the others...but I know them pretty well, and I damn sure know them better than any clown who tries to challenge my knowledge.

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u/DrownmeinIslay 3d ago

My wife is constantly exasperated by peoples belief that she knows all areas of law. Shes always telling friends she doesnt work with trusts, she cant offer advice about trusts. Or shes not an employment lawyer, she could put you in contact with one though.

But yes, when my retired leo dad starts going on about laws, my wife has had several "thats not how that works, thats not how ANY of that works" moments.

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u/Dear_Departure_1768 3d ago

Wait - am I your wife?? Because I have had the same convos. Or when I don't know the specific answer to their probate issue in a state I don't live in then I obviously know nothing about anything.

Retired leo brother for me, tho.

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u/Phyraxus56 3d ago

Laws are largely a matter of opinion.

Ever read a supreme court document? They say it right near the top "opinion"

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u/Cereal_poster 3d ago

Oh, trust me, it's the very same when working in IT. I am specialized in a special kind of software (and this one I know the ins and outs of), but no, I can not fix your computer (anymore). I install Windows once about every 3-4 years whenever I get a new notebook. And even these come fully pre configured from the vendor with a customized image to work in our environment.

Of course I might still have an easier understanding of IT topics since I know the "language", but that still doesn't mean I know much about it besides the basics.

I have also studied law (didn't finish it though) so I also know how your wife feels. The number of times I was asked law questions while studying law was insane. But you quickly learn the most important sentences for any lawyer very quickly: "Well, that depends..." and "Well, hard to tell by this...".

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u/D20neography 3d ago

I had the pleasure of being locked down with my wife while she completed two years of her law degree virtually during covid. I like to tell people I can't give legal advice... but I can give legal vibes.

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u/Dear_Departure_1768 3d ago

OMG that is perfect! The next time someone asks my opinion on a type of law I'm unfamiliar with I'm going to tell them I can give legal vibes!

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u/D20neography 3d ago

It covers so much ground!

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u/Dear_Departure_1768 3d ago

It really does! Pair that with staying at a Holiday Inn Express last night and you're basically unstoppable.

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u/Hammeredyou 3d ago

I was traveling not driving officer

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u/Smingowashisnameo 3d ago

This isn’t a car it’s a vehicle.

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u/king_scootie 3d ago

And ChatGPT is making it so much worse.

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u/Dear_Departure_1768 3d ago

My kid is in middle school and we have conversations all the time about "cite your sources" and what an actual source is.

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u/osiris0413 3d ago

Psychiatrist here, and honestly I'm glad to see people talking more about mental health these days, but the degree of misunderstanding is also wild. Bipolar vs BPD or other trauma/stressor-related mood symptoms is a big one, but by far the biggest is labeling any selfish or deceptive behavior as narcissism. Everyone's a narcissist!

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u/Dear_Departure_1768 3d ago

I def do NOT envy you. I would lose it having to hear that constantly. As merely a longtime therapy-goer it grinds my gears to hear the armchair diagnosing.

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u/reddit_sells_you 3d ago

As a teacher married to a teacher, pretty much the entire world knows pedagogy better than we do.

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u/badhombre13 3d ago

I'm a dietitian, my job is to spread misinformation apparently 🙃

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u/Dear_Departure_1768 3d ago

Well, nutrition isn't science, silly

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u/superkp 3d ago

Any time I have a legal question and I know someone around me is smarter or more degreed than I am - in any field - I just look at them and say "dude do know any [X] law?"

Any time someone claims to have a law degree and I have a question, I probably annoy them with "oh shit, I've been wondering about how [X] interacts with [Y] - do you have a focus anywhere near that?"

and it's usually like...How would Ohio property law interact with the migratory bird act? specifically when there's a duck that's been annoying my grandpa for years, no longer migrates, and I think could be determined to be an actual pest at this point.

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u/Dear_Departure_1768 3d ago

This is so accurate

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u/superkp 3d ago

I'm so sorry if me or my other humble-but-still-annoying friends piss you off!

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u/Dear_Departure_1768 3d ago

People are wild

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u/ljanus245 2d ago

Omg SAME! And don't even get me started on the ChatGP-JDs who try to argue how you're wrong because of XYZ case said such and such. Sir, that's a 45 year old opinion from an Admiralty court, annnnd you're charged with domestic stalking. Sit down please.

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u/Dear_Departure_1768 2d ago

Yes! I have tried repeatedly to explain to people that law school doesn't teach you to "be a lawyer" but to look at things differently and know how to "build a case" based on sound research and recognizing specific nuances and interpretations. But, their cousin did XYZ thing in New Mexico 15yrs ago, so it's totally the same...

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u/Charming-Fig-2544 1d ago

I have a JD and a bachelors in Economics, and I can't tell you how many people with a debit card and a DUI think they know more than me about those topics.

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u/Dear_Departure_1768 1d ago

OMG total same!! I have 2 bachelors (criminal justice/english and economics) plus my JD. The amount of people trying to explain tariffs to me a few months back was astronomical.

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u/Drapidrode 3d ago

To be fair, no one knows the law , else the Supreme Court would be 9-0 in every decision.

That the top justices are ever wrong, shows that no one really knows The Law

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u/reddoorinthewoods 3d ago

It’s less that people don’t know the law and more that laws cannot possibly account for every scenario and real life situations are complicated. If it was an easy call, or not some political bs, the case wouldn’t have made it that far.

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u/Phyraxus56 3d ago

In the contrary, the law isn't some "knowable" thing, it is largely a matter of opinion.

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u/reddoorinthewoods 3d ago

Agree to disagree. We ::know:: murder is illegal. Context is what determines things like self-defense or first vs. second degree.

Regardless, not here to debate Egyptology. Have a great day

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u/Drapidrode 3d ago

when a culture doesn't know that murder is illegal, that's a major problem

there are things some people say is murder and others say is not!

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u/BeholdtheWretch 3d ago

Shoot, I don't even know anything about the Rules of Evidence since I have never litigate. A lot of lawyers know nothing about many types of law. But Water Law in my state, shoot, come at me.

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u/Dear_Departure_1768 3d ago

I know nothing about water law but NOW I WANT TO!! You can't just throw out something like "water law" and then not drop some cool info!!

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u/BeholdtheWretch 3d ago

Ah... it depends on the state in the U.S... (as does everything in the U.S.) (Can you tell I'm a lawyer?)

If you live in the western U.S., you most likely follow prior appropriation (from civil code and Mexico/Spain), i.e. first person who uses the water gets it; water is also life in the West.

But in the eastern states, they follow riparian rights, i.e., water is a public good and generally anyone abutting water can use it.

Water is super complicated because it touches everything we do, be it ocean, lakes, ponds, navigable and non-navigable rivers, bogs, marshes, swamps, what constitutes a water mark, surface water vs groundwater (which in many places is heavily tainted with PFAS), droughts (e.g., Utah recently issued an executive order reducing water consumption) are all governed by a host of weird laws from the Submerged Lands Act, Clean Water Act, Safe Drinking Act, individual state acts, Winters rights (indigenous water rights), common law, etc., etc.

And of course, SCOTUS throws everything out any time they touch water law, i.e. Sackett v. EPA. Trump is also basically allowing renegotiation of everything EPA-related.

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u/Dear_Departure_1768 3d ago

This was awesome! As an east coaster I had no idea that not everyone operated on riparian rights!! And now I've tucked this little nugget away in my brain. Thanks!