I hadn’t heard of that particular group before, but your post called to mind BLDGBLOG by Geoff Manaugh which covers that type of stuff with that sense of humour.

Sure enough, one of his posts references anArchitecture and has a link. Sadly, looks like the site is gone but hopefully this helps you find an archived copy.

I won’t hold my breath but I will be keeping an eye on this. I had been eligible for a HPI visa and fully intended to apply, but life got in the way while I was saving up and the clock ran out.

I’m a licensed architect in the states and the only thing keeping me from becoming a chartered architect via reciprocity is it requires a visa. It’s tough convincing a company to sponsor me via the skilled worker route because I’m not already chartered. Kind of a chicken-and-egg scenario. So this visa route would genuinely help people like me.

Boca Raton Bowl:

The officiating in this game is, uh, not good. Both teams kinda getting hosed

I missed the kickoff of the Independence Bowl and am bummed I missed Cal scoring. Hopefully there’s lots of points and the Red Raiders lose (I probably won’t be staying up for the end of this one)

Lol, yes.

I haven’t been following FCS (other than hearing the NDSU coach bailed on his team for USC during their playoff run). How are things going there?

LA Bowl: the only Boise player that has attempted a pass going into this game is the punter?! That’s a crazy factoid

Final fumble count: 13

What a game

Overtime in the New Orleans Bowl!

Lmao, muffed PAT and a brawl, what is this game

Just tuning in now, good Lord this weather is atrocious.

Thanks for creating this post, btw. I tried to make a gameday thread before I went out this morning but it didn’t go through in the browser. Wonder if the new Lemmy update is causing that glitch

Edit: woops, wrong account. It’s so easy to get mixed up on mobile. Aaand it won’t let me switch so I guess I’ll be posting from here

Noooooooooo

It doesn’t under American trademark case law. Add to the fact it’s in another country and I’m certain their legal team wouldn’t bother.

Also, I probably should have used KFC as a better example:

Disclaimer: not a lawyer

Reddit is an American company and this degree of similarity is not close enough to violate USPTO law.

Now, it’s close enough that their legal team could try to argue it in court and then sure, the Lemmy instances might be sunk because who is going to fight them? But I don’t think an American judge would even hear this case. And if they go after feddit.de that would be interesting because I think their users could rally together to save it/fight back.

Plus, if Reddit were to win a USPTO case over the Feddit name that would have chilling effects so I could see advocacy nonprofits jumping in to provide legal support in that fight. But again, probably will never even get there.

I disagree. The country-specific Lemmy instances tend to share the Feddit branding which I think is a big plus. I think there’s a strong argument the name doesn’t infringe Reddit’s brand (it’s not like Apple can just make all i-Whatever products go away).

And feddit.de is the 5th biggest instance, and would surely run into problems first. They seem to be doing fine.

I watched four films this week, all of which I’d seen before (so clearly I quite like them all):

• It Happened One Night (1934)
• Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
• Foreign Correspondent (1940)
• 21 Jump Street (2012)

Really tough to choose one, but would probably have to give the nod to Mr Smith. Jimmy Stewart is just too good.

Red River was complete trash?

Not everyone is undefeated :(

When horns lose, I think ‘no’

When aggy also lose, I think ‘yes’

Uh, Minnesota, if you only last 12 seconds, might want to get that (defense) checked out