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Ah, okay. That makes sense.

You could always hire a lawyer of your own and sue the company directly. That's what someone did to have it become a class action lawsuit. The person who brought the original suit gets a big payout, and the people who did not generally get a much smaller piece of the pie.

Yes, you're just using the wrong term. Entropy isn't chaos, it's a measure of how much energy has been lost to irreversible processes such that the energy can no longer be used to do work. You can't undo pulling the tree branch into its component pieces, the process is irreversible.

Trader Joes is only located in the lower 48 states.

It looks like it was the municipality, not the HOA.

A process increasing entropy in a system doesn't have to be natural.

Aldi in North America is owned by a different parent company than Trader Joes. Both parent companies are named Aldi. The context of the original question was essentially asking "Aren't Aldi (US) and Trader Joes owned by the same company?" to which Mr Worldly Wiseman responded with a correct no. No further specification needed because you can simply look to the broader context the question was asked in.

Really? Because a tree losing a limb or having all its needles fall off would definitely be considered an irreversible process and absolutely an increase in entropy in a thermodynamic system

To be fair, human skin is good for blocking alpha radiation, that's an extremely low bar.

That's literally just an HOA, but only for multi-tenant buildings. Like, I get that you don't have them for detached single family homes, but every aspect you're describing is just how HOAs function in the US.

I guess? Mutually assured destruction is a form of brinkmanship that I'm not sure if I'm comfortable attempting. I won't judge you for how you choose to defend yourself against this administration but I will say that guns rarely deescalate a situation. I truly hope that ICE or the FBI or whoever actually do back down from more violent actions if they fear for their lives, but I feel like it's more likely that they will simply engage in greater shows of force. Maybe that will wake more people up to what they're doing.

I don't believe in the horse shoe theory except when it comes to gun owners larping about rising up against the government.