EpeeGnome

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[–] EpeeGnome@lemm.ee 40 points 1 day ago

I'm imagining that his wife will never hear the end of it. "See honey, and you said I didn't need to carry two guns around all the time. Well look who was right about that."

[–] EpeeGnome@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Go for it. It's... exhausting and frustrating, but worth a watch.

[–] EpeeGnome@lemm.ee 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

You're right, that's not a recap, but I watched both and it does pretty well capture the spirit of how the debate went. Yes, you'll need to watch it, or an actual recap, to get the details of what the two said about the various other topics, but what Stewart highlighted was very representative of the rest of it.

[–] EpeeGnome@lemm.ee 1 points 3 days ago

That's good to know. Generally about what I expected based on the concerns about her I've read. The Greens really could use some leadership that is actually competent, because they're not wrong about their overarching point, even if she seems to be wrong about most everything else.

[–] EpeeGnome@lemm.ee 4 points 3 days ago

Oh yes, I was cheekily agreeing with that. It's always good to spread the information that the end result of a person who isn't specifically trained in rescue swimming attempting to swim out and rescue a drowning person is almost always just the two drowning together, even if the would-be rescuer is an otherwise strong swimmer.

[–] EpeeGnome@lemm.ee 17 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I realize that other comments have already explained the law better than I could. I still wanted to say that fortunately, jumping in to drown alongside them doesn't legally count as "helping," so there is no expectations for anyone to do so.

[–] EpeeGnome@lemm.ee 3 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I don't know any of her specific policy ideas, so I can't comment on those, but I was under the impression that her main idea was the whole "we should all stop trashing the planet we all live on" thing, which is, generally speaking, a very good idea. I admit that doesn't mean her plans to do something about it are any good.

[–] EpeeGnome@lemm.ee 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

I had guessed it was Sri Lanka since it is also shown just off the coast of India. Then I figured it was more likely Indonesia given it's surrounded by so many other islands and not that close to India. But yeah, now that I know that the name meant Japan I'm wondering if it's depiction on the map is a conflagration of accounts of Indonesia and Japan.

[–] EpeeGnome@lemm.ee 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

How dare you, I'm sure that they are good patriotic American English professors! They're just from a different state than you.

[–] EpeeGnome@lemm.ee 2 points 4 days ago

For me, I make things like key and wallet discipline a muscle memory. I literally practiced putting my keys where they belonged like it was some sort of challenging skill to learn. As a consequence when I put my keys down without thinking as normal, they always end up where they belong.

[–] EpeeGnome@lemm.ee 11 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

No, don't you all see? He's actually so genius that we mere mortals can't comprehend his brilliance, as attested to by his multiple friends who are totally real English professors who exist and spend time with him, and are definitely not fictitious people he just made up on the spot to try to strengthen an obviously bullshit argument. Well, no, you wouldn't have heard them, because they, um, teach at a different school, but the important part is that they are intelligent enough to see the clever underlying structure of his wide ranging and definitely intellectually brilliant speeches, which the rest of us apparently aren't.

[–] EpeeGnome@lemm.ee 4 points 5 days ago (5 children)

I think it's not so much people who are undecided about who they will vote for, and more people who are undecided whether they will bother to vote for their preferred candidate or just stay home.

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