PrinceWith999Enemies @ PrinceWith999Enemies @lemmy.world

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In college, I had a fellow student with a similar condition. Although he’d often use a wheelchair to get around, it was not at all unusual to see him using his arms to walk around campus.

In multiple occasions, I saw him do a takedown tackle of another student and basically wipe the ground with him. He didn’t even look completely muscular - although he did have really good definition on some of them - but he was so damn strong overall just from the way he got around that he’d just thrash them.

Plus, there’s no way to socially come out as winning a fight with a person who has no legs. There’s no way not to lose that fight, it’s just bad versus worse.

I feel like I explained my reasoning at length and in response get nothing of note, but rather what I’d see on a bumper sticker.

The only way she runs is if Biden dies. She’s been too much of a non-entity to have appeal with the party and has significant opposition from the Repubs. I think she’d have a really tough time winning.

The Biden administration should have had her in front of the cameras at every opportunity acting as the face of the administration.

It’s too late now - the choices are locked in. I’m voting for Biden-Harris again but it doesn’t matter because I live in California.

I’m living in one of the safest places in the US in terms of states and cities, but my partner and I are putting together a golden visa/work transfer plan that would drop us in Europe if this election goes south, because I don’t think things are going to get better after that. Think national legislation driven by Texas and Florida.

I might be mis-remembering, but I remember being pretty confident that almost any Democrat in the primaries could and would have beaten Trump. We’re past the point where it’s meaningful to debate whether one candidate would have outperformed another hypothetically (eg would Bernie have pulled more of the disaffected blue collar white voters who went for Trump). It was closer than I expected and closer than I would have liked, but coming off the polling and voting trends we were seeing I didn’t think the Dems would lose it.

This is feeling more like 2016 in that the Dems are committed to running an unpopular candidate (like her or not as a politician, she was the least popular candidate in presidential history, except for Trump).

There was simply overconfidence on the Democratic side that people would see through the Trump arguments and a refusal to acknowledge that Hillary, while a great candidate on paper, had all the charisma of a Manila folder. Obama and Bill Clinton won on charisma. W kinda cheated and then rode the 9/11 train (but honestly Kerry was a Democratic Bob Dole). Reagan won on charisma. Trump won on racism and charisma (although it’s not a charisma that I get).

I think Biden won on being not-Trump combined with reflected glory from Obama and (for the primaries) being seen as the safe choice. The reflected glory is gone - Obama is far back in the rear view mirror and Biden has his own record now. Agree with it or not, he’s no longer being presented as the safe choice by the press because of his policies and his honestly pretty dismal approval rating. Head to head there’s a serious chance he could lose, and there’s not a Ross Perot coming in from the top rope to tip the election. The board is still out on the third parties - who they’ll pull from - but it’s telling that third party candidates with low single digits could swing the election. Again, 2016.

These arguments being made are why this feels like 2016 and not 2012.

Absolutely. The VP position is not a high profile position, and Harris has been disappointing even in that regard - and I’m saying that as someone from California who would have supported her for president. Whether you want to base it on racism, sexism, personality, or the administration in general, she’s mostly been balancing on the knife edge of being a non-entity and being actively disliked.

My personal hope was that Biden would make Harris a front and center member of the administration in preparation for stepping down after one term and giving her a slow pitch over the plate to be the next president. He did not do so - she was more in the shadows than Biden was under Obama, and far more than Cheney was under W or Gore under Clinton. The theme for the past four years should have been transitioning, rather than Biden pulling a Reagan while riding off into the sunset. Whoever Biden picked should have played that role. It could have been Pete, it could have been Warren, it could have been anyone picked from the Democratic candidates or from state governments.

What I’m saying is that there is absolutely no way that we should be looking at a very realistic possibility of a Trump re-election and that this is feeling a lot more like 2016 than 2020.

Because the disadvantage displayed by current polling may be an artifact of no one but Biden actually campaigning, and the recognition of the possibility that, were they to actively campaign, they’d have a higher probability of winning.

Biden is more of a national name. All that means is that if he were to drop out, he’d need to do a handoff and they’d need time to campaign. The problem is that they’re running out of runway if they’re going to do that.

Well to be fair, every religion's god is the one true God.

That’s not even a little bit true. Historically, most religions were polytheistic, and most religions today would count as such by outside observers.

I was thinking that we could replace the board with a hexagon map and replace the pieces with printed cardboard squares.

I’m so sorry and that’s lovely, in that order.

The Ada programming language being named after Ada Lovelace was like if they named the MS Explorer version of JavaScript “Turing.”

I agree. Jenny is not someone any of us (sisters, brothers, or others) would want to be. I think that we can identify with Forrest, but Jenny is truly broken. She’s not dumping him to go live some fabulous lifestyle. She’s on a completely self destructive arc while Forrest goes from strength to strength, even when suffering the loss of friends and family.

When you think about it, I can’t think of anyone wishing their life was like Jenny’s rather than like Forrest’s. Even taking the money and shit out of it, I know which I’d prefer.

I am going to add that to my hate-watch list.

I’ll tell you who pisses me off from Jurassic Park - Michael fucking Crichton.

So, I know the guy Ian Malcolm was based on. He’s a complexity theorist I worked with a bit. Jeff Goldblum famously (in our tiny science community) called him but rather than asking about things like chaos theory he just asked about the guys family and stuff. In retrospect it makes sense, but the guy was really thrown by someone not wanting to talk about chaos theory.

Anyway - Michael Crichton was a fucking asshole. I want you to hear that in the voice of your favorite character from What We Do in the Shadows. He turned into a conspiracy theorist, wrote that weird grey goo book about nanotechnology, and was generally just an unpleasant person who thought his intelligence was significantly higher than it actually was, as demonstrated when people actually tried to talk to him about complexity theory.

I was actually a fan of his work until I started working there and his brain headed south like a monarch butterfly on crack.

I don’t think it’s interesting to get pissed off at villains. That’s their point. Yes, it’s very easy to hate Dolores Umbridge. You’re supposed to. I want to hear from the people that hate Garp, or Forrest Gump.

I’ll start. Bill Shatner pissed me the fuck off as Captain Kirk. Part of it is backward-projecting from what the Federation became into the sexist shit they were doing in the 60s, but a much bigger part of it was from his SNL skit where he told fans to “get a life.”

You can get married and die first, after charging your spouse an appropriate amount based on the anticipated payout minus future discounting. Or die second, having made that kind of payout.

The important thing is to negotiate hard with medical histories and historic rates of pay being brought as evidence. You’ll probably want to get lawyers involved.

I think what’s needed is the introduction of additional pieces.

1. Pikemen - can’t move, but must face in a specific direction. Can attack any unit in front of them, but not to their sides/rear.
2. Archers - can attack any unit at least two but no more than 3 spaces ahead of them.
3. Trebuchets - similar to archers but can only attack 5-6 spaces ahead. Trebuchets can take out rooks.
4. Knights can kill bishops, but only at the hinting request of the king. The bishops can then get a free attack on the king, but can only whip him and not kill him.

Also: Life has no rewind button and shit can go south pretty fast.

1. All kings must be placed in checkmate. This is in recognition of multiple redundancy with failover.
2. Knights cannot be captured by pawns. It’s ridiculous. You’re talking about a guy in armor riding a horse with both lance and sword versus a peasant wearing a shirt at best armed with a pointy stick. Literally the entire point of armor was that you could walk around mowing down peasants until your arms got tired.
3. Queens slay, and can only be slayed by queens. See RuPaul’s Drag Race.
4. I’m not even going to get into the Howl’s Moving Castle pieces except to note that if the enemy didn’t bring siege equipment, they’re pretty fucked.

Okay, first of all we were completely aware of potential attacks. I’m not in the community anymore, but I absolutely guarantee that there was an above background level chatter detected, but was likely not specific enough to set up a prophylactic defense. I am not calling a conspiracy here, and I’m not even sure it was a fuck up. This is what happens when war happens. In fact, this is way better than like 90% of the shit that happens when war happens, to be honest.

Second, when they’re sleeping is absolutely the best time to kill somebody, because they can’t move or hide. If you have a problem with killing people in general, that’s fucking great. I do too and that’s why I made the career change. But if you’re going to kill people - and I’m talking as someone who has shot and been shot at as well as doing more big picture stuff - the absolute best time to do so is when they’re sleeping. Not only is it easier, they’re certainly not going to thank you for raining metal on them while they’re awake and feeling everything.