Absolutely not. I use the proper word for the situation. If someone raped someone, I’m going to use the word rape, not sugar coat to soften the blow and lessen the severity of the action. If the audience I’m talking to doesn’t know what the word rape means, then we probably aren’t having the conversation to begin with.

English is by and large the most spoken language in the US. There are more English speakers than all other languages combined. How is it overgenerous to refer to the US as an English speaking country?

Ugh… Same. Legally, I couldn’t have agreed, but that didn’t matter. Not my proudest moment.

Watching colleagues commit genocide sounds an awful lot like being an accomplice to genocide.

It sounds like those doctors’s opinions may not be enough to overturn to conviction. I thought it also said that their assessment was pretty much over one specific area regarding where air was injected and it’s not encompassing all of the evidence presented in the case. Too me it sounds like a weak argument, but that’s based solely on this article with minimal background information.

Queue the Curb Your Enthusiasm music.

Day to day, I’d take a dry 100 degrees. My problem is a like to do cardio exercise outside, like run and bike. 100 degrees makes that significantly more difficult and dangerous. We’ve had upper 90s and high humidity the last couple of weeks and it’s been tough to do anything more than about 20 minutes at a time.

On the other hand, I love to snowboard, which can’t happen in triple digits. Snow and ice depending, biking and running are doable at single digit temps. I hate walking outside and feeling pain from the cold temps.

I’d probably take the triple digits and travel for cold vacations.

Imagine not understanding that single digits == cold and triple digits== hot. It’s funny how everyone else seemed to figure it out.

Let’s use our child brain for a minute so hopefully I can help you understand this. Let’s assume that the initial post was in celcius. Single digits is cool and livable. What about triple digits? Do you think that living at triple digits celcius is even a viable option? Did you really need someone to identify the unit of measure for you to understand the question?

Your pedantry makes you look like an idiot that has no critical thinking ability.

VHS, Care Bears rainy day off, and TV recordings of various other cartoons. I grew up on network television with a heavy focus on The Simpsons.

Chase powder and try to snowboard year round until I physically can’t. I’d love to have a highlight video of riding spines in Alaska. Really, if I could have the skills and the means to be able to compete on the natural selection tour, even if I didn’t compete, just be good enough to do so, that would be heaven.

Two sides to every coin.

As a whole it sounds like a, “you’re wrong, educate yourself, there’s only one way out of this”. I did intentionally say “kinda like a dick”, because it wasn’t super harsh, just enough off putting.

The edits were the icing that put everyone else off.

Apologies, I didn’t realize that you weren’t the person that I originally responded to.

I’m not trying to convince them. I don’t give a fuck if they change their tone. I was only telling them why the post wasn’t well received.

Edit: didn’t realize the response was a different user.

I’m not trying to convince anyone of something. I’m just telling why you’re they are being downvoted, and it’s not because of the content of your their post. I’d post differently if I were trying to make a sincere point.

It’s not that we don’t agree with you, it’s that your kinda acting like a dick. Change your tone and you might get a better reception.

ACAB.

With that out of the way, I’m ok having a specially trained and competent department or whatever to handle high pressure dangerous situations that they are equipped for literally and mentally (deescalation, negotiating, etc). Really, I think that could probably be a job for the national guard. It’s unfortunate that the world has bad enough people that sometimes armed personnel are required, but it should be under trained, power hungry gangsters cops.

Cool, but that doesn’t happen in the general election. The seems aren’t good, but had 3rd party and non voters voted for Harris, then yes, the Democratic party would have saved us from Trump. Realistically, it’s the people saving us from Trump via the Democratic party, but at the end of the day, we got Trump because those same individuals decided a Trump presidency was the better outcome. Full stop.

I agree with you on everything you wrote.

I’m not trying to say that Harris would have been good for Palestine, or even a good POTUS. I’m saying she was the less bad option overall in the election. I don’t know that anything would be different with Israel had she won, but I think there was a better chance that she would have done something good over Trump doing something good. That could still be a negligible chance, but it was the better of two chances.

Like you said, local elections and primaries (when they’re held, but that’s separate from this overall conversation) are when to vote for different parties and more fringe candidates. One of two people is already the winner in the election by the time November rolls around, so it comes down to least bad.

You’re right, it would have, but the reality was Trump or Harris. It was still an extremely easy decision, but it would have been better if the less shitty candidate was even less shitty.

It was, because that’s reality. It does disregard a lot of criticism, because again, at the end of the day, there were two candidates, and one was going to win. Harris wasn’t, imo, a good candidate, but Trump was a far worse.

In the US, it’s been that way for the better part of the past century, because FPtP always devolves to a two party system. This past election was no different.