EpeeGnome

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I'm no expert, but for me personally, my shin splints went away immediately when I changed my running stride from heel strike to toe strike. I learned this when I tried running in minimalist shoes and the complete lack of cushion meant I would be bruising my heels. So, I stopped slamming my heels into the ground and instead land with the ball of my foot, absorbing the impact with the flex of the foot. I think of it as treating the cause rather than the symptom. It's an adjustment, and I was a bit sore in some muscles I previously didn't even know my foot had in there, so I had to work up to it a bit. Since I got used it though, I actually really enjoy the feeling of my feet and legs while running. I've also heard that the toe strike stride is less energy efficient, so apparently serious athletes never use it. If you're running just for the exercise or for fun though, I recommend giving it a try.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

It's not the gaff, but the cover up.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

My personal opinion on fishing as a pastime is funny. The idea of sitting by the lake for a few hours with friends and beers sounds like good fun, but as soon as you add that I'll also be waiting for a fish to strike, it suddenly sounds dreadfully boring to me. I just hate waiting on things.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Sure, anyone can look around and see anecdotal evidence that Astrology is nonsense, but it's nice to have a large statistical data set cleanly proving it.

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