Also, I'm pretty big on oaths, so I cannot understand how you can take an oath to tell the truth during your confirmation hearings, and then lie during those same hearings. It feels like it should be automatically disqualifying from confirmation, and if it's discovered later, then it feels like it's fraud and they should be removed from their positions.
I think all but one of the conservative justices swore during their confirmation hearings that they would consider Roe v. Wade as precedent, or made other similar statements. If they truly viewed it as "precedent", then they would never vote to overturn it. So, several conservative justices lied under oath in order to be confirmed. They got their job under false pretenses.
George Santos was expelled from the House for lying about much less important issues, and not under oath.
If any of us lie during a job interview about something important, and it's discovered later, you can bet we'd be fired before we knew what hit us, and we don't swear a solemn oath when doing job interviews.
I feel like the moment a justice votes contrary to what they swore to, either during their confirmation hearings, or even as part of their oath of office, it's absolute proof that they were lying under oath and that they got their job under fraudulent pretenses. That should immediately invalidate their position, only to be reinstated if they can prove in court that their actions don't constitute a lie.
You cannot give any trust to a person who swears a solemn oath and then breaks that oath (with the exception of a wedding oath, which is an insane oath that cannot be held at face value, imo). I wouldn't trust an oath breaker to walk my dog if I had a dog.
Wikipedia itself is still one of the best resources on the internet, and they actually make it pretty easy to back up their data, which is why there are so many clones out there.
If Wikimedia foundation died, somebody else would take over, and hopefully the quality wouldn't decline too much.
Besides, we have seen it work recently. A bunch of local stations took Kimmel off the air, pressuring Disney to cancel his show. So Disney was about to cancel Kimmel, and instead everybody canceled their Hulu/Disney+ memberships, and a couple of days later, Kimmel was back.
Real America’s Voice host Steve Gruber told Trump during an audio interview Friday, “I made a prediction on this program that before you left office, that Greenland would be under our operational control.”
“You'll be right. They want to do something,” Trump said. “Greenland is important from our standpoint, not from their standpoint…You should make that bet.”
I honestly try my best not to listen to Trump speak because it seems to hurt my brain and be bad for my soul, so maybe I'm just misinformed here, but I'm surprised that Trump would even acknowledge that he'll be leaving office.
I get what you're saying, but it's still harder to live in space or on Mars than to try to fix Earth. What I'm saying is that SpaceX would have to be run by a complete idiot for them to think they have an incentive to ruin the planet...... Wait.... It is run by a complete idiot.
I'm not sure why he overreacts to the price of the skill books. He had just seen that healing potions were more expensive than expected, and that skill books were only available on the black market. And then, they turn out to be only double the price from the game. Then, he shows obvious reactions to the skill book he wants which lets the shop keeper charge him whatever she wants.
She said it was rare and that only an oddball would want it, which is like saying that it will never sell. There's tons of room for negotiation.
Imagine a world where he wasn't a complete moron, and he saw the book, and then calmly asked her about it. He could negotiate the price down instead of up.
I got so far through this episode that I almost had hope that it would finish without any large complaints.
The mana replenishment room registration feystones can just be added like that from outside the mana replenishment room? That makes no sense. Any noble could sneak in if it was like that.
And then, almost immediately after that, they had what I consider a major error, perhaps the biggest error of the season. Something that makes no sense at all the way it was presented. What was the deal with that feystone that Sylvester gave Wilfried inside the mana replenishment hall? I think to the average viewer, it's incomprehensible.
Sylvester gave Wilfried an empty feystone and told him to fill it. Which Wilfried doesn't do. Then, Wilfried holds the feystone under his hands while doing the replenishment. THIS MAKES NO SENSE. WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?????
But what it's supposed to be is that the feystone was already filled with mana, and that Wilfried was using his mana to push the foreign mana out of the feystone into the magic circle, instead of using his own mana to do the replenishment. So, the feystone also should have been animated shining with a color like it was already full of mana, but instead it was shown to be empty, which makes no sense.
The anime made it look like Wilfried was filling that feystone with his mana as well as doing the replenishment, which would be absolute nonsense.
I tried listening to the Japanese, and unless I am mistaken, it actually said the same thing as the English subtitles. Man, my Japanese listening could use some work. I wish they had Japanese subtitles.
I'm not overly concerned if the anime simply diverges from the LN a bit, but it at least needs to make sense by itself. One of the things I like the best about Bookworm is that its world building is done so well. Almost everything makes sense. I don't want several main characters to be participating in complete nonsense and acting as if it makes sense. It totally ruins the vibe.
And one last complaint. When they were replenishing mana, Sylvester stops everybody else from replenishing, even though they were still kneeling, but that's not the way it is. Everybody stops individually by pulling their hands off the magic circle. I'm pretty sure they've already shown this during the dedication ritual at the temple.
I see so she didn't technically have to choose mortality. It's been a while since I've read the books, but I'm guessing movie Elrond misled me into thinking that way.
I admit that I've never really understood why Arwen would have to choose mortality to be with Aragorn, but isn't it the case that she can only make that decision because her father is half elven?
An apple tree growing out of your head would probably be worth more than a million dollars.
Like, how is it possible? An apple tree couldn't survive on your head, and you probably wouldn't even be able to hold it up with your normal neck muscles.
If it's just constantly using magic, then you could probably make a lot of money by allowing people to study the effects of actual magic. Something they'd likely get no other chances to study.
If it's not constant magic, then either the tree or your body would have to be altered, likely both. And again, I suspect you could make a lot of money letting corporations study you to understand the changes.
Not to say that it was a good wish, though, since he could have wished for billions or trillions of dollars. Or other ways of wielding magic. No, it's still a shit wish, but you could definitely make more money from it than it would seem at first.
If I was taking over FIFA today and trying to fix its status as being perhaps the most famous example of corruption in the world today, I would actually give out the phoney baloney peace prize a few more times before stopping.
That way, you wouldn't have the only recipient ever be one who started many wars the next year. And you could say that you plan on giving out five or ten more prizes to try to atone for giant "mistake" with the first one.
Yes. It is possible to luck into a solution if you don't know a method. But it's pretty rare, and if you don't get lucky, the best most people will ever do is to have a mostly solved cube.
To go further requires you to use predefined sequences of moves that at first appear to mess up the parts that were already solved, or to systematically work out those sequences yourself, which would involve some serious effort with extra cubes or with writing down sequences on paper or something similar.
It's counterintuitive, but at a certain point, if the cube is mostly solved, but the last bits are wrong, the only way a normal person could solve it without these sequences is to completely mix up the cube again and start over, hoping to get luckier the next time.
I don't know the odds of getting lucky like I've said. I used to practice cubing just to pass time, and I've probably completed hundreds of cubes, and only once did I luck into a solved cube without using those sequences. And I assume I was lucky even with that.
Yes that is essential to what I was saying. The mom thought she would get away with rearranging the stickers as a child because she thought people would believe that she solved the puzzle. And now as an adult, she's confused because she believes her child actually solved it, which she believes is simply extremely difficult, not virtually impossible. She would understand what actually happened if she understood that people basically can't solve it, and that her kid simply followed the fairly simple instructions that likely came with the cube.
This is a good reminder for me, though, to keep my audience in mind when writing comments. I have left most meme communities, but the comics community is going to be similar to meme communities with regard to members.
The mom misunderstood the puzzle when she said "You got that talent from me," which also foreshadows her flashback.
Very few people have ever solved a Rubik's Cube from scratch, unless you're including pure luck or people who didn't really mix it up. But pure luck isn't really a "talent". To solve the puzzle yourself involves, at the very least, a lot of analysis and writing diagrams and sequences and shit.
It's the mom's misconception that makes this comic so real to me. She probably thinks people solve them by figuring it all out themselves. But the kid knows that he followed instructions.
I've never read it, but my understanding is that I'm in good (and bad) company, because almost nobody has read it. Even in Nazi Germany, people only bought it because they were expected to own a copy, and they didn't read it. Supposedly, it's not well organized and hard to read, in general, even in its original language. People bought a copy and kept it in their homes to show loyalty, similar to how they'd have a portrait of Hitler.
It's so blatantly bullshit that it even makes Wikipedia sound stupid:
The Supreme Court's ruling in favor of Citizens United sparked significant controversy, with some viewing it as a defense of American principles of free speech and a safeguard against government overreach, and others criticizing it for reaffirming the longstanding principle of corporate personhood,and for allowing large corporations to wield disproportionate political power by allowing them to spend unlimited amounts of money to support their chosen political candidates, provided the corporations were technically independent of the campaigns.
Ah yes, what a great "safeguard against government overreach," to give corporations unlimited power. You can't overreach if you don't really exist!
Pretty sure that quote is related to or inspired by Bradbury's own short story The Pedestrian, from 1951, which was required reading in my high school english class. For me, it was one of the few reading assignments that I thoroughly enjoyed and still occasionally comes to mind.
Also, I'm pretty big on oaths, so I cannot understand how you can take an oath to tell the truth during your confirmation hearings, and then lie during those same hearings. It feels like it should be automatically disqualifying from confirmation, and if it's discovered later, then it feels like it's fraud and they should be removed from their positions.
I think all but one of the conservative justices swore during their confirmation hearings that they would consider Roe v. Wade as precedent, or made other similar statements. If they truly viewed it as "precedent", then they would never vote to overturn it. So, several conservative justices lied under oath in order to be confirmed. They got their job under false pretenses.
George Santos was expelled from the House for lying about much less important issues, and not under oath.
If any of us lie during a job interview about something important, and it's discovered later, you can bet we'd be fired before we knew what hit us, and we don't swear a solemn oath when doing job interviews.
I feel like the moment a justice votes contrary to what they swore to, either during their confirmation hearings, or even as part of their oath of office, it's absolute proof that they were lying under oath and that they got their job under fraudulent pretenses. That should immediately invalidate their position, only to be reinstated if they can prove in court that their actions don't constitute a lie.
You cannot give any trust to a person who swears a solemn oath and then breaks that oath (with the exception of a wedding oath, which is an insane oath that cannot be held at face value, imo). I wouldn't trust an oath breaker to walk my dog if I had a dog.
Wikipedia itself is still one of the best resources on the internet, and they actually make it pretty easy to back up their data, which is why there are so many clones out there.
If Wikimedia foundation died, somebody else would take over, and hopefully the quality wouldn't decline too much.
Besides, we have seen it work recently. A bunch of local stations took Kimmel off the air, pressuring Disney to cancel his show. So Disney was about to cancel Kimmel, and instead everybody canceled their Hulu/Disney+ memberships, and a couple of days later, Kimmel was back.
Yeah I was gonna say you don't need github to learn to code, and it's probably for the best if you don't use it.
I honestly try my best not to listen to Trump speak because it seems to hurt my brain and be bad for my soul, so maybe I'm just misinformed here, but I'm surprised that Trump would even acknowledge that he'll be leaving office.
I get what you're saying, but it's still harder to live in space or on Mars than to try to fix Earth. What I'm saying is that SpaceX would have to be run by a complete idiot for them to think they have an incentive to ruin the planet...... Wait.... It is run by a complete idiot.
I'm not sure why he overreacts to the price of the skill books. He had just seen that healing potions were more expensive than expected, and that skill books were only available on the black market. And then, they turn out to be only double the price from the game. Then, he shows obvious reactions to the skill book he wants which lets the shop keeper charge him whatever she wants.
She said it was rare and that only an oddball would want it, which is like saying that it will never sell. There's tons of room for negotiation.
Imagine a world where he wasn't a complete moron, and he saw the book, and then calmly asked her about it. He could negotiate the price down instead of up.
I got so far through this episode that I almost had hope that it would finish without any large complaints.
The mana replenishment room registration feystones can just be added like that from outside the mana replenishment room? That makes no sense. Any noble could sneak in if it was like that.
And then, almost immediately after that, they had what I consider a major error, perhaps the biggest error of the season. Something that makes no sense at all the way it was presented. What was the deal with that feystone that Sylvester gave Wilfried inside the mana replenishment hall? I think to the average viewer, it's incomprehensible.
Sylvester gave Wilfried an empty feystone and told him to fill it. Which Wilfried doesn't do. Then, Wilfried holds the feystone under his hands while doing the replenishment. THIS MAKES NO SENSE. WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?????
But what it's supposed to be is that the feystone was already filled with mana, and that Wilfried was using his mana to push the foreign mana out of the feystone into the magic circle, instead of using his own mana to do the replenishment. So, the feystone also should have been animated shining with a color like it was already full of mana, but instead it was shown to be empty, which makes no sense.
The anime made it look like Wilfried was filling that feystone with his mana as well as doing the replenishment, which would be absolute nonsense.
I tried listening to the Japanese, and unless I am mistaken, it actually said the same thing as the English subtitles. Man, my Japanese listening could use some work. I wish they had Japanese subtitles.
I'm not overly concerned if the anime simply diverges from the LN a bit, but it at least needs to make sense by itself. One of the things I like the best about Bookworm is that its world building is done so well. Almost everything makes sense. I don't want several main characters to be participating in complete nonsense and acting as if it makes sense. It totally ruins the vibe.
And one last complaint. When they were replenishing mana, Sylvester stops everybody else from replenishing, even though they were still kneeling, but that's not the way it is. Everybody stops individually by pulling their hands off the magic circle. I'm pretty sure they've already shown this during the dedication ritual at the temple.
If you're taking it back, you know what would be amazing? Take back the one Trump got and give it to somebody else.
I see so she didn't technically have to choose mortality. It's been a while since I've read the books, but I'm guessing movie Elrond misled me into thinking that way.
I admit that I've never really understood why Arwen would have to choose mortality to be with Aragorn, but isn't it the case that she can only make that decision because her father is half elven?
An apple tree growing out of your head would probably be worth more than a million dollars.
Like, how is it possible? An apple tree couldn't survive on your head, and you probably wouldn't even be able to hold it up with your normal neck muscles.
If it's just constantly using magic, then you could probably make a lot of money by allowing people to study the effects of actual magic. Something they'd likely get no other chances to study.
If it's not constant magic, then either the tree or your body would have to be altered, likely both. And again, I suspect you could make a lot of money letting corporations study you to understand the changes.
Not to say that it was a good wish, though, since he could have wished for billions or trillions of dollars. Or other ways of wielding magic. No, it's still a shit wish, but you could definitely make more money from it than it would seem at first.
If I was taking over FIFA today and trying to fix its status as being perhaps the most famous example of corruption in the world today, I would actually give out the phoney baloney peace prize a few more times before stopping.
That way, you wouldn't have the only recipient ever be one who started many wars the next year. And you could say that you plan on giving out five or ten more prizes to try to atone for giant "mistake" with the first one.
Yes. It is possible to luck into a solution if you don't know a method. But it's pretty rare, and if you don't get lucky, the best most people will ever do is to have a mostly solved cube.
To go further requires you to use predefined sequences of moves that at first appear to mess up the parts that were already solved, or to systematically work out those sequences yourself, which would involve some serious effort with extra cubes or with writing down sequences on paper or something similar.
It's counterintuitive, but at a certain point, if the cube is mostly solved, but the last bits are wrong, the only way a normal person could solve it without these sequences is to completely mix up the cube again and start over, hoping to get luckier the next time.
I don't know the odds of getting lucky like I've said. I used to practice cubing just to pass time, and I've probably completed hundreds of cubes, and only once did I luck into a solved cube without using those sequences. And I assume I was lucky even with that.
Yes that is essential to what I was saying. The mom thought she would get away with rearranging the stickers as a child because she thought people would believe that she solved the puzzle. And now as an adult, she's confused because she believes her child actually solved it, which she believes is simply extremely difficult, not virtually impossible. She would understand what actually happened if she understood that people basically can't solve it, and that her kid simply followed the fairly simple instructions that likely came with the cube.
This is a good reminder for me, though, to keep my audience in mind when writing comments. I have left most meme communities, but the comics community is going to be similar to meme communities with regard to members.
The mom misunderstood the puzzle when she said "You got that talent from me," which also foreshadows her flashback.
Very few people have ever solved a Rubik's Cube from scratch, unless you're including pure luck or people who didn't really mix it up. But pure luck isn't really a "talent". To solve the puzzle yourself involves, at the very least, a lot of analysis and writing diagrams and sequences and shit.
It's the mom's misconception that makes this comic so real to me. She probably thinks people solve them by figuring it all out themselves. But the kid knows that he followed instructions.
I think you could do that on the old ones, too. The stickers were just easier.
I've never read it, but my understanding is that I'm in good (and bad) company, because almost nobody has read it. Even in Nazi Germany, people only bought it because they were expected to own a copy, and they didn't read it. Supposedly, it's not well organized and hard to read, in general, even in its original language. People bought a copy and kept it in their homes to show loyalty, similar to how they'd have a portrait of Hitler.
It's so blatantly bullshit that it even makes Wikipedia sound stupid:
Ah yes, what a great "safeguard against government overreach," to give corporations unlimited power. You can't overreach if you don't really exist!
Pretty sure that quote is related to or inspired by Bradbury's own short story The Pedestrian, from 1951, which was required reading in my high school english class. For me, it was one of the few reading assignments that I thoroughly enjoyed and still occasionally comes to mind.