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OTOH on Maracaibo Lake there are super-long, super-active lightning storms, which I presume is what that worldbuilding is based on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catatumbo_lightning
You do know, this sounds quite badass, in the "been through worse (than being hit by a car)" sort of way. Although I doubt it would faze, say, Glenn, what with his Florida stories. Around here the worst that usually happens is a flood or, in recent years, a heat wave.
Michael stayed off the coast, and left us with relatively weak hurricane-force or tropical storm force winds. Irma took a last-minute left turn and left us with cat 1 or tropical storm force winds. Both Irenes I've experienced were either a cat 1 that simply dumped an enormous amount of rain, or a tropical storm that knocked out power to half a state (said state being not Florida anyway) in addition to strewing plant debris everywhere. My parents also somehow had the fortune of moving to Florida right after Hurricane Andrew smashed Miami, and then moving away right before Hurricane Ivan visited the state.
I do not expect my luck to hold.
Basically. It never even floods where I live (which is pretty much the highlands right next to the lowlands, thank Rift Valley!). The worst that happens is that it rains for a few weeks straight.
There are always warnings about staying the heck away from rivers during the rainy season because it can be raining like 20-40km away and cause the downstream to surge/banks to flood very, very suddenly and without warning.
The houses I lived in never got under water, but on those times of year it wasn't far from places that got cut off because of the flood, or even submerged.
Sometimes, the flood interrupts the water supply.
Now, thanks in a roundabout way to Aikatsu!, Dream Festival, and other idol anime about dressing up, I think suits might be super cool.
^ They have the disadvantage of being annoying to put on and easy to get all sweaty in if you aren't in an air-conditioned area but beyond that, yeah, they're quite cool.
Maybe it's The Simulation's defense mechanism.
Anyways, maybe it's one of those things that passes after a while.
Toggles are very useful.
(typo fix)
I don't know if this is likely, but if I were tasked with trying to keep the UK together, I'd be more boggled when it came to a Hypothetical Ireland, whereas I just have to suggest that Scot's nativist tendencies are racist in some way and then watch it all implode on itself.
I'm really annoyed how nothing about this really provided for Yggdra Union jokes.
Today I saw a 500ml carton of wine on a store shelf. As a teetotaler, I don't care much for such things on a day to day basis. However, the adult equivalent of a juice box truly is a result of a terrifyingly uncaring, or even blithe, sort of capitalism.
Brexit should have died an ignorable death a long, long time ago.
But like, generally, self-determination has to have clear-set guidelines to operate realistically. Guidelines the modern EU constantly breaks (or "sets", depending on your view).
It's really easy to forget, especially after his own two-faced tendencies, that Jeremy Corbyn pushed for Brexit. Not only did his socialist leanings demand it, but so did the British working class (read: Labour's old base, the base it lost in the last election by a landslide).
noooooooooooooooo what have i dooooooooooooooooone
Had he committed to remain, there's a chance he could have united fellow remainers. Instead, we just had a bunch of silly first-past-the-post action while the opposition parties basically just crashed into each other in a cloud of strategic confusion, and now people are gonna have to deal with the consequences of actually trying to realize the bad idea that this is.
edit: why did i respond to a political statement, this is gonna be another twenty-post argument
Brexit is not a bad idea. The EU is intensely pursuing it's own vision, and there's a rightful worry that it's not representative ever since the early 1980s when MEPs started being elected on their own rather than by their representative governments, due to the low turnout in MEP elections.
The economic region was so intensely integrated that to save the nations that "carry weight", intense austerity was placed on those who don't. This wasn't a UK issue, but it was an intense sort of... economic penance, the sort that could have as very well been resolved with hurting everybody, but then politically it's a bad move.
Mainly though was the intense regulation that the EU imposes, with no real mandate. The EU was founded as an organization to prevent more World Wars, but it quickly evolved into an organization for organization's sake. Trying to supraregulate lots of different countries with different legislation is bonkers with the best of intentions and hyper-interventionist with the worst.
The main question is Why?, it doesn't even result in an efficient market force, even from a protectionist standpoint.
Again, nobody seemed to notice that every time somebody scaremongered, they made the EU look really bad (ie like The Mob).
For example, the claim that the UK and EU at no deal would result in food and medicine shortages in the UK. This basically becomes "Nice citizens you have there, shame if they were starving to death or just more generally starved of life-saving medication. Tee hee hee~".
Ash Sarkar, a jourvanist who basically championed Momentum* viewpoints, once asked the Chairman of the Brexit party how many people he was willing to let die in order to enact Brexit. Even the mainly pro-Remain audience balked and booed at her. The other guy (not her frequent collaborator Owen Jones) said something else I've forgotten, but basically ended up being a British guy saying "The EU will come for you!" whilst being smug. Forgetting that "you" here referred to "us".
Corbyn personally wanted to leave the EU, but would rather have power over his principles, that became increasingly clear over a prolonged period of 3 entire years.
And alienated his base even further? "Fellow remainers" frequently referred to people whose constituencies voted "Leave", yet ran back to parliament and insisted on Remain. There's too much to this to reduce it to an if.
Also, he wasn't in a position to unite people, and most of Labour were basically stuck with him in order to not alienate Momentum*. Nobody wants to ally with the socialist.
*Momentum is the Jeremy Corbyn young with of the Labour party, which inexplicably was full of Remainers. Some of Momentum's fun efforts included trying to get rid of Labour's second-in-command Tom Watson before Jeremy Corbyn showed up to the party conference, and promising to eliminate private schools because not only is that extremely important, but it's important enough to do during an election focused on Brexit.
I find seeking validation from others, even "normal" people, is a noble goal.
No, that was the League of Nations, and then the United Nations.
The EU was founded because Europeans realized they needed a supra-organization in order to compete on the same level economically as other very large countries like USA, Russia, and China.
The UK was actually the least tied to the EU anyway, yet ironically it complained the loudest.
Well, congratulations to them, now they have to deal with border problems again. I hope Scotland has the good sense to leave the (dis-?)UK and rejoin the EU, and if possible it seems that Northern Ireland might benefit from doing so too.
Or if you visit mine and let me know.
Though I haven't touched IJBM on a desktop in nearly a year. (It looks fine on mobile on both desktop and mobile version, though.)
Just today. I tried clearing my cookies but that didn't work.
What browser and OS are you using?
This is probably among the 50 million thinkpieces fourteenwings has read, but I'm posting it anyway.
While the article seem to be (at least in part) a response to another article, I think it makes a good point that, while there exists differences between boys and girls, the gulf between the sexes -- particularly for psychological traits -- is far less than some people presume them to be, particularly due to variation within each sex.
And this applies both to good and bad traits. So we ought to be demanding good, well-meaning behavior, that treats people as individuals first rather than assigning traits/assuming roles of them based on their sexes.
Furthermore, some of the findings suggest that people are often more well-meaning than stereotypes of them might otherwise suggest:
I think that bolded statement in particular applies both ways.
Firefox 72.0.2, 64-bit, Windows 10.
I have not read it (by virtue of it being posted yesterday) but I correctly guessed who it was by before I clicked on it.
GMH, the format of your longpost demands I argue with it, but I have no disagreements with you on this. And, I mean, I respect the author a lot and her points here are particularly salient to start with as well.
I was watching an S13 episode of L&O SVU the other day, one with a serious civil rights disagreement where both Liv and opposing council were dug into their positions (though of course opposing council was doing something wrong for the "right" reasons). Then opposing council invited Liv to his child's little league game, and she accepted.
It reminded me a lot of GMH and I lately...