EpeeGnome

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[–] EpeeGnome@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago

Nah, he just does this every so often. He'll say something surprisingly sensible and moral like this when speaking of the cuff or reacting to new events, and then quickly backtrack on it when he remembers what the GOP want him to say. He knows his usual stances on topics are wrong, he just forgets to keep that to himself occasionally. It's extremely frustrating being one of his constituents.

[–] EpeeGnome@lemm.ee 14 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I give it 24 hours, give or take, for Senator Spineless to remember who his masters are and publicly backtrack on this comment. It's weirdly not rare for him to say something good and sensible like this, but it's unheard of for him to not quickly denounce such statements in favor of the party line.

[–] EpeeGnome@lemm.ee 103 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The solution to this is simple. She just needs to ask him to play a porn character of a cop. Then she'd get the performance she was hoping for. Just be careful to be specific so he doesn't end up play a porn actor playing a cop, because then he'd be asking an imaginary director about his blocking, accidentally forgetting his lines, and requesting to cut and start the shot over.

[–] EpeeGnome@lemm.ee 11 points 6 months ago

The name "change" hasn't even been adopted by the United States own government, because the president does not have that authority. Congress granted that authority to the US Board of Geographic Names in 1890. I suppose Congress could rename it if they passed a bill that the president signed into law overriding that authority for that specific case, but until they did so, it's not official.

Here is the link to the US Geographic Names Information system page showing the current official name of the Gulf of Mexico: https://edits.nationalmap.gov/apps/gaz-domestic/public/search/names/558730. Note the list of accepted variant names, which still doesn't include "Gulf of America".

[–] EpeeGnome@lemm.ee 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I just checked there, and they have not renamed it, nor have they listed the new name as a recognized alternate name.

Whether of not an executive order can override the government agency specifically granted that authority by congress is of no concern to them. By law, the Board of Geographic Names is the final authority on geographic names. If they don't go along with this change, then the Trump admin would have to file an inter-government lawsuit about it.

[–] EpeeGnome@lemm.ee 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

He doesn't need to redefine violence. His follow up comments show that they will just claim that any violent Jan 6th criminal they pardon didn't really do any violence, and was convicted for a crime they didn't commit and any video evidence to the contrary is just fake new.

[–] EpeeGnome@lemm.ee 7 points 6 months ago

When I was in highschool we edited that file in the programming lab. Wrote an auto running batch file to replace it when the floppy disk was inserted and managed to sneak the disk into every machine without the teacher noticing. The computers where arranged around three walls of the room, and we knew that his standard procedure at the end of the day was to go to each one and issue the shutdown command, then circle back around to power them down. That afternoon when he turned around he must have been greeted with his own employee ID photo grinning back at him around the room in 16 color bitmap glory.

The next day he sternly waved us over the moment we walked in, then just laughed, said "put it back," and waved us away. He never bothered to even ask how we got ahold of his employee photo from the school network.

[–] EpeeGnome@lemm.ee 18 points 6 months ago (5 children)

It's the only way to season food. If you're good enough, you can just imagine the flavors, but I still have to rummage the spice cabinet and sniff to get the dish to taste just right.

[–] EpeeGnome@lemm.ee 15 points 6 months ago (1 children)

With a deep enough knowledge of how baking works, it can be done. My sister improvises baked goods very well. The sad thing is that when one turns out amazing instead of just good, she can't replicate it because she doesn't know the recipe. I'm particularly sad I'll never again have the amazing butter rum pound cake she made for her daughter's birthday last year. She tried to make it again later, but it just wasn't the same. :(

[–] EpeeGnome@lemm.ee 19 points 7 months ago

I'm just assuming that the viewpoint switches sides at that point, but that's a confusing choice to make. Perhaps the artist thought they were following the 180 rule by keeping each character to the same side of the frame, but in this case that would be a bad interpretation of the rule. Here the entire premise requires that they walk past each other, so the viewer expects them to switch sides of the frame and is disoriented when they didn't. Or maybe the artist actually intended that they nonsensically switch directions after bumping each other? I suppose we can only guess.

[–] EpeeGnome@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago

The title makes perfect sense. "This blinker" is referring to the turn signal directly beneath the sticker. The title is expressing that OP is inferring from the sticker that when the driver of that car puts on a turn signal to merge, they are going to go whether they are allowed in or not.

[–] EpeeGnome@lemm.ee 20 points 7 months ago (1 children)

A federal grand jury isn't a replacement for a regular federal trial jury. They're completely different things. A grand jury decides if there is a strong enough case to take the charges to trial, or if they should just be dismissed. When a grand jury isn't used, the trial judge makes that determination themselves. I agree that the terrorism charge will affect how the trial is conducted, but I don't know enough on that topic to comment further.

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