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Fixed like a stray dog in an average US kennel :V

I feel like I stumbled into the middle of a joke I don't get.

Reference to a band that may have been founded before you were born, mostly.

... does it? It's been a while since I've watched much GitS, but that doesn't seem exactly out of character for the Major's personality from what I recall of it. Off hours yuri-pile (on the down-low, screen time wise) actually seems like something that would be pretty in line with it, really.

An outlier is one that doesnt' match other trends. The US is not an outlier in gun deaths per gun. Taiwan is, and this is because it has special circumstances. The US is a high gun death nation within the usual patterns.

Yeessss, I'm aware of what an outlier is

The US definitely is still an outlier on that particular set of statistics -- the major trend is set by the ones between denmark and germany, where you see a 1-3 death (i.e. ~10-20%) variance between nearest nations that holds pretty steady. Your outliers are, well, everything else. The US (~50% spike one way, 11 death jump) and up (and france and norway, the non-murderous freaks) is basically cuckoolander land, where the trend has left the building and no one's quite sure what's going on.

And nah, sheb, they're still pretty crazy about gun murder, comparatively. ~150% more likely than the one below it, double or better the majority of the countries listed, we don't want to talk about the difference between it and the bottommost pair. It's just that there's some that's even crazier, at least insofar as that particular statistic goes.

Eeehhh... batman might actually have a pretty easy time of it. Saitama's usually pretty chill, and not exactly adverse to just listening if the opponent's willing to talk. Getting saitama to walk away (and thus give batman victory by forfeit!) likely wouldn't be that much trouble.

He has one pose. ONE! You can't be a JoJo with only one pose!

I'd count at least three. The flying thing, nippleparrying bullets stance, and kent-glassesing. Points off for rarely chaining them, though, which is indeed a mark against jojo mojo.

Also @Ree&FD: There's also a Mannheim in there, which is clearly a steamroller reference. Yes, I'm aware that the superman one showed up three years before the band. That makes as much difference as the Beetle's Walrus song vis a vis Sonic.

Quote from: mainiac on May 07, 2016, 07:42:34 pm

I fundamentally disagree.  Things are getting better.

From the outside looking in, the US is going downhill in a number of ways. Some things are improving (like healthcare) but the changes are only a very small step with how far there is left to go.

It's... largely an improvement from eight to twelve years ago. Bush's bullshit (for lack of a better catchall term) on top of some economic confluences basically fucked us seven different kinds of sideways, and we've only started pulling back out of that crap in something like the last year or three. There's definitely a long way to go, but the slide downward has been mostly arrested, and is starting to pull back up in several areas. The ACA stopped a lot (if not all) of the downward spiral our medical system was seeing, we're pulling back on useless adventurism, the environmental stuff continues to see steady (if arguably not enough, but again, anything is better than nothing) improvement, the economy is starting to get back into shape (if, as SG notes in part, still seeing some issues), or at least moreso than it was a few years ago... we're even starting to pull our heads out of our asses on infrastructure maintenance, to a degree. Things really are just kinda' getting better, and is definitely better in most areas than it was when I was a kid, even if that slump in the middle of things makes it hard to remember sometimes.

There's definitely problems, but largely they're smaller ones than they were a couple decades ago. Arguably not as small as they should be, but, well, we had some popped bubbles, a couple of wars fought on false pretenses amongst a host of other fund draining bullshit, and some fairly stupid decisions made in regards to things like taxation, so just that fact that the country's not a bubbling molten crater is honestly somewhat surprising.

... also nosebleeds can be normal, but they usually aren't, and they're especially a possibly bad sign when you're already ill.

Mm... though I also haven't exactly paid attention to it, isn't the experience thing mostly because of what they were involved in more than anything? Closeness/familiarity with the position of the presidency and what it involves, even ignoring the whole first lady thing. I don't think it's hard to argue that hillary's been a lot higher up the proverbial totem pole than bernie has been, and does have more exposure (either directly as secretary or otherwise) to positions that were closer to what the POTUS would actually be doing.

Though it's almost certainly partially due simply to the fact that sanders has been, as you noticed, much lower key than hillary has, even if the political experience isn't as disparate as some would argue.

But yeah, personally, it's not the experience issue that would have stopped me from voting sanders if he had a chance in hell of taking the primary in my state. Friggin' economic/trade policy is the touch of death for him, t'me, even if I like a lot of 'is other junk.