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To sum it up, in the event of an apocalypse/civil war scenario, the Right are gonna be all 'lol wtf does the left even lift?'.

Probably not, tbh. People keep forgetting that a lot of the left in the US are just as familiar with firearms et al as the right. Plus they're more likely to be urban, and the sorts of violence that go on 'round those parts tend to be a fair bit different than the ones out here. Add on the differences in technical distribution and what that means so far as explosives and whatnot go, and even being out here and familiar with the gun happy conservative folks, I wouldn't personally bet on 'em so far as the civilian conflict part of things go.

That said, the civvie part of a stateside civil war would mean precisely fuck all, and for all the military leans conservative fairly hard, they're also not terribly inclined towards being the sorts of folks that would do anything but roll over both sides of an armed insurrection attempt of actual size and tell 'em to sit down and shut the fuck up.

Depends on how expansive the PvP is. If it was limited enough it'd mostly just be a matter of grinding throw for a bit and then murdering everything that tries to kill you with random debris and small animals.

I'm sorry I brought it up. I was just wondering why it seems to be more of a recurring theme than I'd expect it to be. Like, I mean, Milo was raped as a kid. That's understandable, if abhorrent for him to perpetuate the very same thing. But Rush? :U

What, Limbaugh? Dude's a professional shock jock, among other things, and has been for decades. You can expect him to say whatever he thinks is going to rile people up, by and large, and double down on anything that's specifically going to be able to be pointed at as a sort of "look at the liberals rage" sort of thing. Same's more or less true for most of the right/alt-right radio presence. If you expect something resembling ethical behavior from 'em you've strapped a rocket pack on your head first trip into the rusty spikes of the Wall of Disappointment.

If you're looking for some kind of reason for it, I dun really know. Near as I can tell for a lot of folks they're not really listening to the critters' words, they're just listening to how they're said. Smattering of keyword type stuff on the side of it. So sayin' stuff that shits all over the concept of consent just... doesn't really meaningfully register. Probably some good ol' days-y stuff on the side, call backs to when consent wasn't considered a meaningful issue 'cause no one really talked about it and shit like marital rape was still legal. Likely some other junk, too, but that's about what I've parsed of why the guy's listeners swallow the shit rush spews on that particular topic. Least that I can remember at the moment of the last time he said something foul enough for people to register it enough to mention.

i'll concede on the long jump, but even then, watching people land on their ass is just as boring as watching people land on their feet, while the latter, tho not widely applicable, still has objective potential to be somewhat useful. something like olympic parkour would be a practical application of the skills that go into performing a long jump, while also being a million times more interesting to watch

While the last bit's true, even landing on your arse has objective potential to be useful. On the feet and moving moreso, but when it comes down to needing to cross a gap what matters first is getting across it, not landing gracefully.

Though saying that, I did just realize I'd be a lot more interested in watching a long jump competition specifically dedicated to what amounts to crash landing. Get as far as you can and to hell with how you land so long as not too much gets broken.

... looked that one up. Apparently one of the characters (someone's daughter) is actually straight up named Mary Sue.

Also seems to have started as an LN series, hrm.

Re: metric, it's mostly just a matter of phasing in slowly, tbh. Too much of the population used imperial for too long for a quick transition to be much of anything but a disaster. Instead what you'll see is individual things converting to metric over time (we use liters for some liquids, ferex), with it accelerating as older people die off and younger ones experience more exposure. Still probably going to be a while, though.

Oh wow you guys were talking about microwavable one dollar pizzas? Oh god, no, please. I've eaten a fair share of microwavable pizza, and it's definitely pizza (and even when it's bad, it's still pretty good), but darn is it not disappointing.

More talking microwavable in the sense of "you can cook it in the microwave", just to make that clear before I pass out and recommend further discussion move to (one of?) the pizza thread(s). The boxes themselves very explicitly say "Not intended for microwave preparation", heh. Taste isn't too far off from 'em cooked in the oven, it's just that the pizza itself has a general consistency resembling partially melted cheese, which is why I call it melty pizza. Though I'm specifically eating an offbrand of about the same quality, the brand I can name that's in the same price range (used to be a buck, too, but they've gone up a bit in the last year or four) is totino's, about 10 ounces worth of pizza now that I check the picture of a box (first hit, pic at top, incidentally the review is pretty spot on). Not sure how much saturation the brand has around the country but it's pretty well known in my area.

I'd agree wholeheartedly that at the least every pizza actually marketed as microwaveable I've eaten was just kinda' bad, though. Ate a frozen lean cuisine or somethin' pizza when I was much younger that was actually one of the most foul things I've ever tasted (it wasn't pizza, it was culinary hate condensed into a pizza shape and frozen), and most are just sorta' cardboard-y. To this day I'm not entirely sure how you make something that comes out worse cooked as intended than the same type of food cooked very much not, and not in a "this is a better way to cook it" sense. Especially when most pizza wrap type things (hot pockets, etc.) seem to do just fine.