They can't help their cause one bit because the only way they know to help their cause is by throwing tantrums, because they've not been said "no" enough, and the little amount they were said "no", they threw tantrums and got their ways, so they hope to get their ways in the only way they know.
Ah yes, a very probably anti-gun leftist heckler brought a gun to attack the orator with. Ok, that's a water gun. (No, that doesn't make it ok, you can put chloride acid in those and it will be ok, but it will aggress eyes and skin and corrode fabric.)
God I love the irony.
TLDR: Japanese is hard, yo.
Japanese can take even more leeway with the use of furigana, tiny kana (the "letters" from both their "alphabets") written besides or above kanji and used to give the proper reading for a kanji, either for unknown kanji for the target audience age or for disambiguation.
Authors can use those furigana to give new readings to a kanji, a very common usage of this is "ability names" in manga, one of the most well-known being "The World", written "Sekai" which means "World", and pronounced "Za Warudo" as per the furigana which is the Japanese way of pronouncing the English words "The World". The character never says "Sekai", and the Japanese reader reads "Za Warudo", but knows it has a link to his understanding of "Sekai". Sometimes there's no correlation at all, and the furigana just gives a cool-sounding name to a set of kanji otherwise describing what the character is actually doing.
Furigana can also be used to include a double-meaning, as in "what I say" in kanji within the spoken sentence from one character to another, compared to "what I really think" in furigana, making perfect sense in Japanese, but is way harder to properly translate and may lead to loss of information...
Again, Japanese is hard, yo.
Where can I nominate u/Lupinate for the [Contributor] flair?
I know about the reverse, being alive and not feeling pain. This is called CIPA, or Congenital Insensitivity to Pain and Anhydrosis (unable to sweat). Should those be excluded from a "pain" limit for abortion? Just in case... This is a rhetorical question.
Here is the tweet: https://twitter.com/GovRonDeSantis/status/1308824541104398337
How to search for tweets: use quotation marks and quote a whole sentence of the tweet verbatim in the search bar, like so: https://www.qwant.com/?q=%22CDC+recently+updated+estimated+infection+fatality+rates+for+COVID%22&client=brz-brave&t=web
Tweet was the 17th result for me, on page 2.
(Is this the moment I must wonder if I don't have a foot on the spectrum?)
No. Haven't checked Shwitter, went straight to the CDC website and found the document in the "Archive" at the bottom of this page https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/planning-scenarios.html
Found the sauce: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/planning-scenarios-archive/planning-ccenarios-2021-03-19.pdf
Bottom of page 5, "Infection Fatality Ratio". Those are "current best estimates", not "current best case scenario", meaning every other scenario estimate is either way better or way worse.
The document is from 2019, meaning those numbers should date from then and have only been included on Sept. 10 2020. More than a year ago.
Also, this is forecasting of future numbers from back then, not studies of past numbers from today.
Sus.
This is the map for "Community transmission rate". There is a gap between the 24th and the 27th, and it turns yellow/orange to blue right in that gap, with showing no sign of progression for almost a month? Weird.
You can find the map here, you'll have to setup the timelapse yourself: https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#county-view
Defense statement from Maxwell's lawyer Bobbi Sternheim. "Ever since eve was accused of tempting Adam for the apple, women have been blamed for the bad behavior of men and women are often villainized and punished more than the men ever are."
Huh. I thought "behind every great man, there's a great woman", feminists? See, I can come up with your own canned bullshit to thrown shade too.
I just want to keep the idea that Kyle R. is an "aggressor" at bay, and your meme made is sound like he was one. Sorry for being a downer.
FWIW I believe everything that happened was Kyle's hand moving to save himself, and any bit of help he could use, he got, be it from God, Jesus, his training or whatever. Today it doesn't matter much, he is alive and that's all that matters.
I'm a bit miffed on this one. Could be interpreted as Kyle R. committing vigilantism. The probability Kyle R. had any idea who those people were is damn close to zero, and I'm saying this only because I don't know for a hard fact Kyle R. had no idea who they were.
Kyle R. acted in self-defense. His life was in danger and he blasted his aggressors at the last goddamn moment each time he had to. Jesus was whispering "you are just about to die and you deserve better, so shoot" in his ear. He did, and lived. Ridding society of filthy scum is only a side-effect, albeit a welcome one.
Voting is much more direct in France. It is a 2-turn popular vote with paper ballots, checked against voter ID, with signature on a paper register after casting the ballot. This means there's no in-between like an electoral college with a special meeting to hand the votes, and the ballots are handled very swiftly, under scrutiny, with no room for "shipments" of ballots appearing out of nowhere. AFAIK we don't have a mail-in voting system, except for French nationals in foreign countries.
At worst we have a delegation system making a single person able to cast two votes, one for the voter and one for an absentee. This system is also under heavy scrutiny, needing a request to the local "Mairie" for a delegation, and only the designated person by the absentee can vote for the absentee. That usually means a breach of the vote secrecy from the absentee's perspective, and it involves trust the designated person will vote according to the wish of the absentee.
At 7 PM sharp on election day (local hour) the results were announced.
This is why she conceded: we kinda trust our election system, even if it's imperfect. Since Frenchmen at large (not me) don't have this value of being part of the "checks and balances" on government with no equivalent of the 2A to speak of, voting is our only outlet to effect change. Our representatives don't fear the people, and the people has no issue with not threatening those in power. Violence is pure, unadulterated evil, mkay? Such a great principle... in a utopia. People are basically pacified.
I fear the day a revelation happens in which the people are proven bluntly that their votes never mattered, but I'll gladly welcome it, for I'd rather be told the bitter truth than go on living a honeyed lie.