Maybe “The very reverse of anything agreeable”?

I’m fine with arbitrary units but I demand a rigorous justification of the error methodology

To be fair, what a lot of these athletes do in the pool (for artistic events) don’t really look like swimming, either.

I feel like regardless of the experience of the lifeguard, the earliest definitive assessment that the athlete is in distress would come from thier trainers or coaches. It’s thier job to analyze every movement of the athlete.

The other skills of the lifeguard… physically trained and skilled to retrieve someone quickly and safely, that’s what they’re bringing to the table.

How many total felony convictions?

Ah I posted it but under my own comment like an idiot.

I’m Canadian.

I was visiting a friend in Texas in 2015. They were out for the day so I was just kinda wandering around in the afternoon.

Found myself belly up to a bar, chit chatting with the bartenders. Shooting the shit, having a great time. Trump came on the TV and I commented what a knob he was.

The bartender said something somber, like “Yeah if he wins, we all are gonna have to go home”

I sincerely didn’t understand why. I was like “What… he’s going to close the bars??” The guy was like “No… we will have to go home”

Again, I was like “what the fuck are you talking about”

Buddy looks at me like I’m from outer space. I look at him the same way.

He just slowly says “We’re… all… Mexican”. The whole body of staff is gravitating towards the unfolding scene.

“How the hell was I supposed to know that?” I asked. He was like “Isn’t it obvious?”. No? Like they had dark hair. Is everyone with dark hair Mexican?

He was like “did you walk by any construction sites today?”. Yes, I had. “Think back, did the foreman look different than everyone else?”. Now that is really thought back… yeah. He was like, ginger.

At this point, like 10 of the staff are watching me come to the realization, in real time, that I’ve been surrounded by Mexicans like the whole day and no part of my brain registered it.

I don’t even really remember exactly what I said next… but it would have been along the lines of “I’m from Canada. My brain isn’t even wired to distinguish a Mexican from anyone else.” I’m really confused. I’m basically apologizing.

At that point they just burst out laughing. Basically surrounded at this point. They poured me a shot. Then another. They told me my bill was covered. We kept shooting the shit for a few more hours. They kept teasing me for not being able to recognize a Mexican. A relatively famous band was playing there later that night, and they snuck me back to listen to them warming up.

To this day, I still don’t really understand how Americans can distinguish Mexicans. It must be a learned “skill”. It was pretty eye opening talking to them… the fatigue of being treated as “lesser”… even “distinct”. We had a good time.

Americans apparently have a very learned eye to distinguish who’s white or not.

Had a bizarre interaction in Texas once where I couldn’t tell an entire staff was Mexican? My bad. Hijinx ensued. Owner was on the hook for my meal/drinks.

Why would it?

This pattern has existed since before Trump in that district. Leans right at federal level, leans left at state level.

Assumption is slowly sliding more right at the federal level… but also sliding more right at the state level. At 38% of the vote Daigle had the best republican showing in 20 years.

This result isn’t a directional divergence. That would maybe raise an eyebrow.

For iberville and assumption, in the presidential elections, support between R and D has moved within bounds of like, 2%, for the last 3 presidential elections.

In that same time frame, the maximum support a republican candidate for the 60th house of representatives has been 18.8%. Not margin, TOTAL.

Don’t get me wrong. It’s not bad news. But the reality of this outcome in this district is “No material shift in voting patterns in area over the last 20 years”.

Same side as who?

It’s not an R v D thing. It’s not even a US specific thing.

I’m not saying there is merit to the theory, but I think you’re misunderstanding the story laid out by these releases. The “sides” are the rich and powerful vs everyone else. She’s clearly in the “everyone else”, camp, regardless of what boots she’s licking.

I think what the post was insinuating is that it is retaliation for investigating at all.

Take the wins where you can get them, but it’s worth noting the vacated seat was held by a Democrat. This isn’t a flip. The district traditionally learns blue at the local/state level, as per the article.

Not trying to rain on anyone’s parade, but the “oh my god those backwards Louisiana hicks actually voted for a Democrat?!” Narrative is needlessly divisive and kinda shitty. That district has been for years.

So… respect our borders! Wait…

If I were tasked with implementing an algorithm tasked with being “justifiable” but also putting it at the top, I’d simply refuse.

If I was a complicit piece of shit, though, I’d probably use engagement, scaled by recency… with whatever recency curve puts it at number 1.

Yeah. You vibe with the OT but not so much with the NT?

That’s fine. Just be Jewish.

Honestly, I think it’s as simple as those are just the 5 largest metro centers in Canada.

It’s so jarring to me to hear a sentence structured like that, and I can put my finger on why. It sounds like it was written by Charlie Kelly.

Alberta is where the resistance is coming from. There are more offices in Ontario than Alberta.

It’s an interesting take, to be sure, obviously it remains to be seen. I just would expect the deployment strategy to somehow favour AB if that was the goal.

Because I don’t understand correlation vs causation, I can only conclude that the monetization of X caused a steep decline in knife violence