ysjet

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[–] ysjet@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

While that's all a good question and thought provoking... unfortunately it's literally just word of god that if Qui-Gon won, the light would win.

A common problem in Star Wars- the fans have put waaaay more thought and worldbuilding into it than Lucas ever did.

[–] ysjet@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

It could, but the supreme Court and other Republicans would never allow it.

[–] ysjet@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Canonically the actual gamble was qui-gon vs Darth maul. If qui-gon had lived, the universe would have been fine. But he lost, so it was doomed.

The force on star wars is weird, because if you're strong enough in the force things are basically fated.

Anyway, that's the long reason why the background music during that fight is called "The Duel of Fates".

[–] ysjet@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

By "people like you" I mean people that see this as a good thing. They're picking and choosing what laws this applies to and what they let slide. This is just the "easy out" that prevents "people like you" from being outraged at the blatant corruption going on.

It wasn't meant to be insulting.

[–] ysjet@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Oh, don't pretend that a Republican measure is going to be put under the same scrutiny. This is just an easy excuse so to keep people like you placated with a thin veneer of respectability.

The administration is going to weaponize the FTC anyway, and the supreme Court will back THAT to the hilt.

As for economic effect... That isn't something the court should be concerned with anyway! Who cares if it's profitable if it's illegal!

[–] ysjet@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

I took the lowest end measurement of the worst cohort in the study, actually, and even then they did over ten times the amount of walking you claimed. That's not a 'bit' wrong, that's off by an entire order or magnitude. And for the record, the entire rest of your post is made up as well- the studies are easily available, the fitness bracelet was given to them, it clearly delineates what bracelets are used, and a wide variety of ages, sexes, occupations, etc etc were studied.

https://journals.lww.com/acsm-msse/Fulltext/2010/10000/Pedometer_Measured_Physical_Activity_and_Health.4.aspx

[–] ysjet@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Again with the strawman. Nobody said anything about fighting every time time, and nobody especially has said anything about killing anyone. Maybe try reading what people say, instead of just responding to whatever you hallucinate them saying.

[–] ysjet@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Nobody ever said anything about superhuman. Put the strawman away.

[–] ysjet@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago (8 children)

The average american walks about 2 miles a day. 22km a week is definitely not 300 meters.

[–] ysjet@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

It was a Whole Thing on tiktok, with people filming the altercations/aftermath, to the point of where it became a meme and trended during the olympics.

[–] ysjet@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

None of that was an assumption I made, and I also very clearly stated that all of what I said was absent a weapon, like the knife you're referring to.

Pickpockets typically aren't trying to run, because that's INCREDIBLY suspicious, they're trying to slink away, and they certainly aren't trying to slip or break a tackle that they probably don't even see coming- again, they're not going to be staring at the person they just pickpocketed.

Nobody is trying to pretend Americans are john mcclane. I'm simply pointing out a possible explanation for what has already happened. You can argue all you want, but the fact is, american tourists regularly do catch and win against pickpockets. That's literally the entire point of this lemmy post.

It's not going to be a MMA fight between an american and a pickpocket, except the american has to run down and catch the sprinting pickpocketer first, it's probably going to be some 250lb dude wheezing for breath blindsiding him out of nowhere in something that is more accurately described a high-speed trip into inadvertent body slam, but it's still gonna work.

 

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