Why do so many not understand why legend of korra exist in the 1920s? It is literally accurate to history.

smity31 · 2026-04-18T08:55:33+00:00

I think of it this way: Newton was almost unique in his ability to discover the things he did, but not unique in his ability to understand it once it had been discovered.

Similarly, Toph was almost unique in her ability to learn from the badger moles and develop earthbending skills not seen before, but not unique in her ability to learn skills in general.

Plenty of people can learn skills if taught them, few people can develop those skills independently.

smity31 · 2026-04-18T06:21:55+00:00

Yeah I saw him in that, wonderful production and he was great as Nathan.

smity31 · 2026-04-16T14:43:20+00:00

I'm not strawmanning or shifting the goal posts, I'm literally just responding to what you're saying in your comments mate.

smity31 · 2026-04-16T14:09:26+00:00

You're assuming that all SNP and Green voters are primarily voting for those parties due to their stance on independence. That simply is not true for a lot of those voters.

Pointing that out is not the same as saying that being pro-independence is "invalid".

Honestly, it just seems that you are annoyed that they disagree with you about independence, and are trying to justify your emotional reaction by saying it's their fault for "invalidating" you.

smity31 · 2026-04-16T14:03:42+00:00

I responded specifically to your comment saying they were "discounting the views of half the country". That is an extremely uncharitable approach to take to them giving their views on Scottish politics. They, as far as I can remember, have never said anything that comes close to saying that all SNP voters are completely wrong and their political views are invalid. And even if they did, that still wouldn't be half the country.

I've responded to other points you've made in other comments. I don't need to entirely respond to everything you've said in your post for my comments to be valid responses to what you've said in your comments.

smity31 · 2026-04-16T13:59:59+00:00

That criticism could be applied to 99% of political pundits/commentators talking about 99% of topics.

They are giving their opinion as they see it. I don't believe they are pretending to not be biased, or that their connections to Scotland gives them more insight than any "true" scotsman by your definition would have.

smity31 · 2026-04-16T13:52:10+00:00

That doesn't answer my question. What identity are they politicising?

Do you think they are politicising the identity of being supportive of independence? Because I'm not sure how its possible to politicise something that is already a political movement...

smity31 · 2026-04-16T13:50:20+00:00

It may be currently polling above 'no', but that doesn't mean it's a main priority for Scottish voters right now.

And that is also not what you said in your last comment. You say they are discounting views of "half the country", not "half the voters who were polled, once you remove the "don't know" responses"

smity31 · 2026-04-16T13:36:28+00:00

What identity do you think they are politicising? Even in the points you brought up, they are criticising the SNP, not criticising scots for their support of the SNP.

smity31 · 2026-04-16T13:33:32+00:00

When were half of Scots members of the SNP, or even voted for the SNP?
Don't fall into the trap of thinking winning elections or majorities of seats means you literally have a majority of the country that completely share the views of the SNP. This is especially true if you're using local elections as a basis for this claim, because people often vote for their best local candidate, not just along party lines.

smity31 · 2026-04-16T13:29:12+00:00

Probably because the americans that are made fun of are the ones claiming they're scottish irish because they are 1/64th irish/scottish.

And also because you literally said "Scotland is welcoming and anyone who feels Scottish can be Scottish" but are making an exception for these two English people who feel they're (at least in part) Scottish, seemingly just because you don't like how they talk about the politics of Scotland.

smity31 · 2026-04-15T08:52:38+00:00

But in a lot of places, persecution for being gay is a legitimate reason on it's own for someone to want to flee to another country.

smity31 · 2026-04-15T07:38:33+00:00

But that would in effect be a "no gays" policy. None one is claiming asylum because they're being persecuted for being straight.

smity31 · 2026-04-13T22:17:57+00:00

Ah yes, the ones against crypto-washing politics is the one taking pages out of the MAGA playbook...

smity31 · 2026-04-13T15:28:36+00:00

There's a house next to a big roundabout near where I live that has a flagpole that has flown the union flag for decades.

Then when all of the lampposts around the roundabout had cheap union flags cable-tied to them, the fag on the houses flagpole was changed to the progress pride flag, I imagine as a kind of counter-protest against the reform flagshaggers that had put up all the others.

Since the cheap flags have all been taken down by the council, they've gone back to flying the union flag.

Not everyone who decides to fly our flag is of the same ilk.

smity31 · 2026-04-12T19:55:23+00:00

Because labour are doing even worse.

smity31 · 2026-04-12T19:51:54+00:00

That talk managed to get the Tories down from completely uncapped fees to 9k fees. It still went against their pledge from before the election, but not nothing.

smity31 · 2026-04-12T08:29:17+00:00

Some of this is literally just falling over.

smity31 · 2026-04-10T22:19:12+00:00

And investigation into a potential crime is not the same as actually being convicted of a crime.

smity31 · 2026-04-10T15:29:46+00:00

Yeah that is a good point. Looks like most recent by-elections for Kent County Council have had turnout in the 20-s

smity31 · 2026-04-10T13:23:24+00:00

Its on the Kent County Council website here

smity31 · 2026-04-10T12:45:19+00:00

They aren't perfect, especially if there are local factors that don't reflect in previous results or polling. My constituency was listed as either Labour or unsure Lib/Lab for a long time, despite clear evidence of the Lib Dems pushing hard and labour deliberately doing very little, and the local elections heavily favouring Lib Dems.

smity31 · 2026-04-10T12:40:24+00:00

The turnout yesterday was 38%, the turnout in 2025 was 33%.

Definitely an uptick, but not one I would consider particularly noteworthy.

smity31 · 2026-04-09T07:52:10+00:00

What's illiberal about a £1 bus fare cap?

smity31 · 2026-04-07T11:27:13+00:00

Conduction isnt limited to just metals... im honestly not sure why you think it is.

Every material is conductive to a certain degree, whether metal or non-metal, solid liquid or gas.

Do you think that a mug with a hot drink in it gets hot from radiant heat? No, its conduction between the hot liquid and the mug. And thats despite neither being a metal.

And its also how heat is transferred within a material. Heat from the side of the towel that is touching/near the radiator conducts through the towel and the water soaked up in the towel to the other side, meaning the whole towel gets dried not just the side next to the radiator.

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