What is the worst argument in the world?
This is what happened with me recently. The 4-year-old healthy computer suddenly crashes saying 'CPU fan error'. So I tell father. Father (getting annoyed): How did it happen? What did you do? Me (calmly): I didn't do anything. When I switched it on it gave me this error, which I initially ignored, it was running fine for a while then it suddenly crashed. The system shut down automatically. Father (getting more annoyed): How can it shut down automatically? Why did you ignore the error in first place? What did you do with the computer last time? You say you didn't do anything, I hardly use the computer now, your mother doesn't use it, your brother doesn't give a shit about it, then WHO DID IT? Me (trying to calm myself): I don't know. I didn't do anything. I don't even use it since I got my laptop. YOU used it a couple of days back for some work. Besides, it's 4 years old and never have we once given it for servicing. The CPU fan must have gone kaput. Father (judging me): What do you mean you don't know? You mean when things get old they falter? We should throw away? That means you will have this approach towards us too? Is this why I raised you? To hear this? Me (getting really annoyed and confused but trying hard not to show): Where is this conversation heading?Father (full-fledgedly accusing me for the crash): THIS.. THIS behavior of yours.. You behave this way, that's why the computer crashed. Now don't look at my face, call the maintenance guy and get it fixed. You don't know how to handle delicate things. How will you run a family?! And father storms out of the room. Me: ......??????????????????????
Is it safe to swim every day (laps), or will it cause muscle fatigue?
A qualified yes.First of all, yes, swimming hard will make you tired. That's kind of the point. You stress the muscles so that they get can stronger and gain more endurance. Fatigue isn't really what you should be worried about if you're ordinarily healthy and not coping with a condition where fatigue needs to be monitored carefully. Elite swimmers often practice twice a day when training for their events. So it would follow that we ordinary mortals can swim every day, right?Sort of.Swimming with poor technique is asking for an injury. The chances of that injury go up the more often you swim. So, how's your technique?How are you for fitness in general? Swimming well is hard -- not only technique-wise but from an endurance point of view. The human body isn't meant to swim and is pretty inefficient at it. Moving through water means you're moving through a dense and difficult medium. In general, when you talk about swimming, you're looking at a 1:4 ratio of a distance equivalent. (VERY general and hotly debated, but not a bad starting point.) So, let's say you swim 40 minutes every day and you do a mile. (Which is turtle slow, mindja) That's about like doing four miles every day at ten minute miles. How tired would you get doing that?I do swim every day because I am training for a distance event this summer. I sleep HARD. And yes, I can feel this morning's workout in my shoulders. But it's a mild muscle sensation and not injury pain, so I feel good about it. Is it safe? Sure. But I'm swimming within my present abilities (turtle slow!) and am careful listen to my body's signals.
Do you agree with Donald Trump's tweet when he said that he is above the law?
For this question to be reasonably answerable, you should likely provide a link to the Tweet in question.I presume this is perhaps the “pardon” Tweet from three months ago to which you are referring?And that this is coming back now because of the hypothetical question that was asked at the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings?If so, then the answer is that it’s a hypothetical, and it’s never been tested in court.The way it would have to be tested is that he’d have to pardon himself, and then once he was pardoned, someone with standing would have to try to take him to court anyway. Likely a federal prosecutor.At which point, the U.S. Supreme Court would almost certainly step in and decide, on the basis of legal arguments, whether:The legal theory put forward is in fact soundEven if the theory was sound, whether they wanted to let the pardon stand — which would be a terrible precedent, but for which some rather strong legal arguments would be possible — or override it on the basis that it would be a terrible precedent.I suspect that the way this would play out — presidents have been grabbing more and more executive power over time; Obama’s DACA-by-executive-order fiat is an example from the last administration, since he couldn’t get congress to pass legislation — would be that he would in fact be pardoned.Note that congress has been doing its own power grabbing — the first time a Supreme Court Nominee had to appear before congress was 1925, and the second in 1936. Now it’s common.Which would put him in the interesting position of not being able to be indicted, but would almost certainly lead to an immediate impeachment for utilizing the power in that fashion.Just because you can’t be indicted, doesn’t mean you can’t be impeached.Some president will almost certainly test these waters eventually — barring a Constitutional Amendment limiting the pardon power in this specific situation, going forward — but that’s unlikely to happen without it first being tested.