We don't even have to go that far to realize how quickly the democratic establishment would roll over in the face of a civil war. I don't think Chuck Schumer is going to be leading an armed resistance movement anytime soon.

Change my mind, but everyone's assumption that the Senate Minority Leader, of all people, is the de facto head of the democrats and would "lead" the opposition in a civil war is asinine – whether it's Chuck Schumer or whoever replaces him.

Yeah it’s infuriating to think about.

Kyle Reese?

They have to accept cash in the US as well. The post you're replying to is just saying that they can't ring anything up or accept any payment without power.

> They have to accept cash in the US as well.

Only in a handful of cities and states. There is no federal law requiring businesses to accept cash for goods and services.

Ah okay, that wasn't clear to me, I imagined only being able to use electronic payment types.

But in this case, an emergency, I would assume someone would still know how to take a manual payment receipt!

Don't need a super computer to do that hah

Imagine doing something with money that isn't investing in a for profit company.

That feels like a non-segueter given the comment I was responding to

Was it intentional that you used the phrase “rolling sentences around her mouth, like toffee” in a post about how it’s better to write plainly?

Yes. Well done!

Having said that, I don't think it's good policy to remove everything, down to the point where you have: Mary came in. She saw John. John saw her too. Mary said "Well, what now?". John replied "I don't know"

Sometimes it's hilarious to describe the body language and internal monologue of a particularly awful character, and sometimes it feels pushed.

Thank god I'm not a writer. It's hard enough writing something that passes a linters / CI tests and works in production without adding "how does it make you feel to read it?". Code is written to run on machines. That's is function. But it should be written to be understandable and maintainable to humans as a secondary goal. But taking a human, making them laugh, making them cry and changing their life? I wouldn't know where to start.

But oddly, I re-read my own post and now I have a strange desire to find out what happened between Mary and John.

2026: Ground breaking novel by raffraffraff, "The thing that occurred between John and Mary"

Care to share your examples?