Kal-El814

38 minutes ago, Ghost_MH said:

Amazon Prime Video was never not broken and ugly and worthless. You might be like one of three people on this planet that thought the old interface was sufficient.

This, I literally thought the OP was a joke post.

12 minutes ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said:

Many such examples

The sun rises in the east, water is wet, and with conservatives, it's projection.

20 hours ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said:

Let's call it what it is: the United States is very much in a state of undeclared war with the Russian Federation.

 

The "proxiness" of this war is largely irrelevant.

We haven't declared war since WWII, gotta keep that streak alive.

So true. 

I swapped in larger capacity batteries into every DualShock 4 I got, the battery life of all the models at and for a while after launch was straight ass. The DualSense doesn’t last as long as the switch pro controller or the Xbox ones, but it’s not so bad that I’ve been tempted to split one open. 
 

26 minutes ago, AbsolutSurgen said:

I'm sure we will see lots of Economists chime in....

 

 

There are few professions less useful than economist.

Just now, Greatoneshere said:

You know, I find it both frustrating but also now I'm hopeful that it seems Biden, to some degree, has realized - "oh shit, if I get shit done, my popularity goes up, and the country improves". It's like - finally. Stop being scared of Republicans, we have a majority right now (minus Manchin and Sinema) so let's fucking go. Filibuster still remains an enormous obstacle, but do what you can.

 

 

 

Especially because, at the moment, the only alternative republicans are offering is rage induced rectal prolapse. 

2 minutes ago, TUFKAK said:

He said he wanted to be FDR.

Fuckin dem republicans 

13 minutes ago, marioandsonic said:

So basically every single right-winger who loses an election now is going cry about fraud, aren't they?

The fans get mad when you don’t play the hits. 

34 minutes ago, Anathema- said:

The people who are feverishly demanding 100% relief for all loans are weird.

You miss all the shots you don't take, forgive my mortgage papa Biden

I remember the Bad Cartridge wiki entry for blood work.

Starting a thread with obvious Twin Towers energy in the main pic... bold moves from my guy.

38 minutes ago, sblfilms said:

Why does Fetterman still wear the clothes he did from when he was like 4 bills? 

Think of the savings. 

28 minutes ago, MarSolo said:

Great, I’m gonna be singing “I Can Only Count to 4” all day.

That whole video is great

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3 hours ago, Anathema- said:

 

At least hodlgang has real attributable guiding principles.

Yangang's north star is forward, just don't ask what that means.

6 minutes ago, Amazatron said:

So how do you feel about Lia Thomas who transitioned and became an NCAA champion in women’s swimming?
 

Still just fun and games? Or do you want to draw an arbitrary line between collegiate/high school?

Has Thomas followed established rules for womens competition?

4 minutes ago, sblfilms said:

People who don’t like sports trying to fix something in sports is hilarious

I’d be more interested if they sucked less

57 minutes ago, sblfilms said:

So why are you arguing against the disinfection as though it doesn’t make the (very obvious) difference it does?

 

Don't try and walk it back by refocusing on the thing we all agree on  

I am always going to push back / “overreact” to this because every year we suffer through thought pieces about how morons like Aaron Rodgers are the smartest man in the room, or listen to Tom Brady talk about how he doesn’t get a sunburn because he stays hydrated, or countless other examples of male athletic excellence that go almost entirely unchallenged… while women in sport often cannot excel without accusations of being born male, or trans women athletes cannot exist without the suspicion of cheating, without sagacious dudes popping off about how men are stronger, etc. 

So it’s not about dimorphism not being a thing, it’s about this specific topic coming up and the suspicion that women who excel are actually men, which to me is the subtext whenever the “but actually men are stronger” comment comes up apropos of nothing. 

1 hour ago, sblfilms said:

Are you in favor of getting rid of gender based divisions in sports? If not, why?

 

Same questions for @Kal-El814

No, I acknowledge that sexual dimorphism is a thing and I know that the destruction of gender / sex based sports and leagues would, on account of patriarchy, make things shittier for women’s sport in general.

None of that makes what took place in the OP any less shitty and dumb.

22 minutes ago, sblfilms said:

If you were to compare any age group post puberty at any skill level, the results are the same: the average biological male has an advantage over the average biological female. I really don't know what YOUR point is, unless you actually disagree with this? And in purely athletic competitions, those relatively small differences result in large differences in outcome. 

 

Like, go to your local high school when the boys and girls soccer teams have a scrimmage and tell me you think it doesn't matter for the non-outlier level athletes  

My point is that shitty people look at girls / womens sport, see someone crushing it, and assuming they must be a guy / male because their grasp of these things starts and stops at “girls weak boys strong.” Or that thought gets brought up as a justification for dragging women athletes when they succeed as seen by all the internet phrenologists who look at someone like Ledecky and think she’s a man, or the OP in this thread.

The “well actually, boys are stronger and faster” crowd offers no insight, no value, no propositions. It is peak reply guy behavior and they should be encouraged to be silent.

22 minutes ago, BloodyHell said:

I mean, facts are facts man. Serena Williams was beaten 6-luv by a guy ranked 203rd who smoked cigarettes while he played. Nobody is arguing against the dignity of trans people (here, obviouslythere are definitely monsters doing that), just for people to recognize facts about human anatomy when it comes to competitive sports.

Comparing someone who is in the top percent of a percent of a percent of male tennis players who have ever walked the earth to Serena Williams proves absolutely nothing. Again, sexual dimorphism exists, and Serena Williams would rinse 99%+ of men, and today’s men would cream peak male players from the not too distant past. Looking at outliers is pointless.

22 minutes ago, Amazatron said:

What is pronounced for you?

 

https://runninglevel.com/running-times/1-mile-times

 

I'd say 10-20% is significant.

Again, feel free to get to a point at any time.

We’re just now getting to the point where some people accept that gender is a social construct. People need to acknowledge that sex is ALSO a social construct. And before anyone’s anus prolapses, I don not mean that biology is not relevant. I merely mean that “sex” is a term made up by people to categorize natural phenomena that has turned out to be significantly more nuanced than male and female. There are a non trivial amount of intersex people, our understanding of how what we presently understand to be sex hormones truly impact development, athletic performance, etc., is just beginning to come together.

So with that in mind it’s not that sex is a useless determinant, it IS a relevant one. But the playing field is never going to be level. My first serious girlfriend was barely 5’ tall, she was good at gymnastics and couldn’t have been a high jumper. My wife is 6’ tall, she was one of the best high jumpers in Mass growing up, but if you asked her to do a cartwheel her spine would tear out of her body and she’d fuckin die.

So what are we going to do? Genetic screening for any meaningful athletic competition? Hormone levels? Height cutoffs? Arm length? All of these approaches have flaws and you get into truly gross territory adjacent to eugenics REALLY quick when someone starts advocating for “born females only competing against born females.”

14 minutes ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said:

I honestly admit that I have absolutely no idea what the solution to this situation is other than to completely eliminate competitive sports.

If it ends these stupid arguments, please, I’m begging you.

Just now, Amazatron said:

You say there's a flaw in the argument, yet offer no evidence to the contrary.

I don’t know anyone that would deny that sexual dimorphism in humans exists; I certainly do not. That said the differences are not as pronounced as people assume and that leads to the stupidity like the content listed in the OP in this thread.

Just now, BloodyHell said:

That biological males have naturally bigger lungs, hearts, higher red blood cell count, and wider, thicker hips and more dense musculature if they have gone through puberty. That trans women should be welcome in rec sports, but competitive womens sport should be the sole purview of biological females. 

Shut uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuup.

Just now, Amazatron said:

OK, do high school level, it will be the same result.

What is your point?