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In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.

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The_Nybbler

In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.

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There is no other government which exists and exercises any territorial control or monopoly on violence.

Yes, Hamas is not technically a government. This is sophistry.

It's in the memo, unless you're going to do a maximally-NSA-deferent Sternlightian reading where they were capturing 15GB a day from actual legitimate targets that just happened to be transferred that day, even though it says nothing of the sort.

I'm sure that you believe that the information available to the public would be the same even if lizardmen were running the NSA.

If the lizardmen were sufficiently competent.

Your bare link doesn't do what you think it does. Try again, maybe even try with words.

My bare link shows you're just playing Dory like most people do, forgetting all the past revelations of the sort of stuff the NSA has been doing.

Oh yes, that one slide from forever ago that literally nothing came out of.

Of course nothing came of it, "my elected representatives" are very much in favor of parallel construction.

The difference is who/whom, not the de jure state of Gaze vs Ukraine. Israel was responding to an attack; that got them a few weeks of support before the river-to-the-sea people got their act together.

Israel SHOULD wash its hands entirely. Give a two or three state solution to Gaza and West Bank.

Soon after they do, they're in a war with both, and end up more or less back where they started.

Obama is frustrated over not having EVEN MORE POWER (as is Trump), but neither consider power a curse. Nor Clinton, nor Trump.

I can think of two rulers throughout history who were actually reluctant -- and the second (Washington) is probably just American lore.

It's not, the product is still not available. Which makes me suspect "entirely fake".

A strawberry picker that's slow, isn't actually available and apparently works only on hydroponic berries? I think Juan Enrique still has his job. Maybe another 5-10 years it'll make a dent, assuming the product isn't entirely fake.

Tomatoes are indeed largely automatically harvested. The catch is... well, do you think a tomato you buy in the grocery store could stand up to what that robot is doing? Nope... those are tomatoes for processing, not for eating fresh.

Americans should mow their own lawns

Eh, f--- that, I've got hay fever.

What is your excuse for why China is able to do it while having a one standard deviation higher median IQ over America?

They likely don't; all those rural laborers don't show up in the IQ stats because they don't take the tests.

They actually police fraud much less than low-trust ones, take people at their word and generally assume their good faith.

This is an unstable situation, though, unless fraudsters actually are punished a good bit of the time. If they prosper, your high-trust society days are numbered as the chumps figure out they're chumps and stop trusting and/or turn to fraud themselves.

If we're talking about some less-than-Dunbar's number small community, that's pretty easy, if Aaron Stevenson Stoltzfus invents lying in some small naive Amish community, then even if he doesn't get formally punished (which he likely would be, the Amish not actually being naive), word's going to get around and no one is going to trust him. Anything larger and it's a lot more difficult.

Note my trade is not at par for QALYs, it's at par for unadjusted LYs.

It's a euphemism.

I don't think we are going to get on the same page about this, but as a fact matter - if your friend was psychotic under the influence of a substance at that time he had poor judgement and insight, if they were committed involuntary (the correct response to oh holy shit the walls are talking to me is to you know, get help).

Someone experiencing a psychotic episode is often not aware that they are no longer aligned with reality. They are experiencing not just hallucinations but delusions. Yes, obviously they have "poor judgement and insight" while actually experiencing the psychotic episode; that's not reason to deprive them of fundamental rights forever.

One of the challenges of managing society in general is what to do with people who are "fine" most of the time but dangerous while in a certain state (like decompensated mental illness, tripping balls, or just pissed off).

That's pretty much everyone.

The point is "exaggerated porn noises" during sex, even if the girl isn't enjoying herself.

Yes, that was in said major motion picture trailer.

When (generic) you tell me "porn is making kids think choking during sex is normal", I'm inclined to consider it. When you say "Porn is making kids think choking, pleasurable noises, and women having (or faking) orgasms during sex is normal" I'm inclined to think you just have something against porn that might be unrelated.

So if the IAEA says they are in compliance --> they are in compliance.

No. I think the IAEA will generally say they are in compliance regardless of whether they are, and most likely they have not been for quite a while.

But the consequences of their choices is permanent conflict around them, and a world (which to an extent they depend on) that is steadily losing sympathy for their plight.

It seems Iran has lost international sympathy even faster; Putin shrugged and said there's a lot of Russian-speaking Israelis, and China isn't lifting a finger for them either. (To be fair, China said the UN Security Council should act against the US. Which is a joke seeing as the US has a veto). The consequences of their choices may be permanent conflict, but it does not appear -- aside from ceasing to exist -- that they have options which do not involve that.

Why should Ted or Bush or anyone bother weighing up the pros and cons if God is on his side and will sort it out anyway?

You have perhaps heard the sayings "God helps those who help themselves" and "God is on the side with the superior firepower"?

Jolani is at least pretending to be an ex-terrorist. Iran is steadfast in its hatred of the US.

  1. LOL no

  2. Nope. But at least look!

  3. They should be treated as minimums in most conditions.

  4. No, there are other reasons to ride in the left lane and cutting you off or riding your bumper is obnoxious though occasionally acceptable (e.g. if you're forming a rolling roadblock by riding alongside someone in the right lane)

  5. Eh, maybe feel a little guilt

  6. No, what's good for me is good for them

Indeed, once you're outside an urban grid, there's often only one road (or two, where one is a limited-access highway) which goes where you want to go without going WAY out of your way. If you want to go from e.g. Urbana, MD to Hyattstown, MD (both suburbs of Washington DC) on a bicycle, MD 355 is it. Mostly two lines, mostly narrow/nonexistent shoulders, speed limit varies from 40 to 50 but mostly 50mph.

Because the Mexicans, even if deported, can simply walk back.

Why would they be deported? If there's work, we can hand them a temporary visa and they work. If there isn't, no visa. And if they want to work at things not covered by these visas, they can walk in illegally regardless of whether these visas exist.

This may be true for some goods (say, anti-matter-powered light bulbs), but it seems highly unlikely that it is the case for food.

It could be true for certain crops grown in the United States though.

It is not safe or practical to pass on it.

It's not safe or practical to pass a bicycle on it, particularly when the bicyclist is going slow on the uphill parts? Or drivers are just too timid to do it?

I knew what video this was before I clicked on it. It's a classic.

Yep, and aside from the actual crashes, quite representative.