The_Nybbler
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.
3d ago
Grenfell tower
A much smaller concrete building.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
3d ago
True, but the theory isn't that the beams melted, it's that they weakened due to the temperature.
That's not quite true either, though. In fact, one of the reasons the conspiracy theory is wrong is there weren't any steel beams to begin with. The NIST theory is the floor trusses on the damaged floors lost stiffness (not strength), sagged, pulled the (remaining) structural columns inward, and the cascade started from that.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
6d ago
Indeed, by the standards of Middle Eastern ceasefires, this one seems to be holding together OK. Iran fired off two missiles (most sources say both were intercepted, one says one hit a residential building), Israel dropped two bombs in response (and told Trump they would have dropped more if he hadn't yelled at them, quick thinking on Netanyahu's part), and nothing more. Also no Houthi attacks on shipping, no closure of the Straits of Hormuz, and no bombing of Iran's oil terminals
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
8d ago
Has the USG directly confirmed the use of MOP?
Yes. 14 MOPs from 7 B-2s. I don't think any bomb damage imagery has been released, however.
The X community seems to doubt they were used.
Watching the DR apply the same "America worst" logic formerly typically used by the antiwar left is certainly amusing.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
9d ago
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
12d ago
introduce the first secret police force in the history of the United States?
Certainly not. If nobody did it earlier, J. Edgar Hoover did it with parts of the FBI.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
18d ago
Who is harassing anyone? If people are on some public forum talking about how Aella is a degenerate whore or whatever, and she reads that, it's not harassement.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
20d ago
Do you have any intuition as to why there are so my psychotic cyclists?
If you're not psychotic when you start cycling in Manhattan, it'll make you that way.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
29d ago
The other issue with everyone trying to buy single family houses is that it’s acre for acre about the worst possible way to build housing.
For ants and sardines. For people, they're great, despite taking up more acreage per unit.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
8d ago
AOC has concluded that a president ordering an airstrike without congressional approval is grounds for impeachment. Fetterman thinks it was the right move. Both are, I suppose, on brand.
I suppose AOC would be (tautologically) right if she had the votes, but she doesn't. As I read it, the War Powers Act only requires notification after the fact in this case.
On the one hand I don't think Iran has provided the US sufficient reason to attack them (at least not one that's recent and public). On the other... eh, Iran's government sucks and I'm not going to lose sleep over it.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
11d ago
We need less redditor justices!
Fewer. We need fewer redditor justices.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
11d ago
What utility does knowing Iran's population matter? What relevance is the specific number of Iranians to any American interests?
If you're considering replacing its government by force, the size population you'll end up administering (at best) or fighting seems quite relevant.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
13d ago
Right, he was using a women's strategy and women's strategies don't work for men. Maybe that would have worked if he'd seen her reaction, decided he wouldn't get stabbed (or "HELP, AUTHORITY, REMOVE THIS CREEP"), and then asked directly.
But the direct methods of trying are forbidden for men (see above in all caps) unless they succeed, and the penalties have done nothing but increase.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
21d ago
Riots during Trump admins have been politically genius. If the admin Does What It Takes to restore order, he confirms the image the left has painted of him of being a dictator.
Nope. If he does what it takes to restore order, then as long as the Guard doesn't shoot anyone too sympathetic, he wins. The left has overplayed their hand on rioting.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
22d ago
Breaking into Congressional buildings is different than protesting but (in the context of a mass event that started as a protest) a central example of rioting.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
21hr ago
Anyway, socialism seems like a fair response to the complete ineptitude of our political class.
It is a fair response to the complete ineptitude of our political class to put our political class in more complete charge of what is now in the private sphere? This seems utterly quixotic.
That being said, I don't think society is unfixable. I just think that political solutions are pointless. We need what has always been the core of strong societies - a culture that promotes and encourages personal virtue. Without that, you have nothing.
You cannot build or keep a culture that promotes and encourages personal virtue with a political system that does that opposite, like socialism does.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
3d ago
Not so. New Jersey makes voluntary admission to an inpatient mental health program cause for denial of a firearm permit. They also ask on their firearms form for ANY interaction with a mental health professional:
"Have you ever been attended, treated, or observed by any doctor or psychiatrist or at any hospital or mental institution on an inpatient or outpatient basis for any mental or psychiatric condition?" If yes, give the name and location of the doctor, psychiatrist, hospital, or institution and the date(s) of such occurrence
They're not asking for your health.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
5d ago
Unfortunately Republicans have no solution to the problem of marriage. Neither party does, because the Overton Window only contains solutions that don't work.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
6d ago
Nobody in power seems to want to acknowledge what these men actually want out of society and, by contrast, what they're actually getting.
They will, but only long enough to say that it's disgusting or that them not getting it is entirely their own fault. The latter might be reasonable if it were actually true.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
13d ago
I expect this reply belongs elsewhere.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
13d ago
Iran and Israel is a special case because they can't reach each other to invade (and if Israel could, they don't have the manpower). And Israel probably isn't trying to decapitate; they're probably not trying to topple the regime (which would lead at best to chaos), but incapacitate it technically. Israel and Gaza is probably a better view of what it looks like when one side is totally outclassed. And Ukraine/Russia for near-peer fights. Total war, WWII style, is still off the table because of the nuclear spectre; a fight between China and the US seems like the only way to get that in the near term, but it will look different than any of the current conflicts because it will be far more about naval forces at least at first.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
15d ago
Who is “they”? Best I can tell it was mostly the parents and school trying legal tricks (presumably to protect their reputation or something)?
And the judge, and the police, and the lawyers who came up with the idea of the "Covenant Children's Trust" to hold the copyright. The "nothing to see here" routine has worn all the way through.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
5d ago
The cynical version of this is "If your anecdotal evidence flies in the face of their data, they are probably measuring the data wrong."
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
12d ago
If a parent can veto the decision to abort, they would presumable also be able to veto the decision to have the baby.
That is certainly not true. That authority to forbid is not the authority to require.
Worked on the Bonus Army.
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