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.
6hr ago
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
11hr ago
Vance did not make a statement "that citizenship in the US should be based on ancestry instead of individual choices and beliefs". He said that choices and beliefs were neither necessary nor sufficient. He implies ancestry is sufficient, but not that it is necessary.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
13hr ago
Yes, but recognizing one entity's claim to a territory that another entity controls isn't unprecedented at all.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
13hr ago
I believe Israel recognizes the Palestinian Authority's claim, but they don't recognize the PA as a state.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
15hr ago
Doesn't Israel claim sovereignity over the area?
No, they do not.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
16hr ago
Try not rounding up the civilian population into camps, or shooting people rushing forward for food aid because they're starving. It's amazing how not being stormtroopers helps shift the views of the people on the other side.
They tried that. It resulted in a constant series of rocket attacks topped by the 10/7 invasion.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
16hr ago
You know, it took a lot to get me to this position, but here I am: yes, Israel wants the Gaza problem solved by having them disappear. Deported out of the country if possible, but dead works too.
Settlers running amok and nobody stopping them
You know there's no settlers in Gaza, right?
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
17hr ago
I think it will be very hard to starve Hamas to death without starving everyone else to death, too, unless you "ethnically cleanse" the populace by moving them into camps where you can ensure they are all fed safely.
You can't do that either; Hamas will be in the camps.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
18hr ago
The response would be police because the Canadian government wouldn't actually say "get fucked"; they'd track down said native group using both their own resources and those the US provided. A world where the Canadian government would say "get fucked" is one different enough that Canada could indeed be invaded over it.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
18hr ago
before they would start looking like North Korea
Which is to say, stable and at peace (if an uneasy one) with their neighbors?
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
1d ago
Israel's relationship to the West Bank is that of a military occupier. Gaza is largely occupied now, but from 2005 until 10/7 was not occupied. A blockade is not occupation.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
1d ago
The problem with the "root cause" thing is attempting to address the "root cause" never alleviates the symptoms. This may be because the claimed root cause isn't actually the root cause, or it may be because we can't actually do anything about the root cause. But basically that trick never works.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
1d ago
And they're completely wrong, because they won't get the juice, only the squeeze. The cops aren't going to go back to beating up drunk/high vagrants of color if given the authority to beat people up; they'll beat soft and fun targets like teenagers, white collar guys, and generally anyone who gives them lip.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
1d ago
Then you are insufficiently familiar with the breed.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
1d ago
Yes, and that's fine. Their problems are theirs to solve.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
1d ago
All these ideas fall to the same issue. You can't trust the people with discretion. Do you really trust a high school (or middle or elementary school) principal to decide who is worthy of corporal punishment? Especially given the outside incentives? Beat cops may be better people than the criminals they arrest... but only by a little bit, and they'll be happy to beat up anyone they dislike, who gives them lip, or who gets in their way.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
1d ago
There are numerous problems with trying to deal with this. One being that it literally is legal to stand on the sidewalk and curse. Another being anarcho-tyranny. If you make it illegal to do this or stretch some disorderly conduct law, the people who will get collared will largely not be these guys -- the cops don't want to deal with them because they're unpleasant and some NGO will be on their ass if they do anyway. No, instead the cops will go after mildly annoying groups of teenagers (whose parents won't protect them), random people who are swearing because they had a bad day, and most of all, people who swear at the cops themselves.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
1d ago
Some of the comments about women and marriage on here are also creating incentives for women to avoid marriage.
Unlikely, in that no significant number of women who haven't already made up their mind are reading them.
Anyway, "How dare you talk about this in a way that doesn't put all the onus on the man and put the woman on a pedestal?" is not going to be an effective tactic; it's so ubiquitous already that anyone still talking about the subject is obviously already inured to it.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
2d ago
Don't hate me because I'm beautiful.
And don't look up more recent pics of Kelly LeBrock.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
2d ago
There's disagreement on that, but I'm going with my personal opinion and experience. There's a lot of studies, and if you want to pick your definitions and operationalizations, you can find damn near anything you want. Current meta-studies are saying there's no relationship at all between attractiveness and IQ, or maybe only on the lower end. I don't believe them, in part because I've met Scott (and a couple other geniuses).
There's certainly a relationship once you get into abnormal cases; there are a number of conditions (e.g. Downs) which result in low attractiveness and low IQ. But checking out Nobel Prize winners (including finding pictures of them when younger in many cases) doesn't result in a list of uggles.
In computer science and related fields, I can say that Theodore Kowalski (fsck), Rob Pike, Vint Cerf, and Benoit Mandelbrot didn't have obvious twitches.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
3d ago
The same source (statista) gives 78 today. So no 80s. Though I don't know how accurate these tables are; they're by nature projections.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
3d ago
US life expectancy at birth was already over 68 years in 1950.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
3d ago
· Edited 3d ago
Because teens desire to be less independent and are less risk-tolerant in all ways than they used to be. I blame it on insufficient lead, insufficient nicotine, and too much supervision (in that order).
Edit: also nastier licensing requirements. Thanks, insurance companies!
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
4d ago
International law can require command authority all it wants; it can't make it actually exist. Hamas's leadership cannot surrender and retain command authority.
Every system has losers, and the winners have to be able to do something about them. Meritocracy has an advantage in this in that the losers, by definition, suck.
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