I can't speak to curling, but in chess the womens' leagues are there to get women involved. There are no biological advantages at play. This is a 2000 year old game they were excluded from playing until 100 years ago. So someone could put forth a good argument that it's more about gender than physical sex.

I wouldn't say terrible but mid possibly. It just took something that already worked well and added a little extra to it.

If "thing2: the sequel" attaches a something kinda neato to the revolutionary, gaming landscape changing "thing1:the thingining" that doesn't mean thing2 is really better than something that significantly moved the bar.

This is why Fallout 3 is better than Fallout New Vegas and I will fight you all over it.

I think all sports aren't equal in this. The rules for MMA would surely be different than the rules for curling or chess. The people who control sports organizations usually have a life dedicated to their sport, and are in a much better place to make a call about it than congress or randos on the internet. This matter should be handled by them. The fact that anyone without skin in the game cares about this at all is a losing battle.

Here's one I get a lot of flack for that I don't bring up much

I think people trying to cook up gun control laws are targeting the wrong guns, in going after semi auto or military rifles, when they should be going after cheap handguns that have been available forever. The majority of gun deaths are suicides, and that's almost always done with a hand gun, but even if you control for that the majority of homicides with guns are done with hand guns.

Hand guns are usually relatively cheap. They are very easy to conceal. Its very common for people to walk into a bar with a holstered hand gun and make a series of bad decisions. Its too common for people to get in road rage incidents that escalate into something tragic because of a handgun in the glove box. People leave them around their house and treat them as toys that kids end up finding.

AND I would argue that handguns are not in the spirit of the 2nd amendment. They are not fighting weapons. They are for fun, personal protection, or making people feel tough without having to do any real work. They have little range and lesser power. There are are no troops in the world that deploy with handguns as a primary weapon. US military officers get them but that's more about tradition.

Yes, I'm aware that shooting incidents done with rifles would be more deadly, but the fact there would be much fewer of them at all would be a net benefit in a society that banned or severely restricted hand guns.

No actually, I hate meetings as they prevent me from getting my actual work done. I do think some vast conspiracy where all the execs own office space and cabaled together keep office real estate high is a bit silly though, so it's good to think for a moment and ask what real value there is to be in the classic work environment, because there is some tradeoff, and think who mostly benefits that and why.

Some people seem to have reactionary responses to not going with the narrative of the problem weaved by this thread though. Internet is going to internet I guess

I don't think it's this "all rich jerks own commercial real estate" thing that everyone going on about. I get the feeling it's more about the managerial/director types. The ones who are maybe well off but maybe not quite rich. My director owns a 150,000 tesla, but I don't think he's near well off enough to own an office building.

Anyway, at a certain level and upwards, all you do is meet and talk to people all day. They value face to face communication because that's a more effective meeting, and builds more rapport with the members.

#!++ just to be too cool for school

I have more time in rimworld but play both. Sometimes DF is nice when you can't be arsed to care about the people you manage and don't want to micromanage the way you really have to in rimworld sometimes. Plus there is no storyteller in the rimworld sense. You get more raids if you live near people who don't like you and I feel like that makes a lot of sense.

No that's the problem, he was an idiot with a single account.

15 coffees

https://xkcd.com/795/

ikd man, I feel like I have no idea what I'm doing, like none of us have any idea what we're doing at any given time

After reading about some old and failed Department of defence ideas, like nuking the moon, or making a "gay bomb", I've come to realize we're all morons.

Not to mention those old fridges are Horribly inefficient on energy

Relevant Mr lovenstein

For me personally growing up, everyone just steamed them into a wet tasteless mush. This is not the way. Almost all of them are good sauted or baked, even brussel sprouts with a bit of salt and a dash of oil

When are you far left communists gonna admit that we shouldn't be teaching children how to "make prison hooch"?

When are you extreme anarchists going to fess up that we shouldn't be melting the elderly?

When are all you far leftists gonna admit to things you already probably agree with?

I FELL TO MY KNEES IN THE BASS PRO SHOP PARKING LOT!

OK really though, this isn't shocking because so many fish can do this.

Sued immediately you say?

Yea, we liberals think the same thing about you buddy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_theory

Populists, who's reactionary attention spans are harnessed by TV Media (right) or Social media (left) to drive up some corporations stock price

X is pretty much Trolls vs Robots culture war battles, with businesses trying to sell products like movies in between (which is what made it entertaining). Really the only reason anyone goes there is brands think it's valuable to advertise there.