i don’t recall a single trans athlete participating in recent games, but i do recall steven van de velde being allowed to compete in the 2024 paris games a few years back AFTER being convicted of raping a 12 year old girl in 2016
One of the funniest things that people don't understand (because they've never thought about it at all) is that if you make the punishment for rape the same as it is for murder, the rapist is incentivized to just kill their victim
This is like when pickleball was invented and pickleballers were going up to tennis players saying “You play tennis? No way! I just got in to pickleball! Pretty much the same!”
That’s how I feel watching weekend drinkers struggle to eat 9 lil smokies and a coors light tallboy
i get AI being difficult to avoid when it's been baked into existing services (e.g. google), but chat gpt is the most avoidable thing in the world to me. there's no useful function it could serve in my life, or in the life of anyone with a brain. it's not inevitable or necessary
I hope this serves as an eye opener for how man-made these doctrines are.
Did god change his views on blood transfusion? And if there was always room for this policy to change, why never sooner??
All knowing or all powerful? Neither looks good.
I reject the appropriation of the 9-9-9 challenge. This is roughly 4 hotdogs and 4 beers. We cannot disrespect such a sacred tradition by watering it down.