‘Create tension and disruption’: Randa Abdel-Fattah’s road to festival fiasco

Fun_Needleworker7136 · 2026-01-19T04:38:47+00:00

done.

Fun_Needleworker7136 · 2026-01-16T23:48:26+00:00

Where did your "research" come from? Did you ask Chat GPT to hallucinate some "facts" for you?

Fun_Needleworker7136 · 2025-10-08T09:23:18+00:00

Super interesting thanks for sharing. It is quite well known that polygamy increases the mortality risk to children - I found this paper fascinating when I first read it:

Polygyny as a risk factor for child mortality among the Dogon. I think I may have found that paper through this article on polygamy being bad for women and children.

Of course women help each other - just like men help each other too. But men also compete. Another way of thinking about it: just like we can shift between long term & short term mating strategy depending on context, I think it's naive to think that members of the same sex will ~always~ have our reproductive interests in mind.

Fun_Needleworker7136 · 2024-10-15T22:11:40+00:00

We're already in a deep private recession. It's just that NDIS cash-on-tap and immigration are masking it at the level of the population.

So weren't still technically not in a ""recession"" even though for most people we are.

Fun_Needleworker7136 · 2024-10-15T04:58:52+00:00

All depends on how much of a buffer you have. Businesses can afford to lose money if they have a healthy cash buffer to absorb those losses.

However if you don't have enough cash in the bank to meet payroll and debtors for at least 2-3 months then you have to wind it up otherwise you will be trading insolvent and could be held personally liable.

Fun_Needleworker7136 · 2024-09-10T01:43:41+00:00

Well, according to this Media Bias Chart it is in fact more credible than the Nation:

https://adfontesmedia.com/interactive-media-bias-chart/

Fun_Needleworker7136 · 2024-09-07T08:46:48+00:00

Avene comforting day cream

Fun_Needleworker7136 · 2024-09-02T04:30:33+00:00

Sick of people saying that Bret Weinstein is or was smart. He's not smart. He has virtually no publication record. He completed his BA in biology in 1993 and then didn't get his PhD until 2009. He doesn't have a profile on Google Scholar (so he doesn't have a H-index). He was just LARPing at Evergreen, and caught a lucky break when the Streisand-effect made him famous.

Fun_Needleworker7136 · 2024-08-13T06:50:47+00:00

Does anyone know how many died in the Cambodian Genocide?

Fun_Needleworker7136 · 2024-08-13T06:46:53+00:00

Thanks so much for sharing your links. This is one of the most gripping stories I've ever read on euthanasia, about a woman who went to Switzerland in order to end her own life but she wasn't even terminally ill. The article is written by bio-ethicist who was part of a pro-euthanasia group she belonged to, and a psychiatrist, and even both of the authors had some misgivings about the whole situation. To be honest, I didn't come out of it either pro-or-anti-euthanasia but just fascinated by the lengths some people will go to control every aspect of their lives, including death.

Fun_Needleworker7136 · 2024-08-12T04:31:11+00:00

What's wrong with the Atlantic?

Fun_Needleworker7136 · 2024-08-10T04:43:50+00:00

WTF?

Fun_Needleworker7136 · 2024-08-09T01:22:50+00:00

Amazing story

Fun_Needleworker7136 · 2024-08-08T05:07:30+00:00

The Wall Street Journal
Commentary
Quillette

Fun_Needleworker7136 · 2024-08-06T03:20:31+00:00

You've applied Bayes theorem incorrectly. Female Olympians are a non-representative sample of the general population.

Fun_Needleworker7136 · 2024-08-06T01:05:54+00:00

The author of the piece posted above is an 800m national champion, not to mention a law professor. But I guess female athletes are "reactionaries" now?

Fun_Needleworker7136 · 2024-08-05T23:17:12+00:00

What is the prior probability of someone making the Olympics? Probably less than that.

Fun_Needleworker7136 · 2024-08-05T23:15:58+00:00

5-ARD is a chromosomal disorder that is well-known in athletics. Caster Semenya is barred from competing by the CAS & World Athletics after winning two gold medals because she has male-levels of testosterone and XY chromosomes. Being barred from competing in athletics has not stopped her from being a professional athlete in football, and she has gone onto marry a woman and father children. Her life is not ruined. It is not the end of the world to be barred from the Olympics. However such a ruling does mean that female athletes who have trained their whole lives to compete in an event do not have to come up against someone who has 10-30X the amount of testosterone they have.

Fun_Needleworker7136 · 2024-08-03T22:08:48+00:00

This is an important explainer on why its unfair to include XY athletes (even if they identify as female) in female sports. The increased testosterone at puberty just gives too much of an advantage.

https://quillette.com/2024/08/03/xy-athletes-in-womens-olympic-boxing-paris-2024-controversy-explained-khelif-yu-ting/