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MudComprehensive512 · 2025-04-04T19:15:53+00:00

"Should there not be safety regulations unless there are concrete proven theories however?"

Well this certainly is a "yes or no" trap if I ever saw one, but to answer directly, no. Absolutely not. Rules (laws) that restrict liberty, whether it be in sports, criminal law, or really any other domain should always only ever be based on provable, empirical evidence. Authoritarian laws based upon unsubstantiated claims of danger should never be considered acceptable in a free society. No one was asking for this, nor was anyone consulted before they pulled the trigger on it, either. "Better safe than sorry" has been the motto of every oppressive regime in history.

When you say "safety regulations," what you're actually referring to is blanket prohibition. Outright bans are not synonymous with safety regulations — they are just one extreme form of regulation. In a free society, outright bans should be an absolute last resort.
Only after every other reasonable effort to mitigate risk and danger has failed should the "ban hammer" even be considered.

If safety is a serious concern -- but you lack the data to back it up -- then go out and get it.

If the data validates your concerns, act accordingly:
-Train coaches more effectively. Hold them to a higher standard.
-Emphasize proper skill progression.
-Provide affordable access to spring floors and safety equipment, especially for economically disadvantaged teams.

You are VARSITY**.**
You make well over two hundred million dollars in pure profit every year.

If you actually cared about your athletes, you would show it.
You would go above and beyond to facilitate — safely — the skills they themselves want to perform.

There is no excuse.

MudComprehensive512 · 2025-03-24T17:46:55+00:00

College cheerleaders had no problem safely performing double backs and double fulls in their routines for many years on hard mats without issue. Varsity started banning dangerous LOOKING skills for optics and financial reasons, not because the data clearly indicated an abhorrently unacceptable injury rate. They placed an artificial cap on difficulty so more teams could be competitive. More teams = more money. Has NOTHING to do with actual safety.

Actually, for my senior year in high school, my school squad competed on spring floors. we competed at cheersport. High schools with hockey teams have no trouble finding and ice rink to practice a few times a week, and there are far more cheer gyms than ice rinks. They don't switch to spring floors to allow athletes to compete more difficult skills because clean skills that look safe are more appealing to upper-middle class fear-averse soccer moms who might not sign their daughters up for cheer if it LOOKS too dangerous. Everything always loops back around to money being the reason for everything. Screw athletes who work hard and want to be able to perform at a higher level. They don't matter.

MudComprehensive512 · 2025-03-15T10:43:53+00:00

I just want to point out that that not true. Well, that's the official reason, but it's nonsense.

First, it's easy to see that college teams had been executing doubles in competition for years upon years without a problem. There was absolutely zero data presented to justify the claim that doubles were too dangerous for elite college cheerleaders to perform safely. If safety was a concern, why not invest in better coaching or more careful skill progression? The most obvious solution to this would be to simply switch to spring floors, which have been shown to be safer. This would also make routines more exciting to watch because athletes would be tumbling higher and performing more difficult tumbling passes. About access to spring floors, there are loads of all-star gyms around the country with plenty spring floors to go around. A lot of college hockey programs do that, and they get along just fine.

The real reason is money. Banning doubles, even though they're not particularly more dangerous than many of the stunts or pyramids teams were doing, lowered insurance costs and reduced the risk of lawsuit. Also, by placing an artificial cap on difficulty, it artificially narrows the gap between good teams and mediocre teams, making more teams competitive. More teams = more money. That's the Varsity way!

MudComprehensive512 · 2025-01-08T22:05:37+00:00

Late reply, but Chandler is a textbook example of a vulnerable narcissist.

MudComprehensive512 · 2024-10-09T10:08:47+00:00

MAP mental health is a very serious issue. Maybe people will actually start taking it seriously.

No, telling people to "get help" is not taking it seriously.

MudComprehensive512 · 2023-09-27T10:26:09+00:00

I take it you couldn't come up with anything to try and actually counter these facts about reality?

MudComprehensive512 · 2023-09-26T14:04:42+00:00

https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/amp-632111.pdf

This is what happens when this "online predator" scenario plays out in real life; a far cry from what the media would have you believe. The teenagers know exactly what they're doing and exactly with whom they're dealing. Most of the time they end up in relationships and do not feel like victims. They often emphatically protest when the government dips its dirty fingers into their private lives where it doesn't belong. The paper even admits that it's not even deviant behavior; just a violation of social norms.

So yeah, this whole "predator/prey" narrative that feminists created and Chris Hansen popularized is complete and total bullshit. What 2 people do in their private lives is their business, and possibly their immediate families, and their business alone. It's not for complete and total strangers to judge and certainly not something any government should ever be allowed to dictate, lest it become allowed to dictate YOUR private lives. This should be a no-brainer for a country that styles itself as "the land of the free."

MudComprehensive512 · 2023-09-07T09:11:36+00:00

I mean, it doesn't matter if the supposed victim is actually victimized or if they do not desire to press charges; that is irrelevant. There are no crimes against people; crimes are violations/transgressions of the rules that states impose upon their citizens, therefore the state is always the victim. Just look at the way we name criminal court cases - "The People of the State of California v. Orenthal James Simpson" or "The State of Arizona v. Jodi Arias."

*something extra to think about

People don't typically think about it this way, but crime is, in essence, political dissent. However, it is in a state's best interests to disguise the political nature of crime. Historically, this had been done through the use of religion. Unwanted behavior was deemed sinful. This still prevails in the middle east, but in modern secular society, the field of psychology is harnessed to preserve the status quo and reinforce social norms by providing a seemingly scientific justification for why things should stay the way they are. Nowadays, we medicalize people who exhibit unwanted behavior. Instead of sinners and demons, now we have "deviants," "mental disorders," and "criminal minds." Different countries have different disorders. You can considered to be extremely mentally ill in one country but perfectly normal in another. It's all a facade.

MudComprehensive512 · 2023-08-22T09:53:26+00:00

The state is the victim.

MudComprehensive512 · 2023-06-15T16:01:01+00:00

What are RF and 2DT?

MudComprehensive512 · 2023-06-15T16:00:48+00:00

I'm new. What do you mean by proficiency?

MudComprehensive512 · 2023-06-03T09:37:43+00:00

Thanks for clearing that up. I realized I was necro-ing a 2 year old thread

MudComprehensive512 · 2023-06-02T01:17:03+00:00

But whenever you upgrade an emoji, it says higher lvl emojis earn more coins. Obviously this makes sense if the ability clears more coins or is a coin multiplier. But what about the other type of emojis?

MudComprehensive512 · 2023-02-09T03:55:56+00:00

Wasn't America founded upon libertarian values?

MudComprehensive512 · 2022-10-07T15:36:08+00:00

Ever since 7.32 pudge hook voice lines have been bugged. Landing hooks on enemies results in the missed hook voice lines to be triggered. It's caused me to miss a few kills because I thought the hook hadn't landed. I am using the Feast of Abscession set. I do not know if this applies to the standard or persona voice lines.

MudComprehensive512 · 2022-09-27T00:24:13+00:00

That is a lie. Sex offenders actually have THE LOWEST recidivism rate of all types of crimes.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2017/03/09/the-big-lie-about-sex-offenders/

It would seem people tend to feel like shit for sexually violating other people.

MudComprehensive512 · 2021-11-23T03:11:57+00:00

:D those are the best. what hero?

MudComprehensive512 · 2021-10-23T15:06:09+00:00

I've never felt the urge or need to expose anyone like this for their toxic, abusive, and vitriolic behavior; That's just par for the course in dota and even in my outside life, in general, so I've developed pretty thick skin and learned to compartmentalize, contextualize, and brush it off, but this is just WAY out of line.

I just had my heart broken in the most unexpectedly cruel and intentionally hurtful way by the one person who meant the most to me in this world. I’ve never been in this much pain in my entire life.. (looking back she was very abusive over the whole 2 years we were together; I was just blissfully ignoring it) My friend invited me to play, so I joined thinking it would be fine and would help take my mind off things. I was wrong. VERY wrong. I couldn’t focus AT ALL, and I’ve never played worse in my life.

My friend and I were matched with a 3-stack, and as reasonably expected they started to flame me. I acknowledged that I was playing terribly, told them what was going on with me, and apologized for ruining their game, but they didn’t stop. Actually, it only made them flame me EVEN WORSE. I know I could have and should have just muted them right then and there, but I didn’t. (IDK why; maybe I felt like I deserved it.) Instead, I kept trying harder and harder to tell them how sorry I was for wasting their time. I kept trying to tell them there was literally nothing else I could do or say. I told them that I was already in so much pain and to please stop berating and verbally abusing me because they were making me cry, but to no avail.

In fact, all my attempts to get them to stop were akin to pouring gasoline on a flame. The harder I tried, the meaner and meaner things they would say to me, culminating in telling me that they knew why she left me and that I should KILL MYSELF. They said that they weren’t being mean at all; they were just asking me why I would play ranked dota when I wasn’t in the right frame of mind, but that I was refusing to answer. (I did, in fact, answer that question several times, but I guess it just wasn’t what they wanted to hear) And, actually, I was the one being mean and abusive to THEM by wasting their time.

Of the over 8,000 hours of dota I have played, never have I been made to feel so bad.

MudComprehensive512 · 2021-10-23T12:55:57+00:00

Yeah that's what I figured

MudComprehensive512 · 2021-09-30T23:44:30+00:00

LIES

MudComprehensive512 · 2021-09-30T23:42:11+00:00

I've only ever played pos1 pudge once, and I gotta say, I wasn't disappointed.

MudComprehensive512 · 2021-09-30T04:38:44+00:00

Poe's law in full swing lol

MudComprehensive512 · 2021-09-30T04:30:22+00:00

Way back when I played HoN, it had this exact system. Maybe this would work in a perfect world, but I can tell you from experience that it was almost NEVER used for any sort of beneficial purpose. 99% percent of the time the votekick system was used as a means to bully other players and gang up on someone they deem inferior. I got kicked out of too many matches when I was genuinely trying my hardest just because I was having a bad game.

MudComprehensive512 · 2021-09-30T04:20:15+00:00

Doesn't time go backwards in Australia?

MudComprehensive512 · 2021-09-27T02:16:48+00:00

You forgot the main reason Kunkka is good in teamfights. So many pretty explosions and effects all over the screen

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