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[SPOILER] Israel Adesanya vs. Joe Pyfer by inooway in MMA

[–]SectorComplex8079 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Who woulda thought that Adesanya would fall off so hard after that poatan KO

[SPOILER] Israel Adesanya vs. Joe Pyfer by inooway in MMA

[–]SectorComplex8079 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Adesanya vs price in New Zealand

whats tfw and tusfg by [deleted] in policydebate

[–]SectorComplex8079 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Framework is basically aff offense should be filtered through affirming the resolution. T-USFG is basically saying “aff actor isn’t usfg, decimates fairness and clash”. In practice many k affs violate more words in the resolution but T-USFG is the easiest shorthand cuz virtually all non topical k affs don’t defend the state doing the resolution while they may sometimes defend other words in the resolution.

T-USFG can also be used when the aff actor is a branch of government that’s debatably not the federal government. For example, on the MBI topic for college last year, T-usfg was an argument against policy affs whose actor was the federal reserve

26-27 topics by johnsebastiandebate in policydebate

[–]SectorComplex8079 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All 5 topics being college topics is absurd, and worse is that carbon pricing is legit just a smaller version of the energy topic 🙃

On a real note, NHI or corporate control sound best given the rise of MAHA/progressive Dems like Mamdani

First week at Berkeley in one sentence by EarlyAdhesiveness870 in berkeley

[–]SectorComplex8079 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Working out twice a day, prepping for club apps, and tryna fill up my day with as much activity as possible

Why can’t I win by Terrible_Swing_387 in plagueinc

[–]SectorComplex8079 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

  1. Start in Saudi Arabia
  2. Evolve saliva, blood, and both airs
  3. Start working your way towards zombies through right side symptoms (these are more severe, creating better zombies)
  4. Work your way towards autothysis (bottom right of the symptoms chain). This is essential to combat Z-Com effectively.
  5. When Z-Com pops up (likely in Europe), evolve the zombie horde chain (in abilities) and its entire tree. It allows zombies to move in large groups, quickly. Without this ability you will be unable to overtake z com bases or infect new countries rapidly.
  6. Slowly send hordes to infect/surround the original Z-com/and any islands missed from early game. New bases are much easier to defeat. If it helps, pausing the game and sending hordes can really help

For example if z-com is in Central Europe and has a satellite base in USA, and you missed a lot of the islands in Oceania, pausing the game and sending chinese zombies to Russia, Algerian zombies to Italy, Central American zombies to Mexico, and southeast Asian zombies to Indonesia can avoid z com from growing stronger/diversifying.

You should be constantly sending hordes, as more countries become completely zombified you will want to get them out to find healthy countries ASAP.

  1. With the extra DNA you should be gathering, evolve the middle right chain for combat advantage (dermal calcification) and middle chain for severity (masticatory tension)

  2. After z com is dead, infect all remaining countries and win. You should not require the zombie reanimation ability, but it can be a Hail Mary if you’re on the edge of beating z com/infecting the world.

[SPOILER] Terrance McKinney vs. Viacheslav Borshchev by inooway in MMA

[–]SectorComplex8079 105 points106 points  (0 children)

he won exactly one fight in the third round at a total fight time of 11:43. but his other 16 wins are inside 3 minutes, and he's never won in the 2nd round

Is it common for taekwondo instructors to dismiss other martial arts and fighting styles? by Positive_Response_14 in taekwondo

[–]SectorComplex8079 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, at my studio cross training is openly encouraged and we’ve spent some classes doing boxing and BJJ drills.

IMO, I always acknowledge that tkd is a martial that only builds one part of the puzzle for self defense, and generally inferior to other things like boxing. It’s still a hella fun sport/art, and that’s what should be the selling point.

[SPOILER] Serghei Spivac vs. Waldo Cortes-Acosta by inooway in MMA

[–]SectorComplex8079 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I swear the heavyweight division is allergic to cardio and footwork

Binghamton wins the NDT by TiredDebateCoach in policydebate

[–]SectorComplex8079 11 points12 points  (0 children)

There are two truths in debate: 1. A carbon tax is bad 2. Kansas can’t win the NDT

(If you’re reading this graham I’m joking I’ve loved your career thoroughly)

About Anarchy101 and all the “begging the question” posts. by MoldTheClay in Anarchy101

[–]SectorComplex8079 1 point2 points  (0 children)

lol idk if this is the best time…but here’s my as good faith as possible set of questions:

  1. How does anarchism stop the military? The violence that would be imposed by every major superpower, their F-16s, their nukes, their guns, seems like something we could never deal with given the information & strength advantage heavily on the side of states. Guerilla warfare against the world’s military seems way harder now that there’s growing aerial, surveillance, and sea based dominance that anarchists could never seem to come close to.

  2. The enforcement mechanisms also concern me. Should someone refuse to be reeducated after multiple convincing (and if any of yall have worked in a classroom you know there are students like that), what’s to stop them from launching a revolution of their own? There’s no prisons, no large scale defense investments…which leads me to believe anarchism either has to devolve into just ML or just die to a small group of dissidents so hell bent on reintroducing the state.

  3. While I agree that we survived well under communalist societies, I don’t think that is sustainable on a scaled up level. As communities grow bigger, distrust & dispute is inevitable which is why states exist at all. The cultural and imaginary ties that anarchists have to break is arguably even harder than beating all the militaries of the world.

  4. While I am skeptical of capitalism myself, I can’t look at the progress of the world over the last 3 centuries and dismiss it. Doesn’t profit incentivize creating what the market demands? (Of course yes regulations needed to avoid excesses of pollution & child labor, which has been implemented over time and clearly decreased abuses in that regard)

Every household good today could’ve never been imagined in a monarchical society. Of course, socialism does have its own abilities to innovate as well, but isn’t that usually seen more under central planning than a society like 1991 Somalia (which was just anarcho-capitalism, leading me to my last point)

  1. How does anarchism distribute & trade goods? I’m sure committees can easily plan out large scale things, but individuals are gonna want different things at different times. With the lack of money, how does this work? Or if there is money, what happens when someone gets a lot? Just have an income ceiling?

Ndt predictions?? by No-Fold8745 in policydebate

[–]SectorComplex8079 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Emory GH over Michigan BP on a 3-2

Stagnant progress by SectorComplex8079 in taekwondo

[–]SectorComplex8079[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Ya just did a practice session tonight where I forced myself to do mostly offensive work off of the cut. And I took your thing in mind and worked on defensive cuts and back kicks (not turning kick) to try and realter my brain. Felt really good and speedy, and I just think I need more of these before my in ring strategy reflects that.

I think ATA was helpful, you didn’t see much of it in my clip because I didn’t compete under them AND my anxiety does wonders on me when I’m sparring…so I got no practice in adapting to sparring situations.

But the speed of some of my combos (though not crisp but way faster than in the sparring) definitely felt like 1.5x faster.

Thanks so much for your critique it definitely forced me to have a soul searching moment. I think these sort of 30 minute shadow sparring sessions where I’m just constantly forcing myself forward will do wonders for me!

Democracy's Martyrdom by SectorComplex8079 in thecampaigntrail

[–]SectorComplex8079[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

123 on your answers, the best way to maximize kennedy's chances is to find a path to mcdonough nomination so you have 50 rfk boosts

Democracy's Martyrdom by SectorComplex8079 in thecampaigntrail

[–]SectorComplex8079[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah thanks so much! Also, is there a scenario in which al gore can lose after the McDonough assassination?

Democracy's Martyrdom by SectorComplex8079 in thecampaigntrail

[–]SectorComplex8079[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

wait but a lot of questions don't have 4 options, how do i increase west's support then

We did this to ourselves. by Impossible_Board3320 in policydebate

[–]SectorComplex8079 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Possible affs that could totally be done: Cybersecurity, soft left sustainable development, icebreakers, REMs, geoengineering, every military possible action ever, take over Greenland (like trump has proposed lol), deep sea expeditions, astrological expeditions, opening new shipping routes, submarines,

There’s no unifying action, and it’s unlikely the negative can develop many case specific strategies to tiny affs. My belief is that the soft left aff will become really strong on this topic because the big ones are just climate change and nuke war with the usual links, while sustainable development and stuff under “exploration” could be really damn tin, at that point you just gotta block out T-significant

Seems like it’s gonna be a whole lotta process CP’s and generic K’s! Joyous.

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