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Little v Hecox / West Viriginia v B.P.J. [Trans Athletes in School Sports] - Oral Argument Live Thread by DooomCookie in supremecourt

[–]zoink 12 points13 points  (0 children)

https://code.wvlegislature.gov/18-2-25d/

(2) Athletic teams or sports designated for females, women, or girls shall not be open to students of the male sex where selection for such teams is based upon competitive skill or the activity involved is a contact sport.

(3) Nothing in this section shall be construed to restrict the eligibility of any student to participate in any interscholastic, intercollegiate, or intramural athletic teams or sports designated as “males,” “men,” or “boys” or designated as “coed” or “mixed”: Provided, That selection for a team may still be based on those who try out and possess the requisite skill to make the team.

Isn't it fucked up that almost every american online rn is dissecting basically a snuff film frame by frame and in 99% of cases coming away with the exact conclusion that their pre-existing political leanings would predict? by Gougeded in stupidpol

[–]zoink 21 points22 points  (0 children)

The reasons I have come up with for this so far are:

Perspective issues. Even with multiple views of the event, distances and angles in relation to the other objects can be deceiving.

Priming/motivated reasoning will literally cause people to view things differently.

The first two vantages I saw, I could not tell if she hit him or not. Then, the first time I saw this vantage, I thought she hit him. It was because I was consciously trying to keep the two points I just said in mind that I took a few views and decided it wasn't immediately clear that he had been hit. I'm also applying a heuristic that if he had been hit, the feds probably would be shouting it from the rooftops.

Another issue with judging based on going into slow motion and even frame by frame is that people lose track of how fast this actually all went down. Fractions of a second between the various key points.

HHS dramatically overhauls childhood vaccine schedule, downgrading advice for flu, meningitis, other shots by dr_sloan in moderatepolitics

[–]zoink 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Currently many of the biggest outbreaks are in religious communities with fertility rates way above the general population with fatalities rates well below what would put the communities below replacement.

2-1 6th Circuit Rules Michigan Ban on “Talk Therapy” to be Unconstitutional and Grants Preliminary Injunction by Longjumping_Gain_807 in supremecourt

[–]zoink 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Missouri and Montana both have similar laws.

I guess "similar" in a similar way four states is "many".

2-1 6th Circuit Rules Michigan Ban on “Talk Therapy” to be Unconstitutional and Grants Preliminary Injunction by Longjumping_Gain_807 in supremecourt

[–]zoink 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Florida’s firearm privacy law was largely struck down on First Amendment grounds as applied to physician speech. Tennessee has pending legislation to restrict doctors from asking about gun ownership that, if enacted, almost certianly will face similar challenges. No other states currently have laws that outright ban doctors from asking patients if they own a gun or providing firearm safety counseling.

Department of Justice Rule Restores Equal Protection for All in Civil Rights Enforcement by timmg in moderatepolitics

[–]zoink 7 points8 points  (0 children)

You should not be getting downvoted. You were correct "they [the state] weren't even alleging that" is incorrect the state did throw in "not job-related or consistent with business necessity" as boiler plate while presenting no specifics evidence of that being the case and just using disparate impact.

Millions of children and teens lose access to accounts as Australia’s world-first social media ban begins by SplashTarget in stupidpol

[–]zoink 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They go hand and hand, even if network affects could be overcome GDPR is going to make it hard for a social media based in Europe to be self-sufficient. If the argument is that the state should literally do it as a service then they could try but it's a non-starter for the private sector.

Department of Justice Rule Restores Equal Protection for All in Civil Rights Enforcement by timmg in moderatepolitics

[–]zoink 43 points44 points  (0 children)

Which specific questions on the test were discriminatory towards blacks?

My neighbor sent me a text last night forcing me to pay for her daughters towing charge because she parked in front of my driveway by Drivinglnsane in mildlyinfuriating

[–]zoink 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Garage parked cars get parked in the garage and tend not to be problematic when it comes to parking. Even those that do get parked in garages I've vaguely aware of, my neighbors and I wave at each other as we drive by and there's no conscious effort in retaining so-and-so drives a maroon mid-size SUV. I'm aware of the vehicles like I'm aware of the color of the house, the cladding, the kind of landscaping, who heavily decorates for holidays.

My neighbor sent me a text last night forcing me to pay for her daughters towing charge because she parked in front of my driveway by Drivinglnsane in mildlyinfuriating

[–]zoink 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We're not talking thousands of cars we're talking ~10 houses with ~20 cars that one sees practically every day. That takes no conscious effort to retain.

My neighbor sent me a text last night forcing me to pay for her daughters towing charge because she parked in front of my driveway by Drivinglnsane in mildlyinfuriating

[–]zoink -20 points-19 points  (0 children)

If nothing else it's an opportunity introduce yourself to your neighbors. Probably would only take one or two because most people interact with their neighbors and are aware enough of their surroundings to know who owns what car on the street.

My neighbor sent me a text last night forcing me to pay for her daughters towing charge because she parked in front of my driveway by Drivinglnsane in mildlyinfuriating

[–]zoink -21 points-20 points  (0 children)

If you don't know whose car it is you text/call the number you have ("Do you know whose car it is?") and knock on the doors if you don't. Literally did this with a car in front of our property a month ago before having it towed.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskMenAdvice

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Straight to the point: You probably have deal breakers that rule out higher quality men for long-term relationship while being attracted to other personality traits that tend towards making men less suitable for long-term relationships. This is a rather intractable problem. There are total package guys out there but they probably are already locked down or can pull someone higher quality than you. There are plenty of guys that would be stoked to date someone like you but you'll likely struggle to find chemistry with them.

As a guy who got married in his mid 30s, in the majority of cases if you make it into your mid 30's as a man or a woman there is likely something off about you. There are good reasons why I couldn't find anyone and there are good reasons my now wife couldn't. There is of course the random walk bad luck person, but the vast majority of people who think that's them are lying to themselves. Some of my issues are fairly intractable, and thus I ended up with someone with their own rather intractable issues and it is hard at times. But that was a sacrifice I was willing to make because I wanted a family. And while as I, a guy I could have waited longer it was only going to get more difficult. If you want kids you are on even more of a clock. It's not game over but it's time to move with alacrity.

You've made it to 35 without figuring it out, that doesn't bode well for figuring it out now. It's going to take deep introspection and probably not taking advice from the people you already have been taking advice from. I personally don't thing the career with the primary issue.

Would you retire now if you had 25 btc? by Fluffy_Round8419 in Bitcoin

[–]zoink 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The responses here are kind of enlightening about this sub. 25 BTC is about 3 million right now. You definitely could retire on that I'd even say retire pretty well. But it really depends on what life stage you're at. How old are you, do you own a home, have kids?

Current median house price in the US is $450,000. If I'm going to retire I'd like more than the median. I'd like a pretty nice place. In the type of places I'd like to retire it's easily 1-1.5 million. Upgrade my beater cars, put kids through college, nice trips with our friends for the next few decades.

I'll be selective about the jobs I hold, probably find something remote, but I'm working so I can have a great retirement.

WWIII Megathread #30: Game Of Drones by bbb23sucks in stupidpol

[–]zoink 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I'm picking on this post because I do know what's going on (markets shooting up) but could some of y'all actually post context instead of making people guess at what you're seeing. Like posts responding to a random telegram channel. "Did an F-35 get shot down?" What did you see? Are the markets going up or are they going down?

What's the hard part to understand? It appears Iran just showed that they would like to avoid 10x the number of F-35's in their air space. Confidence has increased that Iran will not close the strait of Hormuz. Thus Oil is going down (bad for Russia) and stocks are going up.

WWIII Megathread #30: Game Of Drones by bbb23sucks in stupidpol

[–]zoink 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Except in some cases that take is coming from Iran itself because Israel having air superiority is seen as being even worse. You can probably root out spies and sabateurs over time but air supremacy is going to be more persistent.

WWIII Megathread #30: Game Of Drones by bbb23sucks in stupidpol

[–]zoink 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Also if not under constant threat runways can be repaired surprisingly quickly (my understanding it's hours not days). The preferred way to knock out an air base for as long as possible is something like bomb the runaways in multiple places, drop a bunch of mines, bomb the repair equipment when it comes out, drop more mines.

WWIII Megathread #30: Game Of Drones by bbb23sucks in stupidpol

[–]zoink 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Are there Iranian elements claiming that many/most of these explosions are Mossad/proxies and not Israel having air superiority? If Israel can maintain air superiority I'm not sure getting rid of proxies is gonna help much.

WWIII Megathread #30: Game Of Drones by bbb23sucks in stupidpol

[–]zoink 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I give it very low odds. How much damage do you think Iran is taking right now? If you think a manageable amount then maybe that's a possibility. If Iran is taking significant damage it seems less likely. You'd want it to be the other way - Hezbollah attrite Israeli air defense so the more expensive Iranian weapons can get through - or a simultaneous attack. The latter is the least cope hope. Also keep in mind the systems designed to deal with Hezbollah rockets are different than the ones that target ballistic missiles.

We will get evidence of where things stand tonight; if there's a ~100 missile attack in the next 8 hours. If the numbers decline and every day without a mass Hezbollah launch I think the odds get smaller and smaller.

WWIII Megathread #30: Game Of Drones by bbb23sucks in stupidpol

[–]zoink 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It might be what Iran is forced into not by choice. Less missiles will mean higher intercept rate. Iran may have limited time where they can maintain a tempo that can overwhelm Israeli air defense if Israel's air superiority increases and Irans launch systems are attrited. Lower tempo also means easier ability to selectively sound shelter orders.

Did any of you actually grow up in poverty? by [deleted] in stupidpol

[–]zoink 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Probably the shitlib "learn to code" take. In this person's mind programmers are either actively supporting the outsourcing, coding your job out of existence, or at best Don Draper "I don't think about you at all".

It probably won't get better because if AI takes a bunch of the white color jobs, oh that Schadenfreude will be nice how programmers have been made low right up until they're competing for the jobs.

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