I just want to post this:

Area/State 51

Cameron Vale - Erignatis

(haven't seen rezzeJ post it?!)

Edit:

My power was out for 104 hours because of the weather in Ottawa. It was cringe.

Spring cleaning: ✅✅✅✅✅✅

I mean I'm not dismissing everything, but he lists being a guest on the Glenn Beck show as his main achievement of following his 8-step daily routine for a healthy brain

I'm one of those people who only saw one side which was a clip and a couple of tweets (the team-terf one and one of him laughing because he's becoming even richer from the drama). I'm exclusively going to base my reaction here off of that:

The clip was really bad.

It wasn't funny enough for that to be relevant. I think pretty much every offensive joke is funny, but I try the bare minimum to leave offensive jokes for those who don't treat everything like a joke. I see good faith jokes that the target is in on turn into full-on discrimination. Some of the cleverest and funniest people I've ever met mindlessly repeat jokes without understanding a word of them. And it all goes further and happens basically everywhere, "it was just a joke."

If I wanted to make offensive/transgressive jokes without disrespecting a wide audience, there's more topics today than ever before. For example, making jokes about suicide is easier than fish shooting themselves in a barrel. I don't really want to make offensive jokes, the reaction isn't worth my effort (even if assuming no one else would be personally affected just because I'm not)

I'll throw out there defending comedians for this in the last twenty years isn't a much different idea than saying the police only have a few bad apples. Grats to comedians who disrespect people that don't need it and getting a paycheque out of it

edit: Being funny may as well be the easiest part of comedy. The main takeaway I got from the transgressive comedy I grew up on was respect is more important

"The news comes at a time when many users outraged with Facebook-owned WhatsApp’s new privacy policy are moving to seemingly safer alternatives like Signal. WhatsApp’s contentious new terms of service are slated to come into effect from May 2021. The updated privacy policy changes how Facebook can access users’ chats with business accounts."

Haven't heard of WhatsApp in years and thought it was a free voip meme, so the shock to me is the statement people were fine with it for business use until now

There's so much about this topic that has made me into a crazy conspiracy person. Being worried about not enough jobs while everyone is expected to work bad schedules. Cashiers and call centers not being automated yet while immigrants etc. get all of the hate for the overemphasis of "upselling" of large businesses. I personally feel like unions are painfully inefficient, but FAANG companies etc. have bought out such an overwhelming amount of their competition there's no other option to deal with monopolistic-like practices that have taken all over. Seeing students working until 5am (in untipped positions) for ultra-spoiled people to celebrate a wedding and say they used to do the "same" job and it was easy (while they get carried by people who actually care doing everything). I'll probably check out that book

Dreaming of electoral reform was nice for a day

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(just found out about these yesterday so they're new to me)

The current most viewed clip:

I mean, who hates fruit?

Well, maybe he was trying to be edgy, or something? Or maybe he has a secret food allergy?

That's an interesting theory... maybe he just doesn't know how to enjoy the sweet and juicy

LOUD MID-SENTENCE LAUGH TRACK

or he could just be a fruitophobe

A fruitophobe...? What do you mean?

Yeah, I've heard of a fear of flying, but this is ridiculous!

Maybe it's a fear of commitment

5 seconds of silence and then suddenly ends

Have republicans always complained they're losing their Fourth Amendment rights, or is this a new thing?

Waited for the snow to start, but it didn't show up in the image:

imgur.com/YdKWdo1.jpg

I felt the same way. Analogy:

"If you won a billion dollars in the lottery, would you ever play the lottery again?"

"No, I'm rich."

"But what if you had a 99% chance of winning again in one try, are you sure you don't want to reconsider your blanket statement?"

"Why didn't you include the statement I consider to be absurd in the original question?"

"..."

I use a simplified outlook that white males create the following culture:

1 - If you can't take a joke, you don't deserve to be taken seriously.

2 - If you're a minority who can take a joke, everyone shall mindlessly repeat jokes to make themselves look good and you look bad.

3 - Complaining about white males (or asking for equality) means complaining about our jokes, so you don't deserve to be taken seriously.

I think 10% of the municipality had no power for twice as long. Not feeling super about living in not in my backyard times

I mostly play indie games, so this had a nice ambience to it

Nitpicks: For me the melee wasn't fun enough to be playable until I hit level 100 and looked up how to stagger and tank everything, and it wasn't much better after that. The game encouraged me to cheese everything to avoid dying to use checkpoints, instead of embracing them as I expected. And if you get lost in a demigod base, the time commitment feels like a shift of work

I like watching Horde Chess (player 1 has 36 pawns) sometimes, because it feels like watching checkers vs chess

For fun, the article also has a simple embedded graph you can manipulate to "prove" that Democrats are better for the economy than Republicans, and Republicans are better for the economy than Democrats.

Still, I think the model of disrupting inner cities like was/is used in Ottawa is going to be employed here in the states pretty soon.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/sloly-ottawa-resigns-behaviour-leadership-1.6352295

If police chiefs are actually expected to criticize criminals, I think the protestors are so lazy that it'll be enough on it's own to prevent them. They have easier alternatives that won't get them assaulted in non-pacifist cities

May as well ask it here. Are his reviews better if you've already played the game, or haven't?

Don't know if you'll agree with it, but here's a similar article: https://www.cosmopolitan.com/lifestyle/a37696261/leaving-recovering-from-q-anon/

Kept my post as little about Chapelle as possible, but everything I did say ended up being inaccurate. Was going off memory and assuming about twitter, the team terf was included in the routine (and the laughing about being cancelled was a live reaction to seeing an audience of fans so I fell for a headline there)

Transcript:

https://scrapsfromtheloft.com/comedy/dave-chappelle-the-closer-transcript/

The first vaccine joke gives context that many of his jokes are going to attempt to offend everyone. If he wants criticism, over half of the routine is intentionally giving people a lot to work with. The payoff by omission is "trust me." But I'll stick with not defending it

After seeing Squid Game in Roblox, it could make you worse?

Great post as always, would hope anyone interested in creating NFTs would also appreciate this background, especially considering the flood of spam I've seen in so many crypto communities

I tried to look it up again, but couldn't find anything good:

https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/althia-raj/trudeau-blames-opposition-electoral-reform_a_23004520/

Liberals wanted ranked ballots (which I would've been fine with because I just want fptp gone), but then they remembered they're politicians and so didn't do anything

I knew AirBnB would cause anarchist chaos

The article is referencing this argument:

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) settled the issue of transgender athletes in 2004, when they released the rules for them to compete. The IOC rules boil down to three basic points:

They must have had gender reassignment surgery.

They must have legal recognition of their assigned gender.

They must have at least two years of hormone therapy.

Given these conditions, the IOC does not consider being transgender an unfair advantage. The IOC did, however, consider drinking too much coffee an unfair competitive advantage for nearly 20 years. The IOC still considers baking soda a potential doping agent, though. Many common cough syrups, lozenges, eye drops, cold medications, diet products, nasal sprays, and allergy medications will also result in a medical disqualification for being at an unfair advantage. Clearly, the IOC does not approach matters of unfair advantage with an under-abundance of caution.

The NCAA instituted somewhat less stringent guidelines in 2011. They do not require surgery, and they require only one year on testosterone suppression for male-to-female transgender athletes. The conclusions of the consulting medical experts on the NCAA policy were unambiguous:

"It is also important to know that any strength and endurance advantages a transgender woman arguably may have as a result of her prior testosterone levels dissipate after about one year of estrogen or testosterone-suppression therapy. According to medical experts on this issue, the assumption that a transgender woman competing on a women's team would have a competitive advantage outside the range of performance and competitive advantage or disadvantage that already exists among female athletes is not supported by evidence."

In an interview regarding transgender MMA fighter Fallon Fox, Dr. Marci Bowers explains why there is no effective competitive advantage in being a transgender woman:

"Most measures of physical strength minimize, muscle mass decreases, bone density decreases, and they become fairly comparable to women in their musculature. After as much time as has passed in her case, if tested, she would probably end up in the same muscle mass category as her biologically born female counterpart."

In the same interview, Dr. Sherman Leis concurred in all respects.

Indeed, given that women get 25 percent of their circulating testosterone from their ovaries, post-operative transgender women typically have less testosterone than their counterparts. Fox noted, "Any of the women I'm competing against, my testosterone levels are drastically lower than theirs; it's almost nothing."

Dr. Bowers agreed: "When you test her, she's going to come out with low testosterone levels and muscle mass that is remarkably similar to her counterparts." These observations were borne out in Fallon Fox's first defeat at the hands of Ashlee Evans-Smith, where Fox's muscle fatigue in later rounds gave Smith an advantage. After the fight, Smith observed, "I won because I hit harder, grappled better, had better ground techniques, cardio and leg strength."

The only dissenting medical professional I could find has no actual experience with transgender medicine, couldn't define transgender, and based his objections on claims that "all the evidence isn't in yet."