There is no actual advantage, they are restricted from competing for 2 years after transitioning, and any advantage is already lost during the first year.

Basically, the problem was already solved decades ago. Since that 2 year period was implemented, there has -provably- never been a case of unfair advantage. Any of the ones hitting the news lately have all been disproven.

Anyone still trying to push for it now has not actually looked into it and believing disinformation spread by, at best ignorant people and at worst hateful people.

No one transitions with regards to how they will perform at sports. People transition for themselvrs, and some percentage of people also like competing at sports. They don’t want to never be able to compete again due to random unrelated or unaffected people not knowing they don’t have an advantage.

That is why people that say dumb stuff like you are doing, get downvoted. Please actually look it up, instead of just guessing and being another spreader.

He is a weird guy, but so far only weird in the normal way, it would be a surprise if there is any merit.

She already has many contradicting statements on record about it. Hard to say what actually happened so far, and we’ll only know if it’s pursued, publicly. But there is a decent chance it will go away quietly since she has already torpedoed her chances of it going in her favour. And Renner probably doesn’t want to publicly shame her, so it’ll only go to court if she really wants it to at this point.

Edit: more info exists now. Haven’t updated my assessment, this was based primarily on what was in the article at the time.

Zhou tells PEOPLE in a statement she included Renner in her projects “because I thought and promised to me we were in an evolving love relationship.”

That right there really discredits her claims… if she thought they were in a relationship, why would the messages be considered unsolicited by her?

Kind of seems like she got the wrong impression and then got embarrassed/defensive about it and escalated stuff.

They probably did get in text arguments, and if any of what she is saying turns out to be true, it would be nice to at least see context. The ICE comment is a weird thing to be fabricated, but I could see it being something that was either a knee-jerk reaction, or potentially blown out of proportion. Either way, would really help to see context.

They are holding the most vulnerable Americans hostage in the hopes that it will convince the democrats to allow them to be hurt in a different way, by agreeing to the proposed budget.

But most importantly, they are also trying to extend the duration of the shutdown, while making it seem like they aren’t the ones doing it. So the deal they are offering has to stay something that the democrats would never agree to…

So they also benefit from anything other than that being what is in the news, but they have lots of practice making sure the news is talking about stupid stuff instead of important stuff.

As long as the government is shut down, the vote to release the Epstein documents can’t happen. Currently if it happened, it would pass. That will be devastating not to just trump, but a large percentage of rich republicans, in and out of government. (As well as a small percentage of rich democrats) so they are just waiting until the situation changes enough that they think a vote would go their way.

And while that does seem both comically evil and too simple to possibly be what it is all about… or wait… does it still seem too evil and simple to be the real plan?

1. Clearly a typo
2. A totally valid use of the word.

     /ˈdif(ə)riNG/
     adjective
     adjective: differing

     not the same as each other; dissimilar.
     "widely differing circumstances"

     dif·fer
     /ˈdifər/
     verb
     gerund or present participle: differing

     be unlike or dissimilar.
     "the second set of data differed from the first" ```

So... "thafuq" kind of attitude is that to have about correcting someone?

Hehe, honestly, I kind of enjoy the forced introspective time. Forced is a harsh word, but introspectiveness is kind of nice. I don’t really fight it all that hard, hehe. I do conserve water if we are in tough water times locally, but otherwise, I just make sure I have an hour free before I go in.

Any show written for smart people, then aired on fox.

Hypersensory Autism, in my case. But both are relatively common, so could be what it is in many peoples cases here. For me a shower is so much sensory input, I am basically forced introspective. Takes alot of willpower to keep awareness and move to the next thing on the checklist.

Unless the water at the bottom of your shower is several feet deep, the water pressure in a shower is gonna be nearly 0. You can leave the phone off most of the time, just have it there to jot something down. Ideally, you want it as unobtrusive as possible anyway since the whole point of thinking well in the shower is not having distractions.

Mine just sits there on the checklist 99% of the time, and I just made the checklist in the same notes app, so I don’t even have to leave the app to write stuff down.

Lying is his only course of action, he is literally backed into a corner, trying to make it seem like he isn’t. If he makes it out of this, it benefits him the more people who didn’t know how dire it was. If he doesn’t make it out, then it doesn’t matter what he said or did while he was backed into a corner, the result will be the same since this isn’t even close to the same scale as what he is up against if the government resumes with the ability to successfully release the Epstein files.

From his perspective, literally any cost is justified if it has any chance of the Epstein files not getting out.

So many suggestions for putting your phone near the shower but outside of it… phones are waterproof now. I just bring my phone with me in the shower now, and use my notes app to write down anything I don’t want to forget. I was already using it for a shower checklist, since I find it pretty hard to function in the shower. Also doubles as a way to consistently clean my phone, which is a nice plus, I likely wouldn’t remember to specifically clean it very often otherwise.

If your phone has a charge port plug, make sure to keep that in during the shower, if it doesn’t have a plug, keep the port oriented down, or you may have to wait a couple hours to be able to charge after. I’ve had my last couple phones in the shower hundreds of times now over the past 10 years, only had it happen twice where the charge port got too wet and had to dry before I could charge it, and neither time was when the battery was low enough for it to matter.

For some reason, they couldn’t find what a ‘member’ of Antifa looked like.

One thing that’s fun about them is since they are artificially limited to run a little conservatively for heat generation, there is a bit of thermal headroom available. The league decided to make use of that by assigning various videogame style “boost” mechanics. The flavour of which are still constantly being iterated on. At one point it was earned by taking an alternate “long cut” for a part of the track, and then they could choose when they used the power boost after that point. Currently they are doing it by choosing to do a sort of pit rapid charge thing, every driver has to do it once per race, they choose when, and once they have taken that pit stop, they can then activate the boost any time afterwards.

There was also a controversial version that probably never should have made it past discussions. They had the audience vote on favourite dirvers, and doled out the boosts to the winners of the popularity contest… I don’t know, maybe they wanted to encourage a positive attitude on and off the track or something.

Hehe yeah, ‘believable’ should never be the bar for whether something is the truth. The truth is occasionally unbelievable. Verification is a much better bar… and generally the bar everyone else uses. It’s tough, cuz it means you have to put effort in, like… “do a job” kind of effort.

Peaceful protest is what is meant, instead of violent protest. Peaceful doesn’t mean doing nothing.

That felt too cartoonishly evil in Baldur’s Gate 3… wtf…

Giving random people the death penalty, for maybe or maybe not committing a crime that even if it turns out they were, doesn’t even qualify for the death penalty in either the country they are from or the country that is killing them… is so far beyond crazy… it shouldn’t have been able to happen once, let alone keep happening.

And if that wasn’t crazy enough, people that survive the strikes, can’t be legally brought in because the burden of proof isn’t met to even question them… but killing them is happening?

It’s just the hyperbole. It wouldn’t matter which specific word they used if it more closely matched the level of intensity of what actually happened.

In this instance, even a cliché, overused term like ‘jabs’ would be fine.

I would imagine it’s the same scale, just a base 10 feet instead of 20 feet. So in yours you would see at 24 feet what the average person would see at 20 feet. Assuming there is a linear relation, and no circumstantial drop off.

Also, usually when people use the term “perfect” vision, they mean 20/20, is that the case for you too. Another term for that is average vision, with people that have better vision than that having “better than average” vision.