jerryskids

Your basketball analogy is dumb. Yes, there are a closer number of players, but that's not important. In basketball, the offense controls who has the ball every possession. That's why LeBron and a box of rocks could qualify for the NCAA women's tourney. That's not true in baseball, or volleyball. Regarding the bolded, you clearly don't get my analogy. My point is that you can't legislate solely on outcomes. You legislate on behavior and the potential outcomes of such behavior. I feel bad pulling the yip yip card here given our earlier discussion, but... you might just want to take the L and bow out of this one.

And yet, Joe pardoned Hunter unconditionally for crimes both convicted and otherwise going back to Jan 2014, three months before Hunter started at Burisma. Seems like your centerpiece is a wilting pot of weeds that the cats ate.

Hunter's blanket pardon goes back to January 2014. He started at Burisma in... wait for it... April 2014. I'm sure that is a coincidence.

The bolded is faulty logic, particularly in a team sport. Heck, Aaron Judge could play on a bad HS baseball team and they would still lose most of the time (in this case, they would intentionally walk him). More bad logic. This is like saying if an NFL safety launches his helmet into a defenseless receiver's head, but the receiver stays in the game, he shouldn't be penalized. "No harm, no foul" is a bad way to judge, which is why it isn't done. There is also a slippery slope here. If it's OK for this guy to play, when Karch Kiraly Jr. comes along, identifies as a girl, and starts caving in opponents' faces, the trans sports supporters will argue it's no different, she's just a little better is all. This leaves us to legislate on a case by case basis based on some subjective, undefinable definition of when it becomes dangerous or non-competitive, which is unmanageable. And, if somehow we were to try that, we would be saying to the male athlete that they suck so bad that they can play. Not exactly a confidence builder, as I hear is a reason to let trans women compete.

No one does, not a single female volleyball player in all of the NCAA?

No, Joe gave his son a "full and unconditional pardon" for anything he did from 2014 until now. My initial reaction to the pardon was, meh, a dad pardoning his son, OK. But this "full and unconditional" thing is a bit unsettling. Like, anything he did?

I have asked @TimHaucknumerous times if he is on the spectrum, for the same reason you did. I'd be very surprised if he isn't. I like Tim. We can be kinda... mean at this place. I'd rather know if he is, in which case I might not keep calling him a yip yip dog.

What was the outside pressure? And why are you defending this?

Sigh... Probably not. My wife is a big sports fan but she is neck deep in a work project, and not feeling it, tonight anyway. Also that is her birthday, so she wants to do a brunch at our house with our kids (all of our kids, and myself, are ASU alums). But... tomorrow we might re-address.

Trump would be for Israel doing what it needs to do to definitively end this. That might mean more war in the short term to prevent much more war in the long term. Unless you are dumb enough to believe that if Israel just quits now, that solves everything.

I appreciate that you don't support biological men in women's sports; that is the no-brainer of this situation. I've also said that I see both sides of the bathroom discussion, although IMO other women's spaces like locker rooms, spas, prisons, are a hard no. That being said, trans is a mental disease. At its core, it's no different than thinking you are an animal, or a reincarnation of Julius Caesar (I actually knew a VP of engineering who believed this). If you believe you are something you aren't, that's a mental disease. It doesn't mean you are a bad person (for example, pedophilia is a mental disease, where you believe you should have sex with children), but it's not normal. And before you say "it's normal to them!" so is the animal, Julius Caesar, pedophilia, etc.

Sorry if this has been discussed, but it was a temporary cease-fire which expires 4 days after Trump takes over. Coincidence? I would think not. The permanent cease-fire, if it happens, will be under a Trump regime which will be much more willing to let Israel finish the job.

They didn't give any reasons. But sure, they could have no concerns for the safety of their players, and instead done it for the integrity of the game.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/28/sport/boise-state-mountain-west-volleyball-spt-intl/index.html#:~:text=Boise State's women's volleyball team,controversy surrounding an SJSU player. Kudos to Boise State for putting the safety of their athletes ahead of woke crap. Shame on San Jose State for prioritizing virtue signaling over both safety and the competitive integrity of women's sports. It happens but it's rare.

No, he's trying to be cute with a semantic game about the existence of a "concierge desk." And by cute I mean dumb. Nobody said concierge desk, but concierge service Seems pretty accurate.

It's a bit tl;dr. Not the Krugman article, but the linked study which allegedly shows preference by Trump to companies that supported him. I quit trying to find the actual results. But even if I had, this seems like the most normal thing that happens in politics. Also, I would need to see how such exceptions changed during the Biden administration. Presidents find ways to get money to their supporters, is this new?

Yes, and we do.

On call? I thought you were in HR or sumthin...

A while back I heard a wonderful interview with Javier Milei, the (libertarian) president of Argentina. He has done things like remove rent control, which while it causes initial higher prices, has led to a much more vibrant and affordable (e.g., competitive) rental market. When confronted about removing welfare/entitlements and the impact on the poor single mothers, he responded that there is a false dichotomy that presumed that their system could take everyone out of poverty. It couldn't, and it was destroying their economy to try to do so. While it is noble for individuals, and charitable groups, to help out people in need, the vector we were on -- let in anyone who wanted to come in and glom onto the system, as long as they knew the magic "asylum" words -- was unsustainable for our economy.

Looks like he picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue. RIP

That was classic Obama politics -- "if they don't agree with me, they must not understand, so I need to educate them better." The Left will never learn...

Guys guys guys... Tim knows a shia dood, who to his knowledge hasn't raped anyone in the US. That makes the entire Shia culture favorable, we should encourage as many of them as possible to immigrate here ASAP! Immigrants are always a positive!

So, good people who fled a sh1t culture? ETA: 45 years ago. Why would new shia immigrants contribute to our culture?

No you haven't You are a pretend Jew who knows a guy, at best. But hey, lets start with shia. tell us the benefits of that culture in the US.

Islam is a morally bankrupt culture. Doesn't mean there aren't good Muslims. But the culture is not something I would want to encourage in the US.