NewDayRocks

joined 6 months ago

To anyone reading this, know that this guy is just posting Gish Gallop and misunderstanding the assignment.

The question was which transfem Olympians this ruling protects against. As in, people who are switching from MtF to gain a competitive advantage by abusing the rules to steal medals?

The very first example this guy cites is a 50yo MtF who joined some tiny school basketball team... to play basketball. Even in the game cited she played poorly and their team lost. They are not a competitive team in any sense.

OP is purposely trying to pad out a list to make something a problem that isn't. Somewhat ironic because thats basically the whole trans athlete issue summed up.

[–] NewDayRocks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Just say it wasn't you

[–] NewDayRocks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 58 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

I just spent my lunch break checking out the instance and scrolling through the top weeks posts and checking out the comments.

Hard no.

  1. Basically all their posts are political, except very pro-china, pro-marxist, anti-ukraine. Theres not a single post i consider a value add if it appeared in my scroll. Even if I gave the users and their viewpoints the benefit of the doubt, this would be like adding /r/china, /r/russia, /r/communism to my subs. I can't think of a single reason i want this.

  2. I'm not giving the users the benefit of the doubt. Their comments are indistinguishable from what a ccp or Russian employee would post.

All we would be doing is opening a potential vector for propagandists to attack. They post nothing of interest.

[–] NewDayRocks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 month ago

Curious how that would play out if other countries did the same. Oh no we didn't declare war, it was this fat idiot Hirohito going rogue again, oopsie. Time for peace now, thank you for your attention to this matter.

I mean that's what they are doing in the middle east all the time. They literally attack each other endlessly but aren't technically at war most of the time.

OP is saying that there is a difference between actions that can be interpreted as an act of war and a formal declaration of war. It seems pedantic but I have to agree the difference is there. Iran has no interest declaring war on the US. Luckily there were enough adults making the decision that a retaliatory strike (with advance warning) was enough to call it a day.

[–] NewDayRocks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 33 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This would assume that these same businesses wouldn't raise prices regardless, which is what they have already been doing, without the wage increase.

A higher minimum wage is how you force companies to pay employees more. There's no real way to limit ceo pay that they won't find loopholes for, but you could try to tie the max to some upper percentage of employee median pay

[–] NewDayRocks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 month ago

He didn't say the world would be safer. But history kind of shows it is in each countries self interest to have nukes vs not having them.

[–] NewDayRocks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

Still preferable to current timeline

[–] NewDayRocks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 month ago

Look at those water slides

[–] NewDayRocks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago

I agree with you. I bet a portion of Jewish people also have an unfavorable view of Israel right now.

But it's not the same as saying those people would agree to a candidate that says they would cut support to Israel or pledge their support for Palestine. It's a spectrum, not either or.

[–] NewDayRocks@lemmy.dbzer0.com -4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Not completely.

It's also that this data is incomplete and it's a bad idea to draw all your conclusions from it.

For example, in the US, the Jewish voting bloc is very real, substantial, and influential. Compare that to the percentage of nonvoters or even just non political people who have a negative opinion of Israel.

[–] NewDayRocks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 34 points 1 month ago (3 children)

The missed pro tip: don't believe everything you see on tv

[–] NewDayRocks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

When people's needs are met, they tend to not do illegal things.

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