Also even when some are trolling, the up/down vote will not gain/lose attention for the troll. Trolls love attention.

The lack of karma means participation is there not whether it is a troll or regular.

Unless it is spam, almost no one is punished/rewarded for participating.

More security theatre. And more traffic. Also difference between Domestic vs International flight requirements.

Unless you spent 1000s of dollars buying saucers and hammers and lollipops or something garbage that lets you finish without actually playing.

I hate these “gatcha” gaming nonsense where you pay-to-win.

Lab-grown meat might not have nerve-endings or nerve-endings that connect to nowhere. You will need a brain or spine for the nerves to connect back to for the nervous signals to get recognized and processed before the screaming and “conscious” state of the brain can potentially exist.

So in essense, the lab-grown meat will just be like tissue cultures kept artificially alive but not a living organism.

If you like to go bombing in Tesco Scotland I am sure the Scottish would be cheering for you as well :'D

Also real life isnt as simple as “return the land to the previous owners who are all dead and wiped out and the remaining mixed descendants are mostly 1/16th or 1/64th or some piddling fractions of the original settlers”

It is easy to ask for Forgiveness rather than ask for Permission.

Imagine if European Settlers " IF you already are on this land , can we get permission to enslave, infect and eradicate you? Please with sugar and cherry on top ?" AND JESUS HIMSELF APPEARED … " Die all you Bigotted, Misbegotten Sons of Satan! " … Just imagine the Vatican and Church of England catching Fire Spontaneously and restoring Christianity to its roots!!!

"Things that Never Happened for 5,000,000 Alex! "

:-D Comedy gold if every wrongdoer got their just desserts instant Karma style ! :-D

Any sports that is competitive requires testing to ensure that no one cheats or has an unfair advantage. If you are against testing in sports, then sports is not what you are looking for.

An Open participant category would solve almost every problem. Only the best of the best will win.

Traditionally, “Women” ( biological XX-chromosome Homo-sapiens ) had their own category due to their inherent physical weakness compared to “Men” ( biological XY-chromosome Homo-sapiens ) in almost every physical category. This allowed “Women” to compete on their own “safe” “fair” “even” “fair” playing field separate from “Men”.

If you want a sports category “Trans-Woman” or “Trans-Man” or “Trans-any / Non-Binary” PLEASE GO FOR IT ! I am not saying anyone should be excluded from sports. But there are reasons that categories exist in sporting events. Be constructive or don’t it is your choice.

Also, by your analogue, you consider Europeans as barbaric enough to replicate “the trail of tears”. Dude chill. No one is solving the middle-east by implementing “hypothetical” scenarios. It wont work IRL. So chill out.

Hypothetical and IRL are very very different. Other peoples guilt doesnt apply to people who never committed the sin. This is exactly the reason I “made up” a situation and you had to prove my point so adequately. “Things that happened but I never said it had to happen for 500, Alex”.

:smh: If you have to split hairs what is “Human” I cannot help you. Be Awesome or don’t it is eventually every persons choice to act or not act.

Very interesting

It sucks that everything these days get politically and ideologically bent out of shape. I just want to enjoy sports without all the hoopla and co-opting.

Just too excited waiting for the Paris 2024 to start, hopefully there will be less controversy and more human moments in sports.

Keep Being a Good Human and Calmly Carry On Being Excellent to One Another !

:-D

HRT doesnt level the playing field for benefits gained due to “doping” or “Y-chromosome” development.

Sports should have “XX-chromosome” category i.e. Female/Women sports. And “XY-chromosome” category i.e. Male/Men sports.

And if there are sufficient participants, an “All-Gender” category i.e. Open/Neutral sports.

There is no need to co-opt or include ambiguous situations. Sports should be fair, equal-opportunity and intensely competitive within their segments.

Duck season

Fiction SHOULD NOT be equated to real-life.

IRL there are much more complex and serious outcomes which cannot be pre-determined. Hindsight will not save the day as consequences are terrible.

For example, here is some imaginary bullshit that will never happen…

“Things that will never happen for 500, Alex”

<imaginary BS/>

I wish North America or South America or even Europe can setup an Ashkenazi Independent Autonomous Area … perhaps Alsace-Lorraine ? Or somewhere between Poland and Russia ? Any and all Israeli and Philistine citizens wishing to live in peace and harmony can and should move there and re-integrate back into Europe.

Palestinian land should be returned to the original settlers and descendants of those lands since the fall of the Roman Empire.

Hopefully a Joint-UN-led Area of Non-Violence should be established stretching from the Mediterranean to the borders of Pakistan. No “Country” or “Border” or anything. Just Non-Violence DMZ. Any weapons or violence will be considered Death-Sentence through International-Court-for-War-Crimes.

<end-of-imaginary BS/>

We can all dream up solutions that all sound good, but IRL isnt like that. Things dont happen as they should or as we want them to play out.

Man that brings back memories. Mono-molecule wire and shenanigans :-D

I always wanted to see MORE interactions during and outside combat based on each characters intimacy levels.

For example, if you run around them, more than twice, they should say " Are you trying to spin my world right round right round ? " :-D

Also if in combat you use some special skill or spell of the character class, it should allow them to “auto-assist” or do a “follow-up combo” that works with your actions.

And if you run into bears in woods, they should choose you over the bear :-D :-D :-D

I wish Nokia N900 / N950 with Maemo or Meego OS. And full opensource, full MPL or MIT licensed.

I truly wish SailfishOS could be that replacement but I’ve been burnt too many times already.

Now only to be found on LG TVs. :-(

That too NT 5.x ! I wish we had stuck with Windows 2000 Professional.

Ever heard of a National Referendum ? If Bernie as POTUS saw that Senate and Congress can’t act in the Peoples best interests, he could hold National Referendum votes to determine the popular vote from the people. It would bypass Congress and Senate and even SCOTUS will be impotent to go against the POTUS or the popular vote.

It takes Courage and Conviction of a strong leader to hold the vote to the people to pass legislation through a plebiscite.