ObjectivityIncarnate

The last sentence of my comment is my contradicting an assertion they directly made, with the information that backs up that contradiction above it.

The fact that the University of Pennsylvania swimmer soared from a mid-500s ranking (554th in the 200 freestyle; all divisions) in men’s competition to one of the top-ranked swimmers in women’s competition tells the story

In the 100 freestyle, Thomas’ best time prior to her transition was 47.15. At the NCAA Championships, she posted a prelims time in the event of 47.37. That time reflects minimal mitigation of her male-puberty advantage.

During the last season Thomas competed as a member of the Penn men’s team, which was 2018-19, she ranked 554th in the 200 freestyle, 65th in the 500 freestyle and 32nd in the 1650 freestyle. As her career at Penn wrapped, she moved to fifth, first and eighth in those respective events on the women’s deck.

Removing the records set while competing in women’s events seems justified in this case.

Mailing someone more letters than they’re capable of replying to is not equivalent to, nor a component of, gaining access to the inside of their home.

Because “gonna” is centuries old, while “finna” only started getting popular around 2010.

Not exactly an apples to apples comparison, ‘younger’ slang is always going to be less ‘familiar’/‘normal’-sounding.

No thanks, I value my time.

Youtube acting like it has anything to offer

This is weapons-grade copium, there is no other platform with even 1% of the content on YouTube.

The 10% of the time when it’s both folded and unfolded must be sublime.

he should’ve been charged with at the very least, reckless endangerment. The fact that he wasn’t hit with that charge is an absolute fluke of legal work.

He was the one endangered, aka put in danger by others! What the fuck are you talking about, lmao?

I wasn’t asking for more proof of the insufferableness, but thanks anyway, lol.

This premise was new when 9/11 was a recent event, and was done to death before it stopped being a recent event.

Honey… you first.

Established yourself as being deeply insufferable impressively quickly. Few traits more immediately obnoxious than this flavor of ‘sassy condescension’. It’s not unique, and it’s not clever. You just sound whiny.

That goes doubly when it’s the lead-in to a protracted “nuh uh, that’s you” fueled by a litany of ignorant stereotypes. You sound like the kind of person who’d react to someone saying they didn’t like your cooking by telling them that they can’t complain because they aren’t a Michelin restaurant chef.

Why are you proposing scenarios other than the ones I used to specifically exemplify the fact that the measure of sexual assault/rape was massively overinflated?

Do you think “but what about the situations that are rape” is a counterargument to that? My point is that they counted a lot MORE in ADDITION to those legitimate scenarios, and that’s why such a scary number was arrived at.

The bottom line fact is, no survey etc. that doesn’t massively dilute the definitions of those terms has ever or will ever reach a conclusion like “1 in 5 female college students have been sexually assaulted or raped”. There is a reason that figure isn’t being thrown around anymore these days–it’s been debunked thoroughly.

In my college there was a flyer in the restroom about how something like 1 in 6 women will experience sexual assault or rape.

And that was shown to be complete horseshit arrived at by defining ‘sexual assault or rape’ in a survey more broadly than any reasonable person ever would.

It’s similar to the survey in the 80s all the ACABers cite to claim 40% of cops are domestically violent–in that survey, even if a voice was raised one time in the past six months, and it was the cop’s spouse yelling at the cop, that survey dumped the relationship in the domestic violence bucket. Big surprise that 40% figure has never been replicated since, lol.

One example: at the end of a first date that you weren’t really feeling, the guy goes in for a kiss and you decline? Guess what, even if he ‘graciously’/completely accepts the denial and the date ends without incident, that went in the “sexual assault” bucket, regardless of whether the woman herself felt anything bad had happened.

Ever had sex while less than stone cold sober (keep in mind the entirety of the surveyed considered to arrive at this figure were college students)? Survey says you were raped. Doesn’t matter if you were just tipsy, doesn’t matter if you and your partner were equally drunk, doesn’t matter whether you think you were raped/assaulted, nope, we decided you were.

Stuff like that is the only way to get to a figure so absurd.

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Every time I see someone complaining about Babylon Bee and I go take a peek at their front page, I find several funny headlines–pretty sure the criticism is way overblown, and it’s just another silly parody news website.

On their front page right now:

• Apple Warns China Tariffs Could Negatively Impact Child Slave Employment Opportunities
• Get A Load Of This White-Knighting SIMP Saving A Princess From A Dragon
• Texas Bans Sale Of Assault Rifles With Capacity Of Less Than 30 Rounds
• Republicans Vow To Get Really Serious About Cutting Spending In Like 20 Or 30 Years

It’s more known as a right-wing thing these days because of Covid, but the OG antivaxxer stereotype was the hippy mom who didn’t want to put “chemicals” in their children because ‘big pharma’ is evil, and don’t you know vaccines cause autism?

Oh, exterminator, finally! Start over by the ficus.

If the weather is too shitty to bike, why would I want to put a delivery driver in those conditions.

I mean, I really don’t want to bike in the rain, but that’s no big deal for someone in a car, lol.

The fact that even with the fees charged to the restaurant and to the customer, the majority of these apps still aren’t even profitable, lol.

Yes. Those people consider things like this part of the “cost of living”, not the luxury that it is.

On average, people have more of an issue overspending than they do underearning. That’s why even among people making six figures, 1 in 4 of them live “paycheck to paycheck”, which people assume to mean ‘barely make enough to make ends meet’, but what more commonly means ‘deliberately chooses not to save/spends every dollar earned’.