2: your gravel business will make you rich
3: what’s the cooldown? Because if there’s none I can now travel at super speeds
5: connect a sensor to your toaster so you can remote control any DIY electronics with your mind
7: instantly tell if any container is empty. Useful for magic tricks at the very least, but I’m sure there is some real application of it you could come up with
In some sports there are weight classes, because being a certain weight gives you an inherent biological advantage on average over people of a different weight. The weight classes allow anyone to find well-matched competition regardless of their biology.
Women’s sports vs Men’s sports is a similar idea. Separate people by some biological classification that’s often tied on average to an advantage at the sport, so that everybody has the chance to play against someone of a similar baseline.
That division doesn’t have to exclude trans people, but it does mean that a line gets drawn somewhere. And yes, that line might include some cis people with a genetic abnormality getting excluded as well, and some cis men with a genetic abnormality might be included.
If you want to draw the divisions by something like muscle mass or testosterone levels instead of trying to define sex and gender clearly enough for this purpose, that would probably be easier, although “low testosterone sports” doesn’t have the same marketability as “women’s sports” lol.
I prefer buying physical (for console) when possible. Part of it is I just like the physicality of it. But also, it’s the less-DRM option. Games I bought on the e-shop on my switch can’t be shared with my brother, and once the servers are down, I’ll lose the game forever if my Switch breaks. Meanwhile I’m still playing my old GBA games on my Analogue Pocket.
On PC I prefer buying GoG over Steam for similar reasons (although when it’s more practical, like when I want Steam’s multiplayer infrastructure, or GoG just doesn’t have it, I still buy on Steam)
I’ve never seen a cop car with anything other than some variant of “police”, the name of the jurisdiction, and very occasionally, a slogan like “protect and serve” or whatever.
My favorite loot is an NSA-branded webcam cover
Left is correct. The center of mass of a donut is inside the hole, which is “outside the donut”.
This may seem unintuitive, but the center of mass of an object does not have to be inside the object.
This is the mechanism behind these toys:
The wings of the bird and poles of the clown extend below the main body, but are weighted so that’s where most of the weight is. So the center of mass is below the main body, so it will easily balance on the main body. However, your eyes will naturally focus on the main body, which would be unstable without the extra weight hanging off the side, making the balancing look surprising.
- In professional mode: highly competent, carries out a mission with no backup, spontaneous genius in combat.
- In day to day mode: complete ditz, subservient to anyone who talks to her, barely understands the world around her. No it’s not an act.
There’s plenty of real people who are highly competent at their job but very socially inept. We might call such people “nerds”, “a gifted child”, or even “autistic” depending on the specifics and severity.
Oh and the west is objectively better in every way
The show makes it clear both sides are propagandized to assume they are better than the other side regardless of how true that is, and it avoids making specific comparisons to keep that vague.
The message is literally just "hi we’re unconventional, but we’re a team, and also dad is the boss and mom is pretty – root for us for some reason.
The point of the show is presenting 3 people (or 4 if you include the dog) that have some special talent but are socially awkward, and showing them work well together as a family despite frequent comedic mishaps. Honestly not even that out there for a show premise.
But hey, people have different tastes. If cute unconventional family comedy isn’t yours, just don’t watch it.
Sports is full of divisions. Division by age is the most common, followed by division by skill, and division by sex. Some sports use extra divisions by weight. Some find age/sex/skill to be enough. In some sports, especially at lower age or skill levels, co-ed is common (division by sex is not used). There are also divisions for people with physical disabilities, sometimes with tweaks to the rule to accommodate.
In all cases, the purpose of these divisions is to find a balance where everyone can get a fair matchup.
Absolutely 100%. I think everybody should be able to participate in sports, and I think that rules about sex divisions should be modified to account for trans people and people with gender-related disorders. I don’t think just letting people choose a division is fair though, there should be rules for consistency and fairness.
The border of the divisions is always at least somewhat contentious because people just before the cutoff have an advantage. Many high-level athletes have similar birth dates because they were born just before the age cutoff growing up. Being slightly older in the age divisions gives an advantage, and that leads to performing well, which leads to feedback loops such as coaches and parents and the kid noticing the good performance and focusing on the sport more. This ends up in more kids who were at the edge of their age range growing up becoming successful athletes as adults.
Also with weight-based divisions, it’s typical in higher skill levels to body-build to slightly above the cutoff and then avoid drinking water for a day to get slightly below the cutoff.
No line you draw will be perfect, but you do have to draw a line somewhere.
There are a some problems with this analogy. Scholarships are very different from competitions (although sports scholarships exist, which is a whole other topic to discuss…). Also the gender case is looking at the edge cases of an existing cutoff, which is not the case about left handed people, unless you want to hypothetically add they might have some relation to some other grouping.
I’ll offer some analogies that I think might be similar. What about someone with developmental issues who was held back in school? Would it be fair for the other kids if they get to play sports with the younger age group because of their mind? Would it fair for the kid who was held back to have to play in the older age group because of their body? What about someone who has a condition affecting their weight? Should that condition let them compete in a lower weight class? I’m not saying I have the answers to these scenarios, btw. I think a lot of it comes down to a case-by-case basis, and guidelines with leeway for exceptions are probably better than strict rules.