Also their own hands.
Perry Downing
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What do babies want to eat?
I recently saw a book—sadly, I’ve forgotten the title—in which the author argues that one of the reasons people are eating less healthily is the huge amount of flavor added to processed foods compared to the “flavor suck” techniques, like freezing and factory-farming, for vegetables and fruits.
I wonder if the children would have eaten more vegetables is they weren’t boiled to death. Of course, I’m assuming that’s how the veggies were prepared, as it was pretty standard. For several years, we lived out in the country and had a large vegetable garden. We ate fresh vegetables, either raw in salads or cooked…
That’s really interesting, thanks!
As far as I understand, it’s more on the physiological side. My late grandfather-in-law trained marksmen for the military. He always said that women were able to steady their breathing, lower their heart rate, and hold steady in one position (often uncomfortable) for long periods of time.
Can you elaborate on the “woman make great snipers” comment? Are you saying women are just as suited to achieving great sniper skills as men are, or that women make particularly great snipers because of some difference between us and men? No snark, I’m genuinely curious.
I also read recently that women may have, on average, less muscle then men, but have a quicker recovery time from muscle fatigue! Why did I never know all this before?! Now I feel like Super Woman!
Yeah, but, if dudes could get pregnant you KNOW they'd be doing the same thing.
Women make better pilots than men. They can take more G’s and have faster reaction times.
I have a relative who was in special forces in UK and they spoke about how friendship is key and isolation is death. Surviving in isolation is one thing. Cutting yourself off and being a dick is suicide apparently. Sounds like what your pops went through. And he is also the opposite of a misogynist so the idea that…
Yes, women have more physical endurance, greater resistance to disease, a higher pain threshold, and are less easily dehydrated. In my mind, all of those qualities would be of greater value in a survival situation than raw physical strength.
The sniper training comes from Russia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyudmila_…
When I was in Basic trainning I asked the drills about this - whether the men or the women had the harder time qualifying with the weapons - they all said that the women were better - more accurate, better shots. The one drill thought that was becasue women did not have any ego attached to the outcome and the men were…
As a kid in a conservative right wing world with guns o’ plent, it was always shocking to my brother/dad/cousins that I could out shoot them all. Well, until the navy seal in our church saw me shoot and said “of course she’s better than the boys, women’s are always better at shooting!” and then they stopped letting me…
I’ve been arguing those points for years... among many others.
*waves*
Female police cadet here. I think it’s very important that we have diverse police departments, women and minorities included. Do we have a lot of work to do to improve our current departments? Yes. But we can do this!
It would make sense for them to be included from a strategic standpoint as well. Women make great snipers and do well running on little to no sleep for days on end.
It was interesting hearing Griest speak pretty emphatically (as emphatically as she did at any point) during the press conference that she would be *very* interested in actually serving in Special Operations. I cheered.