I’m sorry, I don’t mean to be pedantic but I believe the plural of Jesus is Jedi.

1. Thanks for sharing the graph that clearly demonstrates how huge the gap in homicides is between guns and any other weapon.

The guns in your house make you and your family less safe. The guns in your house make your neighbors less safe.

That true, there’s no style score.

Almost all judged sports have points. Wrestling judges determine which moves score and which don’t. All sports actually have some degree of “judging” if you include penalties/fouls etc because those are evaluated by people. Even racing has an element of judging - officials have to make grey-area decisions about…

It really isn’t, though. My intent was to better understand someone who looked at something differently than me, and obviously that isn’t how this conversation went. It was not my intent to attack you or anyone else, so if that’s the way my posts have been taken, I apologize for not expressing myself better.

The tone of your initial comment was disdainful of those sports that didn’t meet your standard. You’re not wrong, I do have a bit of an issue with attitude when I think I’m right - but I don’t think my character flaws are what we’re talking about here.

You calling an apple an orange wouldn’t upset me, and I can draw a relatively distinct line between the two. It isn’t where the line is drawn that I’m really interested in though. It’s the sense of umbrage that people seem to feel about things being called sports that don’t fit their (made up) definition.

Boxing and wrestling are both judged sports, but my curiosity is more about why that distinction is so important. I don’t mean to call you out in particular, and obviously you’re welcome to your opinion, but why the disdain for the sports you wouldn’t call sports?

It’s the same hero fantasy that motivates many gun owners: staring down evil, protecting the righteous and punishing the wicked. The problem is that the fantasy ignores all of the real-life challenges involved in assessing a chaotic situation and reacting appropriately, and all of the consequences that can result from…

+1 low-friction incline

We should have a white history month. A month where we learn about the creation of whiteness as a status identifier, its use as a tool of oppression, how privilege is accrued over lifetimes, and what we can do to fight against it.

I really don’t understand the gatekeeping. Why is it such an affront when something you don’t personally partake in gets called a sport? What do you think you’re protecting sports from?

I think people get confused about active control over production (command economy) vs government ownership of businesses. Totalitarian governments have gotten way more adept at letting markets do their thing while maintaining political control over boardrooms.

Externalize costs, internalize profits.

Some people probably clutch their pearls at the color but this makes my brain go DO WANT:

He’s actually Batman

That’s particularly true of the market for unskilled labor. People need to eat, they need shelter - they aren’t in a position to say no. So we get Amazon employees on SNAP, afraid to report their work-related injuries in case they get sent home and lose pay. There’s no reason for it, we have all the tools we need to…

I’m not suggesting we tell IKEA how many tables to make, I’m saying markets shouldn’t be allowed to determine who gets to eat. We already have a system in place to transfer private resources to programs we deem in the public good (roads, courts, schools); let’s use those systems to end poverty.

That works fine, right up until we chop off their heads. Vive la France!