You’ve provided exactly zero studies to support your position that testosterone suppression eliminates the competitive advantage that trans women have over biological women.

yeah, but ardbeg isn’t owned by diageo and she was on a diageo sponsored trip. 

Yes.

Then you just destroyed all of women’s sports... For example, adult league hockey is broken into A, B, C, D and E leagues with A being the highest skilled players. What you are suggesting is to do that with all amateur sports, which is basically what we have at the collegiate level, i.e. div 1, 2 and 3). However, they…

That’s a weird analogy. You were disadvantaged but still wanted an opportunity to compete. You’re holding it up as a parallel to people who want to enter competitions where they have a natural, physical, chemical and biological advantage. It doesn’t really work as a logical parallel.

This is what I’m saying. Why in the fuck would you use a $75 bottle of 16-yr single malt scotch when you could likely use something blended, which is usually going to be much cheaper and also isn’t tasty to drink on its own?

I normally avoid watching video of him but this one really put a smile on my face. The evidence of his cognitive decline is getting harder to ignore. He can’t pronounce basic words, the slurring and dry mouth, his obvious balance issues (dude was holding on to that podium like it was a teenage beauty contestant),…

Eh. Anyone who boldly declares that any of the movies from the ST weren’t tragically flawed and disappointing is lying to themselves.

#tolerided

> One film annoyed many people because of conscious, purposeful decisions, whereas TROS has genuine mistakes and inconsistencies.

The fact that they even sell Lagavulin in the town of a “competitor” distillery over four hours away leads me to believe the only competitiveness in these companies lies in us, the consumer.

Honestly this is JJ Abrams in a nutshell, he keeps writing himself into corners and then, due to him being a hack, he has to introduce some sort of deux ex machina that completely breaks the series, in order to resolve the problem that he HIMSELF created.

It’s a frustrating feeling! As with you, I have enjoyed basically everything Star Wars thus far and thought it had more or less compelling character writing, and IX fell flat. So flat. It wasn’t just Rey Palpatine, and it wasn’t the nonsensical bridges like the knife and all that. It was the fact that this movie…

was hoping.. for one brief moment.. are they gonna have the balls to turn Rey to the darkside and kylo has to kill her and become the hero? What a twist that would have been.

I love Star Wars. Always have. Practically wore out the VHS tapes of the OT when I was a kid. One of the greatest Christmas gifts I ever got was a one of those two foot (possibly smaller, I was a child) AT-ATs. My first real video game was Jedi Knight and Mysteries of the Sith.

Yup, the officer down website I use for police death stats has been recently including K9 officers in their count of how many “officers” have been killed. Which is especially egregious when more than a few every year die by being left in a hot car by their handler.

I know I am a horrible, horrible, horrible person for watching Live PD, a show that I often find disgustingly exploitative, but it constantly shocks me that the show appears to believe it shows officers in a good light.

One of the ways the show has been incredibly revealing to me is how the police use dogs, for one as…

I go back and forth about whether the Prequels or Sequels are worse. They’re each unwatchably bad in their own special way. Episodes VII-IX look better and I think their CGI will stand the test of time better than that of I-III, but OTOH, at least the prequels were made by someone who cared about the story and…

That’s how we decide on calendars, after all, we pick the most important moment in recent history and count from there. We definitely wouldn’t stick with some guy’s supposed birth year for 1.5 millennia or anything...

There is a logic to that, but the truth is there would have been a calendar that they all followed for thousands of years and they would still use that. Re-centering the calendar is something that just wouldn’t happen, it would be like re-centering the US calendar after The Declaration of Independence or The Battle of…