Definitely he did a shit thing. But I question the wisdom in general (not specific to this case) of having formal lifelong consequences for actions undertaken at age 19, considering the consensus scientific understanding that mental maturity, such as it is, typically arrives around 25.

The closest equivalent for men is probably prostate cancer.

BRCA is quite rare, though, so while it is extremely helpful to have the test available, only 5-10% of breast cancers are attributable to BRCA1 or BRCA2.

For certain values of useless

Oh! I get it!

Well, strictly speaking, public transit actually is more efficient on a population level than car travel due to the space and infrastructure requirements of accommodating individual vehicles for all of those individual trips (parking, roads, etc.), not to mention associated pollution.

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Some people are really fucking intense about Bigfoot

Nah

It is a demonstration of aerodynamic (F1) vs mechanical (MotoGP) grip. Dependence on aerodynamics precludes close racing due to loss of grip when following closely. Mechanical grip has no such limitation.

What? That's nonsense

The fencing response, as seen here, involves flexion of the arms and extension of the forearms. True decerebrate posturing involves extension of both the arms and the forearms. It also occurs in response to stimuli, not immediately after a trauma as seen here.

This is virtually guaranteed to result in a shitstorm

The problem is that the rules have been written in such a way that a literal interpretation is utterly inconsistent with the plain appearance of the play.

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I mean obviously it doesn’t work very well but I don’t know that the impulse is purely puritanical.

I wasn’t addressing the Nevada situation but rather the statement that gambling should be legalized.

On the one hand, yes.

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Munchausen by proxy vs. child abuse. What’s the difference? Is there any?