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  1. Giving it to QBs is boring, unless they are transcendental. (Burrow, Murray, Scam Newton). Award it to Travis Hunter. Dude is a generational stud.
  2. The symbol is for ground/earth, hence bag of sand.
  3. The norwegian figures come from tax, and they have very good record keeping. They even disaggregate base pay from bonus pay. The american (BLS) figure comes from self-reporting. been a while since i read exact survey methodology but the questions are extremely detailed — its possible to lie but theres no good reason. i think its something like how many hours did you work *last week*. how many of those were standard time. how many were OT. what was the total gross pay for *last week*. the numbers could be skewed depending on when they perform the survey, but you figure over the long run it kinda averages out.
  4. More smear tactics, and whatever associative fallacy bringing race race to it. The strong difference in responses to difference questions shows there’s some kind of motivation behind the (anonymous) answers. If hate is your blanket answer for that motivation, why wouldnt they want discrimination in employment and housing as well? (Whats the cost of expressing a wrong opinion to an online poll?) Is there any natural, obvious reason for people to have segregation in bathroom at all (where there is none in general employment)….or is wanting girls to stay with girls a form of discrimination, and wanting girls-identifying-as-boys to use the same room a form of elevated hate-filled discrimination?
  5. in perpetuating adversarial relationships with reporters, thinking they’re out to get him, while manufacturing rivalries against other coaches? absolutely. and i say this as a colorado and deion fan. man was on my childhood SB29 team.
  6. what some people delude themselves into thinking they could do* doesnt change the stark reality of group differences. *just ask Kevin.
  7. Ive counted in the thread 3 to 4 instances (including yours) policing the discourse to the tune of: something rational should be done. people only talk about this now because theyre hateful. except, curiously, that something is never explained.
  8. I was gonna tag/quote you in that question actually. I like you, and have never written a single bad word against you, though we may have disagreed in good faith. So lets start from basics: Should sports be segregated? On what basis? If your current biological measurements all align outside your birth group, does it invalidate that grouping — ie should it be ignored for basis of segregation? What is the alternative?
  9. The whole divergence into ‘well i guarantee heres 1/2/3 examples of a professional female athlete better at x/y/z than most of you men’ is predictably dull
  10. And for thousands of years in basically every sport in every society, the competition is segregated by gender. What is the potential “thoughtful solution” here? Because I’ve not seen a single proposal yet, but only accusations of malice for daring to even broach this subject.
  11. If you’re talking about the question of this poll alone, yes its necessarily a broad question to gauge the general sentiment on various trans issue (not a forensic study of sports). The polling is done primarily online, so there is no incentive or social credit to virtue signal through faking a response.
  12. Are people allowed to discuss and hold positions on any topic out of principle alone? Or will you gatekeep the discussion by poisoning the well unless the topic exceeds some rarity threshold?
  13. Being against trans in opposite-birth-gender sports is 77% of those who took a position. Which is the 2nd strongest consensus after being FOR protection of trans in other aspects of society (86%)
  14. The numbers on there look very sketchy. Numbeo.com crowdsources its values and tends to be accurate. (You can check it against all the places you’ve been to)
  15. Using worldbank and oecd ppp adjustment, their earnings buys $68k us equivalent in 2022, 74k today. it implies a basket of goods is cheaper in norway than in america in 2024 which seems nuts because norway is wildly expensive
  16. Adjusted for what cost? like port/terminal specific financials? hard to back it out with granularity due to reasons ryskey mentioned
  17. fyi median annual earning for water transport industry in norway, probably highest paying in ex-US/CA western world, is $67k annually.
  18. brent venables pees with his pants all the way down
  19. Im quoting him who shall not be named 😶‍🌫️
  20. I can see an argument that performance metrics for that line of work jeopardizes safety. Seniority rules probably make sense for those jobs, in addition to giving a security blanket. They seem to want their cake and eat it too. For the example $20hr wage (single digit percentile of their pay distribution), the rejected $5 raise represents 25% increase. With $40 wage ($80k annualized) thats a 12.5% raise.
  21. Anybody who can crane a container from ship to dock can learn how to program as well. Anybody who can unload 15 tons of cargo can learn how to program for God's sake.
  22. Which major stimuli programs and who voted for them? It's not, which is why it's strange for some to only talk about a specific cause like corporate greed. Covidflation was a confluence of multiple global factors. But you can still recognize that certain parties and policies and actions have a big directional impact, even if the size of the impact can't be modeled precisely. e.g. Russian energy being rerouted to India and China fucked up European energy prices pretty hard. On the global stage, the US has a pretty big lever that affects downstream costs to US consumers, whether it's through control of tariffs, liquidity, manufacturing, etc.
  23. As the plot thickens, it gives me the dickens, reminiscent of Charles
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