One of the biggest obstacles to participation in youth programs in the US isn’t money, it’s transportation and time. Having a parent available for hours on weeknights plus away games for months implies a solid middle class home before any dues are collected.

In more well resourced sports like football and baseball, getting the poor kids a ride home after practice and games is often essential for the program.

Language changes and it doesn’t matter if you like it or not. Complaining about it is just “old man yells at cloud”.

Terrorist is a social distinction not a rational one; It’s a slur. Trying to launder it with definitions and fixed meaning misses the point.

Terrorist isn’t even synonymous with violence because depending on where you are, a terrorist is a race, ethnicity, politics, or religion.

I’m very suspicious of anyone who thinks punishment is the solution to anything. Double that when the person being subjected to suffering is low on the social order.

Don’t be a Nazi rapist. -impossible standards of the puritanical left.

4K textures are a scam. With upscaling, even the people who run games in 4K don’t use the 4K textures.

It’s most similar to beef. I would recommend adding it to chili, stew, or curry. In dishes that are cooked forever and heavily seasoned, you may not be able to tell much difference.

I’ve never tried it grilled like a steak, I would suspect that’d be quite different to beef.

Europeans should be self aware enough to recognize that the most devastating criticism of Trump are direct comparisons to historic European tyrants. And forget about Hitler or Mussolini. Donald Trump at his worst can’t even measure up to Leopold II.

Yes. IQ tests can be studied and your score can be increased like any other test. This is because IQ doesn’t measure intelligence, it measures IQ score.

If your asking about intelligence, then also yes. You can study and become smarter and more knowledgeable. Or you can hit your head or read the Daily Wire and become less intelligent.

There is a whole genre of werewolf porn literature and the audience is primarily female. Lindsey Ellis did a couple of videos about this a few years ago.

I read that if the AMOC fails, Western Europe will be like central Siberia. That is to say -30 in the winter, and 40 in the summer.

There was a nurse in a fertility clinic who was an addict and replaced the fentanyl drip with saline. Multiple women experienced agony during the procedure for extracting eggs. That procedure was to insert a huge syringe into the vagina, through the vagina wall, into the ovaries to suck up some eggs.

Many women experienced this with no pain medication at all and their complaints, even their screams were dismissed. Needless to say, when the addict nurse was discovered, they felt pretty silly.

Doctors have incredible tolerance for the suffering of women.

Humor is a common coping mechanism people use to deal with horrible truths. Global warming is not a tone issue.

And it’s ironic to give a scolding lecture about how people are acting superior.

People who get vexed over gender in character creation are the same people bound to get really upset when watching a movie trailer.

I gave up on playing chess. The game has become such a metaphor, such a fetish symbol for intellect, so every dude “knows how to play”, but won’t risk the humiliation of loss, and therefore won’t play. I don’t enjoy online chess, so I just don’t get to play.

This is true! Ignorance of Linux is the no1 reason people don’t adopt it. This is doubly hard for Window-brains because the concept of choosing an OS is foreign to them. From their perspective it’s your boss, your school, or your parents who choose your OS.

I found the motorcycle driving in this game to be painful. Your ride is one of the things that you upgrade, so at the beginning, your bike is slow, can’t turn, and runs out of gas after a mile. It does get better, but early game is frustrating.

Even with the wardrobe, they couldn’t pull off sexual connection. There is more chemistry in this scene than anything with Anikin and Padme.