halvar

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Reposting in a such a short time is actually a sin and it was traditionally the inquisitiors' job to hunt down anyone who commits such an atrocity.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm not from America, but I thought I had a pretty good understanding on some of these issues. Turns out I only got the memo for "defund the police" meaning "abolish the police".

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

As far as I know these sins are only sins for mortals. For example pride is wrong because you worship yourself instead of God. Sloth is wrong because it would be your job to better the world, not God's and so on.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

If we look at the original definition of "memes" and assume he isn't actually real, then he literally was a meme.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Collateral damage

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago (2 children)

You fool! I have only used 10% of my full power so far!

- Putin, in his wet dreams

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (7 children)

I personally like to descirbe myself as tolerant. Not exactly progressive, but I very much see the struggle some people live with and so I decided that not being hostile to anyone is the least that I can do in case I don't just straight-up support some causes. I had to get this clear, because my opinion doesn't exactly match with the one detailed in the post or at the very least I find fault in it's reasoning.

The problem is that all the "genetic advantages" that make someone a good swimmer for example, are all unrelated traits, that are not really rare in people, it's just that it's quite rare for them to all be present in one person who then also goes off to be a swimmer. Testosterone on the other hand is a single hormone, exceptionally important in becoming an outstanding athlete and for that precise reason it's considered a performance-enhancing drug. If you look at it this way it's not that hard to see the problem.

Being more muscular certainly is an advantage. Being taller also is. Longer arms also are. Lower body-fat percentage also is. Better stamina also is. Better agility also is.

Any boxer you pick randomly should be expected to have one or more of these "genetic advantages", but all of them, resulting from a single condition is quite a different situation. Elevated testosterone levels are a single cause for developing some of the most important traits of a dominating boxer and so someone with such an advantage can't be considered a freak of nature in the same sense that someone like Phelps can be. There isn't a "swimmer hormone" that magically gives you all the advantages in swimming, but there is a "fighter hormone", that does in boxing. I personally don't think that Khelif could be anything other than a women. I just think that her body happens to overproduce a literal PED and that's a problem for anyone who wants to go up against her or those that want to see fights that are more or less determined by technique.

Now for solutions and as far as I see there's only one that doesn't involve excluding her from boxing. Simply put her and anyone with similar conditions in a weight class based on their muscle mass and not their actual body mass. Moving her one weight class up for example would at least mean that her opponents have trained with punches of similar force to her's, something that the lack of seemed to have been a problem for her foes in Paris. She would still have an advantage in terms of speed, but she would pay the price of having less fat for impact absorption. I think that would be a win-win scenario.

Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I personally look up torrent files for either FLACs (lossless quality, with very large files) or 320kbps MP3s (smaller files with no noticable difference in sound quality imo) and then after making sure they have the right metadata (Title, Album, Artist) (using a tool like Tagger) I upload them onto my Navidrome server, which I connect to using Ultrasonic. If I didn't selfhost I'd probably just put the tagged files on my phone and play them with basically any music player.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

NSFW is short for not safe for work. The tag is to be put on pictures or texts that shouldn't be viewed when there's a chance of someone else glancing at your screen. I think a picture of a toilet while could raise some questions does not fall into that category.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

You can also turn the knob to enter the nether for 8 times faster travel.

[–] [email protected] 110 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

No they weren't since all greentexts are fake and also gay.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

That one downvote is either a communist offended by the last row or a real organic chemist who thinks a lot more elements were invented by the commies.

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