Everything posted by StringJunky
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What's wrong with Progressivism?
927 A.D. when it became the Kingdom of England, led by King Aethelsten. Prior to that it was a group of Anglo-Saxon kingdoms. 'Anglo-Saxon' is an archaic descriptor. It's like calling modern Canadians 'Franco-English'.
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What's wrong with Progressivism?
One can be English and Ango-Saxon, but one cannot be Ango-Saxon and have non-white immigrant ancestry. It's a way of distingushing white English people from naturalised English people i.e have non-English ancestry. The motives are malign.
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What's wrong with Progressivism?
Nope.
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What's wrong with Progressivism?
It's a means of separating a group from others in an elitist/racist fashion.
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What's wrong with Progressivism?
Politically, using 'Anglo-Saxon' connotes with labels like 'Aryan', and all that it implies. Funny really because Anglo-Saxon is French! They are saying 'We are English because our roots lie in France'.
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Hardness scales...
Have a look at Vespel, but it's very expensive. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vespel#:~:text=Vespel is mostly used in,hostile and extreme environmental conditions.
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Transgender athletes
Brevity leads to more potential interpretations, potentially.
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Can Someone Explain Quark Binding Energy?
Is it right that when you apply energy to separate quarks, new quark pairs are formed from each one once a certain threshold is reached? This is why they can never exist in the free state? I read a some Quora posts yesterday from a couple of physics professors that mentioned this.
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Transgender athletes
I am totally open-minded, and there is nothing you can say to change that.
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Can Someone Explain Quark Binding Energy?
@Genady Yes.
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Can Someone Explain Quark Binding Energy?
Isn't that what gluons do?
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Transgender athletes
If it was reversed, I would probably be watching the women's game. I can't exclude the fact that I'm my age group and it's all I know.
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Transgender athletes
Aren't you projecting a monolithic viewpoint that you think women have? Again: I watch football because they are men, I'm not interested in the female style of play. Note that I said "style of play" and not "men are better footballers than women". As a parallel, consider,say, pre-sixties football style was much more physical and aggressive, with balls that weighed a ton wet. Compared to them, modern footballers are frail, athletic gazelles... they wouldn't last five minutes playing then.
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Transgender athletes
I'm on the old side. It's not always the case, but paradigm social change, like towards less rigid notions of gender, perhaps require generational lengths of time to become 'normal'.
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Transgender athletes
I'm on the wrong side of 60.
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Transgender athletes
The first thing that needs to change before things like this can be largely embraced is that the old farts need to embark on their heavenly travels. Their page is already printed.
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Transgender athletes
Why, are they going to win all the competitions?
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The Official JOKES SECTION :)
I get it now, he's preaching to the choir.
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The Official JOKES SECTION :)
Call me thick but I don't get it.
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Gun control, which side wins?
This an example of what's wrong: gun ownership and handling is not treated with enough respect. Get this:
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War Games: Russia Takes Ukraine, China Takes Taiwan. US Response?
The Russian military bloggers have apparently been moaning about the problems the army has been having and that it is so hard to get passed their own government's propaganda for reliable information.
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Gun control, which side wins?
Yes, that's another approach. We 've discussed this many times over the years I've posted here, and it's just the same hand-wringing every time there's a massacre. The system seems set up to resist change. An influential number of Americans love their guns too much.
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Gun control, which side wins?
Next... we know what's wrong.
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Transgender athletes
100000's of years is too short for observable evolution, AFAIK. We can only measure H. sapiens existence on that scale.
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Transgender athletes
I think it's a case of men have had more opportunities to play sport and was less culturally acceptable until more recently.