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[QUOTE=RamDavidson84;2694021]Yes it is extremely unfair and insane to let a man swim and compete against women. You are 1000% wrong on that and it is something I am upset about. I cannot comprehend how that was ever allowed and my heart goes out to all the people who have to deal with that selfish asshole stealing medals from those female athletes. Does anyone else here really condone letting men compete in women's sports?[/QUOTE]Yes I condone this. It is simply a matter of getting what you paid for. This is what happens when you refuse to admit that double standards do exist and should exist.
You take the bad with the good. You can't just take the rights without taking the responsibilities. If you want big boy rights, you better be prepared to take on big boy responsibilities. Everybody wants freedom until it is time to literally fight for it. I did not see mfs hollering equal rights when it was time to build skyscrapers or time to go to war. They only wanted to be equal when the fun shit was being passed out.
Be careful what you ask for, because you just might get it. And you may not like the biproducts or fallout from what you are asking for. You wanted to buy into the delusion that dudes can be women. Well this is what happens when dudes become women; because despite them taking hormones and putting on women's clothing, they are really still dudes and not actually women. You can not hate the player; you have to hate the game.
Go on youtube and watch some of those funny videos of guys manhandling women cops or when it is time to arrest some dude the woman cop jumps on the pile last like she is really doing something. Half the time she will just shoot the guy from the jump as happened in Minnesota and Oklahoma. If there was a police force of all women cops you think that shit would work out?
Next watch some of the videos of transsexuals kicking men's asses the way an actual female could never do. Different sexes are built for different things. America did not want to accept that despite it being plain as day. So IMHO all the selfish assholes should get all the medals and money that they can scoop up. They did not invent the game, they just learned to play it to perfection.
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[QUOTE=MrEnternational;2694103]Yes I condone this. It is simply a matter of getting what you paid for. This is what happens when you refuse to admit that double standards do exist and should exist.
You take the bad with the good. You can't just take the rights without taking the responsibilities. If you want big boy rights, you better be prepared to take on big boy responsibilities. Everybody wants freedom until it is time to literally fight for it. I did not see mfs hollering equal rights when it was time to build skyscrapers or time to go to war. They only wanted to be equal when the fun shit was being passed out.
Be careful what you ask for, because you just might get it. And you may not like the biproducts or fallout from what you are asking for. You wanted to buy into the delusion that dudes can be women. Well this is what happens when dudes become women; because despite them taking hormones and putting on women's clothing, they are really still dudes and not actually women. You can not hate the player; you have to hate the game.
Go on youtube and watch some of those funny videos of guys manhandling women cops or when it is time to arrest some dude the woman cop jumps on the pile last like she is really doing something. Half the time she will just shoot the guy from the jump as happened in Minnesota and Oklahoma. If there was a police force of all women cops you think that shit would work out?
Next watch some of the videos of transsexuals kicking men's asses the way an actual female could never do. Different sexes are built for different things. America did not want to accept that despite it being plain as day. So IMHO all the selfish assholes should get all the medals and money that they can scoop up. They did not invent the game, they just learned to play it to perfection.[/QUOTE]I don't really follow your logic? So because men are allowed to dress like women, men should be allowed to compete in women's athletics' and use their biological advantages to outcompete women and take away their scholarships in college, salaries in professional sports, and greatly limit the opportunity for women to participate in competitive sports in General? I am very lost how you are coming to this conclusion or what point you are trying to make Mr. E?
It appears you arguing that men and women are not physically equal, but because they are unequal, you condone men competing against women because politicians gave them the opportunity and so they should take advantage of it as much as possible at the expense of women because they have not contributed as much t society in terms of construction of infrastructure and serving combat roles in war? You have a very confusing post I can't quite make sense of?
You seem like a guy who is very angry at women for things they cannot control? You seem to understand how unfair it is to force women to compete against men and yet you show no concern for fairness or the rights of women?
Like I said, I am confused by your post and if I interpreted wrong I apologize, it's a unique argument I have not hear before to say the least.
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[QUOTE=Villainy;2694053]I'm sorry for intruding on your [B] 'everyone is crazy but me rant' [/B]but I don't remember JjBee62 saying that his charitable contribution was in [B]cash[/B] for 25% of his income. He is allowed to make charitable contributions with possessions at fair-market value. For example, he could donate: books, clothing, cars, trucks, furniture, appliances and on and on. There are some limits on the amounts he can deduct relative to his AGI (adjusted gross income) but 25% is well within the limits of all the categories. At least that is my recollection.
I realize when he said he made contributions of 25% of his income. That you immediately jumped to the conclusion that it was all in cash. You probably weren't aware of in-kind contributions. A natural mistake for someone who has probably never given anything to anybody in his life.[/QUOTE]When did I state everyone is crazy but me? I never have, don't put words in my mouth please. Now people who advocate to let men compete in woman's sports, yea they a little whacky in my opinion.
I am going to be honest I don't exactly remember the meaningless banter that JJb69 attacked me for because I advocated that people outside of public employment should not be forced to get vaccines. I also didn't agree with the lockdowns in Austria in which he called me a deranged psycho who should never pretend to know more than the governments imposing these lockdowns even though the vaccines don't prevent transmission. He went ballistic on me and labeled my mind as a "hall of fractured mirrors" LOL, which I found incredibly funny, instead of just trying to engage in a civil intelligent debate which he knew would lose and eventually be proven wrong. Look at how they are now admitted the Johnson and Johnson vaccine was causing blood clots and they will not even administer it to certain populations anymore. He went on a rant and somehow it came up he donates money in cash to fire victims. This is what he said. Go back and look it up, I am way too lazy to do that. He is absolutely allowed to make charitable contributions and I commend for it if he actually does, but unless you are earning a large amount money, donating 25% of your income in cash to fire victims as he stated is a very weird thing to do. Personally I think he is full of shit and he probably dropped some shitty clothes and furniture off at good will store and since he has a low income and he will write it off for taxes and then try to make himself look like a hero who donates 25% of his income. They way he worded it, I think he said he just hands people cash who need it, like people who have their houses burnt down, it sounds like total bullshit to me and if he is doing things like that, its even more pathetic as it just makes him look like a sad desperate lonely old man who has to buy friends.
Most importantly, this is a waste of a post and just meaningless bickering over nothing, why don't you intelligently and civilly discuss issues that actually matter to try and find better ways to solve societies problems rather than just attack anyone who doesn't 100% agree with your political views and policies you support. I suspect as always you won't, and you will just call me crazy and argue blindly against anything I post because you are a miserable troll who doesn't actually care about finding solutions to the problems the world is facing. I am always open to a civil debate if you would like to actually have instead of how much money JBB69 donates to charity.
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[QUOTE=JjBee62;2694067]It's ridiculously simple. I'm absolutely certain that any average child could understand it. I'm also absolutely certain you can't.
First, the description for children:
When you do your homework, you have to use a pencil. You can't use crayons. The homework you turn in has to be the homework that was assigned. If you are asked to answer "what is 5+3?" Your answer should be 8. If your answer is not 8, it will be marked wrong. Your homework will be checked by the teacher before a grade is assigned. You will not get a good grade unless you complete the homework correctly...[/QUOTE]I and most of American have lost all respect for the editorial standards of the mainstream media. How many times have they run stories that have proven to be totally false? Kyle Rittenhouse, Nick Sandman, Trump Russia Conspiracy, Trump Impeachment with no evidence, Jussie Smollet, 95% effective vaccines and 1 million deaths after their release, The suppression of the Hunter Biden Laptop and shady business dealing in foreign nations, labeling looters and rioters burning cities down as heroic social justice protesters, the mainstream media with their ethical standards are a fucking joke. They are a biased group of charlatans who race bait and play identity politics and promise government handouts to win elections. Any day of the week, I will trust a show like "Unheard" over Don Lemon and Rachel Maddow and her fake tears.
And is it really necessary to stoop to the level of a child and claim I am video taping someone getting pegged? You just make yourself look silly and people take your posts less seriously. Journalism is dead in the USA and hopefully people like Elon Musk will restore true journalistic integrity which used to be revered in the USA for its high standards and honestly.
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[QUOTE=JjBee62;2694042]And Musk didn't invent shit. He bought a company that made electric cars. The only thing he might have done is generate enough interest for all of the other car companies, which have had electric cars for at least 50 years, to dust off their designs and start producing them.
That's pretty typical for Ram. One day he's complaining that alternative energy is bringing about the collapse of civilization, the next he's claiming electric cars saved the world.[/QUOTE]When did I ever say alternative energy is bring the collapse of civilization? Again, please don't act like a Jussie Smollet type liar and stick to the truth at least. As of right now my opinion is that electric cars are the healthiest, cheapest, cleanest, and most reliable source of personal transportation for the foreseeable future. It's probably also why every major manufactured in the USA is releasing more EVs onto the market every year.
Its pretty typical or you to just slander and avoid intelligent because you not capable of defending your arguments. You come off to me as an extremist who just wants to see America burn because you couldn't make it in society and you are probably just a nobody working various dead end jobs.
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[QUOTE=RamDavidson84;2694110]I don't really follow your logic? So because men are allowed to dress like women, men should be allowed to compete in women's athletics' and use their biological advantages to outcompete women and take away their scholarships in college, salaries in professional sports, and greatly limit the opportunity for women to participate in competitive sports in General?[/QUOTE]Because American society is pushing a narrative that people are whatever they feel they are. You do know it is mostly women that are pushing for men who think they are women to be seen as women right? So they are doing this to themselves and to their own detriment. Sometimes you have to let a mf learn the hard way. In these cases dudes that are not women taking the benefits and awards that actual women fought to get, is teaching them a hard lesson.
You can't fault someone for taking advantage of a loophole. When I went to court for custody of my daughter, her mom was getting angry at me for using laws or procedures that I knew about to my advantage. To her it was unfair or whatever, but I was only using the rules that existed for everyone to play by.
You can not get upset for these guys for playing by the rules that are in place. If the speed limit is posted as 65 I am not going to be mad at folks for going 65 and tell they they should really only go 55. The speed limit is set at 65, take full advantage of being able to go 65. In my state they have just made it a law that people can only participate in sports according to their sex at birth by the way.
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[QUOTE=RamDavidson84;2694016]Nuclear bro, got to develop that technology and it won't come at a greater cost than mining for fossil fuels. In a few decades we should have Nuclear Fusion technology which will produce no toxic waste, no air pollution, and produce several times more energy than the current form we have which is Nuclear fission. Again, I am not the expert and if you are really interested in it, you should look it up, it's interesting stuff.[/QUOTE]I have followed nuclear fusion for around 40 years, and it would be hard to convince me we are closer to a workable nuclear fusion option than 40 years ago.
But current nuclear technology is much improved, and I'm not saying there is anything wrong with it, it just costs a lot in terms of resources, energy, and money to build these plants.
I think the handling of carbon should focus on leaning how to live with the effects that we cannot avoid, ie the last 250 years of fossil fuel use, and on sequestration and moving away where economically possible.
When I hear the masses wanting to stop the petrochemical industry tomorrow so there won't be a forest fire next year I come to the conclusion that some education is in order. But of course politics is such that the sky is falling stories get the attention. And fact checking stuff like that gets one labelled as a climate change denier. So the bullshit aspects can't be challenged by anyone.
What science and real scientists actually say (and real scientists in the field that they are speaking about) I think gets lost in the noise.
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[QUOTE=MrEnternational;2694103]Yes I condone this. It is simply a matter of getting what you paid for. This is what happens when you refuse to admit that double standards do exist and should exist.
You take the bad with the good. You can't just take the rights without taking the responsibilities. If you want big boy rights, you better be prepared to take on big boy responsibilities. Everybody wants freedom until it is time to literally fight for it. I did not see mfs hollering equal rights when it was time to build skyscrapers or time to go to war. They only wanted to be equal when the fun shit was being passed out.
Be careful what you ask for, because you just might get it. And you may not like the biproducts or fallout from what you are asking for. You wanted to buy into the delusion that dudes can be women. Well this is what happens when dudes become women; because despite them taking hormones and putting on women's clothing, they are really still dudes and not actually women. You can not hate the player; you have to hate the game..[/QUOTE]If there was a police force of all women cops you think that shit would work out?
ROTFLMMFAO.
You can not hate the player; you have to hate the game.
They did not invent the game, they just learned to play it to perfection.
They're just there getting a check, but remember males and females are equal LMAO.
They actually make us all less safe, because for every female cop there is 1 less male that might be of some value when needed.
I want to see some UFC mixed gender matches LOL.
The last thing I want is stoopid c around me with guns, they can't even drive a car or a motorbike safely (at least in Colombia 95% of the females cops I've seen don't have a gun LOL).
If they start shooting, one of us or our loved ones are more likely to be killed than what they needed to hit.
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[QUOTE=MrEnternational;2694198]Because American society is pushing a narrative that people are whatever they feel they are. You do know it is mostly women that are pushing for men who think they are women to be seen as women right? So they are doing this to themselves and to their own detriment. Sometimes you have to let a mf learn the hard way. In these cases dudes that are not women taking the benefits and awards that actual women fought to get, is teaching them a hard lesson.
You can't fault someone for taking advantage of a loophole. When I went to court for custody of my daughter, her mom was getting angry at me for using laws or procedures that I knew about to my advantage. To her it was unfair or whatever, but I was only using the rules that existed for everyone to play by.
You can not get upset for these guys for playing by the rules that are in place. If the speed limit is posted as 65 I am not going to be mad at folks for going 65 and tell they they should really only go 55. The speed limit is set at 65, take full advantage of being able to go 65. In my state they have just made it a law that people can only participate in sports acording to their sex at birth by the way.[/QUOTE]If the speed limit is posted as 65 I am not going to be mad at folks for going 65 and tell they they should really only go 55.
Reminds me of one day on the Autobahn in a taxi, a car blew past us doing probably 150 mph in the left / passing lane and the driver starts yelling and swearing I asked him what's the problem.
He said that asshole is going too fast LOL I asked what's the limit in this area, he said there isn't one.
BTW I want to be listed as a Giraffe on my Birth Cert? Any help anyone?
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[QUOTE=Villainy;2694053]I'm sorry for intruding on your [B] 'everyone is crazy but me rant' [/B]but I don't remember JjBee62 saying that his charitable contribution was in [B]cash[/B] for 25% of his income.
I realize when he said he made contributions of 25% of his income. That you immediately jumped to the conclusion that it was all in cash. You probably weren't aware of in-kind contributions. A natural mistake for someone who has probably never given anything to anybody in his life.[/QUOTE]You should look at post #3071 by JjBee62. "Last year my cash donations came up to almost 25% of my income (and none of that went to a church or other non-profit group)." Looks like you are the one who jumped to a conclusion.
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[QUOTE=MrEnternational;2694198]Because American society is pushing a narrative that people are whatever they feel they are. You do know it is mostly women that are pushing for men who think they are women to be seen as women right? So they are doing this to themselves and to their own detriment. Sometimes you have to let a mf learn the hard way. In these cases dudes that are not women taking the benefits and awards that actual women fought to get, is teaching them a hard lesson.
You can't fault someone for taking advantage of a loophole. When I went to court for custody of my daughter, her mom was getting angry at me for using laws or procedures that I knew about to my advantage. To her it was unfair or whatever, but I was only using the rules that existed for everyone to play by..[/QUOTE]Haha I see what you are saying and there is a part of me that kind of agrees with you, but I participated and coached in a sport for a very long time and its something which hits home for me because I saw a lot guys not achieve their goals and make it to the levels they thought they were going to go. It really fucked with them and changed them a little bit by not hitting those goals as a competitive athlete. I just could never condone letting cheating men take those opportunities away female athletes and have them lose out on the dreams they have drained their whole lives for. It really pisses me off, on the other hand yes their is a large female contingent who are proponents of the policies which allow men to compete against women in the first place and there would be a degree of satisfaction I would feel to watch these she / men crush every record, win every event, and clearly prove the point that there is a fucking reason in the first place that we have men's and women's divisions. I am not that vindictive, so for me personally I'll just oppose letting men compete in women's sports. Your take on it would be funny to watch though LOL.
And on a tangent side note: Women make up 50% of our nation's work force, their tax dollars count just as much as a man's and so it's important to give them as much opportunity as possible to allow them to make the most of themselves. Our nation is also no longer based on agriculture or manufacturing as much as it is the service industry and tech industries / information processing which women maybe even have an advantage in due to their maternal instincts which allow them to achieve a higher social intelligence on average. They can more easily deal with people in a compliant effective manner in team settings and taking their ego out of the equation. I have noticed a lot of men have more difficulty with this as their ego gets in the way when they serve non-leadership roles and this leads to a less effective worker. The nation's who we are economically competing with have all realized the more money women earn and the harder they work, the stronger their nation's economy becomes and this is one of the reasons why they have embraced policies which promote women having the exact same opportunities in occupations traditionally held by men. America, to stay competitive with other leading nations, also needs to have a strong, educated, effective female work force. That doesn't mean force women into construction where they will won't be best utilized, or force them in combat roles on the battlefield when a male soldier would be more effective. It just means we have to face reality and come together to create more economic opportunities which plays to female strengths. Just my opinion and feel free to criticize as its not something based on a lot of research, just on my opinion on things I have seen in everyday life.
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[QUOTE=Zeos1;2694206]I have followed nuclear fusion for around 40 years, and it would be hard to convince me we are closer to a workable nuclear fusion option than 40 years ago.
But current nuclear technology is much improved, and I'm not saying there is anything wrong with it, it just costs a lot in terms of resources, energy, and money to build these plants.
I think the handling of carbon should focus on leaning how to live with the effects that we cannot avoid, ie the last 250 years of fossil fuel use, and on sequestration and moving away where economically possible.
When I hear the masses wanting to stop the petrochemical industry tomorrow so there won't be a forest fire next year I come to the conclusion that some education is in order. But of course politics is such that the sky is falling stories get the attention. And fact checking stuff like that gets one labelled as a climate change denier. So the bullshit aspects can't be challenged by anyone.
What science and real scientists actually say (and real scientists in the field that they are speaking about) I think gets lost in the noise.[/QUOTE]Like I said, I am absolutely not an expert in this stuff. I actually do have a friend who is an engineer at the Nuclear Power Plant near Scranton PA. He's a very intelligent guy, spent his youth in the navy working on a nuclear submarine. He said we are close to fission technology, when you split the atoms instead of fusing them, it's a cleaner process which creates far more energy and these are the technologies we should should be investing in. He and I agree with you, We still need to use fossil fuels when necessary, but the writing is on the wall, we need to start preparing for when the scarcity of fossil fuels drives the price up so high it is no longer even remotely affordable. He was furious with Biden when they closed the construction of the oil pipeline from Canada, he said it takes 12 years to plan the construction, receive the zoning permits, allocate the funds, etc, and they had done everything every step of the way and were ready for construction and Biden due to pressure from environmental groups just called it off and wasted all the time and resources which went into planning such a massive project and would have lead to a higher degree of energy independence for the USA. I am not blind to the fact that we are still living in a society which runs off fossil fuels, I am just saying developing the technology of Electric Automobiles and the Nuclear Power plants to provide the energy seems to be the most logical thing to do at the moment. We still need to drill up all that black gold though baby! Can't let those precious dollars go to waste haha.
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[QUOTE=JjBee62;2694042]And Musk didn't invent shit. He bought a company that made electric cars. The only thing he might have done is generate enough interest for all of the other car companies, which have had electric cars for at least 50 years, to dust off their designs and start producing them.
That's pretty typical for Ram. One day he's complaining that alternative energy is bringing about the collapse of civilization, the next he's claiming electric cars saved the world.[/QUOTE]Guys, look I can be a dick and there really is no need to constantly be at each other's throat because we have very different views. I'll admit I was poking the bear with the JJb69 donating his money stuff and Osteo being a very complex individual when it comes to his sexuality and choice of drug use. No one is perfect, and I am the furthest thing from it.
To be fair though, I never claimed or believed that alternative energy had any negative impact on society. I would just state we need to do it as efficiently as possible while also not destroying the oil industry and hurting the American economy and workforce in the process. I was not a fan of Biden stopping the construction of the oil pipeline and wasting millions of dollars in planning and thousands of Americans losing their jobs they had lined up building the pipeline.
Elon Musk is the richest man on the Planet out of 7 billion people, he is a special unique individual with a track record of success which is rivaled by just a hand full of people in history. This is undeniable truth. I believe it shows bias to diminish his accomplishments because you are not in favor of his take over of Twitter because he has openly advocated for increasing Twitter's role in defending Free Speech. There is currently a slander campaign occurring against him where people are going all the way back to his days as a child in grade school to see if they can dig up any dirt on him to assassinate his character, just like they did to Brett Kavanaugh. I don't agree with this type of behavior, however I respectfully allow anyone to disagree and argue their point against it. Let's just keep the lies, slander, and insults out of it.
Stick to the policy.
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[QUOTE=Zeos1;2694206]I have followed nuclear fusion for around 40 years, and it would be hard to convince me we are closer to a workable nuclear fusion option than 40 years ago.
But current nuclear technology is much improved, and I'm not saying there is anything wrong with it, it just costs a lot in terms of resources, energy, and money to build these plants.
I think the handling of carbon should focus on leaning how to live with the effects that we cannot avoid, ie the last 250 years of fossil fuel use, and on sequestration and moving away where economically possible.
When I hear the masses wanting to stop the petrochemical industry tomorrow so there won't be a forest fire next year I come to the conclusion that some education is in order. But of course politics is such that the sky is falling stories get the attention. And fact checking stuff like that gets one labelled as a climate change denier. So the bullshit aspects can't be challenged by anyone.
What science and real scientists actually say (and real scientists in the field that they are speaking about) I think gets lost in the noise.[/QUOTE]I actually am, or was, an expert on nuclear fission. There are a few big problems with it, which will never go away. First, when done right it's safer than fossil fuel power production, but done right means reducing profit margins. Then there's always the waste issue, which most people haven't a clue about. Radioactive waste with extremely long half-life isn't a problem. It's the stuff with the short half-life that's the problem.
Then there's the public relations issue, which when combined with regulations makes nuclear fission not a good investment for the bankers.
You're probably right about fusion technology. I worked with the High Energy Physics group at Sandia National Labs (just computer programming and tech support) and progress is slow.
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[QUOTE=RamDavidson84;2694271]Like I said, I am absolutely not an expert in this stuff. I actually do have a friend who is an engineer at the Nuclear Power Plant near Scranton PA. He's a very intelligent guy, spent his youth in the navy working on a nuclear submarine. He said we are close to fission technology, when you split the atoms instead of fusing them, it's a cleaner process which creates far more energy and these are the technologies we should should be investing in. He and I agree with you, We still need to use fossil fuels when necessary, but the writing is on the wall, we need to start preparing for when the scarcity of fossil fuels drives the price up so high it is no longer even remotely affordable. He was furious with Biden when they closed the construction of the oil pipeline from Canada, he said it takes 12 years to plan the construction, receive the zoning permits, allocate the funds, etc, and they had done everything every step of the way and were ready for construction and Biden due to pressure from environmental groups just called it off and wasted all the time and resources which went into planning such a massive project and would have lead to a higher degree of energy independence for the USA. I am not blind to the fact that we are still living in a society which runs off fossil fuels, I am just saying developing the technology of Electric Automobiles and the Nuclear Power plants to provide the energy seems to be the most logical thing to do at the moment. We still need to drill up all that black gold though baby! Can't let those precious dollars go to waste haha.[/QUOTE]I confused fusion with fission in this post, sorry about that, like I said, def not the expert.