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Someone tried to convince me to join a casual commander match, and I generally wasn't having it. I've been clean too many years to relapse.

But he did try to teach another couple of people with extra decks he had.

Magic used to come with a book of rules. And starter decks. Then, they did away with both, and I just re-learned then through word of mouth after they developed the stack and got rid of the difference between instants and interrupts.

Commander guy says there's no stack anymore to even out damage on during a combat phase. Wut. And he's too young to have just been part of the community as it changed and learned piecemeal as the new rules evolved. He had to learn cold.

So... other than printing out a set of rules almost as long as the Patriot Act, how are people new to the game learning? YouTube?

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/0/04f9376e.jpg

thronedfire2 posted...

well most of the states that want to ban gender transitions before 18 or 21 are perfectly fine with 14 and 16 year olds getting married and being forced to have children

Not just forced to have children at that age, but have their rapists' children.

At least 10 of them.

https://www.kff.org/womens-health-policy/issue-brief/a-review-of-exceptions-in-state [link break] -abortions-bans-implications-for-the-provision-of-abortion-services/

SunburnCostanza posted...

But I also think those early ages are super impressionable and someone could be changing their body dramatically when they really hadn't thought it through as a child or young teen.

No actual doctor will transition someone during those years, is my understanding. The prescription would be puberty blockers and social transition. Surgical intervention is not normally considered an option during the time frame you're suggesting someone "impressionable" is going to make "dramatic changes" to their body.

SunburnCostanza posted...

It doesn't seem fair that every time a really good athlete comes in that has a biological advantage due to transitioning that they have a much higher chance of becoming the new Shaqs or Michael Phelps of their sports compared to all of their competitors.

Tans athletes aren't sweeping medal podiums when they're allowed to compete. That data alone seems to indicate that trans people aren't the record-breaking, field-dominating monsters you're implying, even with the studies you presented.

Yourr fear is that it's not going to be fair and that what you think of as "real" women won't win anymore, but... that's just not happening.

SunburnCostanza posted...

the onus is on you to prove you're biologically similar enough to be fair in an elite sport.

I think places like the IOC have standards and practices in place to do just that, and trans people have been allowed to compete for years without a second thought until recently.

This is how conversations with people like you usually end up going, in the end:

"When you meet these benchmarks and prove you eliminated that 'natural advantage,' it's fair for you to compete."
<meets benchmarks>
"Not like that."

emblem-man posted...

Also, fuck Hamas
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2eem7e7v30o

It's really sad when Israel had made Palestine so imporverished and economically depressed that the citizens are forced to get paid by the terrorists just to eat.

That's what a ghetto kind of is, so it's not like this outcome wasn't by design, and part of the decades-long slow-roll to ethnic cleansing and genocide...

Ubergeneral3 posted...

This will be Mel's Magnum Opis. I'm glad it's finally happening.

I must be the only one who thinks that, out of his entire body of work as a writer or director, Spaceballs was not one of Brooks' best films.

Top three have to be (in no order):

The Producers
Young Frankenstein
Blazing Saddles

Feels like a real no-brainer to say Spaceballs just doesn't rank among his best work. Not that it doesn't have its charm, but when you put it up against anything else he's done...

SaikyoStyle posted...

And Vaudeville! Everybody likes Vaudeville right?!

Don't knock it. Burlesque has made something of an underground comeback, and almost everyone still some iteration of old skits like "Who's on First?" because some of that is just absolutely evergreen.

ADW posted...

Tim Russ is salty that his line in the original is still the thing hes most famous for, but dammit he better be in this.

He has every right to be.

The man has almost as many Vulcan credits in Trek as Jeffrey Combs has Weyouns. On top of all the other cool science and astronomy shit he contributes to and posts about as a hobbyist.

He's out there reppin federation ideals on the daily even when he's not name dropping the franchise.

I'd be salty, too.

Scotty_Rogers posted...

The one with the pet chimpanzee starring Emilio Hirsch? It sucked.

Do you have a single good take on any media?

I swear, you're as bad as Ars or whats-their-face who can't hear "Deep Space Nine" without launching into a multi-paragraph screed.

AceMos posted...

one of the best live action adaptions of an anime

While your statement is true, your topic title isn't.

It is better than it has a right to be, but I'm not sure it could be called a Good Movie.

(I did really have fun watching it, though.)

toadfan64 posted...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9331831/

Ultimately, the former male physiology of transwoman athletes provides them with a physiological advantage over the cis-female athlete.

But they also say stuff like this:

Anatomical sex differences in the brain appear during early life when the in utero and postnatal surges of testosterone masculinize the male brain [9,10]. Ascribing specific behaviors to these anatomical sex differences has been challenging [11] and may involve differences in cell morphology as well as the connections between brain networks [12,13,14,15,16]. For example, diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) shows increased intraconnectivity in males for regions of the brain attributed to perception-action coordination, auditory/visual spatial awareness and processing, cognitive processes and complex reasoning and control [16]. Females, on the other hand, show more interconnectivity in those regions of the brain attributed to memory, social cognition, and non-verbal reasoning. The sex-specific connectivity of these subnetworks may underlie the ability of males to show consistently higher levels of motor and visual spatial skills in addition to elevated sensory input from vision and proprioception [17,18,19,20].

Male brains and female brains be different? Okay... but wasn't there a study done using MRI or some other imaging solution that demonstrated that a trans person's brain more closely resembled the gender they identified as, rather than the gender they were assigned at birth?

That is, if a trans woman's brain more closely resembles a woman's brain, despite being AMAB, doesn't that discount these suppositions about differences in brain structure between genders?

I'm not a scientist, or someone who does peer reviews, but if I, a layman, can kick the tires on this car and find it wanting... shouldn't we be a little slower to accept the conclusion you quoted uncritically? Maybe kinda?

Sub_Tank posted...

You're so close to the answer, I'm honestly pretty impressed.

You could just tell the answer again, instead of beating around the bush. You weren't afraid to say it before.

Here, I'll remind you: you think that being trans is cheating which, for anyone keeping score at home, is deadass wrong. And transphobic.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/8/8d10996c.jpg

TheShadowViper posted...

Abuse by authority figures of dependents is an ongoing problem across numerous professions.

And cops notoriously have less accountability than other professions, basically immunizing themselves from any consequences or scrutiny.

Cops are a special case that needs addressing, moreso than almost any other profession that comes to my mind.

kind9 posted...

Carnivale

You're good people.

Despised posted...

would be down to look into a different space show

Farscape or Lexx, if you like hour-long format space shows.

Red Dwarf if you like shorter episodes.

archizzy posted...

An automatic process that replaces people manually having to do it? Im all for convenience. Not really newsworthy to me.

It's newsworthy because you can automatically be signed up to die, but the Republicans will never be on board to automatically sign you up to vote.

Prismsblade posted...

The reasons for which could be as significant as opposing a tyrannical government to as mud and as it just being a hobby they enjoy.

Then I'll repeat my original point more clearly:

There is no historical, contextual, or textual basis to interpret the Second Amendment as granting a right to firearms ownership and operation, let alone an individual one, outside of participating in a trained and drilled militia for the protection of the federal government in lieu of keeping a standing army.

The only right you have to keep and bear arms is to protect your country.

The NRA lies.
SCOTUS was bought.
Heller was a paid-for decision.

Cemith posted...

Abso-lutely-f***ing-not

A fascinating discussion on grammar and how to infix (if you believe it's an infix) properly.

https://theweek.com/articles/441722/why-linguists-freak-about-absofreakinglutely

Revelation34 posted...

I wouldn't know since I don't pay any attention to him. I watched the trial.

Don't know how anyone outside the jury watched the trial and came to the conclusion was not-guilty.

The only reason the jury returned that was because of the judge... I'll be generous and say erroneously... excluding important details from being considered, including past history, recordings of intent, and even the commonplace use of the word "victim."

Their hands were tied by the instructions they were given. Anyone whose hands weren't similarly tied and came to any other conclusion than guilty... well, they're apologizing for a mass shooter that went hunting for BLM supporters to make victims.

Prismsblade posted...

So zeroing in on a random with the same baggage as literally millions of others and making the right call is nigh impossible.

"Lone wolf isolated incident #7,423."

Prismsblade posted...

But for guns specifically our support of them sterns from many things, but more so our innate hate and distrust of the government more I believe. Feelings that frankly are at a all time high now.

That's coming from a (deliberate) fundamental misunderstanding of why the Second Amendment exists.

People who cling to their guns out of fear of a "tyrannical government" and think they need to stockpile to resist it... aren't exercising any constitutional rights.

More to that point:

Scalia was a liar. He wasn't an originalist. There is no good faith originalist interpretation that grants an individual right to firearms, let alone for self-defense. Heller was wrongly decided, and done so for political purposes.

Nothing saying you can't own one, mind you. Just that there's no individual right to keep and bear arms. And especially not for any of the reasons gun people say.

And I can't say I blame people like you. The firearms manufacturers are a powerful lobbying group who's even selling the lies for decades. And they've been very good at gaslighting people into a lot of things about "gun culture" that aren't true.

You're just a victim of their very well-funded propaganda machine.

Hyena_Of_Ice posted...

Sayoria, you forgot the chapter in the NT which states that it's a sin to take arms against a murderous tyrannical government.
It gets better. The second half of that chapter was quoted by Jeff Sessions as justification for Trump's family separation policy.

Catch me up on these. I need to have them handy to cite later at other people.

Sayoria posted...

It's always about the gay laws of the bible. What about these

https://youtu.be/S1-ip47WYWc

SpawnShadow posted...

And yet, no drag queens among them.

It's almost exactly like the Republicans' claims of drag queens and LGBTQ+ people being groomers and predators was just fearmongering bullshit to distract people from realizing that the GOP's members and biggest pals (cops, priests, corporate executives, politicians, and Creepy Uncle Cletus) are the real threats to your kids.

Gaslighting and protecting at the same time. They're evolving.

An armed society is not a polite society. It's a trigger happy one.

The family even called the right people in this case, and the system still failed.

I think that breaks my heart the most about this.

Charismic_Zach_Gowen posted...

Sort of. They ran a fake vaccine effort as a front to hunt for Osama. They didn't actively have a policy to deter vaccinations like this did.

That must have been what I was thinking of earlier.

UnholyMudcrab posted...

If the facts are on your side, pound the facts. If the law is on your side, pound the law. If neither are on your side, pound the table.

Thank you kindly.

nocturnal_traveler posted...

dominatrixes

Dominatrices?

What is the plural?

ThePieReborn posted...

Attorneys that draft like this are also the ones predisposed to pound the table.

What's that full quote that ends with pounding the table? I used to know it...

TrowaBarton7 posted...

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-covid-propaganda/

Pentagon ran secret anti-vax campaign to undermine China during pandemic

Absolutely disgusting.

Isn't shit like this how we ended up with polio in Afghanistan, too? I swear I read something about the US military causing an anti-vax movement there, too.

It was long before 2020, I'm pretty sure.

Zikten posted...

And remember, that includes children. Israel is saying all kids in Gaza are terrorists . Even babies

Never need for forget stories like this. They call the equivalent of 911 for help, get gunned down, and when paramedics come to rescue the 5-6-yo girl, they target the paramedics.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/10/middleeast/hind-rajab-death-israel-gaza-intl/index.html

R1masher posted...

Yeah, Harvard educated doesnt always mean smart

SEE ALSO: Ted Cruz

firedoom666 posted...

the lows of Obi Wan

Obi-Wan was definitely "not awful," and at least "a bit better than mid."

I didn't hate it, but I don't think it was something I ever needed, either.

Cashew or peanut. But the peanut has to be honey roasted or I just can't.

lilORANG posted...

Yeah, how else am I gonna fit them in my little microwave bowl?

Baha05 posted...

No also I microwave mine

Tell me you're still in college and just not allowed a hot plate.

SocialistGamer posted...

Is that Cpt-Pineapple's wife?

Based on his posts about her behavior, Pineapple's wife is way too horny to ever use the label "tradwife."

Mega Man 2 is 35 years old (in America) this month.

andel posted...

i am surprised she didnt slip in more antisemitism by blaming jews for killing jesus and/or blaming them for fat fuck getting convicted

She already did that one and didn't want to repeat herself.

H.R. 6090, the 2023 Awareness of Antisemitism Act, was introduced last October and passed the House by a 320-91 vote on May 1. In an X post shortly before the House vote, Greene stated her intention to vote against it, saying that the bill could convict Christians for believing the Gospel that says Jesus was handed over to Herod to be crucified by the Jews. Shes not entirely making this up, since the bill adopts the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliances definition of antisemitism, which includes claims of Jews killing Jesus as part of its definition. (For what its worth, the ACLU has also spoken out against H.R. 6090, arguing that it threatens to censor political speech which is critical of Israel.)

https://www.salon.com/2024/05/03/distorted-gospel-marjorie-taylor-greene-jesus-and-the-jews/

Unsuprised_Pika posted...

Cool: Villian who views pokemon as tools but still treats them well because they are smart enough to know a tool needs to be properly maintained to remain useful.

Just a guy who's read the evil overlord list, then?

That deserves one of the old 3KL and deletion moderations.

texanfan27 posted...

Im thinking either fake, or if real, not a real US military operation, likely a bad recount of events.

The IDF are already documented in the last six months as disguising themselves as doctors and aid workers. I wouldn't be surprised if they cosplayed as Americans at this point.