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Comment Re: A naive question (Score 1, Insightful) 364

The women's events aren't there to punish women. They're there to make it competitive for them, so men don't take all the top spots.

The top female players don't even come close in skill to the top male players. We can pretend the genders are literally equal until we're blue in the face, but that won't change biology or science.

Don't believe me? There are plenty of co-ed competitions. Look at who typically wins them. It's virtually never women.

Comment Inaccuracy (Score -1) 49

Until we can travel to a star and empirically verify the measurements of exoplanets, all of these claims should be taken with a huge grain of salt.

They're measuring things billions of miles away with nothing more than telescopes. If there's even a slight distortion in the lens, they could get diatances and sizes drastically off.

Comment Re: “Could only happen on Reddit” (Score -1) 113

Haha. As someone who started using Reddit in 2009, and saw it change from a fun, light hearted place that welcomed everyone, to a hateful far left fascist shithole that bans everyone for imagined wrongthink, seeing these idiots eat each other is delicious.

Fuck Reddit. I hope their psycho admins and mods all burn in hell. They deserve each other.

Comment Re: Seems Misguided (Score -1) 34

That seems unlikey.

Consider this. Our media's lied about every war since the Civil War. What are the odds they're telling the truth now about Russia? Not good.

Russians watch US media, including the neo-cons who have been calling for years to invade Russia and carve it up into vassal states. Dc think tanks have been planning an invasion of Russia for years. https://twitter.com/GunterFehlinger/status/162293792735648153

Whereas we generally don't watch Russian media. And we know how much our media lies to us, so I don't think it's Russia that's living in an alternate reality.

Comment Re:Seems Misguided (Score -1) 34

True, but one-sided methods, like spy satellites, aren't full proof and sometimes raise false alarms.

We came very close to nuclear war once when Russian computer mis-interpreted spy satellite imagery and falsely reported that the US had launched a single nuke. Fortunately, the Soviet officer incharge decided to ignore his orders to report any warnings because he correctly judged it to be a false alarm. If he had been a brow beaten automaton trained to strictly following his orders, and relayed the launch to his superiors, they might have decided to immediately counter-attack, starting nuclear armageddon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Soviet_nuclear_false_alarm_incident

Comment Re: Duh? (Score -1) 179

Are you joking? "My Russian way"? You mean what Ukraine's doing? They're conscripting anyone from 18 to 60 to fight.

And Ukrainians don't want to fight in this fake US proxy war, which is why millions of fighting aged men have moved to Poland or other EU states.

https://visitukraine.today/blog/1385/departure-of-men-abroad-in-2023-what-has-changed-for-military-servicemen

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