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That's a really good point - especially because soccer in the US is more popular among girls. Less so now, but traditionally more women played soccer in highschool/college than men - who were more drawn to basketball/baseball/football. I was just talking about mens soccer, but womens is a great example.

Tbf I don't think there should be mens leagues. Just an open league. So i don't entirely disagree. But regardless that is supposed to be the point of having separate leagues.

Gender segregation is usually done to encourage less dominant groups in sports. Like chess, for instance (good comparison to video games).

Women have higher avg IQ than men. Sex based physiological differences have zero impact. Women are in theory just as good as men at chess.

In practice, women do not perform well at chess compared to men in high level competitive play. Why? Fewer women play chess because of sociological/cultural reasons, therefore by the law of large numbers we don't yet have a Magnussy Carlsen.

The solution? Create womens leagues where they can compete against other women in the game and see more success.

Another example is football (soccer), but between countries. American atheletes have dominated a great many sports at various times - basketball, american football, track and field, swimming, tennis. Why has the USA never won the world cup? Relatively few Americans play football compared to other countries, so the talent pool is smaller and the USA doesn't have major global talents like other countries do. The answer? Build the domestic competitive infrastructure needed to produce talent. If the US does this, eventually it will not suck at football because the talent pool will be larger and it will have global talents.

Similarly, if womens chess leagues continue to gain traction, inspire more women to play chess, increase the size of the talent pool, then eventually womens leagues won't be necessary - the talent pools between genders will homogenize.

Additionally, in times when the crops required less care (so not planting or harvesting) peasants were required by their lords to do various amounts of labor. Like "build X feet of fences per year, mend Y feet of fences, serve Z days of conscripted labor", etc.

So on the one hand, peasants weren't ruled by the tyranny of the clock like we are, but on the other: work still had to get done, was much less efficient than today (bc technology), and was often unpaid

First mention by hhhhwhite people was in 1869, apparently. But mentioned in chinese texts as early as like 2000 years ago

I was there once. Some old white dude in flip flops told me about how 1) aliens made this with cold lasers (because no burn marks on the rock/they aren't melted) and/or gave humans the technology to make it, 2) he's psychic and has prophetic dreams - particularly he predicted a bunch of natural disasters, he said.

Either way, yep those rocks fit together really tightly; it's neat.

This isn't just murders against women, btw, it is murders against women because of their gender. So a hate crime against women.

Life sentences in italy are indeterminate in length, but typically 15-30 years. After 10 years they may be allowed to work outside the prison during the day. Conditional release after 26 years.

And make your kids help with stuff regardless of gender. So many people grow up without basic life skills bc parents didn't involve them in activities regardless of the gender-coded-ness of those activities.

No it's: D U M M Y W I T H O U T W H Y

Don't jump to conclusions just yet. Epstein had lots of ties to people. Not all of them are pedos. Look at the actual correspondence they had, there isn't anything incriminating except the mere association with him.

And additionally, looking at the emails he actually sent and received from Epstein, they seem totally innocuous. Until I see actual evidence of wrongdoing, I'm going to withhold judgement. None about anything untoward, just literally stuff about politics and linguistics. Chomsky seemed to be corresponding with a similar rushed tone like he does in other correspondence - man answers a lot of emails.

By contrast, Trump has many accounts of sexual harrassment and assault perpetrated by him, lots of circumstantial evidence tying him to the shady side of Epstein's dealings, emails about him blowing bubba, etc.

My wife is on the ace spectrum. She enjoys sex, but only experiences reactive sexual desire (i.e. she'll get in the mood once sex is basically already happening). Effectively she does not experience sexual desire in the way people typically mean that.

That's been a struggle for us. We don't do scheduled sex, but it's something we've considered. Even though we have very good (if infrequent) sex, the frequency isn't the thing that's hard for me to deal with. The hardest thing is not feeling desired in ways I am used to in relationships. That has made me feel insecure and just overall is not great. But it's something we've had to work through.

So all that goes to say: yes, if you find the right person you'll be able to make it work. The key, in my opinion, is talking about it and being very clear about how you're wired and that it isn't anything wrong with them.

Well sure. CEOs' main job is to coordinate the functions of major business units with the wishes of shareholders/the board of directors. Ultimately they're a middleman on the hook for the results of the business without actual direct control of day to day operations.

Effectively that means they give broad goals and direction to named execs, who translate those goals into actions for their organizations, that middle managers direct their teams to achieve. Then middle managers report success/failure to named execs, who report back to the CEO who (in conjunction with the other named execs) reports success/failure to shareholders & the board along with financial results.

The execs all are basically on the hook for the results of the decisions made by those below them, but they only decide the broad strokes of the actions of the business.

LLMs could do most of that. The only problem is they can't really make decisions properly. But they could pretty easily turn what is said by the board & shareholders into goals for others to enact - and maybe determine if actions taken by the business support the goals to some degree.

That is like 80% of the job of a CEO.

You can in libreoffice draw for sure.

"A borgor republic is a country with an economy of the best type of capitalism, where the country is operated as a private commercial enterprise for the exclusive profit of the job creators. Typically, a borgor republic has a 100% meritocratic society, usually a lot of lazy welfare queens looking for handouts and a ruling class of brilliant, innovative job creators and democratically elected politicians selflessly carrying out the will of the people."

US does mulled wine, but it's more of a general winter thing. More common up north in areas with more northern european influence, I think. Mince pies aren't really a thing, though, which is a shame.

Sounds like he wants a hush money payment. We'll see how it works out for him...

I really like Hendrick's (but it's expensive and not Canadian). I've seen. Sheringham Seaside & Empress recommended before - those are both Canadian.

One note, gin is literally just vodka flavored with botanicals. So if you figure out what flavors you do and don't like, you can make your own to-taste.

Example:

https://www.thepauperedchef.com/article/homemade-compound-gin-no-bathtub-required

        750 ml Vodka
    2 tablespoons juniper berries
    1 teaspoon coriander seed
    4 allspice berries
    1/4 teaspoon fennel seed
    3 green cardamom pods
    3 black peppercorns
    1 bay leaf
    1 long orange peel
  

很酷！很多的人也很多的我的朋友 from my hometown & childhood 和你一样来自中国。我喜欢能看到 the etymology in a 汉字。

I wish 我的中文是足够好 to understand 中文 TV. 老师小猪佩奇不是有趣的。

我正在学习中文。中文很难！

I took a break from learning Chinese for a while due to personal stuff being busy and am trying to get back into it. Chinese is a very logical language, I think, and learning it is fun and interesting but challenging. I was just about HSK1 level, I think, before I stopped. I gotta boot up peppa pig in mandarin again - 你好小猪佩奇老师，我是你的学生！