Across all sports the US has over 3 times china’s all time medal totals in both summer and winter games. Not even having double is a pretty significant underperformance.
Maybe we should conclude gun culture makes a nation better at track and field because people get more practice running away 😂
Yeah fuck suicidal people and anyone killed by cops they had it coming. Jesus christ.
As for “justifiable homicide”, you mean like… when the other guy had a gun… You want to discount those deaths why?
If we take your number at face value. This is kind of a trolley problem thing right. Should 99 people get to have a nice day out at the range once a month, which they could easily replace with any other leisure activity, if it means one person has to die violently. If you honestly like those odds then fair play mad max.
You missed the point. Saying that calling it “fun” is problematic doesn’t imply that you can’t have fun, of course you can (I have, a tonne). I assume the above comment called it problematic because they weighed the “fun” of gun owners against 40k dead Americans a year and decided maybe we shouldn’t be focusing on the entertainment.
You can absolutely have more gun control and not really inhibit firearm sports or hunting BTW. The USA ought to have a monopoly on Olympic shooting medals if that weren’t the case 😅
Not wanting to to call the private ownership of deadly weapons fun is hardly “intense”. Of anything it undersells the point.
Speaking as someone who enjoyed regular target rifle practice and competitions for the best part of a decade since you insist that matters.
Obviously everyone knows there are costs. It’s free (at the point of use) but almost noone needs the brackets to be explicit. The point being that it’s more efficient and you continue to get it even if you have no “gross income” because we’re not monsters.
Also how many countries have a “fixed percentage” with literally no allowances or brackets. I can’t think of any.
I’m sure someone did that in a game already. Feel like we’ve moved away from the 4th wall breaking with modern (at least triple A) games sadly, they take themselves too seriously. 'Member when sonic used to tap his foot if you put your controller down for a snack?
Most games tackle it by making reincarnation a special trait of the protagonist, but yeah punishing difficult inherently kills story. You can’t be immersed in a cut scene you’re being forced to skip through for the 14th time. What’s the motivation of any of your enemies? The stakes are so low, you’ll just be back again ad infinitum. They’d be better fleeing or negotiating.
You can have dark fantasy with actual characters and plot and world building though. I don’t know how you can ever believe anyone’s motivation or develop any emotional response to any of the characters in elden ring (jar bairn probably gets closest for me). It feels as if no two NPCs ever actually interact. A world where noone can die so they’re willing to eternally throw themselves at anything that moves isn’t very compelling/believable. It’s basically just grimdark skinned super Mario world: level, boss, onto the next one. Which is fine for what it is, but if you prefer story driven/RPG gaming you wouldn’t miss much by skipping it.
Isn’t the biggest risk that you can’t shift your weight enough in emergency braking? The stopping distance must be horrible.
Yeah but how many users are actually that brave/stupid? 100kph feels FAST on a motorbike, I can’t imagine how it feels on one of these 😬
Am actually really interested in the safety stats. Would guess on those things you aren’t doing more than 40, so probably not too bad for rider vs e.g. motorbikes where the temptation is to crazy speeds. And with it being smaller/lighter than a car it’s clearly safer for pedestrians and other vehicles.
If the story was about peer review it would probably be more believable. No way a professor does that to a fee paying student less still admits it to them. But do it to a competing prof where they are anonymous… Much more tempting.
H in whale in our house. Grrr
Nah this is just whataboutism. We all agree that the highest severity issues are access to heathcare/nutrition/sanitation/education in developing countries or among the homeless etc. That doesn’t mean we are suddenly not allowed to talk about anything else.
Do you do this in real life?
Colleague: “hey did you catch the game this weekend, boy I hate being a jets fan”
Blarghly: “that’s rather gauche, don’t you know there’s major food insecurity in sudan”
It has the intellectual weight of a parent trying to cajole their toddler into eating.
Yeah, again this is just semantics, a 401k in British English is 100% a pension. A UK defined contribution “workplace pension” is just a tax sheltered retirement account until it is annuitized, which is common and sensible but not necessary. The annuity is technically a totally different product, offered by life insurance companies (who interestingly with reference to above conversation would typically hold very little equity exposure backing it). Brits also call the equivalent to the social security retirement benefit the “state pension”. It’s a catch all for assets you use in retirement. Whether that’s used to fund an investment drawdown product or a life annuity or just taken out and splurged on a Ferrari makes no difference.
About half of the US population is enrolled in a pension even today…
Not true of UK defined contribution, you can do what you want just like a 401k, though it may be disadvantagous for tax purposes.
It’s pretty normal in British English to use pension as a synonym for retirement account, though I can see why you don’t like that.
I’ve seen that said, yet there are no stills from said movie, just this one photo. No comment anywhere from the people behind the movie, who would surely love the viral advertising.
My love life involves a lot of choking the chicken too.
Isn’t “intelligence” so ill defined we can’t prove it either way. All we have is models doing better on benchmarks and everyone shrieking “look emergent intelligence”.
I disagree a bit on “toys”. Machine summarization and translation is really quite powerful, but yeah that’s a ways short of the claims that are being made.