If I want anybody on PEDs, it is athletes and tier 1 operators. I want to see peak human performance and have maximum combat effectiveness. So long as their health is paramount, and they are as safe as can be with a modified biochemistry, let them take all the drugs.
PEDs tend have a lot of unintended mental and physical side effects. That adds a lot of uncertainty which I’m sure the Navy would rather avoid. Plus, as you kind of pointed out, taking these drugs is not safe and introduced health risks.
Yeah, when medically necessary steroids are rough. I’m talking shit like cancer patients fighting like teenagers at family because of the drugs that make them able to stomach food
The issue isn’t the shrunken testicles or the giant sixhead or even the roid gut
The issue is the hormonal imbalances. Which impairs judgment, results in “immature” behavior, etc.
And, let’s be honest: if a seal is in a situation where having larger muscles is going to make all the difference then the situation is already so massively fucked as to not matter.
In athletics (particularly pro wrestling), roids are a great way to more or less cut recovery time from an injury in half. For a soldier? The psychological recovery matters a lot more than the physical and giving them some time to work through their shit while they do push ups is a benefit for everyone involved. It just isn’t “manly”
Of course it was American Airlines. Whenever you read a story about an airline doing something terrible to a passenger, odds are it will be them. I stopped flying on them a decade ago after a bad experience with power tripping flight crew, and every time I see a story like this I continue to not regret that decision.
“Handing you to your Heavenly Father today is something I thought I’d never do but something you’ve been preparing me to do all along. I have peace knowing your with HIM and you are able to change so many peoples lives,” he wrote.
Change so many people’s lives? What is he talking about?
The whole acceptance of cultural differences is important, but within reasonable limits. Discrimination of any type should not be tolerated.
Another one that always bugs me is: Middle Eastern guy marries a young lady. BAD! (And it is). Indian dude living in California in the 21st century marries a lady that was chosen by his mother and her parents to be his wife (she had little say in it): That’s a cultural thing and we accept it…
Is there any law in the US mandating arranged marriages? If not, then it reinforces the freedom we have here, including the freedom to marry someone we have never met because our mother tells us to.
To those of us who grew up outside that culture it seems absurd, but to people from India living in the US who also want to maintain a connection to their culture, I won’t tell them they can’t do it. Having the government tell them who they can’t marry is just as misguided as telling them who they can marry. Your mother has a different, non-governmental influence over the decision, though.
That's more due to lack of women rights and cultural of discrimination. There is little resources and alternative for many of the women in arranged marriage. Just because cultural and societal road blocks married prevent divorce, doesn't mean it's a better.
The marriage assumptions has been debunked as linking to happiness. You should just look directly at human rights indexes and happiness survey instead.
Unless your whole ideology was people must marry, then that's a different discussion.
That’s not my understanding about how modern arranged marriages most commonly happen in the Indian community. For the most part it isn’t really that different from a blind date that your parents arranged and participate in overseeing. Many people go through several arrangements before they find someone suitable to marry. Also many people work within both the westernized system of dating and the arranged system until they find a partner. For the vast majority of modern arrangements both parties have broad latitude to back out.
Only in the most conservative and extreme households do people receive coercive pressure to marry against their will. You’ll find that more in rural India than among expatriates.
Also many men and women still prefer the arranged system as they find dating cumbersome, awkward or time consuming.
The reason you should accept other cultures is partly because of how much ignorance and presumptive reasoning your carry into you decision making process…
How often does the …senate? vote on a federal funding bill, and why does the last one expire? Why isn’t there some default level of funding for federal spending?
The house is the bigger shit show and typically writes the budget bills since the Senate will usually pass it if the house does. (Not 100% accurate , see edit) The Senate did pass their own bipartisan stopgap funding for 6 weeks, but McCarthy refused to even discuss it because it contained funding for Ukraine.
This is yet another one of those things that has no real safeguards because Congress has always passed budgets without much issue for the majority of history. There’s always negotiating, but shutting down the government has always been off the table until fairly recently.
There is a bipartisan bill being proposed to end shutdowns and just fund the government at current levels until a budget is passed. But most members of Congress don’t support it because it means they can’t use the shutdown as leverage, on either side.
So if I understand correctly, the study suggests the driving factor might well be longing for social dominance and sociopathic traits and not necessarily sexual frustration.
Kroll operates a similar business model to some of the foreign firms targeted earlier this year, offering corporate investigations and due-diligence checks, as well as advising on restructurings and insolvencies.
They must have found something that isn’t too rosy.
It's adding an additional class to the protected classes list. It probably didn't fall under any of the previous classes like race, religious beliefs, or national origins. So technically you could discriminate against them based on caste just like you can discriminate against people under the age of 40.
So I wouldn't call it pointless especially given that people from regions who face caste discrimination were the ones pushing for the law. It's not just some cheap PR stunt from a government. It might only affect a very small minority but that's exactly what these kinds of laws are supposed to do, protect a vulnerable group.
Uh… huh. What year did you graduate? Oh 20 years ago? (Hmm if you graduated in your 20s and that was 20 years ago… That would make you over 40) OK thanks. … HR don’t hire them, their education is outdated.
And if you do that over several hiring position over time you have now shown a pattern of age based discrimination.
Or, (and this is an actual thing) you find out that both people you interviewed had the exact same resume except for their age and were hired by lawyers in a class action lawsuit for age discrimination.
Additionally, Fresno is home to a large Asian-American population, particularly Hmong. Fresno was a primary destination for Hmong immigrants after they fled from Laos following the Vietnam war.
It makes sense to me that Fresno would pass this law, it probably impacts more people than we would care to admit.
They’re both pieces of shit. You shouldn’t shoot someone without a reasonable fear of your life (or arguably property) being in danger. This situation wasn’t there yet. The fuckface was just being intentionally annoying.
The Youtuber should be in jail for harassment or assault. The shooter should be taking a nice plea deal for a low amount of prison time.
You can’t just shoot someone in the middle of the mall because they’re annoying.
After watching the video of the incident, I don’t blame the driver for shooting him at all.
The “prankster” was acting really creepy and was being right up in the guys face after being asked to stop. Even after trying to walk away, the “prankster” still came right up to him, holding his phone right up to his face.
Fuck that guy. He deserved to get shot. He said he’s gonna keep making those videos, and I hope he gets shot again, but hopefully the next time is the last time.
Yeah, all the people crying about how unjustified the shooting was, would probably shit their pants if two huge guys came up to them, were physically aggressive while chasing and trying to corner them and constantly in physical contact and shoving shit in their face.
You have no idea its a couple of dickheads making a video because they think harassing innocent people is funny. For all you know you’re about to be assaulted, robbed, or worse by someone that should be in a mental health facility.
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