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ChonkyOwlbear ,

Maybe they will have an upgraded version with a large rubber nose and a moustache.

ChonkyOwlbear ,

All five of the facilities that were closed and 4 of 5 still operating are in mostly or totally red parts of the state. It’s not Democrats working at those facilities and abusing the kids. It is Democrats working to reform or entirely eliminate the system.

ChonkyOwlbear ,

The juvenile system was split off from the department of corrections in 2006 as a step to reform the system. The state has made extensive rules that the local operators have failed to follow. Four facilities were closed because they operated in an unacceptable manner. Plenty of other states have similar problems with juvenile detainees. We are actually trying to fix the problem.

ChonkyOwlbear ,

San Francisco has increased the number of shelter beds and permanent supportive housing units by more than 50% over the past six years.

Read the article before commenting next time.

ChonkyOwlbear ,

You skipped the “and permanent housing units” part of my comment. Shelters are a step to getting off the street. They give homeless access to information and resources to improve their position. It is in no way “ignoring the problem” like you claim. Short of singlehandedly solving poverty, what do you expect a mayor to do?

For the first time in my life, I have hit my deductible AND reached my out-of-pocket maximum. I now have three months of actual free healthcare, which is unheard of in the US. What should I get done?

Biologically male procedures only. EDIT: If the two people who downvoted this question could explain their reasoning, I would be super interested. No judgements. This is a safe space!

ChonkyOwlbear , (edited )

Vasectomy if you don’t plan on having kids. Also consider mental healthcare. Everybody could use a little bit now and then.

Elon Musk didn’t show up for testimony in a probe over his $44 billion Twitter takeover. Now the SEC wants sanctions (www.cnn.com)

The Securities and Exchange Commission intends to seek sanctions against Elon Musk over his failure to appear for testimony in an investigation related to his takeover of Twitter, now called X, the regulator said in a court filing Friday....

ChonkyOwlbear ,

Lock him up for contempt of court until he testifies.

ChonkyOwlbear ,

It is not unusual in alimony or child support cases for someone who refuses to pay what they owe to be locked up for contempt. It is a way of compelling obedience to the law in civil cases.

ChonkyOwlbear ,

It’s got Freedom in the name. It must be good!

ChonkyOwlbear ,

It doesn’t matter if half the country wants something if it is unconstitutional.

ChonkyOwlbear ,

They have enabled all sorts of unconstitutional things in the last few years, so I don’t expect them to stop. Doesn’t mean it’s not unconstitutional.

ChonkyOwlbear ,

Sounds like the company needs to be forced to pay for full time government employees who supervise the company to insure compliance.

ChonkyOwlbear ,

Absolutely agree, but at some point there will still be someone reporting expenses to the government and that needs to be trustworthy info.

ChonkyOwlbear ,

In other words, he not only failed to challenge the core of Covid ideology—that other human beings are pathogenic so we need to restrict our freedoms and isolate—but used his social media presence, such as it was, to urge others to accept all the dominant lies by the government. He bought the Covid and lockdown ideology and broadcasted it. He seems to have no regrets.

The author is a plague rat who thinks libertarianism means being able to harm others with impunity. Don’t waste time on this trash.

ChonkyOwlbear , (edited )

Speeding isn’t a crime, it’s an infraction. If speeding is a crime then everyone is a criminal. It’s not like he held up a gas station.

ChonkyOwlbear ,

I think it’s considered center left based on US politics. Our Overton window has shifted pretty far. The Swiss have universal healthcare and strict gun control. That can’t be right by US standards.

ChonkyOwlbear ,

As much as it sounds like you don’t like what you have, it’s still better than the US.

ChonkyOwlbear ,

They clearly list the methodology they use on their website.

ChonkyOwlbear , (edited )

Gross Geneva monthly minimum wage is CHF 4426 or $4,940 according to a quick Google. In the US it’s $1,330.

Edit. Even the highest US local minimum wage of $17 an hour is $2,992 a month.

ChonkyOwlbear ,

In Switzerland, patients pay up to 8% of their personal income towards the cost of a basic insurance plan. If their premiums work out to more than 8% of their income, the government provides a cash subsidy to cover the difference.

www.internationalinsurance.com/…/switzerland.php

My point in this whole thing is that everyone in Switzerland has healthcare and that healthcare is subsidized to be more affordable than in the US. That would be a left wing program here.

ChonkyOwlbear ,

There is a whole lot more to it than that. You can read it here.

mediabiasfactcheck.com/methodology/

ChonkyOwlbear ,

The rubric is literally right below what you quoted

The categories are as follows:

  1. Biased Wording/Headlines- Does the source use loaded words to convey emotion to sway the reader. Do headlines match the story?
  2. Factual/Sourcing- Does the source report factually and back up claims with well-sourced evidence.
  3. Story Choices: Does the source report news from both sides, or do they only publish one side.
  4. Political Affiliation: How strongly does the source endorse a particular political ideology? Who do the owners support or donate to?

Just because it is a qualitative and not a quantitative assessment doesn’t mean it’s arbitrary.

ChonkyOwlbear ,

All of that is irrelevant to my point that your right wing government has policies that would be far left in the US

ChonkyOwlbear ,

Or a James Earl Jones. I’m not picky.

ChonkyOwlbear ,

I absolutely agree with the thesis that both men and women hunted, but I think the claims of women’s superior endurance are not represented in reality. The fastest marathon time for men is 2 hours 1 minute and for women it is 2 hours 14 minutes. These were in 2023 and 2019 respectively, so it’s not like it was years ago with drastically different treatment of the sexes. Both runners were Kenyans too, so that limits non-sex based biological differences.

I don’t buy that it is socialization. For one thing, the difference disappears in sports like shooting and horseback riding where physicality is not the determining factor. On top of that, when children compete at sports there are negligible performance differences until after puberty. The article mentions the record a woman holds for swimming across the English Channel. I think that women’s higher body fat provides buoyancy that massively reduces the energy required to stay afloat for a prolonged time. We don’t see the same supposed superiority in other endurance events.

This link touches on many of the same topics as the main article and adds some more info.

bbc.com/…/20240731-the-sports-where-women-outperf…

ChonkyOwlbear ,

How does it not? Running 26 miles takes endurance and running it fast takes even more endurance.

ChonkyOwlbear ,

Right. Even with persistence hunting, I doubt our ancestors were going 50+ miles chasing prey.

ChonkyOwlbear ,

That is definitely impressive stamina. An Olympic marathoner can average 12mph for around 2 hours and an “average” marathoner does 8mph, but that is on a road or track. Savannah is one of the few terrains where you could approach those speeds. I would believe they could go 50 miles on a hunt. Trying to run far in sand or snow, through heavy vegetation, or up and down mountains drastically increases the energy it takes (and the max distance and speed you are capable of). That’s a whole other thing.

ChonkyOwlbear ,

Longer stride length also equals a heavier body weight to move. I’m sure there’s some sort of graph where the vertex represents the most efficient combination of those factors.

ChonkyOwlbear ,

That set is inclusive of every official marathon ever ran, so no it is not a single sample. We see consistently that the women’s record always is slower than the men’s record.

ChonkyOwlbear ,

Most marathon runners have a lower body fat than is considered medically healthy and their toe nails pop off during the race, so we are already 2/3 of the way there.

ChonkyOwlbear ,

There have been several people, men and women who run a marathon every day for months or even years on end. In that sense there is no upper limit, but those people almost certainly all have a genetic mutation which most people don’t that prevents lactic acid buildup.

ChonkyOwlbear ,

That’s the thing, they is no profit motive to block wide swaths of public viewpoint because that will cost them customers. They will quickly lose business to a competitor who doesn’t do that. (Local monopolies aside, which is an entirely different problem).

ChonkyOwlbear ,

Dictatorships don’t answer to the people. It’s absolutely a problem that billionaires are controlling the flow of information, but it’s much worse for a dictator to do it.

ChonkyOwlbear ,

That’s better than a dictator who only wants to protect his own power. At least a billionaire can be bought.

ChonkyOwlbear ,

A billionaire chases what gets them the most money. The public can manipulate them by making them lose money. A dictator wants power, which really can only be countered with mass violence.

ChonkyOwlbear ,

Because the orange Cheeto wants to cut his taxes so he gets more money. Dictators want power, not money. That’s why they are famous for blowing it on such exorbitant things. It’s just a means to an end. To billionaires the money is the end.

ChonkyOwlbear ,

Dictators do things like build and use rape rooms or throw people they don’t like out of helicopters.

ChonkyOwlbear ,

They have monopolies because we let them. I say nationalize all communication infrastructure.

ChonkyOwlbear ,

I think there is a difference in mentality between people who chase power and people who chase money. Bull Gates certainly chases money, but he’s not trying to take over a country somewhere.

ChonkyOwlbear ,

Are you saying he is trying to take over the country by buying all the land? Seems like he’s just using land as an investment.

ChonkyOwlbear ,

Starlink launched in Africa in 2023, so that covers a few oppressive governments.

ChonkyOwlbear ,

Musk could easily buy himself a governorship or a senatorial position and work up from there. That’s not his goal. He wants to be the next Thomas Edison. He wants to be admired and remembered.

Dictator’s opulent displays of wealth are to stoke their egos. They don’t care about the money they spend because they just took it, they didn’t earn it. They care about how much control they have over the people around them. They don’t care if people like them ,only that they fear them.

ChonkyOwlbear ,

Even with all the losses, he is still the richest man in the world by more than $50 billion. Musk dumped more than half of his Tesla stock and is focusing more on SpaceX now.

ChonkyOwlbear ,

My point is that he didn’t lose a significant amount of money.

ChonkyOwlbear ,

If you are running in the Olympics, it doesn’t matter if the 2nd place guy is 5 seconds or 10 seconds behind you. You still get the gold.

ChonkyOwlbear ,

Owning land is not the same as governing land.

ChonkyOwlbear ,

I’m more worried about billionaires who have literal armies like Erik Prince.

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