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Let's Talk About Bathrooms

Barbar says...

I don't think anyone is concerned about the sexual assault of children while their parents are present. The bogeyman that infects parent's minds is that the unattended child, who is naive and incredibly trusting of adults, will be taken advantage of.

I think that the entire notion of the sexual assault of children is grossly over represented in our media and our perception. I'm just saying that changing which bathroom you want the supposedly 'risky' individuals to use only changes which children you put at 'risk'. Nothing is solved.

harlequinn said:

That's only partially true. Under a certain age, about 8 or so years old, male children will invariably go to the female bathroom with their mothers, or male bathroom with their fathers. Going to the female bathroom with their mother reduces the exposure to male pedophiles (and they represent most pedophiles).

Whether or not it reduces risk of harm is doubtful since they are accompanied by a parent anyway.

If someone can confidently show with a study showing that allowing cross bathroom use won't increase anyone's risk from sexual predators (and I'm not referring to transgender or transsexual people) then that should shut down the issue pretty quick.

Let's Talk About Bathrooms

Barbar says...

There's a big point being missed by people. Transgender people already use bathrooms alongside children. Paedophiles already use bathrooms alongside children. Even if one accepts the above as a problem, what does playing musical bathrooms accomplish? We swap sons at risk for daughters at risk, and vice versa? It's nonsense.

Oregon Cop Kicks Biker in Chest

Barbar says...

Something more must have happened to injure the guy. That kick clearly didn't break his collar bone as he can be seen using both arms, even going down into a sort of push up position. Furthermore it didn't land anywhere near his ribs, so I don't see how that could have broken them.
Feel like there must be more to this story.

The difference between soccer and Aussie Football

Bernie Sanders “The View” - Full Interview

Barbar says...

Is holding arms makers accountant for crimes they didn't commit even a thing? Wouldn't this just get laughed out of the courts if they tried to implement it?

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Daily Show - Sexism on the Soccer Field

Barbar says...

I'm left wondering if this isn't maybe a case of the WNT pay being based on average pay for professional women soccer players. I would assume that the national team's pay for them would be based on that market to an extent. I suspect the pay they get from the national team is to meant cover any shortfalls incurred by missing time with their regular clubs. I'm speculating without knowing how different their regular club salaries are as compared with men.

Cartoon Donald Trump tells Stephen who started it

Barbar says...

Jeez. There are things to criticize about Trump for sure -- an abundance, even. But this is embarrassing echo chamber nonsense.

Going Interstellar - Photonic Propulsion

Barbar says...

I don't know about much of the stuff you've brought up, but they were pretty clear that the 3 day travel time was for a 100 kg capsule. They said that a shuttle would take longer (a month I think). It seems likely that this is due to increased mass, meaning that acceleration and deceleration times are included.

newtboy said:

I'm confused. They imply a 3 day trip to mars is possible, but is that at the maximum speed photonic propulsion can deliver, or do they include the acceleration and deceleration times? As I understood it, photonic propulsion can deliver extreme speeds, but only at a minimal acceleration. That means that maximum speed is much faster, but accelerating to that speed takes immensely longer, and the same goes for deceleration. Maybe they've invented a new method I've not heard of with much higher acceleration, but that's not really mentioned in the video.
They actually seem to imply they plan to use the same tech as cyclotrons, which means essentially a huge rail gun (and that's not photonic propulsion BTW, it's magnetic). Again, the amount of propulsion is miniscule, but the top speed is high with that method. Yes, you can expel matter at near speed of light, but only in tiny amounts and using huge amounts of energy.
Yes, it may take 10 minutes to achieve 30% the speed of light....with single molecules or atoms.
There are MANY reasons why we can't do this at macro sizes. Just look at the size of a cyclotron needed to accelerate an atom to those relativistic speeds. Now think about sizing that up to accelerate enough matter to move a spaceship instead of a single atom and it's likely near the size of the entire planet. We won't be building a cyclotron that size ever, nor will we likely ever shrink the accelerators to a size where they can fit inside a spaceship to shoot trillions of atoms out like a light speed gun. They are just too big and use too much power. Maybe once fusion is perfected and miniaturization also perfected it could work for interstellar travel, but never for local space travel, the acceleration levels are just too small.
Also, it seems solar sails give the same or better acceleration to the same top speeds without the impossible technology....but they don't work too well for stopping except at other stars.

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Gas Refinery Explosion In Orla, Texas

The True Story of Thanksgiving

Barbar says...

After seeing the colony freeze, go hungry, suffer plague, have it's foreign support removed, get swindled by outsiders, and eventually descend into near-anarchy, Bradford made the following entries:


All this whille no supply was heard of, neither knew they when they might expecte any. So they begane to thinke how they might raise as much torne as they could, and obtaine a beter crope then they had done, that they might not still thus languish in miserie. At length, after much debate of things, the Govr (with the advise of the cheefest amongest them) gave way that they should set corve every man for his owne perticuler, and in that regard trust to them selves; in all other things to goe on in the generall way as before. And so assigned to every family a parcell of land, according to the proportion of their number for that end, only for present use (but made no devission for inheritance), and ranged all boys and youth under some familie. This had very good success; for it made all hands very industrious, so as much more torne was planted then other waise would have bene by any means the Govr or any other could use, and saved him a great deall of trouble, and gave farr better contente. The women now wente willingly into the feild, and tooke their litle-ons with them to set torne, which before would aledg weaknes, and inabilitie; whom to have compelled would have bene thought great tiranie and oppression.

The experience that was had in this commone course and condition, tried sundrie years, and that amongst godly and sober men, may well evince the vanitie of that conceite of Platos and other.ancients, applauded by some of aater times; -that the taking away of propertie, and bringing in communitie into a comone wealth, would make them happy and $orishing; as if they were wiser then God. For this comunitie (so farr as it was) was found to breed much confusion and discontent, and retard much imployment that would have been to their benefite and comforte. For the yong-men that were most able and fitte for labour and servise did repine that they should spend their time and streingth to worke for other mens wives and children, with out any recompence. The strong, or man of parts, had no more in devission of victails and cloaths, then he that was weake and not able to doe a quarter the other could; this was thought injuestice. The aged and graver men to be ranked and equalised in labours, and victails, cloaths, etc., with the meaner and yonger sorte, thought it some indignite and disrespect unto them. And for mens wives to be commanded to doe servise for other men, as dresing their meate, washing their cloaths, etc., they deemd it a kind of slaverie, neither could many husbands well brooke it. Upon the poynte all being to have alike, and all to doe alike, they thought them selves in the like condition, and ove as good as another; and so, if it did not cut of those relations that God hath set amongest men, yet it did at least much diminish and take of the mutuall respects that should be preserved amongst them. And would have bene worse if they had been men of another condition. Let pone objecte this is mens corruption, and nothing to the course it selfe. I answer, seeing all men have this corruption in them, God in his wisdome saw another course fiter for them.

The True Story of Thanksgiving

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