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by magduf 7y ago
Women can be just as athletic as men, and can easily beat them in many sports. It just depends on the sport. If the sport requires upper-body strength, forget it: men will always have a huge advantage here. But if upper-body strength is
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by magduf 7y ago
I'd have to disagree about IKEA actually; IKEA is where you go if you want to get the most bang for your buck with furniture without buying it used. So I imagine it's probably the one part of the furniture industry that has the m
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by magduf 7y ago
Wow, this is some really biased observation on your part. This is anecdotal too, but in my experience women spend FAR more money on unnecessary stuff than men. Here's many examples: - donations to churches - designer clothes - luxu
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by magduf 7y ago
It is interesting that California, being an extremely "blue" state (along with Washington to a slightly lesser extent), chooses to retain this antiquated artifact of the days when it was a Spanish colony. And why would Wisconsin c
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by magduf 7y ago
While that's most likely true, it only accounts for a very small amount of the gender imbalance. In reality, men simply choose to commit violent crimes, or get involved in violent criminal careers, far more often than women.
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by magduf 7y ago
Yep, you "need" a lot less money when you don't have someone insisting that you buy her a diamond ring, a BMW, designer clothes, a big house, maid service, give 10% of your income to some church, etc.
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by magduf 7y ago
I've seen a few too many women where they honestly are better off when they don't have a male romantic partner: the men they choose end up being a burden to them. For younger women, it's because they keep choosing men who ju
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by magduf 7y ago
Not only that, but in some suburban houses, they even turn the basement into a separate apartment and rent it out after the kids have left the house.
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by magduf 7y ago
I actually do have a bunch of shirts from Uniqlo. The problem, however, is while they mostly fit nicely (i.e., they aren't designed for fat people), they're not quite long enough for me, so they frequently become untucked. Their
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by magduf 7y ago
I'm 6' tall and I have trouble many times finding shirts to fit these days, because they seem to be cut for fatter men than myself (I'm rather thin). Most shirts and other tops seem to be really baggy to me.
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by magduf 7y ago
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S87557...
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by magduf 7y ago
One problem I see with this is your example of nurses. Women went into nursing in the past frequently because it was open to them, and being a doctor wasn't. That's changed, and now the only reason to be a nurse is because the e
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by magduf 7y ago
>the bias in the divorce process That one you can probably place the blame squarely on the conservatives for. That bias made some sense back in the old days when women couldn't possibly hope to get a job that paid anywhere near wha
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by magduf 7y ago
Yes, and even so there's still more women. Basically, men get killed off early.
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by magduf 7y ago
>There were consequences for that through - partner who hate each other, violence, abuse (verbal, emotional, physical). Alcoholism. Yeah, the people who pine for the "good old days" when people married for life always leave thi
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by magduf 7y ago
Exactly: this is what I've found with my younger coworkers. I played video games a lot when I was young, but it wasn't that much of a social thing because the internet wasn't commonly available (we had BBSes) and the games w
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by magduf 7y ago
>perhaps in ways that men are expected to seem "confident" or "strong" or "independent" which I think can be stiffing. Yep, and women demand this too: many women's dating profiles talk about how they wa
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by magduf 7y ago
24 bits gives you more headroom to work with, making mastering easier. It also quells any concerns about 16 bits being insufficient. As for "waste of space", the simple fact is that we don't have a shortage of space when yo
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by magduf 7y ago
The noisy things you're complaining about are mostly an American phenomenon.
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by magduf 7y ago
It's absolutely not. These calls for relying on renewables are pure fantasy; the storage technology doesn't exist yet, so you can't build a reliable power grid based on something that isn't in existence. It's just
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by magduf 7y ago
To illustrate the problems with optical sensors. What happens when the headlights fail, or if one of them fails, or if a bunch of snow or ice builds up in front of them? I also addressed some of the problems with relying on headlights at t
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by magduf 7y ago
>What I would prefer to see is a LiDAR/RADAR combination. When both systems rely on "photons" you suffer the same inherited weaknesses of both. i.e. fog Fog isn't the only problem with relying on ambient photos. &quo
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by magduf 7y ago
Why is that a problem? We can still understand all the writings on ancient Roman buildings without any trouble. And it isn't too hard to make pictograms showing that something is dangerous and radioactive. We put some effort into uni
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by magduf 7y ago
It seems like the answer is to simply outsource it to the French. Pay them to build and operate nuclear plants in Germany.
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The French seem to have handled nuclear technology quite well for many decades now.
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by magduf 7y ago
So you think it's better to have massive quantities of CO2 and various pollutants (including radioactive ones) pumped into the atmosphere? How exactly is that better than a few buckets of nuclear waste?
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That's pretty irrelevant. Fission and fusion are two totally separate processes. Fission is a process used in nuclear power plants to provide many gigawatts of power to electric grids. Fusion is something that's only used for s
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by magduf 7y ago
Expensive compared to what? Are you comparing the full costs of coal plants to nuclear, or are you just externalizing the costs as most comparisons do? The costs of coal need to include all the effects of coal emissions into the atmospher
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by magduf 7y ago
And a visit from the Vulcans.
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by magduf 7y ago
A warranty is utterly worthless if there's no company to back it up. Would you trust a brand-new company to be around for 10 years if they offered a warranty that long? For cars, at least, "discounted" repairs are pretty muc

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