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JK Rowling falls silent as she could be prosecuted in Imane Khelif lawsuit
  • In combat sports there's a lot of derision for women who look too strong. Instead of complementing their training regiment and dedicated they get called ugly and a man all the damn time.

    On the other end usually those same trolls will call women who train and still look feminine to be gold diggers training with so many men, that's for posting pictures of themselves training, making weight etc. And send them dm's offering money to be choked out.

  • JK Rowling falls silent as she could be prosecuted in Imane Khelif lawsuit
  • There's literally no information available to state she is intersex. This was put forward last year without any evidence by the IBA, run by a Russian puppet, 3 days after she defeated a Russian boxer. This federation had been under scrutiny since 2019 exactly because of corruption.

    I'm all for being careful when talking about this and I'm not ascribing ill intent towards you. Just try to not repeat this base less propaganda that she's intersex, has xy chromosomes or something.

    Personally I find this entire thing seems to be now supported and kept alive by people and organisations who want women to look and act a certain way, and any woman who deviates is not considered a real woman. And since I personally train a combat sport, and most of my women friends who compete also look strong, muscled and often like shaving at least parts of their hair off, they tend to look similar to Khelif. It'd be ridiculous to question if they are women, most of them already have kids fcol.

  • This is good stuff
  • I don't mean to give you unrequested advice so apologies if I come across as dismissive of your experience. I just feel like I can add some points that people in your situation might benefit from.

    And that is to not chase love in itself. I found that as I got older I also accepted that I would grow old without a romantic relationship. Though I did invest time in my friendship relationships, and that did work.

    While being somewhat saddened by it, I accepted that the chances of me finding love through dating apps was low, in particular because I don't want to have kids, which obviously is a deal-breaker for many people. So my approach there was to just try to enjoy the moment without expectations and without judgement. If I got a match I'd try to have a fun conversation, if it was fun I'd try to set up a date, and if that was fun I'd keep it going. Just going for having an enjoyable time at that moment without expectations. It made even the dates that weren't going anywhere long term enjoyable experiences, with the occasional opportunity for physical intimacy with someone who was on the same page about expectations. I could have lived like that but just got plain lucky this year I think. For me it still feels amazing to have happened so I'm not going to type lies and say it will happen for everyone. But I went into this relationship with no expectations either so regardless of what happens in the future I will treasure what is happening now, as I'm a relationship with the most amazing woman who adores aspects of me that would often be things other dates told me made me seem immature and obsessive.

    So, you and people that relate to you, I genuinely wish you happiness and good things. In all aspects of life. But please don't give up on meeting new people if you can, you might make someone else happy just by existing. Or if not you could at least give them a nice date.

  • Men, are you physically affectionate with other male friends? (eg, hugging, snuggling, playful wrestling, etc). If you aren't, do you wish it was more socially acceptable if it isn't in your culture?
  • I do more than playfully wrestle with my friends. As I do BJJ. I actively try to choke them out or try to break their limbs or try to tear their ligaments apart. It's very fun for all. Though while it's open to anyone I do get most people wouldn't enjoy it. It's personally physical to the extreme since on top of the close physical contact you're also sweating all over each other to the point sweat dripping in your eyes or mouth will statistically happen at least once.

    Honestly if you feel like you miss playful fighting with friends, do a trial class of it.

  • New dishwasher video drop
  • The previous videos were too long for anyone who doesn't want to obsess about this. And this one is more pragmatic about your detergent of choice and thus more palatable for people who aren't already fans of his.

    It's also takes him less time to make videos like this according to the messages on his patreon.

    Personally I'm a fan of him remaking some videos like this. I can get my family to watch this a lot easier.

  • LAN party from 2003
  • It would depend on the event hall. If it was in a warehouse like hall and in spring or fall, sure you'd keep your shirt on.

    If it was in a event hall with a lower ceiling, carpet on the floor and just some form of insulation it'd get crazy hot really fast. Because on top of thousands of PC's there'd be thousands of people too. In summer it'd be even crazier. I definitely remember going shirtless at some of those lans.

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  • Remember that violent protests were used in Europe to establish our rights. It's incredibly weird looking to the US from the outside. You have the right to bear arms, specifically to oppose tyranny, yet nobody seems to do so.

  • Can’t stand it when they do that
  • I tend to avoid grocery stores who do that. But in Belgium at least it's a known strategy that half the grocery stores use to make you spend more time looking for stuff.

    Luckily there's also a store that avoids it because they want to save time of their employees and customers. So if use their app to make your list and select the location you're going to, the app will arrange your list to be in the order you encounter everything if you follow the lines on the floor.

  • 2024 Chinese Grand Prix - [SPRINT] discussion thread
  • While complaining at the start that the car is not working perfectly and working to improve it to a race winning config with his race engineer. Both Hamilton and Norris collapsed under pressure, but Max is consistently pumping out high performance.

    It really still amazes me that none of the other drivers can come close.

  • "Twy Edge Pwetty Pwease"
  • It does actually ask you if you want to sync those files if you're installing it on W10. It's a bit opaque in explaining the consequences in the simple wizard that allows you to enable or disable it by slider, but that's why it's a wizard.

    People who say it doesn't probably just clicked next, next, next... Had a user complain about it too. Than a month later when we replaced his laptop with a W11 he was quite happy with it.

    It definitely has a very positive use case for the large majority of users.

  • Winner of the Bahrain GP
  • Resisting the team call was dumb, imo, but that's ofcourse debatable. I don't agree with your perspective but I think it's valid and not that weird.

    The part I'm referring to as a bad look if he wants to switch teams is him dive-bombing and brake checking his teammate after the race had ended. No team will want anything to do with that.

  • High energy prices direct us to lowest energy usage since 1995[nl]

    Interesting to see it really seems like everyone across the board used less and less energy.

    What did you all change? Any specific tools or tricks?

    Personally I didn't even change my heating level but just used the timers a lot more with sharper cutoffs. And I did use smart plugs between my media appliances and my pc to make sure they are off when I leave the house, as well as being less casual about turning off the lights in rooms that I'm not in. Compared to 2019 (so before more WFH) that's like a 20% savings on gas, and 15% on electricity for me.

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    's Nachts, dronken of op een kruispunt? Bijna 1.800 ongevallen met gewonden met e-steps

    "Vias analyseerde 100 pv's van ongevallen met gewonden in Brussel (2020). Het aantal ongevallen met elektrische step verviervoudigde, van 409 in 2020 naar 1.748 in 2022. Zowel in 2021 als in 2022 waren er vier doden bij de gebruikers."

    Translated intro: Vias analyzed 100 PVs of accidents with injuries in Brussels (2020). The number of accidents involving electric scooters quadrupled, from 409 in 2020 to 1,748 in 2022. There were four fatalities among users in both 2021 and 2022.

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    Fryday Friday

    It's friday already so let's start discussing something that hasn't been done here and discuss a couple of important questions. (or whatever else you want it's the chat topic after all)

    • What day is the correct day to eat fries from the frituur and why is it friday.
    • What do you order at the frituur?
    • Why are people who use frikandel weird and people who say lange hamburger clinically insane? Civilized folk use curryworst after all.
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    Do I push through the main quest or complete a lot of sidequests in D4

    I know it's most likely a beginner question but it's what I am I suppose.

    For extra context, I generally have about 6-10 hours to spend to game per week and I find I do enjoy the main quest but after spending a couple days only doing that it feels like I'm missing out by ignoring some of the side quests.

    I only have 1 charachter so far and it's lvl35 at around the start of ACT2.

    Will I lose out on powerlevel if I just try to get through the main quest first for now and look into doing sidequests afterwards? Am I making my life harder if I do sidequests first?

    Right now I think I would like to be able to participate in the seasonal with a new class to try out, since it is still an expensive game and I want to feel like I experience more than just one class.

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    Rock Werchter 2023

    So who else is going. I'm too old to meet up with strangers. I used to be with it, but than they changed what it is. It'll happen to you!

    What are you going to see and what gem do you recommend?

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