You might not have to pay $.02 in taxes every year to accommodate transgender prisoners, but at least egg prices are down…right?
…right?
Oh my God. Eggs are expensive because people aren’t buying them!
Ye olde inverted supply and demand, just like my econ professor taught me
Idk what could possibly be causing a supply problem, all the chickens in the country are as healthy as can be.
The DOGE said so.
You… You mean they lied?!
Fake. CEO’s aight choosing shit. They’re going to Paris and Barcelona
Holy shit, insulin is ~$98 on average over there!?
That is literally the most expensive place to buy insulin on this planet.
Most countries have insulin available for ~1/5th that price or less, with many selling it for less than 1/10th of the US price.I knew it was bad over there but that’s fucking atrocious.
At least you’re more free over there than anywhere else though, right?
Right?It’s absurdly actually come down significantly in the US since 2021.
That $98 is a major improvement.
Probably not staying at that price for much longer.
Freedumb pretty much. It is a great study how to keep people divided while the wealthy extract all the money. Greed begets greed, look at the richest man on earth. It is never enough.
Now the plan is to make everyone else poor. Taxes go up for the poor down for the rich while inflation gobbles up any increase in salary. Union bad. Privatise good. This message is several decades old now.
Yeah I mean where else can you fuck your employees this hard and purchase a job gutting the government
yeahhhhh… hasanabi was right, targeting trans sports was the easiest and dirtiest way to bring transphobia to the normies. people that don’t even give a shit about politics and don’t think about trans people one way or another can say “well at least sports are fair now”
Trans sports is where the boundaries between what people do with their own body is crossed into interaction with others. This is why it has become the favorite point to attack for conservatives.
They’re cool with school shootings, though.
That’s the perfect way to explain this
Never seen Serena Williams play badminton?Wrong comment
Badminton is criminally underrated
It might have better PR if they renamed it to “Goodminton.”
Double Plus Goodminton
Lmao, this is new to me!! Sending to my friends…
I prefer squash.
pfft, squash has nothing on pumpkin
Only at the end of October.
Squash is good too. I actually played quite a bit when I was young. But imo nothing compares to the feeling of defending smash successfully esp. multiple times in a row.
It might have something to do with me sucking at badminton, but squash seems easier to hit the thing. Even if it’s a little more intensive cardio wise.
I can’t not shill my favourite sport though now. Rock climbing. Mostly indoor sport or bouldering, but i climbed my first outdoor boulder last week and I’m hooked. Just got a torn tendon so can’t really do anything right now.
Good luck w/ur tendie buddy, you’ll be back out there soon
Thanks dude. I really hope so as climbing is the one thing that has silenced my mind and gives me joy so not being able to go is mentally hard.
Why does badminton even need to be separated it’s not a strength contest
Because some people view Men’s sports as professional, and a career opportunity. Women’s sports on the other hand are seen by those people as recreational, and something fun to do outside of the house.
Who would put a professional player against a recreational player? That’s just not fair, the recreational player would be embarrassed at how bad they are and it wouldn’t be fun to watch.
Obviously nothing I said is true but it’s an opinion held by many.
Trans women also got banned in chess. https://www.npr.org/2023/08/18/1194593562/chess-transgender-fide-pushback
So men don’t have to be embarrassed from being beaten by a woman.
Idk man when I see professional badminton they are smacking the fuck out of the cock
I see what you did there, setting up the punchline for your fellow lemmings, now that’s what I call service.
Reaction time, endurance, strength(yes hitting a shuttlecock harder is important), etc. They vary wildly between men and women and no sport can really balance the scales in either direction.
Never seen Serena Williams play badminton?
/s
Men have better motor reflexes. Speed and strength is also a factor.
Yeah CEO’s and shareholders are driving it to the extreme, but in the end everybody wants their interest on savings/investments, their yearly wage increases etc. The whole economic system is at fault and America is driving it to the extreme.
Ok, then let’s switch to a new money supply that doesn’t encourage investment and necessitate yearly wage increases.
One of those theories is the circulair economy which basically against consumerism and working more on the r-ladder to make companies produce better goods.
But first the US needs to get their shit together with bullshit that is designed for people to buy as much as possible like the taxes not being included in the price. Same with tips and other fees. Normally that is called misinformation on price, but American jusr accepts it. Some people even defend that bullshit.
Another theory involves giving people other benefit than more which is more in line with how it worked in mid-century. But then instead of having a king ontop have the state untop
The whole economic system is at fault and America is driving it to the extreme.
No, americans are just speed-running it.
Not American, so idk what I am speedrunning. Maybe I can finally post a time on speedrun.com
Fixed it.
So I work on a military base in a building with less than 5,000 people, of which three have confided to me that they are trans and wanted someone to talk to and I have a niece that is trans. I have a hard time believing only 1 trans person per state has a desire to play sports with my completely anecdotal evidence. I don’t know what the real numbers are and I get that it isn’t the point but I don’t think it’s effective to diminish the number of trans folks that there are. I’m very confident anyone not living under a rock knows and is likely at minimum a friendly acquaintance with at least one trans person, whether they are aware of that fact or not.
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Sure they can. But with the boys.
Truth sucks.
Forcing a girl to play against boys and use their changing room is pretty fucked up dude. Don’t make yourself look even more like a dick.
Nobody is forcing anyone. But saying they can’t play badminton because they are trans is false.
Oh, right! They can just stop doing what they love! I’m sorry, my empathy-riddled ass didn’t think about this obvious solution.
No? They can play with the boys. Changing rooms can be arranged. Why is it important for a trans-girl who went through male puberty to play with girls that are smaller and physically weaker?
I should probably clarify that i mean compete in competitions, dont care in the slightest who or how they want to practice. That’s just fair.
I see, so it’s an information problem.
Trans girls are not stronger than other girls. Any increased muscle mass vanishes with hormone therapy as the testosterone supporting it goes away. Likewise the body remodels stuff like cartilages as all of this is influenced by hormones. That’s why Olympia goes so overboard with hormone tests, even forcing cis-women to do invasive measures to reduce their natural testosterone levels.
The only difference caused by puberty that are irreversible are:
- How thick bones are & how they formed
- How you sound
- Where you grow how much hair
And of those three ONLY the first can be of any value in any argument. And definitely not for badminton. Uninformed bullshit arguments cause WAY more problems for cis-women in sports than they could ever solve. There’s nothing fair about that way of arguing.
How would you propose women prove they are not trans and can thus play on the women’s team?
Its important for the same reason gays and leabians want proper marriages and not just civil unions. There is social legitamacy that comes from inclusion. I have also never seen a single study actually backing up this unfair advantage narrative.
Meanwhile, the WNBA has an average player height of 6’1" against the average womans height of 5’4". But noone complains about a cis woman whos 6 foot having an unfair advantage. Meanwhile even cis women get caught in the crossfire, see Imane Khalif who could be executed in her home country for being trans. She’s not, but one salty boxer and a fraudulent Russian report gave her all sorts of shit and put her life in danger.
If trans women have to play with the boys, then cis women should, too. Just end segregation entirely.
That’s definitely one way of making sure that a woman will never win again in athletics.
They did do that in golf, of course with handicaps like a shorter tee off for women, so not a fair competition.
You’re saying that even the weakest biologically male athlete could beat the strongest biologically female athlete?
Because otherwise, “never win again” seems kind of unlikely.
My god what an asenine take.
No, but no woman would ever win with the best from both genders attending.
I don’t think you could even qualify for the mens qualifiers in athletics with the world records for women.
You do know there are tons of co-ed sports out there, right? And women win them all the time.
But please, continue to be rude. That will definitely prove something or other.
Good, name one and ill give you a list of world records in athletics.
Discus.
You’re only deciding between insulin and groceries because the government maintains some company’s monopoly on manufacturing insulin.
In an actually free market, the instructions would be open source and the only question would be whether to synthesize it at home or pay someone else to synthesize it for you.
My guess is it would cost about as much as chocolate does per unit mass.
No free market on insulin here in Finland.
Insulin is free.
Capitalism created American price gouging. You have people dying over something that’s completely treatable.
If the “resources were allocated” correctly, then it’s not efficient in any way for an economy to have people dying over something as cheap and easy to treat just because someone can blackmail people to pay more.
My unemployed friend who is a single mother with type 1 diabetes and who has two kids with type one diabetes would be in real fucking life danger in the US. As it stands, she doesn’t need to worry about that. All because we haven’t (yet) allowed capitalism to (completely) rape our healthcare system.
The free market naturally generates monopolies, only government intervention can maintain an artificially competitive market in the long term.
Both of these are pure fantasies. Here in the real world the monopolies are government enforced and it’s getting worse.
What you’re describing is to abolish “intellectual property” rights. I’m all for it.
Those are two nonequivalent industries with wildly different variables of influence. Did AI write this?
No, the one who wrote that is intensely human, trust them.
Yeah I know. One of the big differences between prescription drugs and food, in terms of the industries, is that anyone can bake bread and therefore the only reason to buy it at the store is if the loaf at the store costs less time and energy than making it oneself.
A better equivalency would be the insulin industry and a Diamond industry unrestricted by region.
Not really because people can die without food, and also without insulin. Nobody is choosing between diamonds and insulin.
Insulin is expensive because of a government-enforced monopoly. It’s a simple fact, no matter how motivated one is to ignore it.
Hard lol at the thought of synthesizing insulin at home. Look a bit into the practical aspects of medicine manufacturing and the quality assurances required to avoid killing the patients.
Well if those regulations are going away anyway…
