Wait, gunboats? You managed to list the one item that HASN'T changed since its introduction
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This girls team was winning because the boys haven't gone through puberty yet. Not saying it was ok to ban them, but it's false to claim that differences in bone mass and muscle density are imaginary. It just doesn't happen until after puberty.
And chess isn't exactly segregated by gender. The women's league exists to make women in chess more visible, to make it easier to pursue sponsorships, and to encourage more women to join the game. But women are free to compete in the "men's" category (which is actually called the "open" category), and often do. The reasons women haven't gotten to the top of it yet are cultural; women are discouraged from starting to play the game at a young age as all the top players do, and so far fewer women attempt the climb in the first place. But it will happen eventually.
Now if you want to talk about how transphobic FIDE is, there's some real merit in those accusations. Their rules around people who are transitioning are nonsensical, punishing people for absolutely no reason. But the women's league itself exists for good reasons.
No, that is exactly the over-broad, willy-nilly, tossed-around definition they were talking about. Gaslighting has a much more insidious context than simply making someone question themselves. It means doing it on purpose; intentionally lying to someone and trying to convince them that they're crazy. Like if I said I was going to the grocery and then when I came back with nothing, I insisted I never said that. Or if i borrowed $50 and when it came time to pay you back, I try to tell you I only borrowed $25. It's inherently deceptive and cruel.
Calling them "the aughts" is also the best way I've found to refer to that decade
lol from the streak i thought maybe he'd lost the tooth while chewing on it!
Even then they failed by not dropping "says"
Bofa --> both of
Yeah this is news to me, I've never watched it but I remember reading that it had trans characters
I live in a place with a functionally free bus line. I thought it was great and used to ride it all the time, but then the local homeless figured it out and now every time I get on, the seats are covered in filth and there's usually someone who smells absolutely vile. They don't get on to go anywhere; they get on because they have nowhere else to go. They just hang out on the bus.
Obviously the real solution is to give homeless people a proper place to stay, improve mental health care, and all that good stuff. I hate the cycle of moving people from once place to another. But in the meantime, making bus lines free can make them a horrendous experience for everyone else.
Edit, also the solution to the article's actual point of fairness in fares seems simple to me. Make it free and just have a progressive tax that pays for it
The Index's lighthouse tracking was actually a selling point for me. My first VR experience was a Quest 2 and I was surprised at how often my hands lost tracking; playing Alyx and trying to grab ammo was incredibly frustrating.
They're still taking something they didn't make and selling it as though they did. I have every right to write and film a Batman movie, spend as much time I want making it professional, and then show it to people, as long as I don't charge them for it. That doesn't give Fox or whoever the right to take my movie and charge for it instead. Even if I did break the law by making people pay for it, the actual owners would only be entitled to that money, not to go make mroe money off of it themselves. It's still my work even if it uses concepts invented by someone else.
There's a reason every franchise under the sun has mountains of fanart and fanfic without the companies that own them trying to take control of it: it's blatantly illegal.