FireRetardant
@FireRetardant@lemmy.world
- Comment on A real question about trans athletes and records 16 hours ago:
Men would still on average out perform women in most categories, making it very difficult for women to get to the top of the chart. High ELOs would almost exclussively be men and thats where the media focus and attention would be on, drowing out some of the top women atheletes in lower ELOs. In a system where the highest ELO wins a medal or something i think it would be less fair than having gendered ELOs. Something like amateur or beer league sports might benefit more from genderless ELO but i think it would be controversial for pro athletes.
- Comment on A real question about trans athletes and records 16 hours ago:
Did you mean to say “I’m not saying it’s right,…” at the end of your first paragraph?
- Comment on It slaps tho 1 day ago:
That glizzy looks way too tasty to be a struggle glizzy
- Comment on A handful of people are slowly killing over 8 billion people, but we're expected to sit idly by and let it happen 4 days ago:
Yes it is better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6.
- Comment on A handful of people are slowly killing over 8 billion people, but we're expected to sit idly by and let it happen 4 days ago:
There are many places you can’t be legally armed. In Canada for example firearms are legal for hunting purposes, but even using one for genuine self defense will lead to lengthy legal battles at best.
- Comment on 🤝🤝🤝 5 days ago:
Thats why i donate 3 times a day
- Comment on What bottles/containers should I use for shipping from sea level to places at higher altitudes? 1 week ago:
The same goes for other sauces too like generic bbq sauces or ketchups left out all day at a hot dog stand.
- Comment on What bottles/containers should I use for shipping from sea level to places at higher altitudes? 1 week ago:
I was thinking this as well, sure the sauce was shipped sterile but there are tons of places that leavev opened hot sauce out on tables for god only knows how long and they very rarely spoil.
- Comment on Expand North! So much room up there. 1 week ago:
Do you have a source for this? Our cargo trains run through some pretty frigid winters. Many European countries have a similar climate and they have trains. Aren’t the swiss famous for sending trains through snowy mountains?
- Comment on Expand North! So much room up there. 1 week ago:
All the problems you’ve described are infrastructure abd policy problems We can build climate controlled mass transit stations. We can maintain separated and safe bicycle networks in the winter. We can clear pedestrian pathways of snow instead of plowing the car lane snow onto them. Its all policy and infrastructure. If you make transit the fastest while being convenient and clean, people will use it over cars because it takes less time, not everyone, but certainly enough to make it worth it.
We can’t fairly use the there are no cyclists now argument because we haven’t given them any real options. We need to provide safe and effecient cycling infrastructure to truly see how many people would prefer to bike. If a city had no roads you could make the argument not to build any roads because nobody drives anyway.
- Comment on Expand North! So much room up there. 1 week ago:
But Canada is “too big” for rail. Except of course all those railways 100 years ago that pretty much made this nation possible, or how nearly every city had trams in most neighborhoods.
- Comment on Expand North! So much room up there. 1 week ago:
The great lakes area was the first area extensively settled and thus has the most developed cities. The great lakes area is also rich in fresh water and farmland.
- Comment on Expand North! So much room up there. 1 week ago:
The canadian shield is a rough and rugged strech of land of exposed rock intermixed with swamps. It covers most of the north/central eastern part of the country and it is very difficult and expensive to build settlements on. It also only provides a few pockets of farmland. The land closer to the border is more hospitable for settlements and farming.
- Comment on Expand North! So much room up there. 1 week ago:
One minor correction. The reaaonCanadians don’t drive is not because the weather sucks, Canadians drive so much because our country refuses to build real transit or walkability. Hell half our country is going to court because a few of our provincial premiers want building bike lanes to be illegal. There are other countries with similar climates to Canada where people don’t need to extensively rely on their car to live their daily life.
Id also say that the biggest factor to cost of living is cost of housing, which is largely related to our cities making it nearly impossible to build any housing that isnt detached single family homes with minimum lot sizes and set back requirements. This also reinforces the car dependancy
- Comment on I swear officer, I ain’t had nothing! 3 weeks ago:
True. I rarely ever drink energy drinks but just the smell of a redbull nearly makes me sick, that could be due to some foggy memories of Jaeger bombs however.
- Comment on I swear officer, I ain’t had nothing! 3 weeks ago:
Who the fuck would enjoy a white claw if they aren’t in it for the alcohol?
- Comment on “You can't be expected to have a successful AI program when every single article, book or anything else that you've read or studied, you're supposed to pay for” Donald Trump said 4 weeks ago:
I needed to pirate that extensive game, movie, and porn library to train a gaming, movie, and porn recomendation model
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
He is writing a new book that is titled like an autobiography but actually horror fiction about the reality we are in. This is just part of the marketing for said book.
- Comment on oops 1 month ago:
No, but these beads pretty much go straight into the local waterways where they can very quickly break down into micro plastics. All so a human didn’t have to use a tool like a brush or a loofa to scrub themselves. Convenience at any cost.
- Comment on Why Americans Can’t Buy the World’s Best Electric Car 1 month ago:
There is also CAFE standards that made small, effecient vehicles require extremely high emissions standards while allowing looser standards for larger, less effecient vehicles. Effectively limiting foriegn market influence while increasing both the price and size of the average vehicle on American roads.
- Comment on me irl 1 month ago:
Some areas have mushrooms that are so similar the only reliable way to identify them is using a spore print.
Plants and animals tend to have more distinct identifying features like leaf paterns, bark texture or hair color.
- Comment on Why Americans Can’t Buy the World’s Best Electric Car 1 month ago:
Pretty sure big oil and car companies have been bailed out by the US government in the past. Plus america designs most of its cities so that you need to own a car. Seems like both markets are equally “free” at the end of the day.
- Comment on What sort of grill needs a firmware update lol 1 month ago:
It can be both, but at least if i don’t catch any fish I’ll catch a good buzz
- Comment on Might be time to find another job 1 month ago:
Whenever his milk starts going off at home, he locks it up and brings it to the office to see how long people will respect the locks before throwing away rotten milk.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I’d argue comfort could come after more time together in the right circumstances. Many couples choose to live with one sides parents to save money given the housing shortage many countries are facing. The catch is, this typically only works when both the parents and the couple are respectful of each others privacy and boundaries. This often equates to turning a basement into an apartment with sperate bathroom and kitchen/kitchenette.
- Comment on I'm not okay. 1 month ago:
YMMV but i still see lots right around dusk at the edges of wetland areas. Not denying they are threatened but there are still some places they are able to live and those places should be protected. Wetlands do a lot more for us ecologically and hydrologically speaking than just fireflies anyway and are one of the most important ecosystems to be protected.
- Comment on Art imitates life 1 month ago:
Randy takes off his pants when he wants to fight
- Comment on A cuppa Jill 1 month ago:
Give me a cup of wet
- Comment on The city is so lively 2 months ago:
See the thing is, this could be just about any road in any city in north america. We refuse to build real places, just lanes and parking lots
- Comment on No looky for you! 2 months ago:
Except Alec apparently