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What you quote comes from a study of FIFTEEN people. Now that’s significant! There’s no gotcha involved. The data, not feelings, reveals outcomes associated with these surgeries on young people are horrific. The paper spells them out. Thankfully people like you that see them as appropriate and even moral, are dwindling by the day. Soon your thinking will be anachronistic.

The Constitution gives states the authority to administer elections. Classic ‘your side released the virus’ conspiracy because nothing like parroting internet nonsense with zero evidence. Meanwhile, Trump downplayed the virus and mocked masks while Fauci was literally trying to stop people from dying. But sure, rage at public health experts instead of the guy who suggested bleach. It’s always ‘they’re lying’ when the data doesn’t fit your narrative. Red states led in COVID deaths and murder rates post-2020. Facts are annoying that way they don’t care about your vibes. Are you done deflecting from Trump's America?

It's the government inspector (QA) that baby sits the contractor mostly with my organization.😉 Go on TDY, storm duty, etc... Someone has to make sure the contractors aren't ripping off the government blind.

LOL. I remember being at that game with my dad.

Mail in ballots are in the Constitution? Sabotaging public health? Your people did just that releasing the virus with no accountability or oversight - and more anger with Trump than the CCP or Fauci. California lies about its murder rates. I’m sure nothing else. These are the exact words authoritarians use. And they didn’t. But we all know this.

How did you conclude that guys like Jaden Springer are much better than Moss and his HS game? he played 15 games in college, then was inexplicably drafted into the NBA, where he has played 8 minutes a game on 3 different teams over 4 years, scoring under 3 PPG. He's not a good pro basketball player at all. He's a practice body. Moss could have been such. As for being discouraged with basketball, I bet if he had better guidance in his youth, he could easily gotten to D1 prospect and ended up as the 15th guy on a bad NBA team. His youth was pockmarked with difficulty--much of his own making. I think this affected his confidence. Again, as for getting a deep bench spot in the NBA, the bar is not nearly as high as you claim. It's the Peterman fallacy. He's historically awful, yet he still bounces around the league. That doesn't mean that there aren't very good college QBs (Div 1A or Div 2) out there who are "not good enough" simply because they weren't noticed/scouted/drafted/signed by an NFL team. The claim that you have to be better than all other players at your position just because you got a roster spot on a pro team is intuitively false and proven so frequently. You can't reasonably conclude that every scrub in the NBA is better than any other player who did not get the opportunity to play...simply because they made a roster. why would a coach tell a supremely talented kid that he recruited that he shouldn't continue with basketball if he was that good or had that much potential? Why wouldn't he say, "forget football, you're going to be a star here"?

You make good points, and I think Jackson is an elite talent and excellent quarterback. But I don’t think he at the same level as Allen, Mahomes, or Burrows. In that playoff game against the Bills last year his two turnovers, to me, cost the Ravens the game. He has a 3-5 playoff record, while Mahomes is 17-4, Allen is 7-6 and Burrows is 5-2. And in the losses Jackson seems to be an important reason his team does not win, while for the other three quarterbacks that is generally not the case. So I think that idea, more than anything else, causes me to put Jackson is in a tier just below the top 3. He has gotten much better as a passer the last few years and still runs like a madman, but he needs to show his best stuff in the playoffs. I think if Jackson makes the same kind of progress this year that he has made the last two years he could take that next step. I would like to see that eventually--after the Bills win a Super Bowl or two.

‘didn't say he wasn't good.....said he isn't very smart’. This was what you wrote. You might want to look up the definition of assumptions. I think a guy that has been a successful qb in the NFL for several years isn’t dumb regardless of whatever test he took before coming to the league. Didn’t realized we’re arguing. lol. But it’s interesting that you think some anonymous poster’s opinion that doesn’t aligned with yours equates to an argument. You have a great day as well.

Ahhh Jauronimo! One of the main inspirations for the thread linked below. He told us over and over than none of this well documented stuff is happening. Long on my ignore.

If I identify as a seiral killer, am I scott free?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesbian_until_graduation

Living in Ireland.... sooo jealous! Are you originally from there or an expat? How is it?

Most of them aren't based on initial polling. The ones here are part of The Cult. As Trump himself says, MAGA means what I say it means. I know best. Don't ask questions. Follow me to the Golden Age.

It would end up being an absurdly small reduction in price. Something like 359 for a one team and 379 for the entire ticket.

As I’ve explained to you 1,000 times, this is due to stigma and isolation stemming from being transgender and not accepted by society. The paper even acknowledges this: “Transgender individuals have a higher prevalence of depression across several age groups, often due to life experiences that include discrimination, harassment, violence, misgendering, and enacted stigma that may generate poor mental health outcomes and harmful behaviors [4,7,8]. It is widely accepted that depression puts an individual at higher risk for suicidal ideation and suicide attempts” The paper even says that banning gender-affirming surgery isn’t the solution, it’s providing more care after the surgery. “Their results reveal an improvement in patient well-being, with high satisfaction levels, reduced dysphoria, and persistent mental health benefits even decades after surgery.” You keep using this paper as some kind of gotcha when it’s obvious you haven’t read it.

The law of unintended consequences? Good luck with that. The vast majority of Americans are perfectly comfortable with “might makes right” imperialism. We’re simply too ignorant and arrogant to learn lessons from the past 80 years of failed interventionism. Most contemporary Americans can’t even distinguish between democratic socialism and authoritarian socialism, so it’s a safe bet that most Americans alive today would have supported the 1953 coup in Iran. It would have been efficaciously sold to us under the guise of ethical existentialism, as opposed to the blatant machinations of American and British fossil fuel oligarchs. Imperialism and Zionism go hand in hand, of course, so no surprise that this majority Christian nation can’t see Israel for the rogue pariah state it has become. Americans find comfort in a black-and-white view of the world because it assuages our delicate egos and our infantile preconceptions. We need to see “good guys” fighting “bad guys,” and we need to be the “good guys.” This is why we obstinately maintain so much trust in a nation actively committing genocide, stealing more Arab land, and refusing to sign the NPT. This is why we are unable to examine our own country’s mistakes in diplomacy from the perspective of Iran, which quite rationally desires the status of a North Korea over that of a present-day Libya. Still waiting for ANY evidence that Iran’s nuclear program posed an IMMINENT threat to Israel and the United States… OH MY GOD, Tibsy…you’ve been reading Ezra Klein’s “Abundance,” haven’t you?? I want to remain mindful of not hijacking the thread, so I’ll just make these two quick points: 1. Some regulations are bad, and some are good. Regulations that prevent ecosystem degradation and promote collective bargaining are most often among the latter category. 2. Be wary of anyone not willing to frame political arguments as the American people in opposition to corporate oligarchs. More specifically, be skeptical of anyone who is not vocally against Citizens United v. FEC (2010). << Kay throws her green MAFA** hat at Tibsy’s face >> ** - MAFA = Make America Forested Again (it’s a custom designed hat!)

Can you imagine if Obama or Biden did this?

As someone who was a season ticket holder during the Bills vs Browns 6 - 3 "hockey classic" in 2011, I think this is an idea whose time has come. https://www.espn.com/nfl/game/_/gameId/291011002/browns-bills I like that the fact that some teams are admitting they'll miss the playoffs before the season begins. Wager accordingly!