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It was reckless. The flight was widely popularized by her huckster husband who was motivated to have his wife win him fame and fortune. She wasn’t ready, and in that sense, the attempt was reckless.

If a person takes a big risk and makes it, that’s a success. If a person risks it and dies in the Atlantic, being called reckless seems kinder alternative to being called a failure.

I mean, with Carlsen facing this sort of aggregate, large number of ‘opponents,’ yeah, I imagine quite a lot of them are cheaters.

I believe it was legal obligation on the weekends- so in that way it was semi formalized. I think the results of the English bowmen speak for themselves, but I don’t think volley fire was necessary or present on the battlefields of the 100 years war.

Henry the 3rd’s decree about practicing archery drills regularly across the peasant population really worked out well for the English during the 100 Years War- they were able to field high numbers of dangerous and skilled ranged warriors and allowed for the massive victories like Crécy and (of course) Agincourt.

If you consider bar restrooms, that is probably skewing the average higher…

Have you consumed any recent media in the last 5 decades?

Fathers are depicted as staggering oafs or well-meaning clowns, to be suffered by their wives and insulted by their children.

Classically ideal dads are so rare that this cartoon character is being lauded as one of the best examples of the ideal in recent memory.

We aren’t an agrarian society so children (and the labor they represent on the farm) are not a financial asset, they are a financial liability.

I don’t really think it is ‘wrong,’ or even really unexpected. In the winter, fish may not a viable food option for the eagles due to ice or fish lifecycle. Birds of prey have to keep their weight low, and they don’t have the option to gorge themselves on a kill like a wolf or a lion can. Most birds of prey are only a few missed meals away from death by starvation.

Winter’s scarcity is deadly for predators, and nature doesn’t care about maintaining nobility or the optics of a dead raccoon lunch.

Many of the bullying stories on here involve either a do-nothing response by authorities or both sides being punished. I do not see how constant monitoring ensures any kind of protection or justice.

Humans can exhibit some mild torpor like behavior in extreme winter conditions. We are not ‘exclusively’ cold adapted lifeforms. Even if the Neanderthals had more adaptations for surviving in northern climates that does not mean they are exclusive polar specialists like the arctic fox or the polar bear.

Well, yeah. Everyone knows you aren’t pulling in millions in grant money or making millions off of patentable discoveries, you aren’t a real scientist.

I think a charitable read would be a ‘one time extreme exposure.’ Passive exposure is bad, of course, but getting poison dumped on you by a crop duster has to be terrible.

Doesn’t seem that hard to measure. It isn’t like the subject will become a mysterious P zombie, they will probably just become increasingly incoherent and then non verbal and then die.

Damage a brain enough and brain death occurs. By the same token, after a certain number of neurons are lost, there is no self. Whatever consciousness is, it can’t be sustained with a sufficiently compromised brain.

This is observable in late stage dementia patients, it gradually becomes difficult to think and in the final dire stages their sense of self degrades too.

I see what you mean- but consider that the gut does seem to play a significant role in mood and mental health. The enteric nervous system may not hold memories, but it seems to have something to do with personality and digestion issues can have negative cognitive effects.

Implying that everyone in the future will be incapable of sustaining a thought beyond 15 seconds; it’s not just the study apps, but yeah.

American TikTok is literally a hyper addictive platform purpose built by the CCP to devour attention, waste time and sow division. It is not the same as television. Its widespread influence is a complete disaster for a healthy republic.

The American Dream curdled into misplaced entitlement and overbearing arrogance.

I read Crime and Punishment as a teenager and I enjoyed it quite a bit. Raskolnikov’s misadventures are not ‘fun’ but as a psychological exploration of guilt (or lack thereof), it was very interesting.

I like Notes from the Underground and his other short stories (like the Double) even more.

Interesting that the penalty was a fine… seems like the Bergen officials responsible should have been demoted or fired for acting like petty tyrants.

A lot of what Americans consume is really crappy carbs and sugar, unfortunately. Even fatty meats would be better than that.

Seems like goofy credentialism. Large amounts of this stuff don’t just appear; someone put it there. Why do we need an expert in ‘clandestine dumping’ to tell us that?

Somebody’s grant money getting thrown down a hole…

Right? Turns out having a spine is really annoying and inconvenient for the ruling class who now find themselves actually having to fend off interlopers.

Do these nations not have navies? Can’t they tell the Russian non-combat ships (or pressure them) to get lost?

Shouldn’t be a problem on the moon.

Fine, they are fighting like dogs over scraps. Is that a better idiom? Either way the system is broken.

That is crazy reductive to the point of ignorance. Doctrine does matter. You might know what your enemy is doing but if you fight wrong, even with foreknowledge, you will not win.

This mindset can only be born of stability. If your country descends into chaos, having money on hand is better than having money in a bank, and therefore, not on hand.

I don’t know why you are being downvoted, adhd medication is insanely overprescribed. Turns out, kids get antsy and hard to control after cramming them into overcrowded rooms for 8-9 hours a day doing slop work. Some schools are now forgoing any form of recess at all. Modern public education is inhuman and dystopian.

That is fair. I do not find pop appealing, but the fast food analogy is apt.