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If the things she said, and the tone she took, wasn't so common, I would think the same.

Watched The Fall Guy tonight with the wife, and we both enjoyed the hell out of it. So many little sight gags, movie history references, clever photography, and only two scenes that I'd have tweaked in the whole movie to improve the pacing a touch, otherwise a very good fusion of comedy, action, and a tinge of romance, and with some bangin' needle drops on top of it all.

Traffic's a pretty annoying one, in the rpg of life. Also, not being able to respec easily. F'n annoying, that.

Her argument was so bad and so alienating, that its hard not to thing she was an agent provocateur.

It's a bad argument, I'd say it is counter productive as to what she wants to achieve. It might play well with a certain far left progressive who will also respond well to her comments about femininity being policed by white women. For the majority of people I think she is just leaving them very confused. If she wanted to say 'I want to be considered as a woman and not discriminated due to my gender identity, and for all intents and purposes I wanted to be treated as a female', then saying 'I am a biological female' is really just using the wrong language to get there.

No, not really. The point about fiction is that it isn't history: that's why it's Toranaga and not Tokugawa, so Clavell could tell a story, as a modern author, for a modern audience, without being bound by the history. We tell such stories, even if they are based on history - heck, even if they are history - for modern purposes: to make comparisons to modern society and reflect and learn from those. Trying to think like a historical Japanese noble might be instructive for a modern reader as a thought exercise, but it's not the moral standard a modern reader should adopt.

Foden voted Football writers player of the year, hard to argue with.

Let's get the record straight before anyone gets too twisted up about this: Here's the Trevor Noah interview, and the comments that we're all referencing are at 2:57. This is just a bad argument, and getting hung up over my humility, or lack of same, is a derailment tactic. However, it is a good example of the level of discourse we often see on this topic. We don't talk about ideas; we scrutinze each other for hints of the foolishness/hypocrisy/bigotry/whatever we are sure must motivate what we are saying. That said, I will concede that I was gently mocking Ivy, and no matter how bad her argument is, that wasn't very humble of me, so accordingly I have removed that part of my comment. Hopefully, we can try to discuss the actual argument and not what I said about it.

BINGO! (to be fair I think I got bingo at least 3 times this week.)

I think what she said was that all her identification papers say she was female, and she was made of "biological stuff" and therefore she was a biological female. I think that highlights a problem with language. Her other point, which I think creates part of the problem was that she said, and I'll paraphrase 'It's a simple issue, it all boils down to whether you think transwomen are female and real women or not'. The issue there is that it's not simple. It's not simple at all. We are having arguments over language as to what 'real women' are, whether biology has any bearing at all and to what extent. As Ran pointed out, being trans can be a whole variety of things and can encompass a vast array of individuals who will have been through various stages of transition, or none at all. This all becomes really pretty relevant when it comes to women's sports. But apparently we are being told that it is simple. She then goes on to, for some reason, compare it to racism, but that's just another signal of the type of argumentation being displayed. I don't think making sweeping generalisations about people is helpful, and forcing people to use language which is vague and non specific is also unhelpful.

Definitely not on the same level as France. France is one of the main global players. Israel is a strategic ally as well, though it doesn’t hold as much sway.

Such as? I quit Discovery because of the bathos, every character relationship seemed fraught with melodrama. It was very soapy. SNW is generally lighter with this stuff, more adroit at it, and basically just more actual fun. Also more coherent, narratively.

I doubt we can, but, for the sake of the thread, I'll modify my original post so we can move away from a discussion of Just How Humble Trackerneil Is.

We require ID, but it's called an easy vote card and it's mailed to everyone who is on the electoral roll for every election, And everyone over 18 is automatically registered, and if you forget it you get to cast a special vote anyway. Still the country regularly votes in both left and right govts, but right govts more. Australia has compulsory voting and it votes in govts of both left and right. I don't like voter ID that puts any kind of barrier to voting, but it appears from the least disenfranchising countries the end result over time isn't all that much different. You'll get govts of both left and right stripes. And I guess it's been two weeks, so time to preach again. IMO left/progressive govts are going to be increasingly rare until they stop believing in the deficit myth.

You must be trolling. I'm pretty sure he'll still get millions.

it may in fact have been a good deal worse particularly in the cities in fact some sources suggest that the quality of life for most working people dropped sharply as more and more of them came to live in the cities, in fact on average its been suggested that the urban rich died sooner than most rural poor

The results were not all that great initially. Arteta took over in December 2019 with Arsenal in 10th place. They finished the season 8th but won the FA Cup which banked some credit for Arteta. The next season they finished 8th again and the season after that they finished 5th - were looking good for a 4th place finish but ended the season poorly and lost out to Spurs. There's no guarantee that Ange could do similar for Spurs but it'd be foolish to not give him the chance. This season looks to be ending in a bit of disappointment for Spurs since they've had the lightest fixture list compared to the teams around them but Ange has also radically change the style of play to something a lot more exciting while losing the club's most influential player.

Ok, but the point should be exactly about the merits of her argument, not TrackerNeil's humility (or lack of it). Hopefully, we can all agree on that at least.

Regardless of the merits of her argument, this here does not strike me as someon trying trying "to speak from humility" about this topic.

Oh, she was a piece of work on that program! Her argument was basically: "I am a biological creature and not a robot, and my identification cards/papers all say I am female. This is not a good argument. (Edited to ensure no topic derailment.) EDITED TO ADD: Something that bugs me about the notion of sex as spectrum is that I don't know where it gets us. I mean, germ theory teaches us how disease spreads, evolutionary theory helps explains the way species develop, but what does sex-as-spectrum tell us about the natural world? Sex is a reproductive strategy, and for nearly every animal on the planet, and (I believe) all mammals, and certainly human beings, reproduction requires a small-gamete producer plus a large-gamete producer. The binary explains how that works; the spectrum doesn't. If a notion put forward as science doesn't explain the natural world, I don't see the value.

Yesterday I've found a tick on my dog for the first time in a bit over two and a half years he's been with us. Took him to the vet who said that the pill we're giving our dog worked fine since tick was dead. He also said that we should keep an eye out for some possible symptoms of a disease (fatigue, loss of appetite, murky urine etc.) and so far Loki has shown none of them.

Is it an object that you can touch and feel?

I have something of a cold - stuffed runny nose, coughing. But I haven't been doing any babysitting before becoming like this. I hope I am better very soon.

What’s the most annoying features you guys have faced in games? For me Weapon Degradation takes the cake, luckily it’s less common now but it’s nothing more than a time sink

Peterborough now, where among the new councillors is 18-year-old Daisy Creedon-Blakemore. She won the seat for Labour, and says she is "pretty much overwhelmed at the moment, but we've worked the ward really hard". Creedon-Blakemore believes she is now the youngest councillor in the country. And it's one test to the next for the teenager, who sits her A-levels next week. She sounds fucking Tory, and who in their right mind would trust an 18 year old? They are without doubt a bunch of fucking idiots. I know local council's aren't the most important job in the world, but still.