Hahaha I think you are more right than you intended here. The party puts their favorites forward and never wins their election, they may be technically free but in practice the CCP is an autocratic state. Not really any different from how parties influence the primaries in the US.

While this would be hilarious, we can do better than Obama.

I’m not disputing the idea that violence against women gets underreported. I am saying that there is a lack of data here by definition and it is therefore impossible to guess how much one gender or the other is underreported relative to each other. If you want to quantify things, you need data instead of a feeling. You linking these two articles strikes me as you googling whatever you could find that parrots back a conclusion you already had in your head.

The fact that you repeat your conclusion despite not having evidence to back it up is a sign that you might be falling victim to confirmation bias. You should maybe spend a little more time examining whether or not your worldview has you jumping to conclusions in the absence of data.

I don’t know and have no way of knowing which gender underreports abuse more, and the nature of underreporting makes it tough to trust any data on this topic without digging into how it gets collected.

I would posit that, generally speaking, women are generally less capable of harm that would necessitate calling the cops on your partner. Yes this is a generalization, but i think it holds true that men are generally more durable and physically stronger than women, and a lot of times a woman hitting a man is just not going to meet the threshold of that man thinking “oh, violence is being done to me, let me call the police”. However if the same force she is applying were applied to herself, she may get injured or at least be more likely to perceive that force to warrant calling the authorities.

I don’t know how I could prove or disprove that assertion. God knows there’s plenty of anecdotal evidence out there but I’m not aware of many credible studies that talk about woman->man violence.

By definition you do not have the data for this argument to be credible.

For any gun, specifically, mechanisms to ensure that the gun only fires if i intend it to. A 1911 has a manual thumb safety and a grip safety and is incredibly drop safe to boot. A p320 has been demonstrated repeatedly to not be drop safe.

Really only the p320, 1911s are probably the safest carry gun out there

“We have Celeste at home.”

Was a pain to find in the article but according to them, 1 cannabis unit is 5mg of THC. And they recommend no more than 8 per week, or 40mg. I didn’t read the entire paper so take my commentary with a grain of salt.

I think there may be a bit of a hole in this methodology because of different consumption methods. For example, smoking a regular joint vs putting that same amount of flower in a dry vape. Or dietary factors that could increase or decrease thc absorption for edibles.

Even accounting for that, 40mg of THC is not a lot. A half gram joint at 10% thc would exceed that. Seems like these guidelines are incredibly conservative.

I’m not gonna defend Tempurpedic not honoring their warranty but it’s disingenuous to say it failed “quickly” after 8 years of use for what sounds like normal wear to me. A lot of warranties in the mattress space have riders like using a mattress cover (which is a sensible investment regardless) and might have prevented this.

Tempur sounds like they suck, but you should probably have realistic expectations

Guessing “Muffler”.

I thought i was going crazy seeing all these posts to that community and then seeing their history include AI art. Glad they finally got removed.

More than likely it’s their management who are the morons.

I just downloaded Voyager, it’s very clear that Sync is now abandonware.

This is the root of the problem, isn’t it? When someone proves you wrong, and you persist despite evidence to the contrary, that’s pretty stupid, right? This high school debate sophistry that Kirk and his contemporaries engage in isn’t a good faith discussion and most of his audience isn’t equipped with the critical thinking skills to understand that.

A cloverleaf would only add significant time if there was traffic, in which case you’d have to be pretty stupid to miss your exit since everything is happening in slow motion.

I’ve driven in a lot of places and MA isn’t really any worse than anywhere else I’ve driven. CT is way worse in terms of sucky drivers IMO

Could you elaborate? Truly not getting it.

Am i missing something? What’s the problem here? Just go through the cloverleaf, you maybe added a minute to your trip.

This may be apocryphal but I recall that the reason his staff didn’t intervene sooner was because he was prone to lashing out at anyone who disturbed him. So he might not have died so painfully if not for being such a colossal asshole.

Mf you didn’t make a track, the AI did. Try again.

Isn’t that irrelevant if the league isn’t making money though? People watch the NBA. They don’t watch the WNBA. The comparison you should be drawing for “enough” would be other niche sports nobody watches like bowling or whatever.