Lol, my point was that it was a reddit ass comment. Nobody here cares about the “rules” about up votes or down votes.

There’s always people trying to defend the use of racist dog whistles.

downvotes are for comments that don’t add to the discussion, and personal stories are absolutely valid.

Lol, what are you the mayor of reddit? You don’t get to decide how people utilize this platform.

If Carthage didn’t want war then they shouldn’t have grown such luscious figs near my turf. They were basically begging for it.

Personal evidence is anecdotal, I never said it wasn’t? There is nothing wrong with someone sharing a personal story to add to the discussion was my point… Which I thought I made clearly.

Right, but you were dismaying people who refute your anecdotes “because it doesn’t fit their narrative”, which is a perfectly valid thing to do with anecdotal evidence, as it is itself an attempt to build a narrative.

being cautious about dog breds bred over a hundred years of more for violent traits is much the same argument as being cautious about black people*’ false equivalence again.

Racist would often say the similar things about black people in America. Slavery lasted well over a hundred years and slave owners would often have slaves who were brought up to be prize fighters.

A little less so when the main consequence 1/20 people face is something like dry eyes.

even with this personal evidence, you get defenders downvoting the story - not because it doesn’t add to the discussion, buy because it doesn’t suit their narrative.

Not really commenting on the claims made in this argument, but this is anecdotal evidence. Meaning that someone who claims all pitbulls are sweet and docile because of their personal experience is just as valid of an argument as someone saying all pitbulls are bad because of their personal experience.

I don’t really care about pitbulls one way or the other, but I find it worrying that a lot of the times the debates against the breed follow similar argument structures to those utilized by racist pulling up FBI crime stats about black people.

Maybe. But numbers don’t lie

This is only said by people who’ve never actually taken a class about statistics.

Numbers may not lie, but they also don’t make assertions. People suck at interpreting data and that fact is constantly utilized to mislead people.

I’m not saying this to defend pitbulls, just that bite statistics don’t really tell us anything about innate aggression in dog breeds. Just like FBI statistics don’t tell us about innate criminality in ethnicity.

Those bite statistics don’t make any attempt to rule out misleading variables. It could be that pitt bull bites are reported more often because of the extent of harm they cause. It could be that people who gravitate towards breeds who are thought to be more aggressive are wanting and are training for aggression.

Statistics is hard, and can generally be used to shape opinions on just about anything.

Yeap after years of getting my scripts filled at CVS or Walgreens, I recently started getting them filled at the hospital i work at. Man, having a decent pharmacist makes a huge difference. The first round of scripts I had filled one of the pharmacists called asking if I needed a specific version of any of my scripts. They ended up switching my thyroid medication that was costing me a ton every month because for some reason my doc had accidentally selected a gel coating.

If we just allowed Medicare to negotiate pricing with pharmaceutical companies like every other nation with a tax funded medical program we wouldn’t have any of these problems.

I think you can experience some humbling events, but teaching people to be humble isn’t exactly the goal of any of the martial arts. Lots of people just end up learning how to be more effective at violence. I used to do some amateur boxing, and I wouldn’t really claim a lot of the guys I boxed with to be especially humble. Lots of contact sports has a lot of ego involved in it.

think a role model of positive masculinity is a good place to start.

Right, but what about being a judo instructor makes you automatically a positive masculine role model? Steven Seagal instructs aikido an even less aggressive martial arts and he’s a giant piece of shit.

don’t shoot two mags into someone out of self defense and you don’t stab someone 14 times out of self defense.

I work in a trauma ward. It’s not unusual to see people get stabbed dozens of times, whether it’s self defense or not. People who get stabbed don’t get dropped like a gun shot wound victim, they bleed out.

So more often or not if there’s a confrontation with a knife people will keep stabbing until the person stops being a threat, which can take a while.

Lol, could you imagine the type of journalist the DNC would give 20m to?

Yeah… I don’t really think anyone really cares about anyone’s education anymore, at least not past your first employer.

I have to spend a lot of time teaching people in their residencies at my job, and where they went school doesn’t really bring anything to the table. In fact, a lot of the people who went to fancy private medical schools were either overwhelmed by having to talk to our impoverished patient population, or didn’t ever develop healthy ways to mitigate interpersonal conflict.

And I imagine Joe Rogan didn’t start his career by immediately getting ripped and doing steroids.

I just don’t really think something as simple as taking judo classes is really going to do much to tackle a problem that likely started at the socioeconomic scale.

A large part of conservative propaganda is telling individuals that cleaning their room or working out will solve their problems. When in reality the problems are much more complex and likely systemic in nature.

According to what other people posted, my argument seems to be correct. The benefits of extra rotation does not overcome the negative effects of adding additional weight and drag.

"According to the British War Office, the stielhandgranate had a throwing distance of up to 27m while standing, compared to the 35m distance of the more modern and still used M67. Which weighs 30% less and take up 75% less space lengthwise. Even the Mk2( classic pineapple design) reached 30m despite weghing the same as the German one, because it was denser and more aerodynamic.

EDIT: For anyone curious, the ideal shape among those used and weight for distance and accuray is apparently round and ~300g. Reaching a distance of (38.6±6.5 m) and an accuracy of of (6.9±3.9 m).

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apergo.2005.06.008"

Lol, there’s already an obsession with martial arts in America. I don’t think having more people with Joe Rogan brain running around is going to help anyone.

Eh, the extra momentum probably doesn’t overcome the extra weight and drag created by the handle. People are comparing it to an atlatl, but you’re throwing an aerodynamic object with the atlatl, not the atlatl along with the spear.

More than likely the biggest reason is just logistics, extra weight, extra space, additional steps in fabrication.

The mistake is assuming that Orban was ever anything but a populist. Orban never really changed, what changed was the state of populism in central Europe.

Basically, in the 90’s liberal reform was popularized following the implosion of the Soviet Union. However, there was a conservative backlash following the “shock therapy” doctrine the IMF took when reforming the former Soviet block.

Conservative backlash in this case being styled after late Soviet socialism. Which was conservative in social mores, and in nationalist intent, but left leaning in economically. The older more impoverished population wanted to go back to the days before the collapse and before the implementation of shock therapy.

Orban has almost always riden the sentiment of populism whether that be liberalism or the sentiment of the Soviet era. The lone time he abandoned populism was in the early 00’s where he tried to align himself with the middle class, which cost him the election. Since then he has doubled down on his populist agenda.

That is the problem with transitioning your government into a war time economy, once it starts sustaining itself it’s nearly impossible to decouple from without initiating a huge recession.

It’s the reason Putin is treating peace negotiations as a joke, there is no economic incentive for peace. Most foreign capital left Russia after the war in Georgia in 08, and the rest left or were gobbled up by the state after the war in Ukraine.

If the Russian government doesn’t sustain a war in Ukraine or start another war relatively soon their economy will soon spiral out of control. The Guns vs Butter model is still a bitch to deal with, and Russia as a nation throughout history seems to be incapable of learning that particular lesson.