ObjectivityIncarnate

The US’s incredible levels of prosperity back then was essentially a unique period of time created by extremely specific circumstances (i.e. the US was THE superpower, and the primary economic force on the planet for decades). There’s a reason the ‘baby boom’ happened then. It was literally a unique slice of world history.

It is unrealistic to expect to ever return to that level. Comparisons between now and then are all disingenuous for that reason.

Instead of framing the changes we want to make in terms of ‘but we had X back then’, they should simply be framed in terms of what improvements are beneficial, feasible, and sustainable, in the present.

Jerk off before you write your comment next time.

Community can suck too. Fuck collectivism. “Simp” for those individuals (actually, more accurately, for the good acts) who deserve it, and not a single person/act more.

whatever the number is now, it’s going to climb a lot.

But, again, it’s literally doing the opposite of climbing, and hasn’t been climbing for ~15 years.

It’s a near-worthless figure anyway—if I have 100 apples and 15 of them are rotten, and you have 5 apples which are all rotten, then I have 75% of all the rotten apples, while you only have 25%. But only 15% of mine are, while 100% of yours are. Which figure is more useful in gleaning information about how rotten person X’s apples are on average?

An actually-useful figure for a country is what percentage of that country’s population is incarcerated.

still climbing

It’s literally doing the opposite, liar (and/or reposter of ancient memes), lol.

It peaked around 2008, at ~24.7%. By 2015, it had fallen to 21%. By 2020, it was 20%.

Data from 2022 indicates the share has continued to trend downwards, though apparently most countries don’t report these statistics as often as the US does, and that seems to be the reason I can’t find a more recent ‘percent of the world’s’ figure. Still, given that it’s been less than the 22% in the meme for at least a decade, I can confidently stand by the first thing I said here.

Yeah, I get the point they’re trying to make, but this is a pretty silly comparison. It’s like “oh, so you can eat a 6” sub but not an 18" pizza? Pff, fake hunger".

The last sentence of my comment is my contradicting an assertion they directly made, with the information that backs up that contradiction above it.

we just barely squeaked Obama into office

???

Obama won in 2008 with 52.9% of the popular vote, a larger % of the popular vote than any President since.

Hillary Clinton won the popular vote in 2016. What are you on about?

The fact that the University of Pennsylvania swimmer soared from a mid-500s ranking (554th in the 200 freestyle; all divisions) in men’s competition to one of the top-ranked swimmers in women’s competition tells the story

In the 100 freestyle, Thomas’ best time prior to her transition was 47.15. At the NCAA Championships, she posted a prelims time in the event of 47.37. That time reflects minimal mitigation of her male-puberty advantage.

During the last season Thomas competed as a member of the Penn men’s team, which was 2018-19, she ranked 554th in the 200 freestyle, 65th in the 500 freestyle and 32nd in the 1650 freestyle. As her career at Penn wrapped, she moved to fifth, first and eighth in those respective events on the women’s deck.

Removing the records set while competing in women’s events seems justified in this case.

That’s why I said “looks like”

Neither gender identity or sexuality is defined by appearance. That’s not any better. All you’re doing is prejudicially perpetuating stereotypes.

I have a feeling if someone said that a person “looks gay” or “looks trans”, you wouldn’t defend them responding to being called out for saying that with ‘I didn’t say they are, just said they look like it!’

Regardless of biology, the mental age/maturity is usually somewhere around there for those who continue to use it unironically, in my experience. It’s just one step away from “yucky”, lol.

A walking man is also a moving object.

We’re all slabs of sapient meat. Get over yourself.

How progressive of you to assume gender identities and sexualities of strangers via a single still image.

women must be the ones to bear the inconvenience in order to prevent unwanted pregnancies.

Women are the ones who get pregnant. Take it up with evolution.

This is like complaining that you’re the one who’s expected to lock your doors to prevent unwanted people in your house. Sure, you CAN choose to trust someone else to lock your doors for you, but ultimately, it IS your house, and YOU’RE the one who suffers the consequences if there’s a break-in, so when it comes down to it, it makes perfect sense to consider it primarily YOUR responsibility to take the precaution against the outcome that YOU (at least, you more than anyone else) don’t want.

Used correctly, condoms are about 1% off from hormonal birth control in effectiveness. But I guess headaches, nausea, and other side effects for women aren’t all that bad compared to some reduced sensation for the penis.

Don’t pretend women don’t also prefer sex without a condom, lol. Condoms are never wanted, by either men or women, when their STI/contraceptive ‘abilities’ aren’t needed.

After all, women are already used to it from their cycles, right?

The biggest irony of this is that women can stop having periods altogether with the right contraception, and that’s one of the many reasons women (especially those who have especially-unpleasant/painful periods) go on them, aside from actually needing to prevent pregnancy.

Uh, yeah, as an idea, lol:

Since spring 2016, we have had the OK from an ethics committee of a renowned clinic in Germany for the clinical study on the Bimek SLV Model 4. Unfortunately, we have not yet been able to find the financial means to start the clinical study.

For an investment of 600k € we could at best have the test valves manufactured. But then there would be no money left to push the study forward in compliance with all medical device laws. If no further investments were made then, the validity of the sterile packaging would expire.

It is not easy to find investors for this project if one is honest and openly communicates known risks.

Seeing “© 2018” at the bottom of the website doesn’t exactly inspire confidence either, lol.

In fairness, I’m pretty sure the vast majority of people favoring the incarceration are not aware of it being more expensive. They only see the dichotomy of punishing the crime vs. allowing the crime.

Mailing someone more letters than they’re capable of replying to is not equivalent to, nor a component of, gaining access to the inside of their home.

Reread what I wrote, I didn’t have a protracted auto loan. I actually paid the car off a few months after I financed it, because I didn’t want to pay any more interest (even at 0.9%) and I could afford it. I don’t even remember what the original term was.

So if you have a history of repaying debts, on time, you get offered lower interest on loans because you’re less of a risk to lend to.

Fixed.