Fixed.

Yes.

HP anything, absolute trash

Anything that accesses Expedia.com

By the standards of the American people, the candidate should be one of those blow up car dealership streamer guys and a Bluetooth speaker playing audio of hero monologues from 80’s “step dad bait” action movies.

The presidency is not one person, it’s an entire administration and general philosophy. We’re fed a lie that these debates always matter, they matter when candidates are unknown and then have a forum to stand out as leaders and educate voters about a vision for the country. That’s NOT the case here, the candidates are wholly known entities and these fucking debates absolutely do not matter.

The people in this country, in their immediate reaction to this debate, demonstrate that they just fundamentally lack the focus, empathv and frankly basic intelligence to process the substance of this or any debate. On average, we respond solely to voice pitch, tonality, body language and facial expressions, like a still developing toddler… Or a dog.

Except AI doesn’t say “Is this it?”

It says, “This is it.”

Without hesitation and while showing you a picture of a dog labeled cat.

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Do you know, has it always been this way, or has the gap gradually widened with the enshitification of medical services to maximize profit?

A bit of a plausible deniability open secret, yes. If I have a restaurant do it behind closed doors, “what I don’t know can’t hurt me” is the approach for most.j9

With no other realized penalty for the individual? Nothing indirect?

This unrealistic hypothetical includes way too much reasoning attempted with the “woke agenda” guy…

It was actually the steak bagel breakfast sandwich at McDonalds… until that garbage institution actually brought it back defector! It trned out to be a weaker approximatation with different/less seasoning on meat and different sauce, but close enough for nostalgia

The idea that you can actually move above your station through the course of your life, when the biggest predictor of wealth/prosperity starts and stops with the zip code you’re born into.

Upward mobility

I just don’t think I agree with this though, and maybe we’ll just stop at a fundamental disagreement.

Again…

• pairing different general body types in weight classes where applicable

• as well as the potential for that general physicality test to set a minimum for a league.

• plus time to normalize true co-ed competition where folks grow up knowing nothing else but normal and aren’t stigmatized for developing their body to fit a given sport’s ideal need.

The third one probably asks the most of current society (though that’s a sad comment on society) in having to accept the appearance of someone actively acting against currently socialized standards of attractiveness associated with assigned sex. But if we could trying embrace those three, my personal hypothesis is that things would level much more than most expect.

The true and only reason that we don’t do this, is that it would label those bottom third or so of males that fear they would be labeled as “less capable than a girl!”. Whereas now, even the worst players on the high school football team can usually get on the team and wear a jersey around campus, regardless of if they ever actually get into games. That kid’s bigoted parent will fight to be sure “their son’s spot” is not earned by a more capable birth assigned female.

Yeah, feels like that or some sort of mock speak miming that the actor does so they can then dub over during post production in Italian, French, Japanese, etc.

I feel like there’s something like that in older 2D animation as well, right? Where they’d animate a character’s mouth to generally move so that when an actor added voice later it was convincing “enough”.

For team sports, don’t all firefighters have to go through the some physical stress test to show they can all operate on the same basic level? Maybe there is that minimum physicality test and if you can pass it, male or female, you become NFL eligible - maybe it’s a combine thing? You can then have since that are more of less fit and capable, as with firefighters, but they’ve all met that standardized minimum to start. How does that not solve this?

For broader need, maybe you could just start with the majority of the Olympics being co-ed and weight class?

In that scenario, I think people may need to be ready to accept that there could still be a “natural” separation in performance by sex to start as even strong athletes may still be socialized to play differently. Give it a generation or so though and I think the weight class thing could normalize competition level as birth-assigned boys and girls grow up playing with each other on the same fields.

Different per instance, but generally, it feels to me like the conscience and reason from Reddit left the body on that day and moved in here at Lemmy. It hasn’t gone back since.

You’re not, OP…

also, feels pretty obvious you haven’t been involved in bidding jobs before - these initial numbers set expectations. If “dad” valued the kid’s talent and time, he would have said, “they’ll give you a number” and/or the message to kid would not have been closed, it would have been open. So instead of, “you’ll do this, thanks bye” it would be a question to kid prior saying, “I know a lot goes into your work, is $500 a good ballpark to give my friend for something like this?”

It’s about expectations and entitlement - you’re essentially my property, so I decided it would be this is indicative of a problem with “dad’s” approach.

If he was serious, your dad seems like a prick that sees you as an appendage that he owns…

This seems as good an opportunity as any to tell him to go fuck himself and learn some boundaries - not sure if you need to hear this, but blood doesn’t get a pass just for being blood. Make ALL the people in your life earn their place there by treating you decently.