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hobbesmaster posted:Actually yeah they’d be disqualified too. Actual certified firefighters need to be able to carry people up to a certain weight out of a building while wearing full gear and with oxygen. However I suspect the technique might be a bit different than for men and I’m betting they did not have any guidance on the subject. There are also things that women are better at by definition than men, you don't see Freepers clamoring to have all-woman submarine crews or no more male astronauts. So if they were actually arguing some kind of principle, they'd push for these things as well.
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pseudanonymous posted:There are also things that women are better at by definition than men, you don't see Freepers clamoring to have all-woman submarine crews or no more male astronauts. Don't forget tank crews. (Although really we're just talking about average size by now.)
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Mar 26, 2021 08:14
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What you're saying is that we should be supporting our local senshado team.
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pseudanonymous posted:There are also things that women are better at by definition than men, you don't see Freepers clamoring to have all-woman submarine crews or no more male astronauts. I actually never heard that women were better at being astronauts or submarine crew than men. What's the reason for it?
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Mar 26, 2021 11:33
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Being smaller is useful in both instances.
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quote:During my time undercover at San Francisco State University, I met quite a few liberal, wacko women. What?
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Reflections85 posted:I actually never heard that women were better at being astronauts or submarine crew than men. What's the reason for it? Women (on average!) need less oxygen, water, food and weigh less. Good for submarines, incredibly important for space.
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Mar 26, 2021 15:03
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Women on average need less resources to survive and marginally better upper body strength isn't going to be much of an advantage in these sorts of extreme environments is what I've always been told. ^this^
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Mar 26, 2021 15:08
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I think there's an anime about a bunch of girl astronauts who are chosen in part because they're small and that saved resources. Also they redesigned their space suits to be smaller too for similar reasons which is why you can totally see their butts and boobs. It is anime, after all. edit: It's called Rocket Girls  The first episode is literally called "High School Girl, Lift off!" Anime is gross (and predictable) Scratch Monkey fucked around with this message at 15:51 on Mar 26, 2021 |
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Mar 26, 2021 15:49
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Anime gave us Ouran High School Host Club, so actually it's impossible to say whether it's good or bad
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I mean Rocket girls started out as a light novel (which is just a novel but shorter and marketed to kids) but it apparently won some sci fi awards
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Scratch Monkey posted:What? I think by undercover he just means "Colleges are wacko commie lib institutions and I had to hide my conservatism or else they'd fail me."
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Twelve by Pies posted:I think by undercover he just means "Colleges are wacko commie lib institutions and I had to hide my conservatism or else they'd fail me." Of course, this was quite some time ago, but I'm starting to think that - though I know I should not speak ill of America's rightful rulers - guys who identify as "conservative" may just be full of poo poo! Perhaps even disproportionately so.
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My undergrad was a rich kid Graduate school prep institution in Kentucky that I somehow got a scholarship into. We were still more left students than right, but it was 2002-2006. There was a lot of Toby Keith "We'll put a boot up your rear end!" rah rah post 9/11, early GWOT American bullshit. Anyways, I wrote 310 papers in four years and the majority of classes was debate style that you could very much fail. I remember two or three hard conservatives that were monsters to deal with, because they were good at it. Well read, thought on their feet, and sneaky. Freep doesn't have any of these types. But when I think "Intelligent Conservative" in 2002 it means something pretty different than 2021.
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hobbesmaster posted:Women (on average!) need less oxygen, water, food and weigh less. Good for submarines, incredibly important for space. Also, proportionately fewer women experience vision loss as a result of time in free-fall. https://abcnews.go.com/Health/gravity-affects-men-women-differently/story?id=27026408 quote:While only a small portion of astronauts were studied, 82 percent of male astronauts, or 14 out of 17, were found to have suffered from changes to their vision that researchers called visual impairment intracranial pressure, or VIIP.
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Captain Log posted:My undergrad was a rich kid Graduate school prep institution in Kentucky that I somehow got a scholarship into. We were still more left students than right, but it was 2002-2006. There was a lot of Toby Keith "We'll put a boot up your rear end!" rah rah post 9/11, early GWOT American bullshit. Ted Cruz was a high school/college debate team champion iirc. This will never not be funny to me.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Ted Cruz was a high school/college debate team champion iirc. This will never not be funny to me. Competitive debate and the ability to actually speak to people and persuade or influence them have nothing whatsoever to do with each other.
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Lemniscate Blue posted:Competitive debate and the ability to actually speak to people and persuade or influence them have nothing whatsoever to do with each other. Very good at teaching you to forsake all your own beliefs in the pursuit of points though
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Lemniscate Blue posted:Competitive debate and the ability to actually speak to people and persuade or influence them have nothing whatsoever to do with each other. As a former debater, this is very true.
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Salvage Efforts Continue in Suezquote:To: em2vn quote:To: Seaplaner quote:To: em2vn
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Dropping cruise missiles on the middle east is like the Freeper version of cycling your router when you don't know what's wrong.
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No, because cycling the router actually works sometimes.
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Mar 27, 2021 21:47
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Ah yes, all problems can be solved with explosions. Also lol at "this is actually a secret Chinese plot!"
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hmm, so the problem is that a large boat is blocking the canal. What if we used a missle to create an enormous pile of flaming wreckage? Would that help it be moved?
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I'm pretty sure that's how they made the canal in the first place. They just dug through the landscape with explosive weaponry, like it was a Red Faction game.
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Mantis42 posted:I'm pretty sure that's how they made the canal in the first place. They just dug through the landscape with explosive weaponry, like it was a Red Faction game. They didn't blow up enormous metal objects in the center of the waterway though, I'm pretty sure.
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Mar 27, 2021 23:12
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And there's a world of difference between explosives used for leveling earth/buildings and explosives used to ruin a wedding. One's an exact science while the other has a margin of error
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Captain Monkey posted:hmm, so the problem is that a large boat is blocking the canal. What if we used a missle to create an enormous pile of flaming wreckage? Would that help it be moved? This is honestly the closest statement to trump's presidential response to runs event
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Mantis42 posted:I'm pretty sure that's how they made the canal in the first place. They just dug through the landscape with explosive weaponry, like it was a Red Faction game. I don't know why it takes people so long to dig tunnels. You just get a rocket launcher and an ammo crate and start shooting.
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Look all I'm saying is when I blow up a boat in Advance Wars it completely disappears, clearly it works the same way in real life.
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They really have no idea how big that ship is or how the Suez works or what explosives do. I don't blame them for not understanding the size of the problem, I had to show my mom that picture of the big earth mover looking like a tinker toy next to it before she got the scale, but thinking you can just blow up a (billion dollar?) ship and sail past it is insane.
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If you detonate a large enough nuke directly under the ship you’d vaporize it AND expand the canal. Win-win!
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It'd be triple-win for freepers since it'd mean you'd also get to nuke the middle-east.
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quote:American Navy ships would be blocked from transferring between oceans, temporarily cutting the US Fleet in half. I...uh...they can still just sail around Africa...
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Mar 28, 2021 10:07
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The Chinese Communist Party and ANTIFA are working on a Obamamax class ship they can wedge between South Africa and the Antarctic! 
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Suez spelled backwards is Zeus, leader of the Olympus pantheon. The next Olympic games will be held in Tokyo, just a coincidence or is Nippon (a bunch of CHICOM appeasers) preparing for Pearl Harbor 2.0?
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Nenonen posted:Suez spelled backwards is Zeus, leader of the Olympus pantheon. The next Olympic games will be held in Tokyo, just a coincidence or is Nippon (a bunch of CHICOM appeasers) preparing for Pearl Harbor 2.0?
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Like I mentioned, I have some insanely fundamental relatives. Which is why I found this precious gift on Facebook, mixed in with "OMG NIKE SATAN SHOES MOMMIES BOYCOTT BOYCOTT SCREAM!!!" 
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Ain't no proof like removing most of the letters until it agrees with you. That sure does make sense.
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The Satan shoe thing is loving weird, though Nike isn't actually releasing it or involved in any capacity, it's just the shoes Lil Nas used as the base happen to be Nikes. Still, shoes made in a sweatshop with a drop of blood in them seems like the kind of poo poo someone would make up to parody capitalism.
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