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@PointUpright

Normal bloke Making sense of life by fitting it to a spectrum. At the barriers is where the great reveal occurs.

Reality Katılım Eylül 2020
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Vrai@PointUpright·
@PorcGuy @peterboghossian I mean the conscious choice behaviour obviously (I’m not talking flight or fight reaction for instance) Problematic behaviour is conscious choices. Saying your skin colour is causal to problematic behaviour is akin to saying your height or eye colour are also. Absurd proposition
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PorcGuy@PorcGuy·
I’ve never heard that definition of racism. But if believing biology causes behavior, then I’m a big time racist. A huge portion of everything we do is driven by biology. You have to be an idiot or willfully blind to think biology doesn’t influence undesirable (or desirable) behaviors and attributes.
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Peter Boghossian@peterboghossian·
I could solve 90% of the problems in the black community, with one word: Behave
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Vrai@PointUpright·
@PorcGuy @peterboghossian Racism is belief of biological causation to effect of problematic behaviour. It’s abhorrent because you can’t change biology. We are visually dominant so seeing black skin involvement & causality is ascribed to black skin, incorrectly. It’s culture that’s causal & it’s changeable
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PorcGuy@PorcGuy·
@PointUpright @peterboghossian I’d say it’s pretty clear the causes are both cultural and biological. (I’d also say racism is a cultural artifact, not biological). It’s hard to say how much of each, but unless you think it’s cultural factors that make the nba 75% black, genes play a substantial role.
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Vrai@PointUpright·
@manwitheyesopen @peterboghossian Not wrong. You assert causality from 5% of the population as if they have no control. Cultural causality stemming from closer 80% of the population. Thats ok, had not heard of this gene variation so cheers for raising it
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Vrai@PointUpright·
@rawknuckle Good man. Plenty of better alternatives out there without the sacrifices of what NYC offers
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RAW@rawknuckle·
@PointUpright Cant complain when its NYC and 10 min from me + family closeby - but working on something in the future
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RAW@rawknuckle·
Just had an ungodly amount of blood drawn (fasted) - now Im black coffee + cigmaxxing on the beach for a first class flight to Agartha on a Tuesday afternoon Keto.
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Vrai@PointUpright·
@ttmygh @Tennkay1 What a great tie to the place Grant. You must have been bursting with pride that she did. Bravo 🙌
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Grant Williams@ttmygh·
@Tennkay1 My daughter has sung at the Opera House as part of the Aussie Girls’ Choir, so we had a proper tour then. It’s such an architectural marvel and the acoustics are spectacular
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Vrai@PointUpright·
@CliffordAsness @jmhorp Healthcare is a hedge to the appalling food standards you have in the US Blame lies with your industrial food complex for your expensive healthcare
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Jeremy Horpedahl 🥚📉
The reason the US spends more on healthcare than other countries is because we are richer and healthcare is a normal good. The reason we don't get as good health outcomes is largely because of murders, car accidents, and drug ODs (explains half of the gap or so)
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Andreas Steno Larsen@AndreasSteno

I hate high taxes, but why anyone would die on the hill defending the U.S. healthcare system is beyond my understanding. You can't find a system anywhere on Earth that delivers worse value for money. Incredibly expensive. Mediocre outcome.

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Vrai@PointUpright·
@1ChartMaster What is your decision rule to say “we’ve got enough, let’s stop”? Legit question
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Elite Swing Traders
Elite Swing Traders@1ChartMaster·
There’s a time to go long, time to go short and a time to go fishing. 🎣
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Real Mark Latham
Real Mark Latham@RealMarkLatham·
@J_Walter23 If only he could. But any coach picking Robson, Yeo, AFB and Teddy obviously had too many head knocks as a player
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Vrai@PointUpright·
@thecoastguy Same about 6 days worth for me
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Vrai@PointUpright·
@Thomo_Grant It’s the suburban mothers who have led the game to its over officiated soft state
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Grant Thomas@Thomo_Grant·
Ponder this……. Whilst we do not condone violence it’s played a critically important role in the development of the popularity and interest in the game. The first 100 years or so was brutal, unforgiving and sometimes violent. This created incredible tribal passion and energy which our game was built on. It played its part in the games evolution. Imagine for a moment……if the game started in the initial 100 years under the current spectacle (game styles), rules, umpiring, control over danger, contact and risk averse approach? Would it be as popular? Would it have got off the ground and survived world wars, depressions, clubs in financial ruin, no media, social media or tv…..etc etc Honestly I doubt it. So when we think about where the game is, think about where it has come from.
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Vrai@PointUpright·
@_The_Prophet__ England to win the entire thing in a 4-3 thriller against Spain
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SightBringer@_The_Prophet__·
⚡️ France lifts the trophy July 19 at MetLife, and the real final happens five days earlier. Spain and France sit in the same half, so the semifinal is the tournament: the two best sides in the field, and whoever survives it beats anyone waiting on the other side. I take France in that game and in the final, roughly 30% to win it all, double any other team, and here is the mechanism, not the vibe: this is an eight-match tournament in American summer heat, the first World Cup where FIFA mandated hydration breaks in every half, and that format pays squad depth over star ceiling. France is the only contender built for it. Thirteen goals, none conceded in the knockouts, and the scariest attacker alive converting at a goal per game across his entire World Cup career. Argentina comes out of the soft half and gives Messi his final. Egypt, then Switzerland or Colombia, and the last heavyweight in their half just went home with Brazil. I take them through it on class and tournament nous. So the modal ending is the 2022 rematch, and this time France wins it, because the bill for a 39-year-old core arrives in match eight, not match five. The 120 minutes they already spent escaping Cape Verde is the down payment. Argentina’s route protects their legs until the exact moment France’s press starts charging interest. The two live threats to this script, stated as facts about the thesis: Tchouaméni’s groin means France plays Morocco without its midfield destroyer, against a side unbeaten in 34, and that quarterfinal is closer to 65/35 than the blowout the casual money assumes. That is the single most likely exit door. And Spain in the semi is a genuine coin-leaning-France, not a formality: best team in the field by performance, capped only by geometry. If anyone but France wins this World Cup, it’s Spain, and it happens in the semifinal, not the final. The rest resolves as furniture: England grinds past Mexico tonight or dies at altitude in the tournament’s biggest home-crowd trap, Norway is the loaded weapon in Argentina’s half until someone cuts the supply lines to Haaland, and Morocco’s run, the best story in the field, ends in Boston against the one opponent that has never blinked at them. France 30, Spain 14, Argentina 17, the field fighting over scraps. Final answer: France over Argentina and the desk grades it on the nineteenth.
SightBringer@_The_Prophet__

⚡️ Haaland is the purest specialist football has ever produced. He deleted everything from his game. The dribbling, the buildup, the flourish. All of it liquidated and reinvested into a single function: ending attacks. A goal per game at Salzburg. At Dortmund. At City. For Norway. Four systems, three countries, zero adaptation lag. Fastest to 50 Champions League goals in history. Now a goal in 14 straight competitive internationals. The secret is that his finishing happens before the shot exists. The run is timed to the defender’s blind side. The body is open before the ball arrives. The first touch is the shot. Defenders mark where he is. He was never there. Everyone else plays the moment. Haaland plays a half second in the future, and in that half second he is completely alone.

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Vrai@PointUpright·
@peterboghossian This is exactly the same as what has happened since Covid. Mass denial and admission it was largely all unneccesary.
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Peter Boghossian
Peter Boghossian@peterboghossian·
Don't dogpile this guy. Thank him for being honest. He stated that he changed his mind and now understands that a woman cannot have a penis. We are in the beginning of a mass vehement denial where people deny they ever believed any of it. Reward honesty, esp about idiotic things.
J Stewart@triffic_stuff_

🤯 Listen to this extraordinary exchange between Camilla Tominey and Labour’s Health Secretary James Murray. It is genuinely jaw-dropping. Camilla: “You’re quite pro-trans, aren’t you? Do you think a woman can have a penis? Because you did previously?” Murray: “No, I don’t.” Camilla: “So you’ve changed your mind?” Murray: “Yes.” Camilla: “Why?” Murray stumbles. He says he’s been thinking about the issue over recent years and would not now say trans women are women. Camilla hits back: “You must have known that before. You are very well educated. How on earth can you have previously thought that a woman can have a penis?” He had no real answer. Because there isn’t one. This is not some backbench MP. This is the Secretary of State for Health, the man responsible for the entire NHS, puberty blocker policy, women’s health services, and child safeguarding. He spent years either believing or pretending to believe that biological sex is fluid and that women can have penises. Only now, when the Cass Review, court rulings, and public opinion have made that position politically toxic, has he magically “changed his mind”. Think about the damage done while he held that view. The eroded women’s rights. The confused children fast-tracked toward hormones and surgery. The female prisoners and athletes forced to share spaces with biological males. All enabled or ignored by senior Labour figures like him. This level of ideological delusion at the very top of government is not just embarrassing, it is dangerous. Basic biology should never have been up for debate, let alone something a Health Secretary had to “evolve” on.

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Matt Barrie@matt_barrie·
@FreedomAus80100 has there been a investigation into who these people may have killed yet?
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NoMoreGulags@FreedomAus80100·
The fact that these Jihadi are going to walk free and people get prosecuted for booing is absolutely ABSURD
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@_The_Prophet__ England. 60 years of hurt ends this year.
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SightBringer@_The_Prophet__·
⚡️World cup winner prediction?
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Vrai@PointUpright·
@_HelenDale @profgibbons Vic and NSW aren't poles apart You'd get the same experience at the local "rissole" (RSL) in Victoria
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Helen Dale (not on your team, but always fair)
Australian soccer fans embarrassed themselves in the US and are now being referred to as “Naarmgroids”. “Naarm” is (allegedly) the old Aboriginal name for Melbourne. My lord Victoria would you just fucking stop?
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Vrai@PointUpright·
@rawknuckle So many of those Tatts now. Why? I don’t get how they could think it is attractive or appealing in any way
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Vrai@PointUpright·
@bluewolfpack1 they were, and are still, gay Get some Australian Crawl on will ya
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G 🇦🇺@bluewolfpack1·
INXS amped . Smashing bar fridge . Fck yes - we good 💋
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