Physiological - There's enough issues with men and women serving together in high stress situations. This would be another distraction.
The majority of roles in the military don't involve that though. Some front line troops and special operations people, sure, but most people employed in the military are not even fighters. They are engineers, service staff, administrators, pilots not engaging in dogfights...
And I'd question if being transgender would really have much effect on those situations anyway. It doesn't make people unable to deal with stress or "distracted".
Reminds me of the Apollo missions to the moon. There was a maximum height requirement for astronauts, due to the spacecraft being so small. Of course, back then women were not even considered and the fact that the USSR put a woman in space was seen as more of a stunt than anything.
In practical terms there would be little to gain from making fighter aircraft slightly smaller for smaller pilots. The very slight performance advantage would be offset by having a smaller pool of suitable pilots.
I think you mean "courts uphold the constitution all the time".
If there is a legal challenge here, it's likely to be on the basis of not discriminating against people with a recognized, diagnosed medical condition. Being the military there might be an argument about fitness to serve, but if that person can perform their duties...
How does the military treat people with other medical problems, like needing glasses or getting cancer or suffering from PTSD?
That's why elections are a shitty way to handle most issues.
Also, trying to sweep is under the rug is a pretty nasty thing to do when it's something that has a huge impact on an not insignificant number of people's lives.
Just to expand on that a little, the issue with parallel busses became that data on each line would arrive out of sync with other lines and the clock.
For example, PCIe 4.0 is 16 gigabits/second per serial channel. Each bit has a width of 0.0625 nanoseconds, during which time light can travel about 18mm. If you wanted to transfer say 32 bits in parallel like the old PCI bus, you would need 32 connections. Problem is that for practical reasons the PCIe slot needs to be quite wide, so if your 32 pins are spaced over say 18mm then the extra distance that a signal at one end has to travel compared to a signal at the other end will mean its signal arrives one clock cycle later than the other.
Then there is clock jitter. When you have a 16GHz clock, the variation from one cycle to the next is a huge problem and low jitter clocks at that speed are very expensive and tricky to use.
You also need to use very small signals when you get up to those clock rates. There is something called slew rate, the speed at which voltage can change. You can either make the change happen faster, which we did and is now quite hard, or you can lower the voltage so it doesn't have as far to go. But lowering the voltage also makes it more prone to electrical noise.
The solution is to use serial. One one differential signal for both clock and data. Differential signals have much better noise immunity, and as an added bonus you only need an 8GHz data rate on either line to get a combined data rate of 16Gb/sec. It also means your cables are smaller and easier to manage, the electronics are much simpler and cheaper etc.
To clarify, and I almost wrote this in the original post, I don't imagine all or even most women think that way. Just enough to cause the drop in interest we have seen reported by surveys. Some women are very happy to be full time parents, and it's a great choice if you are lucky enough to be able to make it. But enough don't want to give up a career or independence to affect the numbers.
I didn't imply your arguments are irrational. There are many other ways they can be wrong;-)
I wonder though, is the way to get more men interested in marriage to yell at them about how immature and selfish they are?
Probably not... It would be better to give marriage a clearer definition, via education. If men, and women for that matter, understood it better and if they could see the value they get from it, they might be more inclined to go for it, and also to avoid it when it's not a good idea.
I think a lot of people now see less formal relationships as equally good as marriage. In some ways they are, in others... Well, I tend to think of marriage as a standard contract covering stuff like inheritance, which is clearly useful to have.
I wonder though, is the way to get more men interested in marriage to yell at them about how immature and selfish they are?
Who are these people, and where are they?
I guess it's true that when comparing a modern marriage to a traditional one, it's been the men that had to moderate their behaviour a lot more than the women. That's just an unavoidable consequence of historic norms. But that's a long way from what you describe.
I think however that you and I should be able to find some common ground, that these immature and selfish men removing themselves from the relationship and reproduction pool should be seen as a positive by women, who will then be able to concentrate on all the worthy men who are left.
Hmm, I'd rather find some way to communicate with those guys so that they can form happy relationships.
When did "women won't have sex with me" turn into "women hate all men".
It's a coping mechanism. Rather than thinking that they are somehow inadequate or unlovable, they choose to believe that women simply hate men and are only trying to exploit them. That way not only isn't it a personal failing, it's actually a positive thing, unlike the poor cucks and betas getting used.
It started with the Men Going Their Own Way (MGTOW) movement, and kind of developed into a philosophy until it was adopted by other groups like incels (guys suffering "involuntary celibacy", i.e. can't get a anyone to sleep with them) and simple misogynists too.
I have some sympathy for those guys, a lot of them have clearly had bad experiences, and relationships are very important to people. But reading some of the stuff on Reddit is pretty scary.
The Intel platform didn't really offer anything compelling either. Nothing you couldn't do with an Arduino shield.
As well as being ridiculously expensive, it was entering a very crowded market. Arduino and the various versions on one side, Raspberry Pi on the other. There was just no need for an Intel product.
The super rich could buy a supersonic aircraft today if there was demand. Some ran the old Tupolev Tu-144 supersonic airliner, but demand wasn't there to keep providing maintenance or build new ones.
It will need to be relatively affordable to be a viable product.
Get one without a cellular modem. If it was wifi or a PC connection, don't connect it. If it doesn't work without that, return it.
Returns are actually a great way to punish companies that try to hide bullshit in the EULA and don't clearly advertise that their products need spying enabled to work. You can usually get them to pay return postage in the UK, dunno about other places.
Few years ago there was this fantastic documentary on the BBC about a guy with small dick. At a certain moment he invited 3 ladies to the studio. At first the ladies were sooooo dismissive and derisive about "dick fear" and were like "no size is not that important; it is other men that made you fell inadequate because men make porn and porn is unrealistic". So he asked them to model from clay the perfect dick for them. Guess what - all 3 models were significantly above average both in length and girt. Talking about who instills inferiority complexes in men , eh:)
Those ladies probably don't care about size, at least consciously. The problem is that most people don't see a lot of genitals in real life, the majority are in porn. And they don't hire porn stars for their acting skills, and of course shaving pubic hair makes it look bigger too. So subconsciously they have an unrealistic image of what a normal size penis is like, and are influenced by what porn portrays as "ideal". They probably have similar ideas about the shape of the female body, due to airbrushed magazines full of skinny models.
It's really important that we try to combat this with more realistic models and by talking about what most bodies are really like. And studies like this don't really tell us anything about how those women would react if they met the guy and ended up in bed with him... I imagine that dick size is probably not a big factor compared to how the guy treats them, how he touches them, the things he says... It's not like lesbians have unfulfilling sex.
The thing is, women will never admit the fact that they are the dominant gender, always have been and always will be.
For much of history women have been little more than property at best, so I don't think that's true. Even just 150 years ago, if a gentleman's wife died he could expect to marry her younger sister if someone else hadn't already claimed her.
We are tools for their survival and procreation.
You could make the same argument about women. The reality is that both genders need each other in order to procreate, but relationships are about more than just finding a sperm sample or womb.
Women live longer, are healthier and are overly protected by society. And that is how it should be
Disagree, men should have equality here. For practical reasons it may never be exactly equal, but there is a lot we could do to help men live longer.
Women went off marriage because it was a crappy deal for them. The strong expectation was to give up their career, become the main care giver for the kids. As that changed and marriage got more compatible with ideas of gender equality, they started showing more interest again.
I don't agree that there are convincing or rational arguments that marriage is a bad deal for men. Okay, there are some legal issues in some places, but the same thing is true for women and has always been (e.g. spousal rape laws, unequal rights to request divorce). What has changed is that men now have greater responsibility and less control in marriage, and some men don't like that.
One of the most common arguments is about financial responsibilities after divorce. Others are complaints about women no longer having to "obey" their husbands (that actually came up in court in the UK a few years ago - a juror asked if a wife's lie could be excused as following her old fashioned marriage vows), or fulfil traditional wife roles. And I think a lot of people just rush into marriage too quickly and then decide they don't want to be with that person, but already have kids and a shared life (house, property, bank account) that is hard to unravel. They feel jilted and angry that they can't just walk away when all the unreasonable behaviour was on their partner's side.
As for educated women not wanting to marry less educated men... To the extent that it does happen, it is a problem, I agree, but a relatively minor one in the scheme of things.
Banning the pill doesn't sound like a very clever thing to do. Even if you don't care about reproductive rights, keeping population growth down is pretty important.
How about instead of screaming at straw feminists we look for a solution that helps everyone?
90 indefinitely, easily. To get it to overheat you would need to go to a track, put it in ludicrous mode and do a lot of braking and accelerating for 20+ minutes. There are videos on YouTube of people doing just that.
Note that after 20 minutes a petrol car doing the same thing would be having similar issues, and running out of fuel. The kind of supercar that can keep up tends not to have a very big tank, but does have a hybrid drive system with battery.
Are you kidding? Low centre of gravity, active cooling... Have you even seen Formula E? Do you know that the Model S will easily top 150 with massive acceleration right up to the limit?
60 is what you hit 2.2 seconds after pressing the pedal, not even half way to the limit.
Considering that these are the first few generations of car we are seeing, and they already blow away all but the most extreme and expensive dino-juice burners for a fraction of the cost... And when you are just commuting, they are easier and smoother to drive than automatics.
I've almost given up on brick and mortar shops because the never seem to have what I need. Beyond some basic daily life stuff and food, I either have to travel a long way or order online in the UK.
In Tokyo some shops are offering 1 hour delivery to your door now. Actually the first was Yodobashi, which has several massive physical shops in Tokyo anyway, but some online retailers with warehouses in that area now offer it too.
Having said that, Yamato Transport, which does deliveries for Amazon, has decided to jack up the price Amazon pays by 30% and cut down the hours its staff work recently.
Maybe the solution is some kind of hybrid system... I wouldn't mind walking to a nearby convenience store that is open into the evening just to collect items I ordered.
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Physiological - There's enough issues with men and women serving together in high stress situations. This would be another distraction.
The majority of roles in the military don't involve that though. Some front line troops and special operations people, sure, but most people employed in the military are not even fighters. They are engineers, service staff, administrators, pilots not engaging in dogfights...
And I'd question if being transgender would really have much effect on those situations anyway. It doesn't make people unable to deal with stress or "distracted".
Reminds me of the Apollo missions to the moon. There was a maximum height requirement for astronauts, due to the spacecraft being so small. Of course, back then women were not even considered and the fact that the USSR put a woman in space was seen as more of a stunt than anything.
In practical terms there would be little to gain from making fighter aircraft slightly smaller for smaller pilots. The very slight performance advantage would be offset by having a smaller pool of suitable pilots.
I think you mean "courts uphold the constitution all the time".
If there is a legal challenge here, it's likely to be on the basis of not discriminating against people with a recognized, diagnosed medical condition. Being the military there might be an argument about fitness to serve, but if that person can perform their duties...
How does the military treat people with other medical problems, like needing glasses or getting cancer or suffering from PTSD?
That's why elections are a shitty way to handle most issues.
Also, trying to sweep is under the rug is a pretty nasty thing to do when it's something that has a huge impact on an not insignificant number of people's lives.
Just to expand on that a little, the issue with parallel busses became that data on each line would arrive out of sync with other lines and the clock.
For example, PCIe 4.0 is 16 gigabits/second per serial channel. Each bit has a width of 0.0625 nanoseconds, during which time light can travel about 18mm. If you wanted to transfer say 32 bits in parallel like the old PCI bus, you would need 32 connections. Problem is that for practical reasons the PCIe slot needs to be quite wide, so if your 32 pins are spaced over say 18mm then the extra distance that a signal at one end has to travel compared to a signal at the other end will mean its signal arrives one clock cycle later than the other.
Then there is clock jitter. When you have a 16GHz clock, the variation from one cycle to the next is a huge problem and low jitter clocks at that speed are very expensive and tricky to use.
You also need to use very small signals when you get up to those clock rates. There is something called slew rate, the speed at which voltage can change. You can either make the change happen faster, which we did and is now quite hard, or you can lower the voltage so it doesn't have as far to go. But lowering the voltage also makes it more prone to electrical noise.
The solution is to use serial. One one differential signal for both clock and data. Differential signals have much better noise immunity, and as an added bonus you only need an 8GHz data rate on either line to get a combined data rate of 16Gb/sec. It also means your cables are smaller and easier to manage, the electronics are much simpler and cheaper etc.
To clarify, and I almost wrote this in the original post, I don't imagine all or even most women think that way. Just enough to cause the drop in interest we have seen reported by surveys. Some women are very happy to be full time parents, and it's a great choice if you are lucky enough to be able to make it. But enough don't want to give up a career or independence to affect the numbers.
You can invalidate my arguments as irrational
I didn't imply your arguments are irrational. There are many other ways they can be wrong ;-)
I wonder though, is the way to get more men interested in marriage to yell at them about how immature and selfish they are?
Probably not... It would be better to give marriage a clearer definition, via education. If men, and women for that matter, understood it better and if they could see the value they get from it, they might be more inclined to go for it, and also to avoid it when it's not a good idea.
I think a lot of people now see less formal relationships as equally good as marriage. In some ways they are, in others... Well, I tend to think of marriage as a standard contract covering stuff like inheritance, which is clearly useful to have.
I wonder though, is the way to get more men interested in marriage to yell at them about how immature and selfish they are?
Who are these people, and where are they?
I guess it's true that when comparing a modern marriage to a traditional one, it's been the men that had to moderate their behaviour a lot more than the women. That's just an unavoidable consequence of historic norms. But that's a long way from what you describe.
I think however that you and I should be able to find some common ground, that these immature and selfish men removing themselves from the relationship and reproduction pool should be seen as a positive by women, who will then be able to concentrate on all the worthy men who are left.
Hmm, I'd rather find some way to communicate with those guys so that they can form happy relationships.
When did "women won't have sex with me" turn into "women hate all men".
It's a coping mechanism. Rather than thinking that they are somehow inadequate or unlovable, they choose to believe that women simply hate men and are only trying to exploit them. That way not only isn't it a personal failing, it's actually a positive thing, unlike the poor cucks and betas getting used.
It started with the Men Going Their Own Way (MGTOW) movement, and kind of developed into a philosophy until it was adopted by other groups like incels (guys suffering "involuntary celibacy", i.e. can't get a anyone to sleep with them) and simple misogynists too.
I have some sympathy for those guys, a lot of them have clearly had bad experiences, and relationships are very important to people. But reading some of the stuff on Reddit is pretty scary.
Flaimbait? The pro-nuke lobby has mod points today.
The Intel platform didn't really offer anything compelling either. Nothing you couldn't do with an Arduino shield.
As well as being ridiculously expensive, it was entering a very crowded market. Arduino and the various versions on one side, Raspberry Pi on the other. There was just no need for an Intel product.
According to this the fuel cost is about 3% on a short haul flight. Even if it's 6% on long haul, that would be $90.
The super rich could buy a supersonic aircraft today if there was demand. Some ran the old Tupolev Tu-144 supersonic airliner, but demand wasn't there to keep providing maintenance or build new ones.
It will need to be relatively affordable to be a viable product.
Not just NASA either, JAXA (the Japanese space agency) has been test flying scale models of aircraft that are designed to reduce sonic boom noise.
Get one without a cellular modem. If it was wifi or a PC connection, don't connect it. If it doesn't work without that, return it.
Returns are actually a great way to punish companies that try to hide bullshit in the EULA and don't clearly advertise that their products need spying enabled to work. You can usually get them to pay return postage in the UK, dunno about other places.
Strange, the report doesn't mention the millions of Apple internet shill jobs... Maybe they count as volunteers.
Few years ago there was this fantastic documentary on the BBC about a guy with small dick. At a certain moment he invited 3 ladies to the studio. At first the ladies were sooooo dismissive and derisive about "dick fear" and were like "no size is not that important; it is other men that made you fell inadequate because men make porn and porn is unrealistic". So he asked them to model from clay the perfect dick for them. Guess what - all 3 models were significantly above average both in length and girt. Talking about who instills inferiority complexes in men , eh :)
Those ladies probably don't care about size, at least consciously. The problem is that most people don't see a lot of genitals in real life, the majority are in porn. And they don't hire porn stars for their acting skills, and of course shaving pubic hair makes it look bigger too. So subconsciously they have an unrealistic image of what a normal size penis is like, and are influenced by what porn portrays as "ideal". They probably have similar ideas about the shape of the female body, due to airbrushed magazines full of skinny models.
It's really important that we try to combat this with more realistic models and by talking about what most bodies are really like. And studies like this don't really tell us anything about how those women would react if they met the guy and ended up in bed with him... I imagine that dick size is probably not a big factor compared to how the guy treats them, how he touches them, the things he says... It's not like lesbians have unfulfilling sex.
The thing is, women will never admit the fact that they are the dominant gender, always have been and always will be.
For much of history women have been little more than property at best, so I don't think that's true. Even just 150 years ago, if a gentleman's wife died he could expect to marry her younger sister if someone else hadn't already claimed her.
We are tools for their survival and procreation.
You could make the same argument about women. The reality is that both genders need each other in order to procreate, but relationships are about more than just finding a sperm sample or womb.
Women live longer, are healthier and are overly protected by society. And that is how it should be
Disagree, men should have equality here. For practical reasons it may never be exactly equal, but there is a lot we could do to help men live longer.
Women went off marriage because it was a crappy deal for them. The strong expectation was to give up their career, become the main care giver for the kids. As that changed and marriage got more compatible with ideas of gender equality, they started showing more interest again.
I don't agree that there are convincing or rational arguments that marriage is a bad deal for men. Okay, there are some legal issues in some places, but the same thing is true for women and has always been (e.g. spousal rape laws, unequal rights to request divorce). What has changed is that men now have greater responsibility and less control in marriage, and some men don't like that.
One of the most common arguments is about financial responsibilities after divorce. Others are complaints about women no longer having to "obey" their husbands (that actually came up in court in the UK a few years ago - a juror asked if a wife's lie could be excused as following her old fashioned marriage vows), or fulfil traditional wife roles. And I think a lot of people just rush into marriage too quickly and then decide they don't want to be with that person, but already have kids and a shared life (house, property, bank account) that is hard to unravel. They feel jilted and angry that they can't just walk away when all the unreasonable behaviour was on their partner's side.
As for educated women not wanting to marry less educated men... To the extent that it does happen, it is a problem, I agree, but a relatively minor one in the scheme of things.
Banning the pill doesn't sound like a very clever thing to do. Even if you don't care about reproductive rights, keeping population growth down is pretty important.
How about instead of screaming at straw feminists we look for a solution that helps everyone?
How is "the most highly educated women, those in academia, hating men" supposed to lower the male population's sperm count?
That's one batshit crazy conspiracy theory.
And it's not even true. The biggest misandrists are men, the ones who go around calling others "beta" and "cuck" all day.
90 indefinitely, easily. To get it to overheat you would need to go to a track, put it in ludicrous mode and do a lot of braking and accelerating for 20+ minutes. There are videos on YouTube of people doing just that.
Note that after 20 minutes a petrol car doing the same thing would be having similar issues, and running out of fuel. The kind of supercar that can keep up tends not to have a very big tank, but does have a hybrid drive system with battery.
Sounds like the perfect application for a tinfoil hat (or jacket if you have a pacemaker).
Are you kidding? Low centre of gravity, active cooling... Have you even seen Formula E? Do you know that the Model S will easily top 150 with massive acceleration right up to the limit?
60 is what you hit 2.2 seconds after pressing the pedal, not even half way to the limit.
Considering that these are the first few generations of car we are seeing, and they already blow away all but the most extreme and expensive dino-juice burners for a fraction of the cost... And when you are just commuting, they are easier and smoother to drive than automatics.
Welcome to adult life. There are loads of fun things that you aren't allowed to do, because they fuck up other people.
Anyway, EVs are loads of fun. Ridiculous amounts of power, 0-60 times that put supercars to shame...
I've almost given up on brick and mortar shops because the never seem to have what I need. Beyond some basic daily life stuff and food, I either have to travel a long way or order online in the UK.
In Tokyo some shops are offering 1 hour delivery to your door now. Actually the first was Yodobashi, which has several massive physical shops in Tokyo anyway, but some online retailers with warehouses in that area now offer it too.
Having said that, Yamato Transport, which does deliveries for Amazon, has decided to jack up the price Amazon pays by 30% and cut down the hours its staff work recently.
Maybe the solution is some kind of hybrid system... I wouldn't mind walking to a nearby convenience store that is open into the evening just to collect items I ordered.
Always always always check historical prices on Amazon before buying anything. CamelCamelCamel is a good resource for doing that.