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zapatos

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  1. Can everyone who is on your team please stand up? I must have missed the invitation.
  2. My experience is that banks always figure out their mistakes. I imagine simply giving up and saying 'we can't figure out why our numbers don't match' is unacceptable.
  3. So you opened this thread for help in calculating an average?
  4. You can't just pick a random set of numbers and expect to find a consistent 'rate of change'.
  5. Um, that is what you asked for...
  6. https://news.thin-ink.net/p/we-produce-enough-food-to-feed-15#:~:text=Today%2C the world produces 150,There is enough for everyone. You'll have to explain why you believe we don't have enough of some of the others. With water for example as far as I can tell we have plenty, it is just that people often live in the wrong place. Not enough dairy for whom? Saudi Arabia and Russia are cutting back on oil production due to too much oil on the market. Are we expected to run out soon?
  7. Which resources do we not have enough of?
  8. That was quite interesting to watch!! 😁
  9. They ARE population control. With a side benefit of progress. /tomato tomahtoe
  10. It is also a result of choices made by industries and governments. Everyone who has a voice in the decision on what/where/how to manufacture has an impact.
  11. I don't think anyone needs to be sterilized. Many countries have already shown that simply by being prosperous (and the things that go along with that) is often enough to lead to population decline. Stopping lives from beginning can be achieved through global development. Not many people are opposed to their lives getting better.
  12. Not everyone is doing okay.
  13. My fault. I didn't re-read your post first to understand why you responded the way you did.
  14. Please tell me what that new definition is. Because if you cannot, then how can they possibly consider it? Please show an example of where they are doing this and what that new definition is. NO THEY DON'T!!!!!!! They've ALREADY allowed trans women to compete WITHIN THE TRADITIONAL WOMEN'S CATEGORY!!!
  15. Again, you are the one who is saying how they need to change the definition to function. No one else.
  16. You are the one advocating for them to change it because you say they "have to operate around universally accepted definition." They are not attempting to change it themselves. They are attempting to integrate transgender women into the competition.
  17. Pipes? Toilet tank mechanism? Pumps? Metal components at the sewage plant?
  18. Wonder what all that salt water is going to do to the metal components it comes in contact with. And we've now given the treatment plants the additional responsibility of desalination or risk killing freshwater plants and fish or fouling groundwater when the treated water is discharged.
  19. Then how do you explain the fact that we have men's and women's categories now even though there is no universally accepted definition of male and female? The world is full of examples where we don't have universally accepted definitions yet we function just fine. In my circles, a gun would include my target pistol whereas in the military it only includes "any large-calibre, direct-fire, high-velocity, flat-trajectory artillery piece employing an explosive-filled hollowed metal shell or solid bolt as its primary projectile." What is the universally accepted definition of "football"? How can we study black holes if we don't have a clear definition of what it is? Why must the definition of "woman" be the same for a priest, biologist, sports league, school administrator, justice system, corporation and individual? Sports leagues are free to define 'woman' any way they wish, and if they choose to define 'man' and 'woman' as they've done for the past 50 years, why should they be forced to change that definition now? As I've said to you several times in this thread, I believe the quest for the mythical "one true definition of "woman"" is nothing more than a distraction when it comes to the question of transgenders in sport. We've never had the perfect definition in the past and yet we managed to have men's and women's leagues. The focus needs to be on NEW rules for trans women to compete in the existing women's leagues. There is no need to redefine the OLD rules that define women's leagues as they exist now.
  20. I'm not sure a universally accepted definition of male and female is required. For the purposes of competition we already manage to slot most people into a reasonable category. That is, the way you were identified at birth as male or female works just fine for putting you in the 'male' or 'female' divisions. If you identify as the opposite of the way you were identified at birth and your transition status complies with the rules, then you compete in the category in which you identify/transition. There may be something lacking in the above but I think for the most part we needn't get any more detailed in our definitions of male/female.
  21. I used to compete in a co-ed soccer league. The way they addressed fairness was to limit the number of XY allowed on the field for a given team at one time. With 22 players on the field the XY advantage could be diluted pretty well by numbers alone in a women's league that allowed trans women to play. Men and women use the same size goals now so I don't think a change would be necessary to allow trans women to play.
  22. Sounds like a pretty typical situation for many people.
  23. So, using your definition then, what would you like to discuss?
  24. That is why I clarified by stating: This thread is about adding transgender players to sport, not about some unattainable 'fairness' ideal. So "YES", in this context, it is 'fair' that some people are taller than others and that some have better eyesight.
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