hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
12hr ago
Because hygiene is taught to teenaged boys- or was, up until recently- in large part through sports. Nerds don't participate in them, thus they don't learn many of the normal hygiene rules.
hydroacetylene
12hr ago
Something, something, building trust, Head Start, maybe the norms of black Americans?
Entirely possible. Publicly funded preschool is dealing with a different crowd- and unlike many crowds, this is one where the institution often knows better than the parent(s)(and this is a very different thing from knowing best).
hydroacetylene
17hr ago
In Texas concealed carry is often enough not concealed very well.
hydroacetylene
17hr ago
Uh, isn’t non-commonwealth rugby Union mostly in countries with very heavy British influence to begin with?
hydroacetylene
17hr ago
It got Mbappe the golden boot and it’s consistently one of the better games of the tournament. This year was a really good game for watching.
hydroacetylene
17hr ago
One does not ‘bring back’ mexican coke, one pays a price premium for it in any store. It doesn’t make enough of a difference to really be worth it, but for those who would like to, you can simply pay more from normal mainstream retailers.
hydroacetylene
17hr ago
Ok but academics can’t actually do anything about that(Trump is ruling by decree, even if it’s greatly exaggerated). They are, in fact, making the problem worse, by pushing democrats to nominate people who believe their theories.
hydroacetylene
17hr ago
‘People’ don’t watch 37 seasons of cops. People watch cops when they’re bored, they don’t follow the franchise.
hydroacetylene
20hr ago
The worlds major sporting powers probably could. Lots of rugby players on it, of course, but American football isn’t completely unknown over there either.
hydroacetylene
22hr ago
American football is expensive but it’s within the realm of what Western Europe could afford- after all it took off in America when we were a lot poorer than they are now. Could Europeans fill out a full team? Probably, a number of those countries are very competitive across a range of different sports.
hydroacetylene
22hr ago
College quidditch is also notable for being ridiculous and inane as a sport. They run around with brooms held between their legs, even.
Like ultimate frisbee is not that.
hydroacetylene
22hr ago
And then people unfamiliar with sports tried to make quidditch real, giving ammunition to ‘JKR made a fictional sport, not a real one’.
hydroacetylene
22hr ago
American football is ludicrously more expensive and has more specialized players. But typically rugby(and Canadian football) players find more success slotting into American football teams than the reverse, and I struggle to believe that high income countries can’t afford to build NFL teams.
But the other thing to point out is that the NFL is not, primarily, a sporting organization, it’s an entertainment platform. A limited number of teams isn’t going to expand, because the NFL’s success formula is celebrities+tabloid fodder+a big show that’s easy to televise- and thats a lot harder to replicate. Hardcore sports fans in the US are pivoting away from the NFL and towards things like hockey and soccer(college football is also huge, but it’s a class/cultural phenomenon).
hydroacetylene
22hr ago
Cuba being right next to the USA brings in lots of investment, they’re mineral rich, and they were probably destined to have at least some shipping income.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
What is ‘traditional anthropology’? Margaret Meade’s work was mostly based on lies. Early anthropologists said all kinds of crazy shit. The field has been ideologically driven fan fiction, sloppy research techniques, and actual lies since the beginning.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
No, whatever is done about academia will cause lots of collateral damage to things like medical and engineering research.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
In fairness, Spain had 12 goals blocked, which only happened because Argentina has the best keeper in the world.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
There are lots of countries that are wealthy enough to play American Football- but soccer got to Africa from France, not the other way around.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I mean, you should vote. But if you want something higher impact, volunteer with local campaigns that oppose flock cameras. Many local elections are nonpartisan and people are simply lost as to who to vote for; a door knock or a phone call can replace the all important (R) or (D).
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Folding knives are extremely normal for Americans to have in their pockets for opening boxes and the like; even if it's technically illegal nobody cares outside of the sorts of places that already have metal detectors.
Then again, this is the country where a day long class and a background check entitles people in most states to carry a firearm anywhere they go.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
That's actually not true- the handful of sports whose ancestors were clearly documented functioned as a substitution for war. A lacrosse match substituted for a battle.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Actually soccer, rugby, and cricket spread out from England at about the same time, but soccer got the widest adoption and displaced the others, in both rich and poor countries alike. Rugby and its descendants(like American and Canadian football, or Australian rules football) are dominant in most anglosphere colonies, but not in Britain itself.
Soccer is an awesome sport. It has rules that are simple enough that everyone can understand them- but at the same time, they don't let everyone get away with murder. It's not highly scripted. It isn't a sport that rewards sheer mass over athleticism. Anyone except the wheelchair bound can play, anywhere, anytime. It's the world's sport for a reason, it beat out rugby and cricket for a reason.
Tiny nations could not put up a fight in America’s sports even if they played them at the same rate.
Tiny nations do, however, do this. The rugby powers could field good American Football teams if they wanted to, probably quite quickly. Plenty of small european countries already field good basketball teams- Serbia actually pushed the US to the brink for olympic gold. And Latin American baseball players are extremely common.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
In practice, that is not how it works- excommunications are publicized as a judgement that the extenuating factors don’t apply. The lack of publication of excommunications serves as a judgement that whatever reason they have for doing it(in this case, almost certainly persecution) is good enough to dispense from the law.
Lone cranks doing crank things under the radar is the reason for the látame sententiae cannons, when high profile behavior goes unpunished it can be assumed to be judged not excommunicating.
The virgin birth was seen by contemporary pagans as being less believable than the resurrection. It was definitely out there weird- and Romulus and Remus's mother was generally understood to have had normal intercourse, just with a god.
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