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re: Men vs. Women: Chess
Posted by BoardReader on 3/17/24 at 4:59 pm
If you put them on a full distribution, you'd find exactly that.
from the 25th to 75th percentile, its very likely women would predominate decisively over men.
The bottom quartile and top quartile both would be overwhelmingly male-- the moreso you got to each end of the distribution....
re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Posted by BoardReader on 3/17/24 at 4:48 pm
[quote]The point was more related to the relative inland distribution of population and resources there vs in the US (or Britain)[/quote]
Somewhere between a quarter and a third of the Chinese population lives in an area a bit smaller than Texas+ Oklahoma-- including all the major centers of gove...
re: Tyson vs Paul fight has to be rigged
Posted by BoardReader on 3/16/24 at 3:58 pm
Mike Tyson has been spotted walking with a cane in public, even years after the initial concern he would sometimes us a wheelchair/cane-- it was dismissed originally as a temporary health concern, but its been 2 years now.
He's not some kind of death machine-- he's a broken down shadow who has ...
re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Posted by BoardReader on 3/16/24 at 3:48 pm
[quote]It is surprising that NATO offered.
Why?
Because it was unnecessary.
It was counter to US assurances associated with German reunification.[/quote]
Rememeber, every time you see this old caveat, the person saying it is exposing themselves as utterly full of shite.
No assurance exis...
re: Hard to find bourbon is readily available at Walmart and other grocers in Arizona.
Posted by BoardReader on 3/13/24 at 9:27 pm
What kind of price are you used to paying for mid market bourbon?
If you can't find a 100 1L bottles of Buffalo Trace readily available at $25 in an easy half hour of your home, your retailers are reaming you....
re: Where does this Chiefs' team rank right now?
Posted by BoardReader on 3/12/24 at 4:10 pm
[quote]I would think guys back then would have more of an incentive to play longer.[/quote]
Just the opposite; you can get out while you can still walk-- remember, the NFL pension system hasn't always been a thing-- or you can cripple yourself and really put a harm on your post career earning p...
re: Where does this Chiefs' team rank right now?
Posted by BoardReader on 3/12/24 at 3:48 pm
[quote]To me, the Chiefs doing this in the free agency era makes it more impressive than teams doing it pre-free agency.[/quote]
To me, this is one of the problems of the modern conception of a dynasty-- this effect is pretty overblown.
I could as easily and cogently argue that before Professi...
re: Writer asks “Where are the black people?” in FX’s Shogun series
Posted by BoardReader on 3/12/24 at 3:31 pm
[quote]You really gotta lock in because of the subtitles[/quote]
You can watch it with English dubbing, and pay a bit less attention....
re: Writer asks “Where are the black people?” in FX’s Shogun series
Posted by BoardReader on 3/12/24 at 3:30 pm
[quote]Ainu, the darker-skinned indigenous people of northern Japan[/quote]
This hurts my brain.
The Ainu are generally *lighter* skinned than their southern brethren.
There have been longstanding fights about why they have deeper set eyes and less the traditional Asiatic eye fold, but no o...
re: Guess it's time to get baseball predictions in
Posted by BoardReader on 3/12/24 at 3:15 pm
As a Twins fan, I'd not pencil them in for the Central Division title all that quickly-- I'm surprised not to see some dissent on that note yet; the front of the rotation takes a huge step backwards, TBH.
AL East: Orioles
AL Central: Twins (mostly due to a lack of coherent options)
AL West: ...
re: Where does this Chiefs' team rank right now?
Posted by BoardReader on 3/12/24 at 3:01 pm
[quote]Mahomes and Reid have to be in the top five, right?[/quote]
Five or six is about right.
The Patriots I'd almost split into two eras, but keeping them one limits them to one place on that list.
The mid-70s Steelers, the mid to late 80s 49ers, the early 60s Packers, and the postwar Bro...
re: Lost in Luka's triple double streak
Posted by BoardReader on 3/12/24 at 2:57 pm
Still unimpressed by Slovenian James Harden....
re: Kate Middleton AI Photo & Strange Happening with the Royals
Posted by BoardReader on 3/11/24 at 8:07 pm
[quote]The signatures at the bottom of that document don't exactly represent a House of Windsor admiration society[/quote]
No, they represent a House of Hannover admiration society. Its why they delayed, and remonstrated, and petitioned time and again, rather than just default to 'Screw the Brit...
re: Any of yall keeping up with the Royal Family drama as of late
Posted by BoardReader on 3/11/24 at 8:01 pm
[quote]Yes, it's conservative folks who obsess over celebrity culture.[/quote]
This is precisely the wrong read of this situation.
It not about celebrity culture, at all. Its about institutions.
Every half-wit populist claiming to be conservative that doesn't understand why the Monarchy is...
re: Any of yall keeping up with the Royal Family drama as of late
Posted by BoardReader on 3/11/24 at 5:26 pm
[quote] who gives a flying frick about this family.
Bunch of soft cowards who lost this entire country and is about to lose their own.
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Conservative folks do; the British Monarchy is one of the great Conservative Institutions left in the wider world, and its well being and ability to...
re: Why do colleges not treat communism as bad as fascism?
Posted by BoardReader on 3/7/24 at 5:05 pm
There's a reason, its pretty self-evident.
The flower children of the 60s were the first to receive the windfall of mass college education; for those who did not aim towards the STEM fields, and who had an inherent hostility to capitalism, and who had a knee jerk left wing response to political ...
re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Posted by BoardReader on 3/6/24 at 4:08 pm
[quote]Aren't the Houthi's sending air drones, and not naval drones? What he was talking about were naval drones.[/quote]
Both kinds, actually, and missiles as well- and I'll actually source it for you-
[link=(https://www.stripes.com/theaters/middle_east/2024-01-04/middle-east-houthis-red-sea-...
re: "I'm pregnant but my husband doesn't know that he is not the dad.What do I do?"
Posted by BoardReader on 3/6/24 at 4:03 pm
Is anyone really surprised at the natural progression of encouraging women to adopt the sexual morality of men?...
re: It’s Happening boys. EA Sports College Football is back!
Posted by BoardReader on 3/5/24 at 6:08 pm
[quote]I don't understand it either, are they going to try to block the jersey number too? Create a blond kid named Art Manning and what can they do?[/quote]
From a technical standpoint, stopping it/making it not worth the effort isn't hard. They simply haven't had much incentive to do so, until...
re: Redhead Thread For Those So Inclined NSFW
Posted by BoardReader on 3/4/24 at 4:37 pm
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