Almost all illnesses are worth avoiding. Take for example, malaria. Dengue has 4-variants which can kill if you’ve already got any one of others the first time. COVID still hasnt been fully researched yet.

Gravitational interaction between the Moon and Earth orbiting each other and the Sun …

Moon/Earth were formed within the influence of the Sun and the solar system.

Unless a giant comet ( attracted by Sun’s larger gravity well?? ) introduced something extra-solar , almost everything is under the influence of the Sun.

So a very unique set of circumstances allowed for a successful story to happen. And it was like catching lightning in a bottle. Kudos to GL’s wife having a guiding hand in shaping important parts of the story. So did so many authors have a collaborating hand in creating the StarWars-EU stories. Many authors worked together. They did not create garbage.

I have distinctly separated “Dismal Disney StarWers” and the EU-StarWars and the GeorgeLucas JarJar-StarWars.

I personally prefer EU-StarWars + the Original Trilogy. GeorgeLucas almost “accidentally” stumbled on a winning formula for a successful Space-Opera and many many many great and successful writers in the EU-StarWars made it the cohesive SW-EU that it has become.

Disney and its garbage writing/production/corp-greed can take everything to their grave.

I WILL NOT CARE about the “new” and “canon” BS. Not Ever.

EDIT: Gatekeeping is probably the only way to save Successful Franchises and IPs these days. So many upcoming “creatives” think they are BETTER THAN THE ORIGINAL AUTHORS. I will be vocal. YOU GET THE EFF OUT OF MY HOBBIES. And if you think naively that authors work in a vacuum, well I guess you never understood how EU-StarWars happened so I don’t expect you to have valid arguments.

Any sports that is competitive requires testing to ensure that no one cheats or has an unfair advantage. If you are against testing in sports, then sports is not what you are looking for.

An Open participant category would solve almost every problem. Only the best of the best will win.

Traditionally, “Women” ( biological XX-chromosome Homo-sapiens ) had their own category due to their inherent physical weakness compared to “Men” ( biological XY-chromosome Homo-sapiens ) in almost every physical category. This allowed “Women” to compete on their own “safe” “fair” “even” “fair” playing field separate from “Men”.

If you want a sports category “Trans-Woman” or “Trans-Man” or “Trans-any / Non-Binary” PLEASE GO FOR IT ! I am not saying anyone should be excluded from sports. But there are reasons that categories exist in sporting events. Be constructive or don’t it is your choice.

:smh: If you have to split hairs what is “Human” I cannot help you. Be Awesome or don’t it is eventually every persons choice to act or not act.

Very interesting

It sucks that everything these days get politically and ideologically bent out of shape. I just want to enjoy sports without all the hoopla and co-opting.

Just too excited waiting for the Paris 2024 to start, hopefully there will be less controversy and more human moments in sports.

Keep Being a Good Human and Calmly Carry On Being Excellent to One Another !

:-D

HRT doesnt level the playing field for benefits gained due to “doping” or “Y-chromosome” development.

Sports should have “XX-chromosome” category i.e. Female/Women sports. And “XY-chromosome” category i.e. Male/Men sports.

And if there are sufficient participants, an “All-Gender” category i.e. Open/Neutral sports.

There is no need to co-opt or include ambiguous situations. Sports should be fair, equal-opportunity and intensely competitive within their segments.

Why not call it the Summerian Theorem ? Or Arabic/Persian/Philistine Triangulation Theorem ?

Yep. You can get it composted quickly enough, you can get the plastic film out of the composting bin, but the microplastics are already seeped in and contaminated the biomass.

you mean cardboard packages with plastic linings ?

Arm them with some special training and survival skills and send them back. Don’t just skip on the opportunity to disrupt Putin’s idiocy.

Also offer full benefits for every high-level Putin govt official and Putin-enabler that they “bring back” with them with lots of “proof”.

Jon Stewart isnt Republican but Republican voters fully understand and agree with many of his viewpoints.

It is possible to have reasonable conversations and discussions with people regardless of their political views.

The question becomes what does the Democratic Party have to do enough to convince people to trust and vote for them ?

A simple example would be the multiple rigging of the Democratic nominee against Bernie Sanders, while RNC does exactly the same kinds of rigging, DNC tried to make themselves seem holier-than-thou and did the exact same things as the RNC.

Guess why so many voters don’t truly believe in elections and “hate”-vote for Drumpf ???

Have good policies and reasonable expectations while keeping almost as many election campaign promises as possible. RNC delivered on their promises by strutting out strawman shit like “Build-the-Wall” … their real purpose was to defund the support networks for immigrants.

Where is the Dream-Act that guarantees citizenship after Military service ??? If the DNC can’t even do their most basic levels of campaign promises, everything sucks and Drumpf wins.

“Evil triumphs when good men do nothing”

Obama is a Centrist-Democrat. Right-wingers AGREED with his policies enough that all they complained about was how much melanin his clothes lacked and lack of head protection. That meant the policies and actions were favorable to Right-wing nuts :-( Cancelling student debt, bailing out families in need, reinforcing the Social-Security, VA, CDC, EPA, FDA and making Roe-Wade into law ( along with the ACA ) in so many ways were sidelined and ignored while 2008 taught the lessons that werent learnt, 2019 hit so hard and so fast nothing could have been effective at stopping the long plunge into the depths.

Centrists do nothing except maintain the status-quo while silently allowing everything that failed to stay broken, while the next cycle of things to break happens over and over again until that deep dark pit becomes the new reality.