Lmao. The lawyer leading this effort is trying to argue that the president has this authority under the IEEPA, which the Supreme Court just ruled he didn't have the authority to do. These people could not be more dumb.

https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/read-the-laughable-legal-memo-behind-the-claim-that-trump-can-declare-a-national-voting-emergency/

2d ago

Do you still have faith in humanity?

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cattywampas @lemmy.world 2d ago

Yes

2d ago

method acting

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cattywampas @lemmy.world 2d ago

Paywall so I can't read the author's main points, but it's all relative when you say "bad at baseball." Compared to the average person or even the average pro athlete? Yeah it's extremely impressive to play AA ball after not playing since high school, I think he was 14 years removed from the sport. Absolutely an athletic freak with crazy work ethic and natural talent. I'd argue that anyone who makes it to AA is far more than decent. And I think Space Jam kinda gives his baseball skills a bad rap.

But in the context of professional baseball, he wasn't major league caliber. He slashed .202/.289/.266 in 497 plate appearances at 31 years old. If he had continued to play I bet he would have been promoted to the majors at least once for the spectacle, a la Bronny playing on the Lakers with his dad. But I doubt he ever would have been truly serviceable.

Hitting against major league pitching is really, really hard. Like one of the hardest things in sports imo. Like so hard that the best players in the world have to spend years in the minors or foreign leagues to even sniff an MLB roster.

2d ago

How come in American classrooms they make another language an elective. Why not teach our kids as many languages possible that way if we go somewhere we will kind of have uper hand?

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cattywampas @lemmy.world 2d ago

How common is it for students in non-English speaking countries to learn a second language that isn't English? I would imagine not very. Learning a second language isn't very useful if you're not going to use it, and learning it won't be easy if you aren't immersed in it.

2d ago

4Chan knew about Jeffrey Epstein's death 38 minutes before the rest of the world. The FBI tried to figure out how.

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cattywampas @lemmy.world 2d ago

Not impossible, but I don't see what advantage there would be to keeping him alive vs just getting rid of him entirely.

2d ago

Mandala coloring

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cattywampas @lemmy.world 2d ago

I didn't know Nelson Mandala was such a talented artist.

2d ago

What are some things about the past people get wrong today?

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cattywampas @lemmy.world 2d ago

I said most cultures in recorded history have been heteronormative. In Ancient Greece, the most commonly cited example, it was a mixed bag and was more often about pederasty and power dynamics than it was about equal homosexual relationships. It wasn't a one-to-one equivalence of the way we view sexuality today.

As I said, there were times and places where it happened, but you'll struggle to find more than a handful of examples of accepted homosexuality throughout recorded history.

Do you disagree that homosexuality has been overwhelmingly a taboo in pre-modern times? Or that it was ever accepted in a way that it is in developed societies today?