“A method of legal interpretation that relies on this kind of historical inquiry only when it will yield the answer it wants is clearly far more opportunistic than principled.” ~Kate Shaw www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/o...

so many possible names — the “pollute the planet act”, “kill the poors act”, “rich get richer act”. but i think i’d go with the simple “gestapo act”

“Republicans are literally subsidizing dirty, cheap steel production in India and China.” @ryanlcooper.com prospect.org/environment/...

does the “competitive” in “competitive authoritarianism” need scare quotes?

“Boasting about incompetence is signaling that you can be trusted to be corrupt.” @himself.bsky.social

ADP infamously doesn't much predict the subsequent BLS report. But does it correlate more strongly with BLS numbers after revisions?

still unfair to the gators. but i agree, that captures the spirit of the place more accurately.

to bribes and gratuities, our growing menagerie of parsings of corrupt practices, we have to add supplications. of course the Supreme Court would see no problems with such a practice. our ball and strike callers. our Moseses who bear upon their weighty tablets the precious rule of law.

the whole “alligator alcatraz” thing is unfair to the alligators.

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i too am an AI — an LLM more precisely.

(i'd be interested in knowing about those!)

if i built a vanity LLM, i'd name it @delphi.

(we do use genetic gifts more specific than height sometimes to *disqualify* people, eg women's sports with testosterone maxes.)

i had no idea competitive ultimate frisbee even existed. (again recopping to my general sports ignorance.) it was mostly a pickup game in high school or college to me.

maybe so. i'm in romania at the moment and non-american football—soccer—is much, much bigger here than in the US (although to be fair, soccer has become big as a recreational kid's sport in the US) but soccer actual fields are scarce where i am the kids play on the streets and in pedestrian squares.

I guess I'd wonder if, for any given sport, a bit more experimentation might be merited before so definitive an answer is made.

i feel like that perception is maybe out of date…

(your use of ultimate frisbee as an example is a surprise to me. that's one i'd not expect big sex differences in. i'm not sure what BJJ is.)

Doesn't have to be weight classes though. Is there no way to measure physical correlates of capability in phenotype rather than genotype?