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I really don't know.

We are just going to have to disagree on this. There no way I think women can compete at that level and unless they do something like play an u16 team and lose to prove it the discussion probably won't go anywhere.

Women get bullied around playing against men in a way that is just not apparent when they play with women. I can't speak for basketball too much but whenever I have played against the best girls in football the different in strength is astronomical. Someone like me who's not great at football but always been athletic the effort to overcome that strength difference is too much. A women could have way more skill and ability than me, yet that gap is smaller than the advantage I have with strength and even speed.

How would you say women compare to men? Are there any areas where they are noticeably worse than men?

How often did you play with women/ girls?

I don't know how so many people are so devoid of understanding of something that is such an integral part of human civilisation the world over.

People find something they like. Let's say is basketball. They like playing the game and want to be better so like watching people better than them so they tend to watch the best. Then they also find out they like watching it for entertainment sake. But anyone that has ever watched kids play sport know watching lower quality sport rapidly decrease in entertainment value.

Why would you go actively out of your way to watch an inferior product?

There are so many amateur male athletes that are better than female athletes. But no one goes down to their local game and watch a load of randomers play sport.

People watch the top league usually the club and the international if that sport is international. Then they will watch not their favourite team but other teams to get a better idea of the league. Then they will watch the feeder youth league if they want to. Then other countries leagues or lower leagues. All of these link together and all of them will be a better level than top women's league.

Usually at the point you run out of time to watch any more or you just like sport in general and go watch the top tier of another sport.

There needs to be a reason to watch and the only reason I have found to watch women's sport was to watch the UFC because that's a player on player sport not achieving something. But the women have a lot less power and a lot more flexibility so the strategy is entirely different and sport looks different. In that sense in that entertainment value men can't achieve that, in all other sports men seem to do what women do but better.

Are you an athletic person? Do you enjoy playing team sports and exercising?

Something makes me think you aren't.

I don't think that's a fair comparison as Nerd is usually seen as a negative trait, where having good traditional traits is seen as a positive.

It's taking a nerd and using that negativity despite not liking it to exploit gain.

Where as having traditional wife is choose a positive because you like that positive.

Sodium ion and iron batteries making big commercial plays this year

"If things go according to plan in Lincoln, the project will hold 8,500 megawatt-hours of energy — that’s more than any existing battery plant in the world today some pumped-hydro storage plants do hold more electricity, but those are large construction projects, not mass-produced batteries."

“This is a very natural next step in terms of scaling up and deployments,” Jaramillo said, adding that it’s actually not a huge outlier compared with other projects Form is working on but hasn’t yet publicized: ​“There will be other utility projects that get announced that are the same size or larger.”

Could be a genuine game changer. Batteries made of cheap iron.

I don't know why but I have been craving smoking so much lately. Just the activity of it.

I never even been a smoker before, just scabbed some off mates. Haven't smoked at all in over a year.

Where is this craving coming from!

I travel.

Not even gap year. Full on quitting multiple jobs and moving to another country and finding a job travelling.

People talk about it but most people are too scared and find excuses. Other people have legitimate reasons though.

They testing the driving ability not the cars themselves.

New countries would require them to go all through the regulation approval and teaching the car to drive in different countries with different rules. The USA is massive and diverse. Might as well start there.

Watched the Waterboy again.

Sad they don't make good comedy movies anymore. Would recommend it. Recently watched America Pie too. Quality film.

Both starship troopers are good.

The film is campy and playful. But the book is more philosophical in a way that would only work in book format.

I'm not going to look too far into it but half of all trips in Netherlands are made by car and 36% in London (which is probably significantly lower than the rest of the country). I don't see either of those figures significantly changing. Netherlands is wayyyy denser than USA so you won't even get close to 50% car trips with the Netherlands system.

That's not to say you should copy what the Dutch do, you should. But it won't solve the problem.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_in_the_Netherlands

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_in_London

If you want an end game for what public transit can look like Europe is a great example. While I don't think America can ever quite reach that level

Oh Lord.

Well we are having two different conversations then. Because I am from Europe and I travelled a lot. Public transport is horrific. Here I was thinking of a future that is better than the crap that is in Europe but you don't even expect to reach that level.

Then competition comes in.

Explain to me how public transport is going to suddenly become this thing that will replace cars when it has had 100 years to achieve that and hasn't?

just don't see any gains from self driving cars. We already have ride share services that would allow what you're talking about to happen but people don't do it cause it's expensive.

Because it will be cheaper.

I doubt companies like Uber and Lyft are gonna lower their prices when self driving cars become a thing, they're just gonna take the extra profit for themselves

That's not how capitalism works as much as this website disagrees. Uber is already a good example of a company that undercut the competition.

Higher density in vehicles alone will make a huge difference.

Everything you said could have been out in place within the last 50 years and it hasn't been done.

Like yes I agree. But also I just don't see it happening.

In terms of realistic positive impact I think more will be gained in the next 20 years from self driving cars than an increase in taxes and huge government spending.