This meme is way less impressive for someone living in Europe. Ryanair will take to to either for like 19 euros.
Next you’re going to say insulin is only €10
No, that’s a university semester, insulin is 5€.
I think you’re missing out the extras 😂
yeahhhhh… hasanabi was right, targeting trans sports was the easiest and dirtiest way to bring transphobia to the normies. people that don’t even give a shit about politics and don’t think about trans people one way or another can say “well at least sports are fair now”
Trans sports is where the boundaries between what people do with their own body is crossed into interaction with others. This is why it has become the favorite point to attack for conservatives.
They’re cool with school shootings, though.
Never seen Serena Williams play badminton?Wrong comment
Men shouldn’t kicking girls asses in sports. That’s totally unsportsmanlike. Why would a guy even want to beat up a girl? It’s sick.
Was that actually happening? That’s fear mongering…
Why does badminton even need to be separated it’s not a strength contest
Trans women also got banned in chess. https://www.npr.org/2023/08/18/1194593562/chess-transgender-fide-pushback
Idk man when I see professional badminton they are smacking the fuck out of the cock
I see what you did there, setting up the punchline for your fellow lemmings, now that’s what I call service.
Reaction time, endurance, strength(yes hitting a shuttlecock harder is important), etc. They vary wildly between men and women and no sport can really balance the scales in either direction.
Because some people view Men’s sports as professional, and a career opportunity. Women’s sports on the other hand are seen by those people as recreational, and something fun to do outside of the house.
Who would put a professional player against a recreational player? That’s just not fair, the recreational player would be embarrassed at how bad they are and it wouldn’t be fun to watch.
Obviously nothing I said is true but it’s an opinion held by many.
So men don’t have to be embarrassed from being beaten by a woman.
Never seen Serena Williams play badminton?
/s
Fake. CEO’s aight choosing shit. They’re going to Paris and Barcelona
They’re choosing which football club they’ll buy, Paris or Barcelona
Holy shit, insulin is ~$98 on average over there!?
That is literally the most expensive place to buy insulin on this planet.
Most countries have insulin available for ~1/5th that price or less, with many selling it for less than 1/10th of the US price.I knew it was bad over there but that’s fucking atrocious.
At least you’re more free over there than anywhere else though, right?
Right?It’s absurdly actually come down significantly in the US since 2021.
That $98 is a major improvement.
Probably not staying at that price for much longer.
Yeah. It’s literally against the law for Medicaid or Medicare to negotiate for lower prescription drug prices. They have the largest insurance pools, and therefore an incredible amount of leverage, but nope. Gotta pay those insurance companies!
Gun and bullet is cheap i heard, the equipment of freedom is affordable.
Yeah I mean where else can you fuck your employees this hard and purchase a job gutting the government
Yeah CEO’s and shareholders are driving it to the extreme, but in the end everybody wants their interest on savings/investments, their yearly wage increases etc. The whole economic system is at fault and America is driving it to the extreme.
Ok, then let’s switch to a new money supply that doesn’t encourage investment and necessitate yearly wage increases.
The whole economic system is at fault and America is driving it to the extreme.
No, americans are just speed-running it.
Not American, so idk what I am speedrunning. Maybe I can finally post a time on speedrun.com
Fixed it.
Two wrongs don’t make a right
You might not have to pay $.02 in taxes every year to accommodate transgender prisoners, but at least egg prices are down…right?
…right?
Oh my God. Eggs are expensive because people aren’t buying them!
Ye olde inverted supply and demand, just like my econ professor taught me
Idk what could possibly be causing a supply problem, all the chickens in the country are as healthy as can be.
The DOGE said so.
Badminton is criminally underrated
It might have better PR if they renamed it to “Goodminton.”
They really bury the lede with the whole “shuttlecock” thing. When I learned that shit, it gave it an immediate boost in my teenage brain lol
The Nelson-Atkins art museum in St Louis is strewn with massive, almost twenty foot tall shuttlecocks. Truly a haven for size queens.
Double Plus Goodminton
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Lmao, this is new to me!! Sending to my friends…
I prefer squash.
pfft, squash has nothing on pumpkin
Only at the end of October.
Apples and oranges for me.
G O U R D S
Squash is good too. I actually played quite a bit when I was young. But imo nothing compares to the feeling of defending smash successfully esp. multiple times in a row.
It might have something to do with me sucking at badminton, but squash seems easier to hit the thing. Even if it’s a little more intensive cardio wise.
I can’t not shill my favourite sport though now. Rock climbing. Mostly indoor sport or bouldering, but i climbed my first outdoor boulder last week and I’m hooked. Just got a torn tendon so can’t really do anything right now.
Good luck w/ur tendie buddy, you’ll be back out there soon
Thanks dude. I really hope so as climbing is the one thing that has silenced my mind and gives me joy so not being able to go is mentally hard.
I literally just had my first indoor bouldering session yesterday and loved it
That’s awesome. Do you think you would keep doing it?
What did you love about it the most? For me it’s kinda meditative. I’m quite neurotic and I find it hard to shut off my mind but the mix of physical and problem solving involved in climbing has me captivated and in the moment.
Don’t do what I did and push to hard and listen to your body. Really focus on climbing with your legs and not pulling with your arms as you’ll be able to go longer. You can practice keeping arms straight and relying on your legs to push up and thus your arm will bend without using the bicep. Then you can reach for the next one.
Yeah, I think so! There’s a trans indoor climbing group in my city that meets once a month, and it’s really comfy being around other queer folks while doing it. I really enjoyed the camaraderie that entailed, building each other up and looking out for one another.
I definitely felt what you’re talking about, quieting my mind and focusing on the problem at hand.
Funnily enough, I probably will have to focus more on using my arms than my legs. I have a physical disability and my knees are a major pain point. I use a power chair a lot of the time outside the house. I actually loved that nobody made me feel infantilised even though I rocked up in it.
That’s really good to hear and I’m glad they do those kind of nights for people to make them more comfortable.
I will say that in my experience the climbing community is super accepting and even if you went to a regular climbing place that nobody would be judging you and people would be willing to help and engage with you if you wanted.
Sure they can. But with the boys.
If trans women have to play with the boys, then cis women should, too. Just end segregation entirely.
That’s definitely one way of making sure that a woman will never win again in athletics.
They did do that in golf, of course with handicaps like a shorter tee off for women, so not a fair competition.
You’re saying that even the weakest biologically male athlete could beat the strongest biologically female athlete?
Because otherwise, “never win again” seems kind of unlikely.
My god what an asenine take.
No, but no woman would ever win with the best from both genders attending.
I don’t think you could even qualify for the mens qualifiers in athletics with the world records for women.
You do know there are tons of co-ed sports out there, right? And women win them all the time.
But please, continue to be rude. That will definitely prove something or other.
Good, name one and ill give you a list of world records in athletics.
Discus.
Truth sucks.
Loving all your truthful examples and sources!
Forcing a girl to play against boys and use their changing room is pretty fucked up dude. Don’t make yourself look even more like a dick.
Nobody is forcing anyone. But saying they can’t play badminton because they are trans is false.
Oh, right! They can just stop doing what they love! I’m sorry, my empathy-riddled ass didn’t think about this obvious solution.
No? They can play with the boys. Changing rooms can be arranged. Why is it important for a trans-girl who went through male puberty to play with girls that are smaller and physically weaker?
I should probably clarify that i mean compete in competitions, dont care in the slightest who or how they want to practice. That’s just fair.
Its important for the same reason gays and leabians want proper marriages and not just civil unions. There is social legitamacy that comes from inclusion. I have also never seen a single study actually backing up this unfair advantage narrative.
Meanwhile, the WNBA has an average player height of 6’1" against the average womans height of 5’4". But noone complains about a cis woman whos 6 foot having an unfair advantage. Meanwhile even cis women get caught in the crossfire, see Imane Khalif who could be executed in her home country for being trans. She’s not, but one salty boxer and a fraudulent Russian report gave her all sorts of shit and put her life in danger.
How would you propose women prove they are not trans and can thus play on the women’s team?
I see, so it’s an information problem.
Trans girls are not stronger than other girls. Any increased muscle mass vanishes with hormone therapy as the testosterone supporting it goes away. Likewise the body remodels stuff like cartilages as all of this is influenced by hormones. That’s why Olympia goes so overboard with hormone tests, even forcing cis-women to do invasive measures to reduce their natural testosterone levels.
The only difference caused by puberty that are irreversible are:
- How thick bones are & how they formed
- How you sound
- Where you grow how much hair
And of those three ONLY the first can be of any value in any argument. And definitely not for badminton. Uninformed bullshit arguments cause WAY more problems for cis-women in sports than they could ever solve. There’s nothing fair about that way of arguing.
You’re only deciding between insulin and groceries because the government maintains some company’s monopoly on manufacturing insulin.
In an actually free market, the instructions would be open source and the only question would be whether to synthesize it at home or pay someone else to synthesize it for you.
My guess is it would cost about as much as chocolate does per unit mass.
The free market naturally generates monopolies, only government intervention can maintain an artificially competitive market in the long term.
What you’re describing is to abolish “intellectual property” rights. I’m all for it.
No free market on insulin here in Finland.
Insulin is free.
Capitalism created American price gouging. You have people dying over something that’s completely treatable.
If the “resources were allocated” correctly, then it’s not efficient in any way for an economy to have people dying over something as cheap and easy to treat just because someone can blackmail people to pay more.
My unemployed friend who is a single mother with type 1 diabetes and who has two kids with type one diabetes would be in real fucking life danger in the US. As it stands, she doesn’t need to worry about that. All because we haven’t (yet) allowed capitalism to (completely) rape our healthcare system.
In a “true free market” the instructions would be hoarded by the company that came up with them and the insulin would be sold for as much as humanly possible. The only countries that don’t suffer from this issue are the ones where the government is handling Healthcare and dictates what it’s willing to pay for medicine.
You anti government regulation types sure as fuck don’t seem to understand how we got to having all these regulations. Hint it was companies abusing their customers and employees to the point where tens of thousands of people were dying, for each regulation.
Yes, people confuse “free” (unregulated) with “competetive market” all the time.
If “free” means “no barriers to market entry or exit and even distribution of market power” then they’re similar.
But if free means “no regulation” then it’ll just be a race to accumulate the most market power (and political and military force) and use that to suppress competition. Features like slavey and indentured debtors has commonly occurred in ‘free’ (unregulated) markets, but it is just about the complete opposite of ‘no barriers and even market power’.
‘Free’ is a not a great word in this context.
Is how to manufacture insulin a trade secret? Is that why there’s no black market for it?
Insulin is a bad example because its manufacturing methods are relatively old, but the entire point of patents is to avoid trade secrets. The idea is that inventors share how they do something exactly, and their invention gets legally protected for a certain amount of time before it becomes available for everyone. The problem is capitalism is capitalism, and so it incentivizes abuse, so corporations will flood the system with patents that have as little detail as legally allowed and try to apply them in the broadest way possible. The pharmaceutical industry in particular also seems to have a problem with companies patenting minor tweaks on their products when the previous patent is about to expire to keep a monopoly, and then dialing up the propaganda against their previous product up to 11.
There literally is a black market for it. My city, Las Vegas is littered with handmade signs and flyers of saying they buy and sell insulin and diabetic supplies.
Hard lol at the thought of synthesizing insulin at home. Look a bit into the practical aspects of medicine manufacturing and the quality assurances required to avoid killing the patients.
Well if those regulations are going away anyway…
Those are two nonequivalent industries with wildly different variables of influence. Did AI write this?
No, the one who wrote that is intensely human, trust them.
Yeah I know. One of the big differences between prescription drugs and food, in terms of the industries, is that anyone can bake bread and therefore the only reason to buy it at the store is if the loaf at the store costs less time and energy than making it oneself.
A better equivalency would be the insulin industry and a Diamond industry unrestricted by region.
Not really because people can die without food, and also without insulin. Nobody is choosing between diamonds and insulin.
Insulin is expensive because of a government-enforced monopoly. It’s a simple fact, no matter how motivated one is to ignore it.
Insulin, like most meds in the US, is expensive because of the free market.
If you have a free market on life-saving medicine, guess what, people will pay however much they can afford and then some - because people are keen to survive.
In most (all?) European countries medicines are regulated. Some medicines have many manufacturers, some have a “government-enforced” monopoly but without free market, and the result is that no matter the country, insulin is free or almost free. The reason is that when you regulate this, and the only possible buyer for a whole country is “the government”, the seller is forced to negotiate with the whole government to be able to sell to X million people. And the government is not in a life or death situation, so it’s less vulnerable to price gouging.
If the governments can negotiate a low enough price, then they can subsidise the last bit via taxes and people get free life-saving drugs. Yet big-pharma still gets profits at these lower prices, as evidenced by the number of pharma companies there are in Europe (including non-eu countries that work similarly in terms of healthcare such as UK, Switzerland).
Free market works, until the seller has a life-threatening reason why the buyer will be forced to pay whatever the price is. The drug situation in the US is not free market, it’s free blackmail.
