nekandro

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I've been looking at this data for reference:

https://www.wada-ama.org/sites/default/files/2023-01/2021_anti-doping_testing_figures_en.pdf

Where do you get your claims?

Either way, as another guy pointed out US athletes have a really quite absurdly high rate of TUEs. Maybe that's just because the average American is unhealthy, maybe that's just because the US healthcare system catches more of those things, but it's still odd that those athletes coincidentally take performance-enhancing drugs as medication for their medical condition. It's also odd how low the TUE rate is in other countries in comparison - WADA seems more willing to approve requests from the US, which maybe explains part of the discrepancy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Flagrant violation of the rules knowing that the US national agencies won't give a fuck. The rules themselves might be questionable (but really, cannabinoids are still illegal in most of the world...), but it demonstrates that US athletes feel like they can basically ignore the rules because nobody will enforce them.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (9 children)

Friendly reminder that China has one of the lowest positive WADA doping test rates in the world. The US tests positive at more than 5x that rate. India tests positive at more than 15x that rate. Russia tests positive at a similar rate as the US.

The US just can't accept that WADA, which receives more funding from the US than from any other country in the world, isn't biased towards Americans. We know that 6.5 to 9.2% of US athletes are doping, anyway: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11102888/

But sure, those 6.5% to 9.2% of US athletes are all acting on their own and there's no system in place to encourage doping (as if the fact that almost 1 in 10 US athletes get away with doping isn't a system to encourage it).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Default incoming?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago

Ok but they're so cute it's amazing

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

no, clearly it must have been a 50kg warhead

people have no grasp on the scale of high explosives and it shows

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Increased use of Mandarin, however, obviously infringes of Chinese minority rights.

Edit: just to be clear, many Chinese dialects have a lower lexical similarity than European languages. The standardization of Mandarin in education has had impacts on these dialects as well.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

BYD already has plants in Canada. I'd really appreciate if they just expanded their Canadian footprint - good Canadian jobs, cheap EVs, win-win-win.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

China eats more poultry and fish. This was bound to happen. Poultry and fish are very calorie-efficient sources of protein.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

They're also poor and economically disadvantaged. Do you like keeping poor people poor? Jfc

[–] [email protected] -3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You can't make it to lead an American political party without being at least one standard deviation smarter than the average American.

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