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Since this was double elimination, the Argentinian advanced to the gold medal match, while Perez “won” bronze.

Yeah, some British milk company seems to have paid for that particular league. Funnel Spinning has been a regular event in the Marble League though.

At least I can check “Earthquake” of my 2020 bingo card. So far I’ve got NASA Confirms Parallel Universe (though they went back on that I think), Mass Protest, Global Pandemic, Australia On Fire, Olympics Postponed, and Journalists Being Attacked In the U.S.; I can’t wait to see what’s next ?

USGS and local news are reporting that it was between 5.1 and 5.5. It’s epicenter is in the same area/community as the big one we has last year. There was a 3.6 registered in Nevada just about an hour before.

Just went through yet another Earthquake. They haven’t released the number yet, but I’m going to say it was in the neighborhood of a 4.5. There was a 3.9 very early this morning that I didn’t feel.

I would very much beg to differ on that point, and I could a build case saying otherwise, but there’s not really a point since we’re not going to see eye to eye.

Drew Brees is doing his best to get himself cancelled in the offseason. I’ll just never agree with people who hold the flag, or the pledge, or the Bible, or whatever, over the life of a human being. The flag is a mere symbol of our country, if someone is disappointed with our country they should have the right to show it. The NFL can pretend to care about the lives of its fans and it’s players, but we all know deep down that they don’t. They hid concussion research, blacklisted a player taking a calm, peaceful protest before games, and have done little to actually solve racism within the league itself.

I wouldn’t go so far as to call it a sport, but it is an enjoyable mock competition. I am quite invested in it though. Which competition did you watch?

No, 3rd degree is accidental murder; 2nd degree is callous murder (I.e. the murder wasn’t pre meditated, but the suspect showed no value for human life). 1st degree would be that he planned to kill him, and then did so.

So do the 13 year old divers and figure skaters we see just magically get good at 13 then? No, they’d be been training like an elite athlete for years. Same goes for all the teenage gymnasts we see at every Olympic Games. Skateboarding also doesn’t require ultra-physical training. It’s more about building up skill, and being to lace together multiple skills over a given time period. Also, if we’re talking about risk, I think it’s important to highlight the following. There is an inherent risk to sport. Sports ask athletes to push their bodies and minds to the extremes. If we reacted to every accident the way you have reacted to this one, there wouldn’t be a lot of sport left. One of the best things about Surfing, Skateboarding, etc. is that they are counter culture sports. They don’t have all these arbitrary rules, which in some cases, ruin sport in my opinion. They aren’t sports that who can participate. They encourage athletes of all abilities to come together at the same venues and help each other out. There is a ton of support for younger skaters, that comes directly from their older peers. I understand why minimum age requirements are important in other sports, but Skateboarding has a different culture. We would be taking away some of that culture to institute those rules.

I wouldn’t say that Skateboarding is more dangerous than any of those though.

@vinipereira the logo for this thread should be World Skate by the way.

How many 11 year old football players suffer major injuries that put them out of the sport? How many kids who play American Football have already had more than one concussion by age 11? Kids can get killed skiing at age 11. Skiers can and have been killed training for the Olympics. One marathoner died in the middle the 1912 Olympic Marathon. Italy pushes many girls to be elite gymnasts starting earlier than age 11. People seem to die quite often in Dakar Rally, and everyone seems to be okay with that. I’m not saying their isn’t a problem here. I’m just saying that you’re attempting make case that a sport is dangerous, while basically over looking basic dangers of every other sport on the Olympic program.

A freak accident, but those are the ones that have deadly consequences in action sports.

The LAPD decided to have a live Zoom call with the community this afternoon, and it’s going just about as well as you would expect. There were some people that came just to insult them, and actually wasted all of our time, but there was also some very good eloquent speakers who really pushed the issues at hand. I wanted to get in and call about the policies I brought up on here, but I couldn’t find the entry code

Protests are a little larger in California today after Trump’s remarks yesterday. So far, they have stayed very peaceful (as they tend to do in the earlier hours of the day). I have a few friends that traveled down to Hollywood for today’s march. The protest in the neighboring town to mine should just about be getting underway. I’m not attending because my parents are concerned about the spread of Covid, especially since my sister does have some mildly serious medical conditions.

Absolutely. One journalist made a news story about how she would cover these protests if they were in Egypt or Libya, and let me just say it was a little jarring.

Almost every picture on my Instagram right now is a black screen

At least we’ve suggested something though, which is a lot more than I can say about many Americans right now. I think the best reform would be community driven policing support like I outlined a few pages back. Police shouldn’t be “different” or “above others” they should be, and act, like normal members of the community when they’re not actively acting as law enforcement.

War is generally not a waste of money for businessmen. They are generally the only ones who profit off of conflict.

I could name more than one rather easily. We stayed true to the Monroe Doctrine for a good century or so (though we did fight ourselves in that time period). However, upon thinking a little more, we did also practice manifest density and go to war with Native Americans, Spain, Mexico, Hawaii, etc. It’s noting that Trump isn’t exactly demilitarizing the Middle East...: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/21/world/middleeast/us-troops-deployments.html

I can tell you that more police officers is not what we need at the moment. I don’t think that’s going to help now. I might be something to look into once everything calms down, but I have a feeling that this would be very unpopular in the U.S.

Is this sarcastic or serious? It’s not obvious I’m afraid.