Not all academic environments reward length; psychology is quite the opposite where brevity and being concise are lauded. In my entire undergraduate psychology degree my longest maximum word-count for an assignment was 1500 words. Most were around 1000 words and a few were 700-800 words. Many people struggled with getting all the info they wanted into that space but I really thrived.

Of course; if it were better for athletes they’d have figured that out and would have been running that way all along. From a purely physical perspective, counterbalancing your legs with your arms while running gives you extra stability which allows for greater speeds with lower chances of falling over. Our bodies just aren’t built for properly high speeds though - bipedalism lends itself far greater to endurance than velocity.

Wasn’t it a ballot measure? Pretty sure the people voted for this.

I don’t know what the hell is wrong with the USA but neither I nor anyone I know was made to have physicals at school, much less have our genitals inspected or fondled. Your experience should not have happened, much as the experience of girls just wanting to play sports shouldn’t involve any sex or gender inquiry beyond checking a box when you fill in the forms.

Yeah, I prefer to submerge myself in house juice

crickets growing louder in volume

“An international treaty isn’t the right way to do this; billionaires will just find another solar system to move to. We can’t tax them unless it’s done by the galactic government”

Damsels in distress arent off the table, but dont be misogynistic about it.

Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom did this quite well - while one of your main objectives in both games is to find/save Zelda…

One thing that really helped Brazil in this election was compulsory voting. It’s a lot harder to disenfranchise people when voting is mandatory as you can’t just make them apathetic towards voting at all; you need to make them apathetic towards voting for a specific person/party.

I’ve said it a million times before and I’ll continue to crow about it until it’s the norm in all democracies: compulsory voting saves lives. With compulsory voting in the USA the Republicans would basically cease to exist outside of rural areas, because you just can’t win with only 30% of voters backing you.

Both is a great idea. Both should be the suggestion for every reasonable person.

The US has never had a single ally, maybe except Israel. Only vassals.

Okay, I’ll bite.

In what ways has Australia been, and does Australia continue to be, a vassal of the USA? From our perspective, the USA has always been an ally for a long time (both militarily and economically), but the G.W. Bush and Trump presidencies, as well as the shambles of the AUKUS deal, have tested the resolve of the Australian public.

Generally speaking, Australian politicians - including governments - have never acted towards the USA as being a governing force over our vassal-like nature, nor outside the realms of an ally, so I’m wondering where your supposition comes from in our context.