Leeny

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[–] Leeny@lemmy.ca 18 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I assume many of those are bots or paid trolls

[–] Leeny@lemmy.ca 3 points 7 months ago

50% lethality in humans, not wildlife

[–] Leeny@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

Amazing story. I can't believe she's only 50...not that long ago. Plenty of those dinosaurs booing her from the stands are still probably flooding facebook comment sections.

[–] Leeny@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

You're right, but it does have a secondary impact when it can determine control of congress and the state legislatures. Remember, states control their individual voting processes for President, and there's plenty of ways for them to "cheat" legally or otherwise.

[–] Leeny@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fitzy would never

[–] Leeny@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

These are partially wrong. Pupil size/shape has no effect on field of view. A better way to judge FOV is where the eyes are placed on the head. Both in front like humans: small-ish FOV. On the sides of the head like a rabbit: larger FOV.

[–] Leeny@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago

There's no simple answer to your question, just like there's no quick solution to the problem of inequality. But one premise you've mentioned isn't quite correct. The democratic party hasn't really been "ruling" for most of that time. They've controlled the presidency, yes. But for all except 2 years, they haven't controlled Congress (it's been either divided or republican controlled), and they haven't controlled the supreme court. That said, a lot of Democrats are still happy to push the status quo, and there's plenty of warranted criticism to go around.

[–] Leeny@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Guess I was wrong and many of them did get drafted. Will be some great hockey to watch for sure.

[–] Leeny@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

The dude that beat up his girlfriend and got kicked off his college team? Gross.

[–] Leeny@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's not quite that. It's the players from the PWHPA that will fill the teams, possibly management from the PHF is involved though. Almost none, if any, of the PHF players will get signed for the new league. The hockey will be great to watch but it's unfortunate how poorly they handled the end of the PHF...players signing 50-100+K contracts right up until the day the league folded. Harsh business i guess.

[–] Leeny@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

It's not fully random after seeds 1-4. I believe 5-8 occupy the same 4 spots in the draw, but they are random drawn across those spots. Then 9-16 is another random draw across 8 spots and so on. The randomness prevents players from seeing the same matchups all the time if their rankings were to stay the same. It also prevents match fixing to avoid or set a particular matchup. Say #30 matched up poorly against #3, so they deliberately lost a prior match to drop to 31 and get a different matchup. It would be bad for the sport if that was allowed to happen.

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