Is she done? She would be if she had another path to success.
She isn't motivated to be a great mixed martial artist, she's motivated to be successful. If she were motivated to be great at the sport, she would have continued to develop her skills, and not suffered the company of yes men telling her she was a great striker.
The single best thing she could do for herself today?
Call Joe Rogan, and Brendan Schaub and schedule to sit down with them both to hear the truth.
That we have a system that for thousands of years engaged rigorous conflict, and to not "take it out for a spin" every once in a while is a misuse of the system and leads to physical and metal maladies.
I wonder sometimes if that's not somewhat tied to the watching of sports.
There's a quote that floats around about "....small minds talk about people.", but I find the stuff we do interesting, I always have.
Gossiping out of insecurity or anxiety isn't all bad. I'm fine with people trying to work out what's thought of them and why, it's when it's used to belittle people and secure a position within the group that I take issue with it.
We're all pretty safe and happy, and we'll be around a very long time.
Imagine a world with exactly 1 end of the world button.
We'd guard that button and keep as many people as possible from having access to it, and we'd feel pretty safe still. Imagine how long that world would likely go on without anyone pushing the end of the world button.
Probably a pretty long time.
Now imagine a world were every last one of us had an end of the world button.
How many seconds would pass, before someone pushed that button?
Likely....less than a second.
We're somewhere between one button, and everyone having a button now, and we continue to move in the direction of everyone having a button.
We'd have to look at fetuses as potential humans, and decide not enhancing them genetically is an unethical waste of potential. A shift like that would need a catalyst, such as impending doom. If we have to start culling the population to curb climate change or face extinction pragmatic things like designer genetics to enhance intelligence, become more likely.
A global population today of 7 billion, up 5 fold in the last hundred years....
There's a critical mass population number.
I'm not saying we're at it, but when we are and realize it, the moral formula for human value gets rewritten.
Or....I'm just a dark minded aging net dweller externalizing his own dissatisfaction.
PS: I agree 150 years probably isn't long enough. I'm just having a bit of fun with the premise.
Post 60 what is there to build on to make a real bond?
Keeping track of each other's medications?
I'm wondering about that even in my mid 40's.
I'm not about to start a family, what's the point?
50/50 odds we're the one that gets sick first an the other person sticks around?
Every year that goes by, brings less opportunity for shared experience, before the lights begin to dim and it's just a hand to hold as we wander off into the night. I don't know, maybe that will feel more like a reason the closer it gets.
Both things are facts to the best of my knowledge, yes.
The reason I'm not willing to say Trump shouldn't be president, because Hillary got more votes is because it wasn't a contest to get the most votes, it was a contest to win the most electoral college votes, and Trump won the contest.
Had the contest been to get the most votes they both would have ran campaigns to do that, neither did.
As much as I would prefer Trump had lost the election, we've a serious problem with intellectual integrity in this country, particularily where politics are concerned. I'm not willing to act like I don't know winning the popular vote is is winning a competition neither of them was striving to win.
It's not meaningless that more people voted for Hillary, but it doesn't mean she won or even should have.
My "opinion" is based on reading about several studies regarding the "racial empathy gap" and the less reliable nature of cross racial eye witness identification.
It's a real problem in this country.
It intereferes with black folks ability to get proper pain medications prescribed, contributes to false convictions, and unfair prison sentencing.
It's not a hard study to do....
Photograph a couple dozen people of various races being pricked with a pin, mix in a couple with a dull pin to lessen the pain. Have people look at the pictures and rate the peoples pain. Look for the racial bias.
While I understand this simplistic and wholly naive form of cynicism feels like the perfect way to not have to bother to make a choice and stand behind, it is irresponsible to the point of child like.
There are very clear, and easy to see policy differences between the parties.
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RE: Is this the end for Rowdy Ronda Rousey?
Ronda ruled over a fledgling division.Is she done? She would be if she had another path to success.
She isn't motivated to be a great mixed martial artist, she's motivated to be successful. If she were motivated to be great at the sport, she would have continued to develop her skills, and not suffered the company of yes men telling her she was a great striker.
The single best thing she could do for herself today?
Call Joe Rogan, and Brendan Schaub and schedule to sit down with them both to hear the truth.