Also, putting half percent points from 0 to 5 on the y axis, while the x axis is four month intervals since 2009, makes this growth look way more significant that it really is...
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Three of four Pro Pinball games are available on GOG. They're probably on the more realistic side of pinball games, effectively simulating a single table down to aspects like scratching, aging and blemishes. That's all optional though, you can just install and play. I don't know how well they've aged since it's been a few years since I last touched one of them. But I've always found them fun, with great visuals and sound, even though I'm pretty inept at pinball in general.
You could almost be forgiven for not realising that every point on that Y axis is a mere half percent...
I assume you've gone through my comment history to confidently make that assertion?
Scan the Wikipedia page on fascism. Read a bit more into the citations. Then tell me again how uneducated my comment really was.
I always say: if I'm ever in a situation where I need a job and can only get one with a former employer - do I want them to say "hell yeah" or "hell no"?
I've worked with people who, if they had to ask me for a reference, I would decline to give one. By the same token, I would reject their application for a job in my company or team. And I have worked with the opposite - people who will always under any circumstances get help from me if they're looking for a job. All the competence in the world doesn't help if someone is miserable to be around.
Having contacts, people who are willing to give references and similar always helps. Sure, you can do job hunting hard mode, but why make things unnecessarily difficult?
Man kann es diplomatischer ausdrücken, muss es aber nicht beschönigen.
Kleine Nebennotiz, falls Du es nicht schon selbst tust: informiere Dich ein bisschen über Burnout und dessen Symptome, und wenn Du meinst, dass das auf Dich zutrifft, hole Dir professionelle Hilfe. Als jemand, der selbst von Burnout betroffen ist, sehe ich in Deinem Post eine ganze Reihe Warnsignale.
Inane Khelif never 'failed a gender test'. A single test of unspecified nature and undisclosed method conducted by an unreliable sports governing body has purportedly either revealed higher testosterone levels or XY chromosomes. But due to the unspecified nature the result is neither reproducible nor reliable.
Most of the studies you linked are focused on men. The evidence regarding women is more tenuous.
Testosterone levels are generally linked to muscle size and strength, as well as higher haemoglobin concentration and thus better oxygen uptake. It has also been associated with more competitiveness in men. In terms of competitiveness, testosterone influences men's tendency to take more risks, both within and beyond sports.
There is limited research on how testosterone affects women (or how oestrogen affects men). Men and women generally do not have overlapping ranges of testosterone. In her book Better Faster Farther: How Running Changed Everything We Know About Women, Maggie Mertens writes that averages can mask the great diversity of hormone ranges.
There isn't a clear linear relationship between testosterone levels and performance, says Mertens, a journalist focusing on sports and gender. "In fact, a lot of very elite male athletes have pretty low testosterone levels overall on average." One endocrinology study found low testosterone concentrations in one-quarter of men competing in 12 of the 15 Olympic sports analysed. And Mertens says even women with hyperandrogenism, who can have testosterone levels that reach typical male ranges, don't have the same level of performance as men.
Emphases mine.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240731-the-sports-where-women-outperform-men
From 1968 to 1992, Olympic skeet shooting was a mixed sex discipline. A woman won the skeet shooting event at the 1992 Olympics.
In 1996 there was no longer a mixed sex skeet shooting event, nor was there a separate women's event. The latter was introduced at the 2000 Olympics, but the mixed sex event is history. It is said that the decision to end the mixed event was made before the 1992 Olympics, but there is no clear rationale or corroboration.
You could also argue that historically ( in the west at the very least ) it was partially to stop "women" from competing in "men's" competitions, not because of a difference in physicality but because of a difference in societal expectations.
Or sometimes it was just done to stop women from beating men.
In the 1992 Olympics, a woman won gold in the mixed sex skeet shooting category, beating male competitors.
In 1996 women were barred from the erstwhile mixed event, but did not get a separate category either. Only from the 2000 Olympics a separate women's skeet shooting event was established.
If you don't know any of my other comments, how can you confidently state that this was 'the least educated comment' I made that day?