I studied savate (French kickboxing) for a while, as well as some karate. The savate really did wonders for my flexibility and balance in a way that I didn’t experience with the karate, and it also felt more applicable in the “real world” in the same way that krav maga and other close quarter / street fighting martial arts do.

To echo @TexMexBazooka, the real lessons were in de-escalation and knowing how to defend yourself decisively to enable escape from the fight. My savate instructor was very clear that any and every fight was a deadly one and that if he found out we fought instead of escaping he’d kick the crap out of us and then kick us out of the program.

I think there’s also a benefit in learning how to take a hit, even though the goal is to avoid those. There are lots of body mechanics involved in fighting motions and practical experience taking and avoiding hits teaches you to recognize those movements automatically.

Death Star

Rebel propaganda, probably started by those no good Tooks when they weren’t allowed on the Freedom Moon

Moths are just way more bitchin’ than butterflies.

Certainly not the U.S. citizens

The ecosystem services wasps provide are worth billions per year, and if you’ve got the flowers they need they’re generally pretty docile.

The bros in question:

Dammit, here you go ⬆️

There is an issue with the claim in the first paragraph which immediately set off alarms. While it doesn’t hurt the argument for interpersonal respect, such a claim doesn’t support the point the author is trying to make. This reader found it interesting that the writer chose not to employ capital letters for the second person pronouns in the piece.

This reader also has Webster’s, Roget’s, The Harbrace Handbook, The American Spelling Book, and Washington’s Rules of Civility together on the shelf, for some context. Some portion of the neurodivergent population (such as the person here) cling to these conventions for a sense of security when interacting with others in a written format and no offense or slight is intended. Please assume good faith when interacting with the people on Beehaw.

“Your honor, my client does not possess the funds to continue this trial, so we have crafted an offer to the plaintiffs: in lieu of compensating them for the hundreds of watches that have gone missing from their inventory, we admit no wrongdoing and they will be offered stock in his watch making company should he ever start one”

Maybe there’s a word we could apply to situations where a group of people make plans to carry out an activity that is not legal for personal gain

@rikudou@lemmings.world is the contact point for this bot - you could reach out if they don’t respond to being tagged

Oh sure. Not all of them, certainly, but a good number of friends and I will hug to say hello/goodbye. Some of those guys prefer the handshake-bro-hug variety, others go in for the full bear hug. A handful of them, my oldest friends, are comfortable with cuddling, snuggling, or other non-hug physical contact so that’ll happen on the occasions we get to see each other.

Todd

Again, but differently in this instance.

I usually ask how folks prefer to hear the community referenced to avoid those fight or flight responses. Het with some flex, if they get to know me that well, doesn’t mean I’m part of the community as they define it - some people have wider or narrower definitions and qualifiers than others and I’m fine with that - but either way, my comfort doesn’t mean others share that feeling and it’s on me to be conscientious and kind.

Be the change you want to see in the world!

This is such a small thing which I have so few occasions to use, but I wish the term “QUILTBAG” had become more popularized when it was coined in 2006 (caps are for accuracy, not shouting). It’s just more fun to say, and I’m a sucker for a good acronym

I am also still here from then, though I don’t often comment in some spaces - like this one. Sometimes I feel that I don’t have much to offer, comment-wise, due to being a member of several of the most privileged groups of people and (possibly unnecessarily) being acutely aware that some spaces don’t really need more opinions from the intersection I inhabit.

Really just further clarification on which laws should protect, but not bind, their in-group.

Bergamot is a good substitute for oregano and the flowers can be used for teas though

I’m going to simultaneously agree and disagree with you on this one - they do want to destroy the ability to plan and build walkable livable cities, and to prevent their constituents from building community ties with each other. The expectation they have, imo, is that this will be used to hamstring the efforts of people looking to make Arizona livable into the future.

But they absolutely don’t expect or want this bill to weaken their own grasp on legislative power in the state. Concerted grassroots efforts to use the (admittedly hamfisted) language in this bill to weaken conservative turnout, while absolutely not something I would normally advocate, seems like a way to involve the voting bloc they intended to protect from effects in realizing how truly stupid this bill is. I could readily see voting rights groups or other progressive orgs in the state finding opportunities to provide transportation to the polls and ways to include reasons to not reward the people who voted this into effect.