The gatekeepers for the humanities are not the academics. The gatekeepers are the archives and the funding bodies.

AI won't be terribly effective at helping somebdoy publish novel history if they aren't willing and able to go to a bunch of archives all over the world and dig through physical boxes.

In comparison, I see this issues in fewer than 1% of the changes I review. Because when it happens you can effectively teach people to stop doing it.

why would a humanoid robot be preferable to one designed for the specific tasks at hand?

maybe humanoids because tools already designed for human likes? if you send specialised robot it cannot use wrench or climb a ladder... you have to redesign everything

There are currently no wrenches or ladders on mars.

Was it equally grave when Colin Powell did the same thing?

Yes. That man lied us into the Iraq war. He is a traitor.

my standard for criminal acts is also whether i don't like the guy.

Tons of groups rage at trans girls in high school sports, to the point of sending bomb threats. This wont stop at the olympics.

That’s not true. Men’s gymnastics and women’s gymnastics are totally different sets of events and men would get trounced in a women’s event.

Confidently incorrect. As an example - a banned Thomas salto had been developed and performed by a male gymnast first, and afterwards women starting trying to do it too. This is an anecdote example, but it shows that gymnastics is not some women dominated sport. As another example - four out of four named jumps in the figure skating are all named by male athletes who performed them first.

Only because they don't practice those events... If men practices those events they would be better at them

I'm not sure that is true. Beam targets flexibility in ways that no men's event does.

Putting aside that you argue entirely by assertion, that is one discipline, which therefore does not contradict the claim about "most disciplines".

Meanwhile the gap is well known to be massive in typical events, e.g.:

* Compare https://worldpowerlifting.com/records/womens-world-records/ vs https://worldpowerlifting.com/records/mens-world-records/ (or for that matter, browse through https://exrx.net/Testing/WeightLifting/StrengthStandards)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women's_100_metres_world_recor... plateaued at numbers seen in men's competition over a century ago; a "sub-elite" female competitor sprints barely ahead of "intermediate recreational" men per https://marathonhandbook.com/average-100-meter-time/ . Griffith-Joyner's record-setting time would not have even qualified her to run with men since at least 2000: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100_metres_at_the_Olympics

* I often hear it suggested that women show an advantage in longer races, but even at standard marathon length this is not borne out in results: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Boston_Marathon

* National and international level competitive women's sports teams regularly get trounced by teenaged boys in exhibition e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDH_r7-GN4o widely reported on last year and https://www.cbssports.com/soccer/news/a-dallas-fc-under-15-b... from 2017

* The entire history of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Sexes_(tennis) requires quite a bit of creative interpretation to put women's tennis anywhere near the level of men's

That's just off the top of my head of anecdotes and examples I can recall being casually thrown around in these sorts of discussions.

If we could reduce our oil usage by 94% I'd weep with joy. Yes that's still a lot of oil. But it would be a complete sea change from what is currently happening.

All of the material in those panels is still there. You can break them down and build new panels out of their parts.

Full solarization will not eliminate our need for fossil fuels. But it would reduce it so dramatically as to render our current market unrecognizable.

The Atlantic spent like a year complaining about student protest and supporting efforts to punish protest, sometimes with arrests and felony charges. They further amplified the false connection between protests for palestine and antisemitism. The federal government responded to these protests by illegally cancelling grants and withholding money to universities and state governments sought to fire faculty for this stuff. And they have the gall to complain the students aren't protesting enough now.

The "oh where are the protests now" complaint is truly garbage, even if the article couches this a criticism of administration.