Apologies, Frank, for dragging this lovely and funny post into the foetid morass of the culture war, but: it's very funny that Thiel is simultaneously funding A) a sports league where all the competitors are doping because "fairness in sports" and "the sacrosanctity of the natural human body" are pussy shit, and B) a political movement saying that we have to clamp down on trans people because of... fairness in sports and the sacrosanctity of the natural human body.
Yes indeed. It did occur to me that, in a way, Enhanced and trans athletes should be natural allies. But of course the arguments we give for our actions are almost never actually the reasons we are doing them.
Why does that old USA Today article start with a lede saying "poker may be all the rage with junior high school kids?" Was this true in 2005, there was a middle school poker trend?
I have to love the classic Frank-style optimism, assertion that athletes love process in addition to results (or is it some variety of "genuine athletes, athletes who actually love athletics?") Who knows, maybe it will prove true of art-seeking prompters too
Yeah I think there was a poker boom among teenagers in the early oughts. James and his friends played. We also tried and failed to get them into Bridge.
To me the funniest part of all this is from the Enhanced website: "He also set a second historic milestone: becoming the fastest man in history to swim the 50m freestyle in jammers, with a time of 21.03, beating the former record of 21.04 held by Caeleb Dressel." This is such a dramatically uninteresting victory after doing all those drugs.
great analysis of sport! peter thiel has a way for half understanding things (see his absurd use of henry george's ideas to justify anti immigration, rather than actually finishing george's book and realizing there's a solution to the board game of monopoly that we're all living on)
Apologies, Frank, for dragging this lovely and funny post into the foetid morass of the culture war, but: it's very funny that Thiel is simultaneously funding A) a sports league where all the competitors are doping because "fairness in sports" and "the sacrosanctity of the natural human body" are pussy shit, and B) a political movement saying that we have to clamp down on trans people because of... fairness in sports and the sacrosanctity of the natural human body.
Yes indeed. It did occur to me that, in a way, Enhanced and trans athletes should be natural allies. But of course the arguments we give for our actions are almost never actually the reasons we are doing them.
Why does that old USA Today article start with a lede saying "poker may be all the rage with junior high school kids?" Was this true in 2005, there was a middle school poker trend?
I have to love the classic Frank-style optimism, assertion that athletes love process in addition to results (or is it some variety of "genuine athletes, athletes who actually love athletics?") Who knows, maybe it will prove true of art-seeking prompters too
Yeah I think there was a poker boom among teenagers in the early oughts. James and his friends played. We also tried and failed to get them into Bridge.
To me the funniest part of all this is from the Enhanced website: "He also set a second historic milestone: becoming the fastest man in history to swim the 50m freestyle in jammers, with a time of 21.03, beating the former record of 21.04 held by Caeleb Dressel." This is such a dramatically uninteresting victory after doing all those drugs.
great analysis of sport! peter thiel has a way for half understanding things (see his absurd use of henry george's ideas to justify anti immigration, rather than actually finishing george's book and realizing there's a solution to the board game of monopoly that we're all living on)