>you know damn well the risk associated with youth football resulting in traumatic brain injury is, fortunately, statistically zero

Lol what? You can't be serious, can you?

Let me just help you out here -

A CDC study published in Sports Health reports youth tackle football athletes ages 6 to 14 sustained 15 times more head impacts than flag football athletes during a practice or game and sustained 23 times more high-magnitude head impact (hard head impact).

There's a lot of cardiac arrest in basketball (94% of the youth deaths in basketball are attributed to sudden cardiac death), due to undiagnosed heart conditions. After that there's football with traumatic brain injury, exertional heat stroke, and exertional sickling. These latter 2 being a direct result of overtraining/practicing that isn't seen in other sports. Baseball is due to freak accidents with high speed balls etc.

Will be interesting to see how reception of this goes (both the bill, and my comment).

Youth tackle football is wildly dangerous for kids. The thought of letting kids slam into each other and cause various brain trauma is a bit absurd to me in 2023, with all of the data we have around the results (inc whataboutism in the form of "but it's ok for grown men to blah blah blah"). I think football as a whole either needs to change dramatically or slowly be phased out, but unsure that either will happen and we'll continue to see deaths in youth football that are incredibly tragic and wholly avoidable.

I say this as somebody who has been a fan of football for quite a long time, watched Red Zone religiously for a decade and has won and lost a heap of money playing Fantasy Football. The *game* had been enjoyable for me for a long time (hell, I even played in middle/high school). But it's impossible for me to just continue to ignore the facts of how brutal this game is for people's bodies and brains.

Depending on the field they're in, they're likely going to make a lot more than 72k a year once they're done with their grad degree.

I never said there was only one study. I specifically stated that the study that gets cited most is flawed. And if Sinai is only studying athlete brains, that study is flawed as well. There needs to be a control. Full stop.

There still needs to be a far better CTE study done. The one everybody knows about only studied football player brains. So essentially no control.

I like how you edit shit the first time you use it, but not the next 3.

15 is pretty massive. I have an 8 and a 10 and that seems good enough. No idea what I would even do with a 15" pan.

Stainless if I'm going to be making a sauce in it. Carbon steel for everything else - be it pan or wok

Pretty sure it's all people who work at the firms. Regardless of passing the bar or not.

Yeah I was never arguing that there weren't more optimal ways to reduce emissions. I also don't think it has to be mutually exclusive. Just have to hope that the infrastructure for your last sentence comes sooner than we expect.

I was under the impression that moving all new schools to fully electric would encompass more than just heating. I may be wrong.

Energy source doesn't just provide heat. It turns on the lights, it powers computers, it cools air. Just because your mom called it the heat bill when you grew up doesn't mean that's actually what it is.

Get politics out of sports smh smh

I guess I needed to add /s...