It was reckless. The flight was widely popularized by her huckster husband who was motivated to have his wife win him fame and fortune. She wasn’t ready, and in that sense, the attempt was reckless.

If a person takes a big risk and makes it, that’s a success. If a person risks it and dies in the Atlantic, being called reckless seems kinder alternative to being called a failure.

I mean, with Carlsen facing this sort of aggregate, large number of ‘opponents,’ yeah, I imagine quite a lot of them are cheaters.

Henry the 3rd’s decree about practicing archery drills regularly across the peasant population really worked out well for the English during the 100 Years War- they were able to field high numbers of dangerous and skilled ranged warriors and allowed for the massive victories like Crécy and (of course) Agincourt.

Yes but we should be careful with the word “drill” as I’m not sure how much formal and coordinated training occurred vs just being told to go to the archery range before or after work every day. A quick search didn’t tell me the details.

Not that I think you’re claiming this, but the Assize of Arms 1252 certainly didn’t mean archers were training in volley fire.

I believe it was legal obligation on the weekends- so in that way it was semi formalized. I think the results of the English bowmen speak for themselves, but I don’t think volley fire was necessary or present on the battlefields of the 100 years war.

If you consider bar restrooms, that is probably skewing the average higher…

Have you consumed any recent media in the last 5 decades?

Fathers are depicted as staggering oafs or well-meaning clowns, to be suffered by their wives and insulted by their children.

Classically ideal dads are so rare that this cartoon character is being lauded as one of the best examples of the ideal in recent memory.

We aren’t an agrarian society so children (and the labor they represent on the farm) are not a financial asset, they are a financial liability.

But couldn't they be considered an investment? For possible support (emotional, financial and other) in old age.

In practice? Very much no.

I strongly disagree. Around me I see a huge difference in old people without kids vs. with kids in how they are being taken care of.

I don’t really think it is ‘wrong,’ or even really unexpected. In the winter, fish may not a viable food option for the eagles due to ice or fish lifecycle. Birds of prey have to keep their weight low, and they don’t have the option to gorge themselves on a kill like a wolf or a lion can. Most birds of prey are only a few missed meals away from death by starvation.

Winter’s scarcity is deadly for predators, and nature doesn’t care about maintaining nobility or the optics of a dead raccoon lunch.

Many of the bullying stories on here involve either a do-nothing response by authorities or both sides being punished. I do not see how constant monitoring ensures any kind of protection or justice.

Humans can exhibit some mild torpor like behavior in extreme winter conditions. We are not ‘exclusively’ cold adapted lifeforms. Even if the Neanderthals had more adaptations for surviving in northern climates that does not mean they are exclusive polar specialists like the arctic fox or the polar bear.

Well, yeah. Everyone knows you aren’t pulling in millions in grant money or making millions off of patentable discoveries, you aren’t a real scientist.

do you think that grad students doing research at a university are pulling in millions in grant money

I think they were being facetious