The groin strike rule was repealed for a time. BJJ still dominated.

I’m not a martial arts person. I couldn’t care less. But it’s weird how vigorously people will argue against what seems self evident in the closest things we have to a no holds barred setting.

They didn’t have many at the beginning. Which rule during the rise of BJJ do you think affected it being dominant?

If you want to know what world, look at MMA.

Brazilian jiu jitsu is basically the only credible form of what most people mean when they say “martial arts” (meaning Asian origin with some kind of progression, often with belts).

China is so salty that karate can’t survive the age of the Internet they are blackballing it’s critics.

Search for “bullshido” if you want some egregious examples

He’s got a concept of a letter.

“Where are your parents?” the man asked the little girl, as he cut off the direction she was walking

I don’t want that to be a narrative that any person can ever tell about me. It could be a totally innocent act, but a sinister framing is easy to assume and impossible to refute.

Hard pass.

Yeah, it’s totally reasonable. But I’m the current climate I’m not blocking any person’s kid unless they’re going in front of an oncoming train.

I am more likely to get in their way and ask them where their parents are.

I was with you until that last sentence.

Really interesting point

Totally agree. I knew which one you were going to name without you saying it.

Because if the realism this one looks like it could even be social commentary on somebody the artist knows in real life.

Where did you get your definition of “equivocating”?

Because nobody expected him to do anything but lie through his teeth and shit his pants.

Check and check.

Because if Trump dies then we have a lot less to worry about

Bones prove you existed.

But the absence of bones does not mean that you didn’t.

Thanks for the explanation.

I don’t get this. Is it satire? What is it satirizing?

Short answer: no

Longer answer: if it were that simple, then money laundering would not be a billion dollar industry.

Shattered pixel dungeon for endless offline gaming during the flight

Amazing this is uncommon. Most mimics are rare, and lack the ability to connive when attacking.

Since when and why is Lyn Alden posting under her own masthead?

You may be grieving two different things

One is the permanent loss of any possibility of receiving the parental love that every child deserves.

The second is the actual human being that was your parent.

Separate the two.

Grieving the first does not require you to grieve the second.

And remember that there are no "should"s in grief: we might grieve over something that has no logic behind it, and we might not grieve when someone else thinks we should.

Ignore all of that.

Focus on what your grief is telling you is important, and use any future opportunity for growth to grow in that direction.

It’s all that any of us can do.