Ageism tangent from Ted Cruz is a piece of shit thread

Dwarves.

That's all you got, eh? I accept your defeat.

Stop tossing them.

Hey! Albert isn't entitled.

Unless the monarchy have introduced the Royal Order of Overly Enraged Pricks. In which case he's been named Knight Commander and given the traditional seal of office. Which has been clubbed to death and had its fur sold on the black market.

My armor better be spiffy.

One letter out (and no, I'm ignoring the usual traitorous scum spelling of armour).

Something, something, codpiece, something.

This one is shiny.

I don’t work in Wall Street

Yep you win.

so, situational details you're just gonna shoot holes into, it seems?

well, not really. but the attempt is clearly present.

the fact is you're going to be affected in your choice by subjective factors beyond the objective requirements.

Because you cannot imagine yourself thinking outside those terms, you must pretend nobody else is capable of it.

Amazing.

it's like you're living in a mirrored box..
still waiting for you to come up with what "inherent" means in this context?

or what you presumably mean isn't a consideration if all the baseline qualifications are comparable.

might wanna consider how a reactionary type might look to more familiar, shall we say, inherent characteristics to the detriment of others as well. Not like there's decades of demonstrable evidence of that or anything...

innit though?

I'm not even sure what I'm responding to sometimes.

pretty sure he works with lead.

We should check @Jenee for lead poisoning. It might explain her dating habits.

Again, don't reply to UA. He's a parody account.

While I agree on the age limit making decisions for the next generation, falling asleep during meetings has nothing to do with age. If he isn’t getting the sleep he needs due to stress, it could be due to sleep apnea. Neither of which has anything to do with age.

I’m thinking a better question is why do you think they might? Children are children because they have not yet reached adulthood. If their brain capacity was that of an adult, then they wouldn’t be children. And I’m not just talking about ability to learn facts and extrapolate ideas. There is a level of emotional maturity that is required to drive a vehicle. Which, also an unpopular opinion of mine, is why I also don’t think 16 year old kids should be allowed to drive vehicles.

I never said five-year-olds should or should not be allowed to drive.

The point of my questioning @MikeH92467 was to challenge the very notion of ageism. It exists in our society, full stop. There may or may not be legitimate reasons for it, but I'd argue the word "ageism" itself has perhaps unfairly taken on negative connotations.

Also, your argument about brain capacity works both ways. Mental faculties and dexterity decline as you get older (see "Normal Cognitive Aging").

getting old sucks.

I don’t disagree about the loss of dexterity and decline with age. I’m a victim myself. But, you did seem to be on a weird tangent about the 5 year old driving.

So, if I take this post as “different ages has different abilities and different restrictions”, then I agree. I just disagree with the approach.

That's simply because you're not intelligent enough to see the comparison.

If it's okay to prohibit five-year-olds from driving just because of their age, why isn't okay to prohibit 70-year-olds from driving?

Simply because you are not intelligent enough to to see that your statement is false. It is ok and it does happen that 70+ year old people are denied driving privileges every fucking day.

Five year olds don't have the mental capacity to understand the nuances of what it takes to operate a vehicle. They also don't have the reflexes to react aggressive drivers, nor the senses to react to the multiple micro decisions one must make every single time they have go anywhere. They are less sensitive to their surroundings, are easily distracted, and can barely understand making logical decisions are highly irrational. Seventy year olds have a long history of driving, therefore highly experienced drivers. Most of them still have their mental faculties in tact. They are aware of their surroundings. Their eyesight is tested on reasonably frequent basis. They are capable of making rational decisions and at the age of seventy, most people still have their wits about them. Age seventy these days is not the same as it was 50-60 years ago. Seventy is still kind of young in the bigger scheme of things.

No wonder the convoys weren't successful.

Straight up. The balding, the gray in my beard, the nose and ear hair.........the 6 times a night urinations. Wasn't I 17, 5 minutes ago?

I’m still 16 in my head.

When we are hiring diversity is absolutely a consideration. Not just because we want to ensure we are doing our best to overcome unconscious biases, but because when it comes to creating media for other people to consume you benefit from as wide a range of voices as possible.

Same here.

I found out a couple of days ago that one of my photographers might be leaving, which sucks because he's really good, but I'm excited at the prospect of replacing him with a female photojournalist who has potential to be as good or better.