That really only works if the other team is terrible relative to your own. ‘Playing to tie’ a team that is an even match (or close to an even match) results in a competitive advantage for their side.
This does work ok for long distance competitive running, since the factors at play are time and metabolic rate and is missing the strategy present in team based ball sports like football, soccer, basketball, etc.
Your article says that the intensity of traffic stays the same if you increase or decrease the number of roads, so it doesn't increase or decrease congestion. This just doesn't happen instantaneously.
What I said was that it will temporarily decrease congestion, but that the effect will disappear over time.
The difference is dogs, cats, rats, and people all have a much more recent genetic ancestor, so it’s not a stretch to imagine they have similar brain structures that allow for dreaming.
All those Disney movies with singing fish and the like has lead to anthropomorphizing and assumptions that are still being reckoned with scientifically.
They saw the writing on the wall: People who use the product, become emotionally entangled, and then attempt or complete suicide following their experience open up the company to litigation from the families.
I'm not sure you (or perhaps even the parent comment?) quite realize what "recourse" by a father would mean in Mississippi. I read that as, shooting the principal dead and possibly turning yourself in to the police. If you're white, you'll probably get off with jail time. If you're dark skinned or non-christian probably suicide by cop to avoid the unpleasant (in)justice. It's about protecting other children and making future principals think twice.
The US is a large country with highly variable laws and customs. Just as parts of Europe refer to other parts of Europe as 'North Africa'... when you say Florida or Missippi in the US it has a similar twang.
I think you’re right, that’s what the parent comment was referring to. That seemed patently ridiculous, so I made a joke about how the recourse would be moving away.
Might be better to just make it illegal to hit children?
