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UFC gets idea for their next anti doping policy

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This is not to pit one practice against another.

An agent can know BJJ and Muay Thai, but the "mixed" part of MMA is not combined in combat sports in the same way it is combined in enforcement organizations.

It's a "photo-op."

2/2 MMA professionals are no joke - it IS martial...

... & it's bound by rules of practice, practiced nearly naked, & without any weaponry, improvised or otherwise.

A relatively controlled environment.

If true, my money is on the proganda piece of it all, not reality. 😬

#burstingbubbles

Whether he believes the words or not, whether they were said or not, and whether they were lipservice or sincere: LMFAO

There are so many practical hand-to-hand systems already used by even just American enforcement agencies that are way more applicable than UFC MMA.

No shade to the source 1/2

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For real, a game like that is the joy I needed with the news cycle that feels more like a firehose to the face.

What it's gonna feel like to post about sports on social media for the next four years

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#oilers #stanleycupfinals

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When the team tightens tf up

#oilersnation

I will not hear another **unwarranted** dog-pile on a sole defenseman in a team sport.

#oilers #letsgooilers #oilersnation

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@ the Nurse catastrophizers always, but mostly after he does a fine job on that goal. 💅

#oilers #stanleycupfinal #letsgooilers

Bitch, don't get too comfortable Better not get too comfortable FUTURE, "TOO COMFORTABLE"

Oilers got one.

No activity from Ariel Helwani on bluesky has got to mean something.

#hottake

There are so many people in this fandom, incl the fighters, who KNOW what is happening, but they don't push back on anything.

A lot of warrior chest-beating, & how many of them take the risk of criticizing their own community?

It's a meat-grinder.

I believe in #combatsports

But not like this.

I keep thinking of all the fighters who talk about being "warriors" or "going to war" in the cage.

But they won't stand up for themselves & unionize?

Bad mathematics.

Pedro's the brave one here.

#mma

Something something preacher choir etc.

But like actually.

More a question of social cohesion & resilience from within.

There's a gap that the bullshit fills.

Why is the gap there?

#scicomm #publichealth #publiceducation #outreach

A note:

Any kind of intellectual superiority hurts progress.

That is still a slippery undercurrent in #scicomm, and pinning it down is like nailing jelly to a wall.

The call is coming from inside the house.

Instead of "why do ppl seek that?" - ask "why are ppl leaving this?"

#publichealth

Related: a lawyer once told me, "You can't regulate stupid."

This was during the "kids are eating Tide Pods" panic.

We can't control the choices people make.

What we can do it make sure we teach & maintain self-reflexivity.

A culture that values it.

Starting here. #publichealth

Highlights.

From fall 2019 to winter 2020, I was a graduate research assistant for a public health lab (great timing).

There was friction between what I was being asked to find & what they wanted to include in the definition of "public health."

Good to see this kind of work here.

Took me a while to pin down my disappointment, but that's it, I think.

I wish they played like they loved the game.

Ah, my heart.

#oilersnation #stanleycupfinal #playoffs

I'm going through Ted Lasso again, s 3, ep 10.

About how the game doesn't belong to the owners of teams.

It belongs to the fans. To the people who play it.

To the people who love it.

I wish the #oilers played tonight like they loved the game, instead of just sticking it to the other team.

I love me some combat sports, but #hockeyfans this game is a lost cause.

#Panthers got under the skin and stayed there. Start to finish.

#oilersnation

Look, I'm pulling for the #oilers but chasing a guy and grabbing his stick is not exactly playoff caliber strategy.

Come on, now. Be mad but acting out in the final series.

Not even about good looks or honor, just fully hurting your own team.

#beagoldfish #playoffs

I'm seeing a lot of blame on Skinner (and defaulting on Nurse), but the whole team isn't flowing as tightly today.

Seeing a loss of cohesion. Can't just scapegoat it on one or two players, even if they're not at they're personal A-gane tonight.

#2cents #oilers

Is this the distraction I'm seeing in gameplay here?

Romance.

Cohesion and speed - too soon to call them coffin nails, but I do hope they tiiighten that up, b'ys

#oilersnation #stanleycupplayoffs

Playoff hockey in the gay bar means draft lager and crystal chandeliers. My haaaaven

#playoffs #oilers #silverlinings

Another note, a professional MMA fighter once told me, in response to me being anxious about the level of wh1te supremacy seeping into MMA gyms, "We're not protest people."

#politicsinsport #sportisaweapon