That’s largely because bureaucracy in its simplest examination is there to let humans emulate computers. It was designed and conceived in the British empire to manage lands that the sun never set on from a tiny island off the coast of mainland Europe.

Bureaucracy allowed them to streamline the process so that buying land in Australia, India, or the Americas was exactly the same as buying land in London, and it was a fantastic system during a point in time that it took months to get a form from Southeast Asia to London.

We live in a time that the same functions of bureaucracy can be accomplished in fractions of a second from anywhere in the world, and even a few spots outside of the world. You could be isolated on the International Space Station and still perform bureaucratic functions as complex as being executor of an estate with minimal difference in living in the apartment directly across the street from the courthouse.

The issue with bureaucracy in this day and age is that it moves at the speed of paperwork and procedure in a day and age that the rest of the world functions at the speed of light, and those that wield those bureaucratic powers are loathe to relinquish any of them in the name of some nebulous concept like, “efficiency.”

What does it matter to the person at the school board if you have to physically go to their office and file a piece of paper, or physically track down a notary to witness to your change of address, when this same accomplishment could be a selection from a drop box on a website? Why should they give up the funding for some flunky to file that paperwork and walk you through the process? Efficiency doesn’t keep their friend employed. Efficiency doesn’t keep their budget filled. Efficiency probably costs them money to implement it, and costs them those cushy job totals a lot of such systems use to justify their very existence.

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In tournament scenarios, you’ll easily burn 5,000+ calories playing chess. Completely ignoring the 10,000+ step days traversing hotels where 100 other players are all on a similar schedule for using the elevators, focused thought for 4 and 5 hour games twice a day will make your brain absolutely burn up the calories. Call of Duty produces a similar effect. Watch someone take it seriously, even if they’ve never held a controller before, and within 1 tense lobby they’re sweating.

I’ve played through hits as early as middle school that I should have checked out on. Culturally, it’s all, “Rub some dirt on it and walk it off.” Slide tackles and headers are still a thing at the local high schools for soccer. The LaCrosse culture is almost as bad as Rugby and Soccer. I’m biased to love basketball as much as I did football as a kid, but it’s got its own smaller specter of, “Play through the pain,” that only slowed down after we all watched Derrick Rose and Brandon Roy’s knees fall apart. I give their professional league a lot more credit for leadership from the top down, but so many more of these situations happen for small town kids listening to small town doctors who go to the same church as the coach.

I’m all for physical exertion, and to this day I’m a long distance hiker and kayaker for my personal exercise, but I wouldn’t want my kids following me down river, or god forbid taking up rock climbing or any of the other dumb shit I did when I was young and invincible. Some sports should be much more elective/extracurricular and restricted until brains are fully formed, or as you’ve stated had the contact lowered. It shouldn’t be pricy stadiums devoted to watching midwestern teenagers the size of refrigerators slam into each other at full speed. We shouldn’t be glorifying kids who cut their finger off to play in the playoffs because the recovery for a broken bone was too long, or putting them in situations where those kind of choices are even an option.

The concussions in football was the turning point for me on a lot of these views, but I’m a little bit ready for some of these cultures to change, even if they’re not in a hurry to change themselves. I’m sure football/hockey/etc will be way more boring with less contact, but to a large extent it is needed. All of it just starts to feel disgusting when you take two steps back from nostalgia and passion for these respective sports, especially if your kid is good enough to make AAU leagues and start summoning the beast that is repetitive stress for-profit.

100 percent fine with kids chess being funded as a sport.

To be honest, with the track record concussionball has had over the last decade I’d be perfectly fine if Chess and ESports outright replaced it at the K-12 level.

It’s literally the difference in funding activities that sharpen your brain rather than physically soften your brain. I say this not just as someone who grew up playing and watching these sports, seeing both the best and worst of them, but as a parent whose children appeared right around the same time several of my childhood heroes committed suicide with gunshots to the heart so people could study their spongey brain.

I’d rather them smoke than play football at this point, and I’m beginning to have reservations about Soccer and Lacrosse. Basketball and baseball haven’t quite made the cut for me yet, but I have suspicions my own brain might become mush if I’m forced to watch too much of the latter.

They obfuscated the risk of addiction throughout the 90’s. Medical literature describes the tolerance to addiction cycle in these drugs as early as the 50’s, it isn’t like it was unknown. When faced with the sharp rise in Opioid deaths post 2000 they convened a panel of experts in 2002, early enough to reign in the off label prescriptions, the panel of 10 experts they brought in had 8 members with significant financial ties to Purdue Pharmaceutical. It wouldn’t be until 2013 before any serious steps were taken, at which point there were enough pills on the market to give every adult in the United States a full bottle.

They were able to prescribe off-label, over produce, and flood both forward facing and black markets for over a decade before any meaningful action was taken. Yes, they absolutely work. They were just way more addictive than the FDA was willing to regulate, and often even recognize.

By your standards, are pride bars not pride bars if hetero individuals (who represent a much larger portion of the population already) frequent them at a high enough rate to be the majority?

A system can be defined just as much by a featured minority. A system that allows even 1/100 drugs to make it through erroneously because you bribed the right combination of senators and researchers seems rather fair to label rigged. Sure, there’s a functioning system along side of it, but there exists a mechanism for avoiding its rigors and it has been exploited rather openly and documented in court cases with opioids most famously.