maybe it's not a coincidence

It's pretty rare. Usually it's in sports where there is not womens category (e.g. football, baseball) but occaisionally at schools where there is no womens team in a particular sport. Still, we're talking about a handful of people.

There are very few sports where women can consistently beat men and they are usually open to them—ultra-marathon running, equestrian sports, motorsports, collegiate shooting sports. NCAA rules do not explicitly ban women from mens sports and women have competed when no womens team exists.

Or we could just cut $89 off the roughly $15k we spend on every medicare beneficiary, fund PEPFAR and likely have zero impact on their health

I’m deadly serious.

You’re so stingy with the follow backs, I might just have to hunt you down. Tonight.

This is a horrible analogy. There has been actual institutional capture by extremists in the United States—but it is the transgender activists that have led it. It is doing real damage. Ignoring this is the real disservice to the transgender community.

www.economist.com/united-state...

...until I think about the places where petroleum engineers actually work and, no thanks, I don't want to live there.

But with the tech bust that came in 2000–01 and the exploding oil price after 9/11, sometimes I wonder what could have been...

Being in Austin and with oil prices low in the mid-90s, I skipped the oil patch and went into technology. It seemed smart at the time.
www.wsj.com/articles/SB8...

One of the courses that really sticks in my mind for its difficult was (at the time called) "Transport Phenomena in Permeable Media." If you love the combination of "thermodynamics" and "unseeable stuff buried thousands of feet under the ground," then this was the course for you.

Petroleum engineers take a fair amount of geology and that means... field trips!
www.jsg.utexas.edu/academics/un...

Mud is really important in drilling. It is THE thing that keeps every well from becoming the Deepwater Horizon. We have a whole semester-long lab devoted to mud. Here someone gives a tour of their school's mud lab:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-R0P...