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I assume that's a law and order thing, and not a resurrection of the 90s/00s street parties?

That has to be one of the most insane things I've read in a long time, I even had to fact check what she actually said to make sure she wasn't being misquoted. But it turns out to be substantially correct, since she said; The idea that the Levi censored the book of Relevation tends to fall down flat on its face when you consider what's actually left in the various books of the bible (and yes, I'm aware there isn't a single universally accepted version of it, but bear with me here). Over to Richard Dawkins; But hey, let's leave all that in and make sure we only take out the part about puberty blockers ok? The Book of Leviticus itself is one of the most insane parts of the bible, featuring heavily in the Heretic's Guide to the Bible. Some more liberal-minded people might consider the death penalty for cursing one's mother or father (Leviticus 20:9), sleeping with your neighbour's wife (Leviticus 20:10), or cursing the name of the lord (Leviticus 24:16) to be just a teeny bit excessive, it's no surprise thart I don't remember the Book of Leviticus ever being mentioned during religious eduction at school. But of course the bible isn't meant to be taken literally, say adherents. Of course which particular bits that applies to can be generally taken to mean anything which makes Christianity look ridiculous. I'll never understand people like Rowling. Undeniably a creative person. fabulously rich with the freedom to do whatever she wants with her time, and she spends most of it arguing online about transgender people. Utterly baffling.

Wargaming in my (somewhat dated) experience, is an exclusively male club. When I joined the students' union wargaming society at university in 1991, to the best of my recollection there wasn't a single female member. Even play-by-mail, where women might have felt slightly more at ease from the unwanted attentions of men who rarely interacted with women on a regular basis, had relatively few women involved. Excluding the editor of Flagship magazine Carol Mulholland, I can probably count on one hand the number of women involved, or at least ones playing the same games as me. In 1992 there were (at least) three PBM conferences, in Leeds, Sheffield and London (the latter at the York Hall in Bethnall Green, that's how many people were involved), although my memory of events is blurred due to the passage of time and consumption of alcohol, if the number of women present wasn't zero or close to zero it was a significantly long way short of being even remotely close to ~50%. Given that women make up approximately that percentage of the population (and many apologies if that rather unscientific division excludes non-binary people) it's hardly unsurprising that any company should want to attempt to also market their product at the non-male market, without having the perjorative "woke" thrown at them? Was Tomb Raider "woke" in 1996 for having Lara Croft as the protagonist rather than some Indiana Jones-ish male character? It's not a case of "wokeness", but straightforward capitalism. For a variety of reasons far too tangential to this thread to explain in any detail I haven't watched The Appentice for a number of years now, but even I know that a product that potentially excludes ~50% of the population is a Bad Idea™.

Wrestling already was popular. While certain territories were on their way out, in 1983 wrestling was in a pretty healthy state. Mid-Atlantic was doing great, as was Georgia, Florida, Mid-South, Memphis, World Class, the AWA, Portland and numerous others. More people were paying to see pro-wrestling than they are today, and more people were earning a full-time living from it. I recommend reading "The truth about smoke-filled halls" (post just before half-way down) by @JNLister which summarises the state of wrestling before and after McMahon.

The Bulgarian, Aoiyama, isn't retired although I was pretty sure he would. He finished the January basho with a 0–7–8 record after injuring his ACL resulting in him dropping down to the jūryō division. As he's now 37 I figured that would probably be it for him especially if the injury kept him out for any extended period (absence = demotion in the rankings), but he was back in the March basho and ended up with a 7-8 record. I can't imagine him carrying on too much longer though, especially if he drops out of jūryō as that means a significant salary cut and loss of his servants.

Haru (March) basho spoilers.