damnedfurry
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- Comment on A real question about trans athletes and records 3 weeks ago:
were those numbers perhaps cherry-picked to make the situation look more dramatic than it actually is?
If anyone can go from 554th to 5th in any sport/event just by competing among the other sex, nothing else changing, then that obviously indicates something. You can’t handwave that away.
Her personal 100m freestyle time dropping less than a quarter of a second post-transition is honestly a bigger indicator that transition is not making a substantial difference, because that angle completely removes the ‘chance’ element in your opponents being different people.
- Comment on A real question about trans athletes and records 3 weeks ago:
The very fact that their ranking is lower than what it should be is an issue in and of itself, your disingenuous mockery notwithstanding.
- Comment on A real question about trans athletes and records 3 weeks ago:
The question is fair, but so very few people are affected, who cares?
The vast majority of people are never murdered, either. But I’m sure it matters to them and their loved ones.
It’s an extreme example for the analogy, but the point stands: it doesn’t follow that a bad thing being rare makes it less bad. This is not a valid argument against.
- Comment on A real question about trans athletes and records 3 weeks ago:
My understanding is that there is absolutely no evidence that trans women have an advantage.
Going from 554th place pre-transition to 5th place post-transition doesn’t line up with that claim.
- Comment on A real question about trans athletes and records 3 weeks ago:
The fact that the University of Pennsylvania swimmer [Lia Thomas] soared from a mid-500s ranking (554th in the 200 freestyle; all divisions) in men’s competition to one of the top-ranked swimmers in women’s competition tells the story
In the 100 freestyle, Thomas’ best time prior to her transition was 47.15. At the NCAA Championships, she posted a prelims time in the event of 47.37. That time reflects minimal mitigation of her male-puberty advantage.
During the last season Thomas competed as a member of the Penn men’s team, which was 2018-19, she ranked 554th in the 200 freestyle, 65th in the 500 freestyle and 32nd in the 1650 freestyle. As her career at Penn wrapped, she moved to fifth, first and eighth in those respective events on the women’s deck.
It may not be an issue to you, but it’s an issue to every woman whose ranking is lower as a result. I imagine it especially hurts if you’re pushed out of first place in that way.
- Comment on Anon thinks there is a bicurious double standard 4 weeks ago:
Incel implies a level of indoctrination into a misogynistic POV
No one is thinking this deeply when they call a man who just said/did something they don’t like an “incel”. People just use it mindlessly as an insult, same as with “virgin”.
- Comment on Anon thinks there is a bicurious double standard 4 weeks ago:
Please don’t equivocate homophobia with closeted homosexuality.
There are tons of homophobes who aren’t in the closet, and tons of gay guys in the closet who aren’t homophobic. Not to mention that using this as an ‘attack’ toward a homophobe is literally using gay as an insult, which is the same thing homophobes do.
It does gay people no good.
- Comment on Anon thinks there is a bicurious double standard 4 weeks ago:
It’s not out of fashion at all, “virgin” just became “incel”. The intent is identical.
- Comment on Anon is Bri’ish 4 weeks ago:
To make that joke? No.
To make the joke, having already decided to make it, as funny as possible? Yes.
- Comment on Anon is Bri’ish 4 weeks ago:
People (I’m in the US) are pretty much always astonished to realize, when I ask them to say the word “important”, that they more often than not will pronounce zero of the T’s in the word, when I point it out that they didn’t.
It always really stuck out to me as a kid when Shawnee Smith (probably most famous for the Saw movies now), on the old sitcom Becker, would always enunciate the T’s in that word—that’s what made me realize how weird it was that everyone wasn’t saying it that way, lol.
- Comment on Anon is Bri’ish 4 weeks ago:
Apparently, there’s some sort of linguistic exchange program within British English where T’s are traded out for R’s, and then a persistent logistics issue causes the R’s to be distributed incorrectly.
- Comment on Bill and Melinda French Gates and Warren Buffett’s Giving Pledge after 15 years: Only 9 of the 256 billionaires actually followed through on giving away half their wealth 5 weeks ago:
“stop” doesn’t mean stop
calling a lie a lie is ad hominemFuck all the way off, pathetic liar.
- Comment on Bill and Melinda French Gates and Warren Buffett’s Giving Pledge after 15 years: Only 9 of the 256 billionaires actually followed through on giving away half their wealth 5 weeks ago:
Where did I “exactly” say we should stop taxing the rich, liar?
- Comment on Bill and Melinda French Gates and Warren Buffett’s Giving Pledge after 15 years: Only 9 of the 256 billionaires actually followed through on giving away half their wealth 5 weeks ago:
it’s such a serious threat to the country’s financial stability that we should chicken out and stop taxing the rich.
No one’s saying this, this is a straw man.
It’s just a simple fact that there is a ‘sweet spot’ when it comes to maximizing tax revenue. It’s the same as if you’re selling a product for $10, then 100 people buy it, and you assume that you’ll double your $1000 profit if you sell it for $20 instead, but then the number of buyers went down to 10, and now your bottom line is $800 less, instead.
“Just tax them more” is not the simple/obvious solution it appears to be on the surface. Also, people don’t just not react when stuff like this changes, to protect themselves; just compare tax revenue presently to what it was when it capped out at (iirc) 91%.
And even IF ‘turning that dial’ simply increased tax revenue, it needs to be combined with that revenue being spent productively, for it to make any difference at all. Hell, I think the US already brings in more than enough tax revenue to do everything we want it to do, if it was doing it as efficiently as it could be.
- Comment on Bill and Melinda French Gates and Warren Buffett’s Giving Pledge after 15 years: Only 9 of the 256 billionaires actually followed through on giving away half their wealth 5 weeks ago:
Someone needs to read up on “capital flight”, this is a known phenomenon we’re talking about, not speculation.
- Comment on US education 1 month ago:
People who havent had all the joy ripped out of them.
People who haven’t had all the joy ripped out of them don’t make ragebait memes, lol, this is projection.
- Comment on US education 1 month ago:
So this is what Lemmy’s come down to? A repost of a 10 year-old Reddit post, which is a repost of a 14 year-old Tumblr post?
- Comment on I dont want to enter a contract when consuming your product.. 1 month ago:
Well, the purchase is probably already made by the time this is seen, and for those who see it, they probably just ignore it similarly to EULA popups when installing programs.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I wouldn’t show someone Hilter’s paintings. If I had them in my possession they would cease to exist.
You’re completely missing the point (and supporting mine about you, in the process). If you didn’t know who the artist was when you saw it, and ended up liking one of them, would that transform you into a Nazi?
Of course it fucking wouldn’t. The painting isn’t expressing or endorsing any Nazi ideology.
And neither is this comic.
Stop being insufferably obtuse.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Nothing pro-Nazi about this comic.
Liking one of the paintings made by Hitler himself wouldn’t even be accurately described as “Nazi apologism”.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Sounds like you’re the kind of person who’d show someone one of Hitler’s paintings without them knowing it was, and if they said they liked the painting, you’d call them a Nazi.
Try actually reading what I wrote.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I think it’s funny, and this particular comic isn’t pro-Nazi in any way (just referencing Hitler doesn’t make it so), so I have no trouble enjoying it.
It’s just a blend of ‘people reject AI in the role of artist’ + ‘Hitler was rejected as an artist’ + the silly correlation of ‘getting rejected as an artist makes you become like Hitler’, the latter being something no one really believes, but has become a meme once those two things were juxtaposed like that.
Not that deep, as I said in my previous comment.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
As someone who studies humor as a hobby, I assert:
It’s not that deep.
There is no “hero” in this comic. It’s just a joke that combines two simple/known things:
- Hitler was rejected from art school prior to becoming the infamous figure in all our history books (to put it lightly)
- AI has faced a lot of backlash from people who reject it being used as a source of art
So now the rejected robot artist is implied to be becoming like Hitler as well, by painting a Hitler-like mustache onto its face, after it was rejected from being an artist.
Though it’s worth stating that it’s already basically an existing joke that Hitler became who we know him all as, as a direct result of his rejection from art school in Vienna–obviously that’s correlation, not causation.
Not to mention that there’s nothing in the comic itself that implies the robot being angry at anyone other than those rejecting it–Stonetoss has in the past depicted a character as being Jewish conspicuously (drawing them wearing a Star of David necklace/jewelry, etc.), in service of that comic’s punchline, but no such ‘indicator’ is present on the human doing the rejecting here. That’s obviously a deliberate omission.
I think it’s a bit silly to interpret this comic as endorsing Hitler or the Holocaust or anything like that, and that your perception of him as a person, true or not, has warped your assessment of what ultimately is a straightforward and uncomplicated gag.
- Comment on Antz in my Pantz 1 month ago:
Kind of the opposite, looks like evolution is trying desperately to get rid of ants, lol. Possibly replacing them with crabs.
- Comment on You can drive 74 hours and still be in Germany. The American mind can't comprehend this. 1 month ago:
Quoting from my previous comment:
Special District Level: This is where the complexity truly explodes. There are thousands of “special taxing districts” (e.g., transit districts, school districts, stadium districts, hospital districts, fire districts, etc.) that can overlap city and county lines, each adding its own fractional sales tax rate. A single street could literally have different sales tax rates on opposite sides due to these overlapping districts.
Is there anyplace in Europe where sales tax is THAT level of convoluted, on top of city, county, and state levels?
- Comment on You can drive 74 hours and still be in Germany. The American mind can't comprehend this. 1 month ago:
There isn’t zero reason, you’re just unwilling to accept the reasons.
- Comment on You can drive 74 hours and still be in Germany. The American mind can't comprehend this. 1 month ago:
Europe is not a country, and Germany is not a state.
- Comment on You can drive 74 hours and still be in Germany. The American mind can't comprehend this. 1 month ago:
All there is to comprehend is that the US contains states that have distinct sales tax laws.
- Comment on the unseen worlds 2 months ago:
Was wondering why this sounded familiar, saw the article was from 7 years ago (2018) and now I understand, lol.
- Comment on Twitch's largest political streamer, Asmongold, shovels racist and xenophobic messaging to his audience of 52K+ live viewers 2 months ago:
When the fuck did Asmongold become the largest POLITICAL streamer?
He didn’t, not even close—the OP made that up to augment the ragebait level of their post, lol.