Th4tGuyII
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- Comment on bro got neutered 3 days ago:
For those without golden parachutes at least, the golden rule of trading is never to invest more than you can afford to lose.
You may not win big, but at least you won't lose everything like OOP - Comment on Health yeating 6 days ago:
What do you think are the chance that they cooked these insects first?
- Comment on Sony 6 days ago:
Is a bit wild how they remembered to put down vinyls and even cassettes, but forgot DVDs and VHS tapes which are very arguably bigger household names than Blu-ray.
Also, literally all millenials were born before 2000. And many of them (myself included) grew up with VHS and DVD.
- Comment on Sony 6 days ago:
Exactly. I absolutely agree with OP that robbing people of the choice to own physical media sucks...
But when not paired with shitty-ass DRM, digital format media can be an absolute boon for games preservation. Easy to backup, takes up barely any physical space, and doesn't require physical hardware to play it that will become increasingly sparce and expensive over time.
If the industry doesn't want to provide legal pathways towards games preservation, then it looks like the pirates are going to start wearing archavist hats too.
- Comment on Physical disc production ending in January 2028 for new games releasing on PlayStation consoles 1 week ago:
In the same week they're in the spotlight again for removing purchased content from people's libraries?
Born too late to explore the world, too early to explore space - but just in time to watch the rise and enshitification of the internet and gaming.
- Comment on Overrated GTA hype 1 week ago:
Yeah. Stealing from the employees they say, while pushing said employees out of the window
- Comment on Overrated GTA hype 1 week ago:
Even if piracy was the entire reason for not releasing on PC - it's a downright idiotic excuse considering most of the consoles it'll be releasing on have exploits/jailbreaks that also allow for piracy/dumping.
If that's the excuse, might as well just not release the game at all... which seems to be the current strategy anyways
- Comment on I can feel my horny level rising to 30% 1 week ago:
If someone actually managed to get turned on reading this, I'd be concerned for their mental well-being
- Comment on The real deal 1 week ago:
This is the type of person to pick up fruit and vegetables without checking their conditions, then be shocked when they're bruised and damaged
- Comment on Skeletor laying down, out and about FYI 2 weeks ago:
Enough Scoville's and your ass will be burning brighter than the sun in the middle of July
- Comment on Skeletor laying down, out and about FYI 2 weeks ago:
Good point. Does a TAS (Tool Assisted Shit) plasma shit count?
- Comment on Skeletor laying down, out and about FYI 2 weeks ago:
If your ass can shit out Plasma or a Bose-Einstein Condensate, you ought to go to hospital
- Comment on my current daddy fling born in the 1970s 3 weeks ago:
Did you mean "we didn't"?
I'd say you got me on that one, but my hone's internet connection was so shite I basically didn't have it until the 2000s.
Besides you guys had ARPAnet, I'm sure you could make do with that haha
(Now we just need a Centennial to come in here and say we're both young for having had computers full stop)
- Comment on my current daddy fling born in the 1970s 3 weeks ago:
Alright, calm down fossil. There's less time between you and us, than there us between us and today - ergo we're all getting older here.
- Comment on We Put A Man On The Moon. We Did It. 4 weeks ago:
Is Rubio genuinely comparing the moon landings, which is one of humanity's highest achievements, to UFC fighting?
Did he hit his head on something?
- Comment on I hate obscure tech issues! 4 weeks ago:
Certainly makes you considerate. Past you saved future you a lot of work
- Comment on I hate obscure tech issues! 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Ready go! (or don't) 4 weeks ago:
I think the more dangerous game would be who can poop the fastest
- Comment on Wait bro, what if?????? 4 weeks ago:
You're putting words in my mouth here. I'm not advocating for a strict binary of male or female.
I'm aware that intersex people and sex-related disorders occupy a spectrum between.We ought to do better to educate people on those that lie in the spectrum - but that is entirely different to advocating for the idea that biological sex is a lie because it doesn't fit your world view.
Even if you use the most generous estimate of those who exist in that spectrum, per the Disorders of Sex Development (DSD) Consortium, that number is still <2% of the population.
Modelling clinical outcomes based on categories that apply to >49/50 people is not wildly inaccurate as you seem to be claiming. Of course we should do Our best to ensure that those in spectrum are covered as well, but a "model" that covers 100% of people is just a list of everyone on Earth - which is not only a privacy nightmare, but also has zero predictive utility.
Yes, but those categories are all traits associated with either XX or XY chromosome development.
Having a penis is a Y-linked trait, having a womb is an X-linked trait.
That isn't me trying to deny anyone's chosen identity, but it is a biological fact that (with current technology) cannot be changed.
And that is true even for intersex individuals.I'm not bothered to sit here and argue with someone who's attitude is that of science denialism. If I wanted that I could go argue with a Flat Earther, so I'm going to let you have the last word on this one. Peace
- Comment on Wait bro, what if?????? 4 weeks ago:
That's a great story to be sure, but even ancient people knew about intersex people - that's where the original (and now often discriminatory) term "hermaphrodite" came from.
The reason people keep bringing genetics and chromosomes into this is because they're the literal blueprints for our bodies.
If its not encoded into the blueprints, our bodies cannot make it happen - and as far as humans go, there's only two basal sex templates, male and female. That's it.Anything between those two states is fair game (as we see from intersexuality), but unlike with gender it is biologically impossible to not be on that spectrum somewhere.
Thats not a "world view", it is an empirical fact backed by decades of genetic research.If you had the resources to go find and examine every human on the planet, I guarantee you that out of the 10 billion humans that exist on Earth, not a single one would fall outside that spectra. I'd bet my life on it a million times over.
Additionally, you really could not be more wrong about sex being a useless category.
Your sex is one of the most medically significant traits you can have - at times even more important than your ethnicity in determining clinical outcomes.I'm an open minded person, but I go where the evidence points to - and with all due respect, its not towards what you're cooking.
- Comment on Wait bro, what if?????? 4 weeks ago:
You're calling it a concept, but biological sex isn't a concept in the same way as gender is. We didn't just make sexes up.
There are very real physiological differences between those with XX chromosomes and XY.
And while I do agree with you that we should be teaching a more spectral view of sex that acknowledges those who don't fit into the normal XX and XY model...
I simply cannot agree with the notion that our model of sex is medically useless because it doesn't perfectly cover <1% of the population without caveats.
And then calling biological sex a lie because you disagree on how we model it is plain anti-intellectual.
- Comment on Xbox pulls Gears video featuring a PS5 logo, 24 hours after announcing it as an exclusive 4 weeks ago:
Exactly. When the process takes 6 years, throwing it all out a month before release is essentially last minute - and that's assuming you take them at their word, which I really don't.
Its just a shame to know the devs will have poured so much time into the PS5 version just to have the finished product sit on a drive somewhere unreleased (assuming it hasn't been destroyed instead to prevent it ever being leaked).
- Comment on Wait bro, what if?????? 4 weeks ago:
That's a very long way of saying the same thing as @Nalivai did.
And while I don't think you're wrong on the binary model of sex being disinclusive of intersex people and those with sex-related chromosomal disorders - that is not the same thing as saying biological sex is a lie.
Pinning down a precise definition of sex is incredibly difficult for biologists, the best definitions we have are a vague cloud of all of these vaguely related things.
Sex is the physiological result of sex chromosome differentiation.
By conventional standards that's "XY is male, XX is female".
Now we both know that model doesn't cover everybody, but saying we have no definition because you disagree with the definition given is just ignorant.For any rigorous definition we come up with, that actually produces a distinct number of sexes, we can throw some curveballs at it that require the writing of exceptions and special clauses and caveats. We end up oversimplifying dozens of different variables into these broad categories that then lead to worse outcomes for the people who deviate from the dogmatic oversimplifications. And if we actually count each intersex condition and permutation and stage of transsexual transition as its own sex, then we end up with thousands of different sexes, and next to no predictive utility! It's a nightmare!
Saying that you end up with no predictive utility because a model only covers +99% of cases is also ignorant.
Every model that ever exists will always have caveats and exceptions. Simplification of anything comes with inaccuracies that end up needing to be addressed...
My philosophy is: If you can't create a model that is accurate, fair, and useful... maybe you're trying to create the wrong kind of model. Go back to the drawing board and reevaluate your foundational assumptions. Come back with a different core idea.
... And your take on this sounds an awful lot like the old GOP proposition of "if its not 100% perfect its not worth doing".
A model that covers +99% of cases, but requires caveats and special attention towards intersex and trans people is better than no model at all.
Especially when it comes to very really physiological differences that can get you killed with inadequate medical attention.
What we have ended up doing with the idea of biological sex would be absurd in any other scientific field. Imagine if chemists said "There are two elements: Hydrogen and helium. Together they make up 99% of all atoms, and everything else is a defect." That's what we're doing with sex.
That's a poor argument - as from an objective perspective, that's entirely true.
If you randomly took an atom from the universe right now, an overwhelmingly high majority of the time it'd be hydrogen or helium.
Basically all of chemistry covers the exceptions to that rule.
I do understand what you're trying to say, and I do agree fundamentally that a purely binary model is disinclusive of the people that don't fit - and that is shitty - but throwing out the entire idea of biological sex instead of suggesting that we need to be teaching a more spectral model of sex (like we've started doing with gender) I respectfully disagree with.
- Comment on Wait bro, what if?????? 4 weeks ago:
Sure. But saying "biological sex isn't a strict binary, and is dismissive of intersex people and those with sex-related chromosomal disorders" isn't the same thing as saying "biological sex is a lie".
In a the same sense that "the universe is majoratively hydrogen and helium" (which is true) isn't the same thing as saying "the universe is either hydrogen or helium".
By being overly reductive you're making a true statement into a false statement.
- Comment on Wait bro, what if?????? 4 weeks ago:
I'm sorry you're gonna need to provide a bit more citation on these.
- Biological sex exists
What do you mean by this?
Biological sex - as in physiological characteristics borne of sex chromosome differentiation - is absolutely real, and playing about with that could quite literally get you killed from a medical care perspective (as in wrong dose of drugs, etc.).
Now if you want to discuss whether sex is truly binary, that's much more debatable - especially due to the existence of intersex people, and those with sex-related chrosomal disorders.
- 99.99% of your body isn't empty space
If you're talking about atoms in the body being 99.99% empty space, then by that technicality everything that exists is 99.99% empty space... Which isn't so much an interesting lie, as it is just an interesting physics fact.
- Objects exist
I'm not calling this one out, I just want to know what technicality this is borne out of.
- The Beatles were any good
This one's just offensive. Or that is what I would say if I didn't also think they're a bit overrated.
- Comment on Why exactly are nursing aids paid so poorly? 5 weeks ago:
Its simple really. The management make all the money, while the workers and customers get shafted
- Comment on The body of a contortionist while performing a trick. This X-ray also shows that a significant part of the spine does not bend. 5 weeks ago:
Damn, that neck part is doing basically all of the first 180° of bending. Rest of the spine be caught slacking.
- Comment on That crushing realization that life keeps leveling up in difficulty just like a video game, but forgot to include the cheat codes: 5 weeks ago:
Oh there are cheat codes - you just have to be born rich enough to use them
- Comment on Personal trainer wins £150k payout after driving from Germany for a meeting – only for her boss not to show 1 month ago:
Yeah, this was clearly about far more than just that headline.
This is years of retaliation and malice being not just actively covered up, but even upheld by her Nuffield Health. Like this is a textbook example of illegal workplace conduct.
I'm glad she was rightly awarded monetary damages in the end, but she really deserved more for what she was put through - and those involved should've been punished.
- Comment on Choose chicken. 1 month ago:
You can be one step sadder...
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