Th4tGuyII
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- Comment on my current daddy fling born in the 1970s 4 days 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 4 days 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. 1 week 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! 1 week ago:
Certainly makes you considerate. Past you saved future you a lot of work
- Comment on I hate obscure tech issues! 1 week ago:
- Comment on Ready go! (or don't) 1 week ago:
I think the more dangerous game would be who can poop the fastest
- Comment on Wait bro, what if?????? 1 week 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?????? 1 week 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?????? 1 week 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 1 week 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?????? 1 week 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?????? 1 week 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?????? 1 week 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? 2 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. 2 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: 2 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 3 weeks 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. 3 weeks ago:
You can be one step sadder...
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- Comment on Example 4 weeks ago:
Honestly yeah, that's so sad. The Obamas looking like goals, whilst the Trumps look like they're halfway through a divorce trying to look friendly for the kids.
- Comment on Should hate speech be protected under freedom of speech laws? 5 weeks ago:
Yes - not because I particularly like the idea of bigoted speech, but because like most Governments have already started to demonstrate over age verification, any tool of censorship you allow to be used against your enemy will eventually be turned back against you
- Comment on Doomer 5 weeks ago:
If the infinite growth machine can't make a profit fixing climate change, it simply won't be fixed.
No amount of home recycling, power saving, water reduction, etc. you can do will offset the pollution generated by companies in the pursuit of money.
- Comment on Doomer 5 weeks ago:
Yeah... In situations like these, you kinda just have to do whatever you can do.
Unless you're someone with the power to actually influence policy of the country you live in - in which case what the fuck are you doing reading this, fix your shit - then you realistically can't do jack about these issues.
If you try to fight every battle that's coming our way, rally behind every issue, you'll get burnt out - and that's exactly what those sending them to you want to happen.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
As others have said, a license is a legal tool that allows you to enforce how you want your program to be used.
And in the case of FOSS this is a really big issue, because just publishing code doesn't put it into the public domain, and leaves you open to exploitation by big companies.
There are various types of licenses, but for FOSS the main ones are unlicensing and Copyleft licenses.
Unlicensing essentially declares your code public domain, so anybody can use it for any purpose.
Copyleft licenses are usually fairly permissive, especially for individuals, but obligate that any offshot/fork must also be made Copyleft - so prohibits close sourcing of your work. - Comment on What do you think realistically would happen the moment we meet extraterrestrials? 1 month ago:
Their attitude towards us really depends on what their evolutionary pressures were. If resources were/are plentiful, they might have a less aggressive nature and simply wish to meet us.
Otherwise, we might be on the chopping block.As for us. I imagine a decent portion of humanity would immediately default to rampant xenophobia or weirdly sexual obsession.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Her underarm hair was visible?!
Never mind Jeffery's paedophile cabal, how will higher society ever get over such controversy as a woman's armpit hair being visible??
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Pulled a pretty girl with progressive dating values and fucking moans about it.
With a personality like that, he was the lucky one, and I'd bet many others would've gladly taken his place - Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Enjoy the peace of impotency?
Surely he doesn't think his penis actually has a brain right?
Its your brain that makes you horny, and it will still make you horny even if the equipment don't work anymore.If you're that horny-brained that its causing you stress, your best option (aside from therapy, cause that's expensive) is to get offline and find a hobby to distract your mind with.
- Comment on Google says 75% of the company's new code is AI-generated 1 month ago:
Is that a good metric??
Isn't this just stating that you're letting something with the coding ability of a toddler run amok through your product, having to constantly be bug-fixed by your remaining engineers?
This is exactly what Microsoft started doing, and its so far worked out terribly for them. Loads of their new software updates have had unacceptablely large bugs for even simple like task manager!
- Comment on Not a good sign 1 month ago:
But how will we get more money to the shareholders if we stop pushing humanity towards extinction!?
- Comment on Wing boy 2 months ago:
Poor book. Nothing short of the crappiest, soulless literature out there deserves to be desicrated with wing sauce like that