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I’m an anarchocommunist, all states are evil.
Your local herpetology guy.
Feel free to AMA about picking a pet/reptiles in general, I have a lot of recommendations for that!
- Comment on SteamOS finally released by Valve 2 days ago:
I specialize in giving new users linux and documentation has not been an issue at all with bazzite, I just let them know to use rpm-ostree as little as possible ( and that it replaces the normal fedora package manager ) and only when necessary and search for atomic fedora for guides.
so far I have run into zero documentation issues that weren’t just general linux ones. I think your claim might have been true a while ago but no longer is.
- Comment on SteamOS finally released by Valve 2 days ago:
Tbh I copy and pasted a lot from a previous post I made about mint
- Comment on SteamOS finally released by Valve 3 days ago:
Tbh I don’t agree at all that kubuntu is easier for beginners, that may have been the case 5 or so years ago, but bazzite and aurora are the best now, also there’s literally no reason to use fedora over bazzite or aurora since they’re literally the same thing except with some added packages and important fixes (especially the ffmpeg fix that makes twitch work)
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I do question your moral choice of putting flavor above killing
To be clear, I do not. What I’m doing is morally wrong, in fact, it’s morally terrible, but I do it anyway.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Did you choose to eat meat?
Yes.
What’s your logic?
There is none, I wholly accept that it is entirely illogical and unethical. I am addicted to the flavor.
Which animals?
Any so long as it is delicious.
Would you eat dog?
Yes. It’s no different than pig in my eyes.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
What does eating the same foods you grew up with have to do with it?
i try all new things even bugs, but some foods I grew up with are delicious
- Comment on Denying the Human Sex Binary Turns Biology into Nonsense 4 weeks ago:
I don’t care what discovery magazine says. It’s wrong.
On what basis? Is that a fact or your opinion?
Here’s the original source: www.sciencedirect.com/…/S1087184599911295?via=ihu…
This is my field of expertise.
Herpetology is my field, do you specifically study reproduction?
Intersex is not another sex category as much as your want it to be.
Why not?
It’s a defect. Plain and simple.
You couldn’t explain why it’s a defect. This is just your opinion.
There are only two sexes in human biology. This isn’t a debate.
Except for the thing you call a defect unjustifiably.
This isn’t a debate. This is how it’s taught and it’s taught this way for a reason.
Except it isn’t taught that way at higher levels, because things are often more complex than they are at the simple levels, for the same reason species is taught as things that can’t interbreed at the lower levels.
Do you know the definition of a species?
- Comment on Denying the Human Sex Binary Turns Biology into Nonsense 4 weeks ago:
Sex is about reproduction. There are only two sexes. Period.
except when there aren’t like here: discovermagazine.com/…/why-this-fungus-has-over-2…
and when even by your own gametes definition intersex people produce both.
I’m defending facts.
You’re not, I just gave you contradictory facts, you’re defending your opinion.
We don’t need stupid children. Not understand the classification.
There’s literally nobody who doesn’t understand or is confused by this.
Two is all you need for humans. Period.
Except in intersex cases where there’s at least 3 and arguably 4 if you want to include producing neither gametes.
- Comment on What would this list look like for your generation? 4 weeks ago:
You’d think so but I think saying o*io is a little much… up there with the n-bomb, you just can’t say it
- Comment on Denying the Human Sex Binary Turns Biology into Nonsense 4 weeks ago:
Sex is binary. It’s taught in biology in binary.
Yes, except for hermaphrodytes and when you get more into the weeds it kinda breaks down… like a lot of basic concepts in biology.
Species are taught as things that cannot interbreed, but you also will realize that falls apart along close analysis.
Trust science.
No. Science is all about skepticism, you don’t have to trust science, that’s the whole point! You make reproducible, repeatable predictions precisely so that you do not have to trust science. Science is not a faith.
Sex is a classification for reproduction and not feelings.
You’re the one that seems to have feelings blocking your ability to process this.
Sex is a classification that needs improvement to accurately describe the totality of reproduction.
- Comment on Denying the Human Sex Binary Turns Biology into Nonsense 4 weeks ago:
Should we also make science more Christian-inclusive?
Yes, being more inclusive is always good.
Avoid teaching things that are offensive to them?
No, but nobody said we should do that, so, what’s your point?
That would surely increase the number of scientists.
We aren’t increasing it at all costs, we’re just finding ways to increase it by being kind to one another.
No, because that would be silly.
Yeah, that would be silly… but nobody is arguing for it and this is entirely a strawman.
Science doesn’t care how you identify.
Humans do science, humans should care.
Put up or shut up.
How does that benefit science?
- Comment on Denying the Human Sex Binary Turns Biology into Nonsense 4 weeks ago:
The definition you’re pushing is incoherent garbage. If there’s actually a better definition, great. Yours isn’t it.
All definitions are incoherent garbage, is the problem, that’s why they’re trying to make new better ones.
My definition stands, sex is not binary, because of intersex people, even by that definition, that’s one of many possible definitions, how do you know you have the best one?
What do you think my definition is, and what are its flaws?
I’m not going to wade through a bunch of garbage. You couldn’t even be arsed to figure out that the author isn’t a serious academic and won’t stand behind her own work before citing it. Find real citations first. A shit poll isn’t a citation either
Okay, but they still stand.
- Comment on Choose a number, 1-5! 4 weeks ago:
The only valid choice is 3, I want the full weight of the fork to be the tongs so they don’t knock cups over.
- Comment on If you're still on Lemmy... 4 weeks ago:
Not really though, you can still see them from the other account, so meh
- Comment on If you're still on Lemmy... 4 weeks ago:
I hadn’t seen that before the change? I didn’t even know there was one.
- Comment on If you're still on Lemmy... 4 weeks ago:
But I don’t think that’s true at all.
- Comment on If you're still on Lemmy... 4 weeks ago:
No, not at all, twitter is not decentralized, with a lemmy instance, if you leave, you lose nothing at all. With twitter, you can’t take the content or your account
- Comment on If you're still on Lemmy... 4 weeks ago:
That’s a bad example because it got forked and it wasn’t an actual problem?
Please correct me if I’m wrong, but aren’t the main dev(s) members of lemmy.ml[3]? So I can certainly see how differing political views could skew the development of the main branch of Lemmy.
People say this all the time but never can give even one example of a potential problem. Forking sounds insane to me.
- Comment on If you're still on Lemmy... 4 weeks ago:
I don’t see how, it’s covered by a good license, and if it did it’d be forked in an instant. Can you give a historical example?
- Comment on If you're still on Lemmy... 4 weeks ago:
It’s impossible by design. If an instance enshittifies people will just leave the instance.
- Comment on Denying the Human Sex Binary Turns Biology into Nonsense 5 weeks ago:
No. You’re once again confusing sex with phenotype an/d genotype. The only thing that unites a large swathe of the animal kingdom in regards to sex is gamete size. If we toss that out, we lose precision
The point of the discussion is to figure out if there’s a better way to determine this, a more precise way, the point of such discussions are to move the field forward, all things in science should be questioned, and that is the way of science.
No, that is precisely my point. Sex is determined by many different factors especially across species. Sex is defined as gamete size because there’s no other coherent definition.
Can you not imagine the possibility that it isn’t the best way to determine it?
You really pick bad citations. Citing someone who says “oh i was just being ironic!” is laughable.
That still leaves my other citations in tact, and I could have much more, the point was that many people in the field agree with what i’m saying.
She also confuses sex and phenotypes as you have been and those other citations do.
We aren’t confused, again, this is the difference between determining and defining sex.
- Comment on Denying the Human Sex Binary Turns Biology into Nonsense 5 weeks ago:
…Your quote is about changing the culture of a workplace to increase the number of scientists, and their happiness with their job.
What’s the problem with that? Why is that not worthwhile to have more scientists?
- Comment on Denying the Human Sex Binary Turns Biology into Nonsense 5 weeks ago:
My bad, I meant to say sex. The current consensus says no such thing, point me to a source.
even by the gametes definition there’s at least 3 or 4
male, female, both, neither.
- Comment on Denying the Human Sex Binary Turns Biology into Nonsense 5 weeks ago:
I never claimed that there are an infinite number of sexes.
- Comment on Denying the Human Sex Binary Turns Biology into Nonsense 5 weeks ago:
i agree that poll is insufficiently specific, however, even if 100% of that 58% agreed with you, that would still not meet the criteria for scientific consensus, which is typically in the 90’s
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10563654/ this might interest you, if you bother to read it, I disagree that it has anything to do with a lack of evolutionary knowledge, in fact I find the people most ignorant of evolution strongly hold this belief regularly, but that is a mere anecdote. None of the roundtable had anything to do with that, those claims seem baseless and dataless.
- Comment on Denying the Human Sex Binary Turns Biology into Nonsense 5 weeks ago:
Gender is appropriate for sociology. Biology doesn’t give a shit what you identify as. It has no place in a biology textbook. It’s not moving the field forward, it’s trying to push a worse and irrelevant definition.
As discussed, the intersex debate has pushed forward talks about biological precision in terminology, and ways to properly define such things. These are worthwhile discussions that are harming nobody.
Bully for you, but your opinion is irrelevant to the scientific consensus.
It is in fact not. You’re confusing “determining” and “defining”
here’s an article on the matter: theparadoxinstitute.com/…/defining-sex-vs-determi…
The author also wrote an article that is addressing your exact questions: realityslaststand.com/…/how-our-shoes-can-help-ex…
I control f’d for intersex, didn’t mention it, i expect he’d give an opinion that intersex doesn’t count as a sex even if the produce both gametes baselessly, like he did in the above article, making it a matter of his opinion, and having nothing to do with either scientific consensus or facts.
Again, this is not just some random opinion. This is is not equal to your opinion. This is a PhD in evolutionary biology writing about the scientific consensus.
You don’t know who I am hahaha. My opinion that intersex individuals are a special exception is a common one amongst PHD’s in biology, this particular guy just doesn’t agree with that.
You’re free to disagree with the scientific consensus, but you should admit you’re no better than a creationist spouting off “god did it”.
This has nothing to do with scientific consensus, and everything to do with the opinion of ONE PHD.
here’s a few PHD’s who would likely disagree with him:
…brown.edu/…/sex-binarism-and-the-intersex-pediat…
- Comment on Denying the Human Sex Binary Turns Biology into Nonsense 5 weeks ago:
It’s a defect because it’s a defect
Circular logic.
We all have them. We just have become sensitive to saying it’s a defect or deviance.
This has nothing to do with my claim.
Since most is them we’ll be sterile and possibly ostracized from society, I’d say it has a negative impact for many.
Defects specifically do not include social aspects, being ostracized does not make it medically a defect. Being sterile is also a defect, but just because you’re intersex doesn’t mean you’re sterile.
They should also be allowed to decide their own medical treatment.
Almost none of your comment has anything to do with my claim.
- Comment on Denying the Human Sex Binary Turns Biology into Nonsense 5 weeks ago:
It’s only a defect if it negatively impacts the individual. In this case, if the person is perfectly healthy, there’s a case to be made that it is simply variation, whether or not it is a defect is then a matter of opinion.
- Comment on Denying the Human Sex Binary Turns Biology into Nonsense 5 weeks ago:
Yes, i’m left wondering… when does this ever come up? Are biologists complaining about this constantly in peoples minds?
- Comment on Denying the Human Sex Binary Turns Biology into Nonsense 5 weeks ago:
You did not address any of my questions or points, you just re-affirmed your belief without engaging with what I said.
How do you define people who produce both gametes?
How do you define people who produce neither?