chuso

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do we need legal genders at all?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There is no such thing as 'biological sex' or, as you put it, sex as part of your basic biology, like some sort of immutable biological property each individual gets alongside other biological traits, such as eye or hair color. Like something you cannot discuss because it would be like discussing how many fingers you have on your hand. Sex is a classification made by humans based on some loosely grouped and kind of varying physical traits, which are even not always used consistently to tell sexes apart.

  The first argument in defense of biological sex is that people with a penis and testicles are inherently and biologically men and people with a vulva and vagina are biologically women. But, you know, even when they are not common, there are people who have both or none in varying degrees. This usually turns to "women are people with XX chromosomes and men are people with XY chromosomes". But people with XXY chromosomes (Klinefelter syndrome) and just X chromosomes (Turner syndrome) also exist. You may say those people will be men or women based on what their physical development will make them look like. But you can already see how this starts taking sex assignment into some subjective area and not a basic biology property anymore. Then, you also have De La Chapelle syndrome and Swyer syndrome, which are people with XX chromosomes developing physical traits traditionally considered male and people with XY chromosomes developing physical traits traditionally considered female, respectively. We can continue going over the dozens of different conditions that make it impossible to tell that someone has one unquestionable basic biological sex. You could tell those cases are very rare (if you consider 1 % of the population as very rare), but they do exist. And, since you want to appeal to biology, in science you cannot simply ignore a scenario because it's not favourable for you and claim that your theory still holds because it works for the majority. Sex is a spectrum and sex binarism is a social construct: https://doi.org/10.1038/518288a

  The same way that there is also no such thing as "biological race" and I thought that debate was over decades ago: https://bioanth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/AAPA_Biological_Race_1996.pdf

  Once you start questioning the idea of sex and race as basic biology that cannot be argued, you start seeing how those ideas are harder to sustain and insisting in doing so will place you in, let's say, uncomfortable positions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No soy chorizo⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, yes, it can have that meaning in Spain too, but not so common.
  It's all about context, indeed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No soy chorizo⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Funny twist: in Spain, "chorizo" is slang for thief, so that would be actually saying "I'm a thief".

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did they stop throwing dildos at the WNBA?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  As it seemed to be a campaign to promote a cryptocurrency, they have probably already carried out their exit scam and have no need to continue with this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I cannot provide advice about this specific case. But as a general advice to everyone, unionize before it's too late. By the time you realize that your boss has been fooling you for one year in a way that will make it harder for you to claim a resolution, it may be too late. Don't wait for problems to appear, unionize sooner to get advice and prevent things like this from happening in the first place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spain is blocking unrelated internet addresses because of soccer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I would call this more than just mildly infuriating. Every time there is soccer, a big part of the Internet stops working for me (including my own Netxcloud and Matrix instances, which I am proxing via Cloudflare).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spain is blocking unrelated internet addresses because of soccer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  No, the whole IP addresses are being blocked. Which is causing a huge issue for sites hosted in Cloudflare because thousands of sites share the same IP address and, when they find one single infringing site, they block the whole IP address affecting thousands of innocent sites.
  This has been widely reported by TorrentFreak, you can search there about how this works.