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- Comment on That's a whole lotta hydrogen! 2 hours ago:
Binette is giving you the lecture that happens in every first year college bio class to students.
Basically evolution has in the past and could in the future (as soon as tomorrow) add a third sex to humans if there was evolutionary pressure to (which there may be). Physics is only deterministic in the short term.
The other issue is that when people (especially those in any scientific community, such as biologists) use the word gender, they specifically mean the list of attributes different societies place on biological sex characteristics they can observe.
Gametes are not something an unaided eye can identify in society so its not useful to assign gender - which no matter how you define it will never line up perfectly with biological sex due to environmental factors. Might as well use the SRY gene or even “the presence of sufficiently SRY receptors”. This is why in society we largely determine gender by what biologists call “secondary sex characteristics” aka ones not actually required for reproduction.
If assigning a gender was evolutionarily important, we’d be assigning it based on primary characteristics like you’re suggesting. But that didn’t happen. The fact is isn’t may suggest its an evolutionary disadvantage to do so.
- Comment on That's a whole lotta hydrogen! 19 hours ago:
Woosh
- Comment on Student Parking 1 day ago:
I’ve pointed this out in other threads but bus investments tend to be best for colleges and universities and especially in the US where there is a 3 month summer break. Some places have year round school- those are good candidates for trains.
Because the traffic at higher education varies seasonally, its easier to reroute buses than trains or force car drivers to pay 33% more for parking (because the parking will be unused in the off season but it will still need to be maintained annually).
Also investments should recoup some benefit to society. Education has obvious benefits, it makes sense that an educated society is more functional than one without. Trains have obvious benefits. Bike paths have obvious benefits. Roads have obvious benefits. Parking lots do not.
- Comment on Banan 1 day ago:
*only works in hawaii
- Comment on Student Parking 1 day ago:
This is such a bad excuse for subsidizing rich kids who got free cars from their parents. I used to live in a rural town in the US and the local college had usable bike paths AND decent access to bus routes.
Ironically it wasn’t until I moved to a city five times the size that I was having 1+ hour bus trips to get across town.
Accessibility is 100% a choice by the local government and university admins.
- Comment on Banan 1 day ago:
I’ve definitely had gritty bananas. Red bananas have such a small window of ripeness anymore they might as well be called gritty bananas now.
- Comment on Banan 1 day ago:
Perfectly sized for slenderman’s hands. Checkmate athiests.
- Comment on Student Parking 1 day ago:
Ok but how does that help the students that don’t need parking? You still haven’t justified why they should be saddled with subsidizing commuting students?
A better bus system seems like it would solve both problems, why is the only acceptable solution special priveleges for car owners?
- Comment on Student Parking 1 day ago:
Why burden the kids who don’t require parking with paying for parking for kids with cars?
Parking lots are one of the most expensive parts of modern infrastructure often requiring massive vaults or ponds to offset stormwater runoff increases from paving over large areas and rendering huge swaths of land ( 30% in some places) unusable.
Imo parking is subsidized way too much and bus routes are not subsidized enough. The solution before car companies lobbied mandatory parking minimums into existence was simply provide more busses per person
- Comment on Student Parking 1 day ago:
I gotta say 200 is cheap for university parking. Should be 2k. If you can afford a driving commute to a university you can afford a parking permit.
- Comment on How can we convince Trump voters to NOT vote for Trump (or Vance) in the 2026 midterms and the 2028 election? 3 days ago:
They could also fund mines there without attempting to turn it into a US territory. Imo if this was just about mines they would already have done it.
My guess would be the tech bros also want to use it as some kind of utopian bioshock style project, which is the only remotely plausible explanation for pushing it so hard.
- Comment on How can we convince Trump voters to NOT vote for Trump (or Vance) in the 2026 midterms and the 2028 election? 3 days ago:
Brainstorming here but you have to factor in that right wing media exists to manipulate these people. To specifically fix it, a major part is reverse engineering right wing media and crashing it.
A) prevent chuck schumer from continuing to be in office. Fascist media needs a villain, wrestling needs a heel. remove the low hanging fruit and they start infighting because how could the new guy be responsible for old problems?
B) make the new conservative fad to be off social media - camping or whatever it doesnt matter. Get them away from the echo chamber for five minutes and see if boredom without internet causes their brain cells to start working again. At the very least this would reduce the profitability of the media by reducing view counts.
C) People in tennessee are so pilled they thought they could vote for against mamdani in the New York Mayoral election. Guerrilla education would be a funny way to combat the stupidity of MAGA. Its speculated that Trump is obsessed with greenland because he thinks its huge due to map distortion on mercator map projections. A way to show how dumb this is indirectly would be to give out free globes.
- Comment on a man of many minds 3 days ago:
Unfortunately when exposed to a girl they immediately convert to a christian fundamentalist because the only thing they hate more than religious zealots are girls.
- Comment on Lose yourself 5 days ago:
Epstein’s #1 fan has some strong criticisms for Epstein’s #1 friend.
- Comment on Wokeness ended, check mate leftists 6 days ago:
Also in like 4 years she’ll age out of the republican dating ages which are like 11-31
- Comment on Wokeness ended, check mate leftists 1 week ago:
How old is the girl in the picture?
- Comment on High value 1 week ago:
I mean they never fully resolved it though. If I recall the other theories are kinda the dwarves being a) all dead (many theories) b) elsewhen (time displacement), implying they return or were responsible for other time displaced phenomena in the past. c) something else entirely happened at the same time.
The fact they can’t be reached via portal kinda suggests they’re essentially dead.
- Comment on who's gonna tell him? 1 week ago:
- Everyone near him says he said so
- Hundreds of videos of him staring at ceilings high af
- He talks a lot about ketamine
- Comment on High value 1 week ago:
Tamriel is an island right. Would be funny if they just moved across the sea.
- Comment on High value 1 week ago:
It is however why there’s like a small group of morrowind guys still fitzing around with mods and updated engines for it.
- Comment on High value 1 week ago:
Sarah in the bible had Isaac at 90 years old. Menopause is a woke lie like dinosaurs.
- Comment on Onion forgets the satire (again) 1 week ago:
Jesus was telling us what not to do.
- Comment on who's gonna tell him? 1 week ago:
I do wonder how his ketamine use will play in custody court.
- Comment on [meme] choochoo 1 week ago:
Look up Pontevedra in spain.
- Comment on [meme] choochoo 1 week ago:
This post isn’t shit. Where is my refund?
- Comment on 1 week ago:
They accept payment in flies.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Evolution will eventually turn all deer into adorable looking mooses with nokia cell phone exoskeletons.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Deer kill more americans than any other animal. If anything they’re becoming more top heavy and more lethal to make drivers hesitate before hitting them.
- Comment on With the ICE raids coming up at a very faster rate, do we need more self-defense (or community defense organizing) classes? 1 week ago:
That and something to snip the valves off of the tires on their vehicles.
- Comment on Hostile architecture 1 week ago:
But not two disabled people. Alas, this bench discriminates.