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- Comment on Trans women should use toilets based on biological sex, Phillipson says 16 hours ago:
there are different definitions of intersex. the figure you cited is correct for only the narrowest definition: visibly ambiguous genitalia at birth. by other criteria (ambiguous internal anatomy, androgen insensitivity, etc.), it can be as high as 1.7% (en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersex)
- Comment on Trans women should use toilets based on biological sex, Phillipson says 18 hours ago:
That is my understanding as well. I think that our insistence that every person needs to fit in one category or the other is almost the whole problem. I wonder how many people think to themselves “I don’t want to be trans, I just want to be me.”
- Comment on Trans women should use toilets based on biological sex, Phillipson says 1 day ago:
setting aside trans people for a second - is the government going to build separate washrooms for the >1 million uk residents who were born intersex? why can’t we make policy that is grounded in reality? lawmakers shout be required to pass a basic science course
- Comment on Why do European Leftist call their government's right wing despite having free healthcare? 1 week ago:
Public health care is not a leftist idea - it is just good business. Canada has better life expectancy than the US and our healthcare system costs less than the american one. No canadian has ever gone broke or lost their house because they get sick. when a working-age american dies of a preventable disease, their education, skills, and experience die with them. keep your people healthy and they will be more productive and will pay more taxes because they will earn more over their lifespan. american media tell americans that healthcare is communist for one reason only: to protect the wealth of healthcare investors. you have been ridiculously bamboozled.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I think you mean melanin. racist AND stupid
- Comment on When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords? 4 months ago:
Renting is a good choice for people who can’t immediately absorb big expenses. If your furnace quits, it can be really nice to phone the landlord and ask them to fix it. Homeowners have to have ready access to cash, and not everyone is in that situation - especially when they are starting out.
- Comment on The things you can buy on amazon 4 months ago:
The amazon reviewer is confusing chloroform (an inhalation anaesthetic that, in movies, is used to knock out people for kidnapping) and chlorophyll (a harmless substance used by plants for photosynthesis)
- Comment on Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted? 4 months ago:
This was my exact thought! Prosecuted, yes. Convicted, no.
- Comment on What games have you put the most hours into? 4 months ago:
Je parle aussi dragon. Foos!
- Comment on What games have you put the most hours into? 4 months ago:
I have crazy high hours on Skyrim because I replayed it in French and Spanish. It is a very fun way to get the cheapest language immersion ever (though your vocabulary becomes a little, um, specialized)
- Comment on How do you just live like this? 5 months ago:
The thing that really gets me down is the futility of my job. I am a public servant, so i don’t have to worry about being exploited by the rich in the same way. I work decent hours and have good benefits. However, a lot of the work i do seems aimless and poorly thought out. Many of my projects get cancelled after months of work due to changing priorities. When i get home, i tend to ruminate over the pointlessness of it all. If i sit there and really think about how i am spending my life, i get really down. Video games and hobbies occupy my mind to the exclusion of bad thoughts.
- Comment on Live Updates: Pagers Explode Across Lebanon in Apparent Attack on Hezbollah 7 months ago:
yep, looks like you were right. sorta reassuring…
- Comment on Live Updates: Pagers Explode Across Lebanon in Apparent Attack on Hezbollah 7 months ago:
This is wild. Does the IDF have the capability of making a person’s cell phone explode? Are they able to hack the power management or something? Is almost everyone on earth carrying a bomb? WTF.
- Comment on you have to subscribe to the dictionary now 1 year ago:
Hi! With the OED, it has been like that at least since I started university in 2007. However, lots of public libraries have subscriptions. I just go to my library website, login, and follow the link to the OED. There are many other reference tools that are also included in my library card. Libraries rule!