[-] vga@sopuli.xyz -4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Rooting for bad people in fiction is a fine way to process that part of your own self with no actual risks or consequences. If doing that turns people bad, then playing role-playing games turns people into satan worshippers.

[-] vga@sopuli.xyz -3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

My iPhone is repairable and supported until 2028.

[-] vga@sopuli.xyz -3 points 2 months ago

Trans activists are super weird.

[-] vga@sopuli.xyz -3 points 2 months ago

I don't exactly see why that's a requirement. You mean because trans people usually need costly medical treatments?

[-] vga@sopuli.xyz -3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Would you say that biology is not a science? Is your point that if a theory has exceptions, it needs to be replaced with a better theory?

I'm not absolutely certain as it's not exactly my main area of study, but I think nature and biology don't fit 100% well into such thinking.

[-] vga@sopuli.xyz -3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

but that there are exceptions, which is not scientific

Why would you say that? How do you define "scientific"? Might you be conflating it with some pure form of science, like mathematics or pure logic?

[-] vga@sopuli.xyz -3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Females have larger gametes. Males have smaller gametes. Just because this doesn't apply to 100% of cases doesn't make this an accepted definition -- everything has exceptions in nature. 98-99% is good enough for a categorization though.

Does this affect how transwomen do in women's category? Probably 98-99% not (hah), since IOC has declared this all works just fine?

Still it's still a bit controversial, e.g. https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/55/11/577.full?ijkey=yjlCzZVZFRDZzHz&keytype=ref this study showed one set of cases where hormone treatment removed most differences in transwomen vs women but they remained significantly faster runners.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7846503/ this seems to show that transwomen lose very little of their biological advantage. "Rather, the data show that strength, lean body mass, muscle size and bone density are only trivially affected. "

[-] vga@sopuli.xyz -3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Not at the moment (especially Russia, who doesn't even claim to be), but they definitely were in the past.

[-] vga@sopuli.xyz -4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Do you remember how all of their revolutions ended up? My personal favourite is the one that led to Napoleon.

[-] vga@sopuli.xyz -3 points 4 months ago

Great idea but it's bullshit that this could ever be implemented.

[-] vga@sopuli.xyz -3 points 4 months ago

Yeah anyone can be successful if they aren’t paying for shit.

Yeah no, that's not true.

view more: ‹ prev next ›

vga

joined 5 months ago