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Taking it back to RealScience™ is fine. Elemental distribution in the universe is also extremely bimodal .. moreso even than the exceptions to the reproductive

Taking it back to RealScience™ is fine. Elemental distribution in the universe is also extremely bimodal .. moreso even than the exceptions to the reproductive male or reproductive female buckets. Everything in the universe is either Hydrogen or Helium .. save for a tiny tiny cluster of exceptions known (to astronomers) as "metals" and as "every other damn element including carbon and oxygen" to the aquatic apes. Science is quite happy to endlessly study things with a frequency of ppm (parts per million) and less.

IshKebab 2y ago
> Everything in the universe is either Hydrogen or Helium Not sure what point you're trying to make here but we don't live in a star.
- defrost 2y ago
  We do all live in the same universe. Give it some time, it may come to you eventually. Or not.
  - IshKebab 2y ago
    Well I guessed that you were trying to make a point about how our language is highly biased towards heavy elements even though they are a tiny proportion of the universe, and that means it also makes sense to bias our language towards intersex people even though they are a tiny proportion of the population. But it can't be that because that is an obviously stupid point. So what was your point?
    - defrost 2y ago
      Remind me of your point, if you would: > I think this is a massive over-correction (banning words is dumb) but they're not completely wrong. Is it that "they're not completely wrong" to ban terms referring to events significantly more common than the occurrence of gold in the earths crust? To quote another: > it can't be that because that is an obviously stupid point. So what was your point? ---- For general interest: * frequency of "true" (undecidable) intersex (1 in 5,500 births): https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00224490209552139 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0022449020955213... * Mean global crustal ppm of gold: 0.004 (four thousandth of one in a million) : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abundance_of_elements_in_Earth%27s_crust#List_of_abundance_by_element https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abundance_of_elements_in_Earth... * Report on Gold deposits in a high yeild region: Gold Deposits of the Pilbara Craton https://www.ga.gov.au/pdf/RR0065.pdf https://www.ga.gov.au/pdf/RR0065.pdf (74 page AGSO report, 'rich' veins have 0.4 ppm gold)
ephimetheus 2y ago
This is a fantastic analogy!

IshKebab 2y ago

> Everything in the universe is either Hydrogen or Helium Not sure what point you're trying to make here but we don't live in a star.

defrost 2y ago
We do all live in the same universe. Give it some time, it may come to you eventually. Or not.
- IshKebab 2y ago
  Well I guessed that you were trying to make a point about how our language is highly biased towards heavy elements even though they are a tiny proportion of the universe, and that means it also makes sense to bias our language towards intersex people even though they are a tiny proportion of the population. But it can't be that because that is an obviously stupid point. So what was your point?
  - defrost 2y ago
    Remind me of your point, if you would: > I think this is a massive over-correction (banning words is dumb) but they're not completely wrong. Is it that "they're not completely wrong" to ban terms referring to events significantly more common than the occurrence of gold in the earths crust? To quote another: > it can't be that because that is an obviously stupid point. So what was your point? ---- For general interest: * frequency of "true" (undecidable) intersex (1 in 5,500 births): https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00224490209552139 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0022449020955213... * Mean global crustal ppm of gold: 0.004 (four thousandth of one in a million) : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abundance_of_elements_in_Earth%27s_crust#List_of_abundance_by_element https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abundance_of_elements_in_Earth... * Report on Gold deposits in a high yeild region: Gold Deposits of the Pilbara Craton https://www.ga.gov.au/pdf/RR0065.pdf https://www.ga.gov.au/pdf/RR0065.pdf (74 page AGSO report, 'rich' veins have 0.4 ppm gold)

ephimetheus 2y ago

This is a fantastic analogy!