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by 0xy 4y ago
The 2015 US Transgender Survey cited in your link was commissioned by the National Center for Transgender Equality (an organization that was founded by a transgender activist). The study was performed online and links were posted exclusivel
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by 0xy 4y ago
It's analysing the 2015 Transgender Study, which is an online study that was spammed in transgender online communities and was commissioned by the National Center for Transgender Equality, an activist organization. >Forgive me for b
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by 0xy 4y ago
The study you are citing appears to have been commissioned by the National Center for Transgender Equality (an organization that was founded by a transgender activist). That's like citing a study commissioned by Exxon-Mobil on climate
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by 0xy 4y ago
"Resolving" gender dysphoria with surgery does not result in lower suicide rates. In fact, suicide rates are virtually unchanged after operation. "The overall mortality for sex-reassigned persons was higher during follow-up&q
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by 0xy 4y ago
The argument you are making would hold up better if there was evidence that post-op trans people have dramatically lower suicidal thoughts, but multiple studies have shown suicidal thoughts is virtually unchanged after operation. Now the ar
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by 0xy 4y ago
The US has lower wait times and substantially better cancer treatment than most comparison countries, including Canada and the UK. Entire categories of specialist cancer treatment are simply not available in Canada. No advantages whatsoever
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by 0xy 4y ago
The initial claim was that healthcare was being "starved", I don't think 20x more than their neighbors in spending increases is "starved". Besides, in 2019, the difference was 4% on a per capita basis -- according t
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by 0xy 4y ago
France increased healthcare spending by 0.3%/year between 2010 and 2019. UK is outpacing France's spending increases by 2,066%. How does the UK need over 20x more spending increases than its close neighbor, exactly?
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by 0xy 4y ago
Can you explain how 6.5%/year increases in budget over 12 years is "starving"? Also curious how you square "outperforming" with the worst ever waiting times for critical surgeries.
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by 0xy 4y ago
It's a fallacy to claim US healthcare is not "government funded". Aside from that, Canadian wait times for surgery are substantially worse than the United States (even before they stopped necessary surgeries during lockdown).
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by 0xy 4y ago
You can already make the choice to accept slower shipping and choose to avoid air travel. Dragging everyone else down to a more primitive society to satiate ideological climate goals doesn't seem politically palatable nor expedient.
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by 0xy 4y ago
Why would we deliberately cripple the economy? Who would want worse service?
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by 0xy 4y ago
You're right, because competitors like Adyen can make a 7% net profit while being very competitive with Stripe fees.
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by 0xy 4y ago
It's because Stripe negotiate steep discounts. The APIs are merely the trojan horse to get inside your org. Speaking from experience at the table at some of these deals, Adyen or other competitors would often approach my employer (larg
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by 0xy 4y ago
This position means nobody gets adequate legal representation unless they are wealthy, so essentially just 'screw poor people'. Who's more likely to get out of a wrongful charge? A wealthy millionaire spending $1,000/hou
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by 0xy 4y ago
It's only a "CSAM proposal" as far as the Patriot Act is a "anti-terrorist law", even though it's routinely used against ordinary citizens and lower level crimes. CSAM is merely the trojan horse, it's not
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by 0xy 4y ago
Maybe they underperformed because the platforms he used to win in 2016 banned him? Make no mistake, Trump won in '16 because of Twitter & FB reach.
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by 0xy 4y ago
It's a coincidence this happened after the midterms. Totally not a political decision at all.
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by 0xy 4y ago
The EU has repeatedly proposed to cripple E2E encryption with opaque client-side scanning technology. [1] This comment seems to be incredibly misguided, all of Europe wants to destroy privacy. [1] https://arstechnica.com/tec
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by 0xy 4y ago
Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, Snapchat and TikTok all forbid third party clients. The only outlier, Reddit, is massively unprofitable. You can't run an advertising business while inviting competitors to use your content for free.
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by 0xy 4y ago
If you wanted to lose money, maybe. When Disney wades into woke content they lose hundreds of millions of dollars, such as "Lightyear", which was a box office bomb. There's also the female-led Ghostbusters which was an object
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by 0xy 4y ago
You seem to be suggesting that ChatGPT refuses to say anything positive about Trump because of the input data, a baffling proposition. By ingesting general internet sources, you can come across praise for specific Trump policies in even the
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by 0xy 4y ago
It seems pretty transparently biased if it can't even write a single sentence in praise of Trump's policies, but will happily write them for Obama or Biden. There's numerous Trump-era policies that even Democrats agree with,
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by 0xy 4y ago
Hydro power can only be used for base load power generation in pipe dreams. Take the case of Tasmania, Australia. Tasmania is generally an energy exporter, and receives 100% of their power via hydro. In 2016, unexpectedly low rainfall led t
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by 0xy 4y ago
If you market a product as renewable it is absolutely an egregious lie to forget to mention that the product requires the construction of gas plants which are not renewable. Wind and solar are marketed and sold as emission-free. Meanwhile,
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by 0xy 4y ago
If emissions are reduced, emissions are not zero. That's the fundamental lie. >Peaker plants are not baseload power Not according to reality. [1] Gas has been producing consistently on a daily basis for over a year in Germany. Natur
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by 0xy 4y ago
The biggest scam of renewables is not the viability of the technology itself, but the lie by omission that all renewables require baseload power which always happens to be non-renewable. The massive expansion of gas peaking plants in German
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by 0xy 4y ago
Have you profited money if the price of one of your assets doubles and you do not sell?
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by 0xy 4y ago
YouTube cannot even detect spam comments which use number emojis in the name of the account. Detecting scam videos like this is beyond the capability of the company, or equally likely, beyond their care.
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by 0xy 4y ago
After riding the subway in many major cities around the world, I'm convinced there are alien lifeforms on Earth.

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