LawTalkingGuy

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by LawTalkingGuy 4y ago
The best way to ask questions is being wrong on the internet. :D No estimate is ever perfect but it'd be good to get within a ballpark of the price. That'd be enough to start to compare to what we pay for the existing service and
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by LawTalkingGuy 4y ago
It's reasonable to explore the idea of creating (or privatizing...) public services. I feel the article should have done more of an economic analysis, especially of harder examples, to properly compare with existing options and where t
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by LawTalkingGuy 4y ago
Most parents are fine with "gender nonconformity". They're not fine with their children being told that they need drugs and surgeries. Read the stories about trans kids. People are reacting to stereotypes like how the child d
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by LawTalkingGuy 4y ago
Are hijabs focused on beyond what would be expected from the fact that they are extreme - they cover the user blocking identification, they prevent socialization, they stigmatize the wearer, and unlike some symbols (ex: a Sikh turban) they&
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by LawTalkingGuy 4y ago
They're often counterproductive. People feel accomplished, and finished with the half-measures and they often don't bother investigating the results or the ongoing requirements.
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by LawTalkingGuy 4y ago
But if you did notice a subgroup/IQ correlation would you ignore it? Because I wouldn't ignore a handedness/sickness correlation. You can't fix what you don't measure and investigate.
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by LawTalkingGuy 4y ago
It feels like this need to over-moderate use of this word is projection from people who grew up with a specific light/dark skin divide that also mapped nearly perfectly onto actual prejudice and inequality. The USA is like that episode
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by LawTalkingGuy 4y ago
> I challenge your contention that "a way to uniquely identify themselves" is a right of biological women or other groups. Never heard of any such right; it sounds totally made up. And yet you've heard of a right for males
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by LawTalkingGuy 4y ago
Nobody just says that "observable differences in humans are rarely genetically related to actual genetic differences", they say "race has absolutely no meaning in humans - but here in animals it means exactly what lay-people
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by LawTalkingGuy 4y ago
They're including policy people in with the scientific people though, as "the science".
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by LawTalkingGuy 4y ago
> the hijab ban in France that's nominally a religious symbol ban A hijab is an extreme religious symbol, so it makes sense that it would be overrepresented in a ban of religious symbols. That's like an American calling a law r
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by LawTalkingGuy 4y ago
> And you have some feminists that exclude trans women. No "trans woman" is ever a woman. They're men, males. You're trying to take women's rights from females by denying them a way to uniquely identify themselve
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by LawTalkingGuy 4y ago
How do children who exhibit behaviors that the doctors and parents stereotype as opposite-sex benefit from having their natural development blocked with and/or overwhelmed with opposite-sex hormones? Most parents are fine with gender n
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by LawTalkingGuy 4y ago
They say otherwise. https://www.greenpeace.org/international/tag/nuclear/ "Greenpeace has always fought - and will continue to fight - vigorously against nuclear power because it is an unacceptable risk
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by LawTalkingGuy 4y ago
Presumably the world would get the benefit. If anything I say is incorrect please point it out. You appear to be saying a HOMOsexual focused organization is being HOMOphobic by wanting to focus only on HOMOsexuals. But no, I'm not apol
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by LawTalkingGuy 4y ago
That argument is a bit of a straw-man though. Nobody is realistically claiming the Jews, or East Germans, or Soviet citizens, or Syrian citizens, could defeat their government with personal weapons. The more reasonable version of the argume
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by LawTalkingGuy 4y ago
If I was wrong you'd have corrected me. People have a legal and moral right to self-associate with those they choose and to exclude those sabotaging their political movements.
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by LawTalkingGuy 4y ago
You're using a term, TERF, which is used to spur stochastic terrorism[1] by implying that adult human females aren't to be allowed to explain their political needs. You're also using fake quotes (very loose paraphrases in quo