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by a_shovel 4y ago
> This is perhaps the central tragedy of fy_iceworld. The game industry benefits from its legacy, but the conditions that spurred its influence no longer exist. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2019 does not offer a freely downloadable level
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by a_shovel 4y ago
They protest all-ages drag shows because they view being transgender and other forms of gender-non-conformance as inherently deviant and perverted. They focus on all-ages drag shows so they can run a "think of the children" angle
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by a_shovel 4y ago
I'm not sure why the Telegraph thinks I should care about this. If some scientists think that "egg-producing" is more precise than "female," or that "survival of the fittest" is a misleading phrase, or tha
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by a_shovel 4y ago
> They are calling for boycotts and de-platforming, both of which fall well within the bounds of the "marketplace of ideas." This is a really obvious idea that people seem to have a lot of trouble understanding, especially wh
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by a_shovel 4y ago
From what I've gathered, "Viral TikTok Challenge" and its variations are sleeper-agent activation phrases for news editors which make them automatically accept the next story pitch you give them.
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by a_shovel 4y ago
What I had in mind when I was writing that was a story I once read of a user who did all of her computer interactions through Word (i.e. all of her emails were empty with a Word document attachment containing the text, among a few other amu
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by a_shovel 4y ago
Okay, that one might catch me. I couldn't tell if an image had a thumbnail stored with it to begin with.
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by a_shovel 4y ago
For those who are thinking "Yeah, duh, just use an image editor to crop it," as I did at first, this article is probably most useful for barely-tech-literate people, who can use Microsoft Word, Outlook, Edge, maybe Teams, and not
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by a_shovel 4y ago
The situation is more like: you've heard anecdotes about people getting strangled by parachute cords or using parachutes when they're not falling from a plane and hurting themselves, so you're not sure if you should pull the
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by a_shovel 4y ago
> I know of no significant scientific evidence showing that waiting for transition in adulthood in a supportive household causes any harm. There is one obvious harm: puberty. If your kid is transitioning male-to-female, then if she doesn
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by a_shovel 4y ago
It seems hyperbolic to compare slurs to a word for a group that's merely unpopular. The framing of Latinx as a word unwillingly forced onto Latin Americans by outsiders is exactly why I brought up that some people use it to describe th
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by a_shovel 4y ago
Speculation: There may be more news articles, TV segments, and online comments complaining about "Latinx" than there are people who have ever used the term to refer to themselves or others. It's never been a popular term amon
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by a_shovel 4y ago
In your terminology, (one definition of) Gender is the idea that the social/cultural aspects of sex are distinct from its physiological aspects. What the failure of Money's experiment showed was that one cannot intentionally alter
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by a_shovel 4y ago
A lot of the terminology Money coined is still in use because it is perfectly serviceable and it describes the experience of many trans people decently well. Ultimately, the validity of an idea is not dependent on whether the person who fir
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by a_shovel 4y ago
I don't know what you're referring to by "transgenderism". "Being transgender" is when one's gender identity doesn't match the one assigned to them at birth. Some of them do the whole "war agains
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by a_shovel 4y ago
I'd like to help you understand why some people might get upset at some of the things you're talking about. > but the second you point out things like the word "gender" being coined by a pedophile called John Money w
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by a_shovel 4y ago
The cited examples are just criticism of Israel and support for Palestine labeled as antisemitism. This is really weak stuff.
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by a_shovel 4y ago
> Any material used in a classroom, made available in a school library, or included on a reading list contains content that is pornographic or prohibited under s. 847.012, is not suited to student needs and their ability to comprehend t
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by a_shovel 4y ago
Many minors do not feel safe telling their parents that they are transgender, and many of them are in actual fact not safe to tell their parents. It is simply indisputable that a policy of mandatory reporting for transgender minors will l
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by a_shovel 4y ago
The Wikipedia article on it is informative. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid-onset_gender_dysphoria_c... . In short, it's a hypothesis that gender transition is a social contagion that has been rejected by basic
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by a_shovel 4y ago
Light switches are a technology as old as electric lighting itself. Sometimes technological solutions can help, but they're inherently complicated, and sometimes what you need is to be absolutely dead simple.
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by a_shovel 4y ago
This is my favorite part of the paper: > Now, for good reasons that I will explain later, this paper must contain 8,224 repetitions of the string "~~Q(", another weird flower. Please proceed to Page 3 to continue reading this i
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by a_shovel 4y ago
If they looked at medical resources, they would have discovered that PMS involves many symptoms unrelated to the uterus, such as mood swings, headaches, bloating, and more, and that since these symptoms are caused by hormonal changes, it mi
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by a_shovel 4y ago
Your first paragraph is an argument from etymology. Whether a particular experience is inherently "male" or "female" is immaterial. Both points can be ignored. Trans women can learn what the symptoms of PMS are by readin
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by a_shovel 4y ago
I am not claiming that trans women are experiencing specifically uterine cramps, nor is anyone in the article claiming this. You are not addressing any relevant point by stating that they are not. It is possible that in some cases menstru
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by a_shovel 4y ago
You're the second person who's created an account here just to argue with me. I'm honored. I'm not gonna pretend to know what's going on here regarding the cramps. It doesn't look like there are any studies abo
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by a_shovel 4y ago
As much as the author wants to pretend otherwise, many trans women do experience symptoms of PMS. They get cramps, bloating, mood swings, etc. on a periodic cycle, though sometimes it's longer than a month. Multiple women have reported
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by a_shovel 4y ago
Are you unironically doing the "I'm not racist, I have a black friend" bit on her behalf?
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by a_shovel 4y ago
Because it wouldn't know to check. An AI being right is just when the output of one of its roleplaying sessions is a true statement. AIs can have a version of "confidence", but it's not how true it thinks its statement
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by a_shovel 4y ago
> If you ask ChatGPT how to use it, it will roleplay a character called “Assistant” from a counterfactual world where “how do I use Assistant?” has a single, well-defined answer. Because it is role-playing – improvising – it will not al

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