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by a_shovel 4y ago
The word "seems" is kinda the crux of the issue here. Singal has the tone of a curious, thoughtful jouralist who enters into research with no pre-established biases, and Hobbes has the tone of a guy who gets into Twitter arguments
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by a_shovel 4y ago
Singal claimed that the NHS removed a claim from their website that puberty blockers were reversible. Hobbes showed a screenshot from the NHS website showing that the claim was still there. Singal (and you) changed the topic from whether th
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by a_shovel 4y ago
Saying Singal "obviously" operates in good faith is an exaggeration. Michael Hobbes on Twitter has a few threads regarding Singal where he shows how Singal likes to move the goalposts and accuse people of being "irresponsible
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by a_shovel 4y ago
Don't know about the TOS, but there's been an option for reporting misgendering in the report menu for a while now. Maybe a year-ish?
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by a_shovel 4y ago
Note the graph in the bottom-right corner of [0] blaming it on Jewish billionaires.
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by a_shovel 4y ago
> Executives from PRH and Simon & Schuster argued that ... the merger would actually benefit writer pay, because it would lead to savings and allow them to spend more on books. I snorted at that. This is the same old shtick compani
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by a_shovel 4y ago
It depends on context. A discussion about "female singers" would probably be referring to gender. It's useful to have an adjective equivalent of "man" and "woman", so people use "male" and "
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by a_shovel 4y ago
Kinda. It's different for different people. Many trans women take hormones hoping they'll help them look like a typical gender-conforming cisgender woman. One other really common reason is that they are deeply upset by and experie
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by a_shovel 4y ago
Unless they're used in a discussion specifically about human biology, "male" and "female" can be assumed to refer to gender. The terminology isn't neatly separated, unfortunately.
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by a_shovel 4y ago
> So we should just put you in charge and then you'll sort it out? Have you considered this is exactly the kind of narrow-mindedness they're probably talking about? If I had written the parent post, that's what I would m
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by a_shovel 4y ago
I'm still of the opinion that handling leap seconds by ignoring them is a dumb idea. Unix time should be a steady heartbeat counting up the number of seconds since midnight, January 1 1970. Nice, clean, simple. How you might convert th
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by a_shovel 4y ago
The thing that makes Rufo special isn't so much a particular tactic he uses -- It's largely the same misinformation, unspoken implications, and hostile framing that's common among "anti-wokes" -- but that he openly
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by a_shovel 4y ago
It's not that "no response" defaults to 0, it's that in Factorio's circuit network, "no signal" and "signal with a value of 0" are exactly synonymous.
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by a_shovel 4y ago
> ...two young supporters of the climate protest group threw the liquid over the painting, which is protected by glass , just after 11am. This is a detail that I've seen get missed in other discussions of this.
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by a_shovel 4y ago
This plus the student loan forgiveness makes it look like Biden decided he wanted young people to vote in the midterms.
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by a_shovel 4y ago
The New York Times story says: > Dr. Gabadadze declined to be interviewed. But Mr. Beckman defended the decision, saying that Dr. Jones had been the target of multiple student complaints about his “dismissiveness, unresponsiveness, cond
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by a_shovel 4y ago
For most people, "motor" and "engine" are synonyms. Is there a technical difference between the two terms?
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by a_shovel 4y ago
Now that's some strong (dis)confirmation bias.
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by a_shovel 4y ago
The source says it was banned in 1978. I suspect that the ban may not still be in effect.
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by a_shovel 4y ago
Related discussion from yesterday: "US librarians face unprecedented attacks amid rightwing book bans", The Guardian . https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32915214
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by a_shovel 4y ago
Some LGBTQ+ kids grow up in an environment with absolutely no supportive adults. For them, positive representation in books or cartoons might be the first time they've been told that their feelings are normal, and that they're not
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by a_shovel 4y ago
People need to be willing to use heavy words like "persecution" to describe actions like this.
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by a_shovel 4y ago
A moral system that doesn't allow one to break the law for any reason, no matter how good the reason is, can hardly be called a moral system at all. Obedience to the state is not a functional moral code.
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by a_shovel 4y ago
Jeez, save some exclamation marks for the rest of us. If what other people want is bad, inequitable, wrong, or unjust, then wanting the good, the equitable, the right and the just is politics itself .
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by a_shovel 4y ago
There's discussion over what exactly a "political view" is here. I find this quote from a previous article [1] enlightening: > "No one—not lawyers, not judges, not experts in the field, not even the law's own sp
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by a_shovel 4y ago
Reducing all objections to anything to "disagreement" or "not liking it" is a sure sign of bad faith discussion.
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by a_shovel 4y ago
Coding Machines , by Lawrence Kesteloot, January 2009. https://www.teamten.com/lawrence/writings/coding-machines/
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by a_shovel 4y ago
There's a lot of conservative men who see themselves as straight, and don't accept that trans women are "actual" women, who find themselves attracted to them anyways. These three beliefs are contradictory: accepting two
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by a_shovel 4y ago
Importantly, a physical painting machine isn't gonna be something anyone with a beefy GPU can download for free. It would pretty much only be useful for factories in Mexico making "Henry Rogers"-style mass-produced paintings
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by a_shovel 4y ago
This is your fifth submission about the same topic. The last four have all been flagged and marked dead. Look, I'd love to argue with you about this topic, but at some point you just have to learn to take a hint.

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