bendergender

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by bendergender 5y ago
The desire to do that is human, sure, but we can build systems to limit its impact. We could have a negative interest rate, tax wealth rather than income, etc etc. People going to try to hoard, but you can add friction to make that harder.
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by bendergender 5y ago
That's a fair question, my comment was getting long in the tooth. So, let's take a commodity like a wool blanket (or some other simple commodity to illustrative purposes). That blanket has more value than the wool that made it, bu
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by bendergender 5y ago
Well, let's start with commodities. They have value, see, and that value contains both the exchange value (what it's worth in exchange for another commodity) and the use value (the value it provides as a commodity, like a coat kee
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by bendergender 5y ago
Hey, I'm out. You are too intense to have a nice conversation with. You seem really angry about this, maybe it's worth interrogating that. Can't have a conversation with someone who is just yelling.
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by bendergender 5y ago
Take this diagram, https://i.redd.it/s44am9nqwes11.png I doubt you'd find much support that it's wrong, and there's plenty of evidence to suggest it's considered the accepted standard.
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by bendergender 5y ago
> Why are adults enjoying things clearly meant for kids? There are many potential reasons. Abnegation, power fantasy, sense pleasure, social cohesion (being able to discuss with your peers what's in the zeitgeist). I could spend a p
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by bendergender 5y ago
Why are people watching things they enjoy? Because they enjoy them. Stop trying to be the arbiter of what other people enjoy. I'm sure you have some tastes in media others would find cringeworthy, but we're all better if we recogn
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by bendergender 5y ago
Wait till you hear about the history of shows like Transformers, HeMan, Gundam, etc. Media has more or less been an ad for 50+ years at this point, that's hardly a new phenomena.
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by bendergender 5y ago
I'm suggesting it's the majority opinion. Yes, there exist minority opinions as well, but generally we don't consider agreeing with the majority/consensus to be "ignoring the science".
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by bendergender 5y ago
Would you be uncomfortable with your school teaching that we should respect redheads, even though they aren't common? Red hair is about 1 to 2 percent of humans. This is roughly the estimate for trans and non binary folks. Pretty monst
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by bendergender 5y ago
I don't have a main. No risk of retaliation. Just a topic I'm informed on and it drives me up the wall to have people claim "reason" and "science" and then ignore the fact that science and reason widely agree w
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by bendergender 5y ago
It's not science denial. Biology has all sorts of instances of more than two sexes. Humans have at least a dozen different genetic configurations that affect their sex organs and hormonal development in a visible way. Here's a dia
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by bendergender 5y ago
Why do you think it wouldn't ban that? What if a kid says, "why are there two daddies in that story?" Or goes home to their parents and says, "my teacher read us a story about two daddies". Look at the vitriol child
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by bendergender 5y ago
Discussing sexuality: "some boys like boys" or "if someone touches you in a swimsuit area, tell a grown up right away", or "many families have mommies and daddies, but some families have two mommies and some have ju
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by bendergender 5y ago
The responses in this thread are deeply disappointing. Every law we have, just like every piece of tech we have, needs to be considered not only in the context of what words are on the paper but also how could it be deployed maliciously. Ho
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by bendergender 5y ago
Gender? If a kid has a friend who is non binary, or has a trans friend, and asks their teachers about it you think it's inappropriate for the teacher to say, "well, some people are boys, some people are girls, some people are neit
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by bendergender 5y ago
It also forbids discussing gender identity in primary school, which is completely reactionary. Discussing gender is fine for kids, and it's totally developmentally appropriate for primary school kids to know that there are boys, girls,