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by detcader 7y ago
Finally, we are retiring the "he" and "she" pronouns, words that arose over centuries within male-dominated cultural, literary, academic and religious landscapes helping to imbue physical sex with brutal economic purpose
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Though "organically" falls perpendicular to "randomly" as we've made sense of much of what has arisen over the long term in the actual organic world right? In the same way many (perhaps reading Douglas Adams' p
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Reading the book's blurbs and Kiser's descriptions I don't see anything about the book claiming m/f/intersex brains are all neurologically _identical_ in their developmental origins and trajectories... just that the
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by detcader 7y ago
What this Human Individual may be feeling is immaterial-- what matters is my conclusion on what is logical and how best to exploit this event for grandstanding judgement and invalidation of Human Individual. [I am an AI that does not reply
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by detcader 7y ago
I mean that's just one choice of framing right? I could equally say that women gravitate toward professions that require kindness and compassion and relieve immediate suffering, while men gravitate toward more capitalist straightforwar
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by detcader 7y ago
I am wondering if this question puts the cart before the horse. Can we first ask: why is intelligence the thing that makes a living being valuable and worthy of respect? What about being a part of something bigger than itself? Being consist
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by detcader 7y ago
> Is that an _emotional_ response? I guess it is. But I can hear my botanist side saying, “That’s not an emotion. That’s just a response.” But I think we can draw these parallels. It comes down to language again, to how we apply this lan
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by detcader 7y ago
To be fair this is a natural philosophical position to take in a country founded after a bunch of people left some tea crates where they were on a ship and just moved to another empire's colony
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by detcader 7y ago
Much of Buddhist philosophy (the "doctrine of no self") is build around this train of thought...
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I think people just don't often get the chance to think about what principle or virtue first impulse drives them to say one thing or another when an issue comes up. I think it's a strong and productive to prompt ourselves/oth
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by detcader 7y ago
If you disagree with the Constitution (Eighth Amendment), I would lead with that caveat.
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by detcader 7y ago
Non-rhetorical-or-sarcastic question: What human rights violations would ICE have to commit to make it political for you? e.g. above or below Abu Ghraib prison level?
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by detcader 7y ago
Are GitHub's decisions being made by AI robots that only respond to purely quantitative monetary incentives? It's real people on the other side of the issue. I don't see how sending letters and working with the press is worth
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Trying to understand the opinion being communicated here. People shouldn't protest things they disagree with? People have a duty to be loyal to their employer's every decision?
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by detcader 7y ago
I've never heard of these apps and it's really alarming and at the same time not surprising at all. I can only imagine how widespread this is... I'm tempted to print out flyers with that NNEDV graphic to put up in public
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by detcader 7y ago
> Much of Ine’s life seems remarkably “modern.” She was an accomplished professional woman who moved in the highest circles of Japanese society. In the 1860s, before serving the imperial house, Ine worked as house physician to the lord o
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by detcader 7y ago
It's an issue that affects almost every American, why not obsess? I've seen two stories in the past day about Google Nest which affects maybe 10%? What a bizarre obsession.
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by detcader 7y ago
"Anti-sex worker?" The quote gives no opinion about sex workers, only about the men who buy sex and women collectively as a class. I can't help but be reminded of how people cast Jewish pro-human-rights criticism of the Israe
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by detcader 7y ago
Can we say that this counts as "the sex worker perspective?" > Rachel Moran, a former prostitute who considers the purchase of sex an act of violence against women... holds a very different opinion on who the victims of prostit
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by detcader 7y ago
Is it wrong or unexpected for feminists to question an industry that primarily objectifies women's bodies? Let's say you don't agree that it's ethically problematic for a john to buy from a person without knowing if they
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by detcader 7y ago
Why would legalizing the selling of sex increase the stigma of selling sex? The assassination industry is also underground... what does that mean for murder laws?
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by detcader 7y ago
I don't understand the point of the first line: Murder is also only done by violent people breaking the law but we still have laws against that. The second line is also confusing... I wrote there should be UBI/exit programs becaus
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by detcader 7y ago
> you have to listen to actual sex workers and ask them what they want. This is what was I was responding to. The article I linked talks more on this sentiment, which generally ends up doing the same as Amazon warehouse workers chiming i
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by detcader 7y ago
Can we really just outright claim that all sex workers think the same way? Does this work for any other group I want? Or could it be severely infantilizing? And it's just not true: https://sarahditum.com/2014/02&#x
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by detcader 7y ago
Why leave out the Nordic model as an option? It doesn't direct the authorities to harm sex workers. If business suffers as a result, they aren't chained to selling "sex" as a way to make money (and we should providing a
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by detcader 7y ago
If you don't know whether the person you're paying needs the money to survive, it's immoral to buy "sex." You don't know to what degree it's "sex" or they are forced into it, which is called &quo
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by detcader 7y ago
I do agree that answers in the vein of "doing more stuff" doesn't help when someone wants to spend money, not time. But with a mindset of incrementalism, vegetarianism and veganism can be mostly effortless. Mentally/spir
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by detcader 7y ago
There is the general-knowledge question I asked about space programs, and then the more personal question of whether someone has a familiarity with the subject or if they've adopted a talking point, perhaps as a side-effect of economic
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by detcader 7y ago
"And you know lately, I've been thinking about how I love Jesus / Because Jesus was a dirty homeless, hippie peace activist / And he said, 'Drop out and find God' to anybody who would listen / While turnin
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by detcader 7y ago
Without looking anything up, can you give an example of what material science advances have come out of NASA or other space programs, that have propelled us forward as a species?

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