mftrhu

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by mftrhu 4y ago
So, corruption creates corruption?
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by mftrhu 4y ago
Does this principle trump the freedom of association of the person who is actually hosting, and paying for, for each instance?
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by mftrhu 4y ago
> Hell, it would be all to easy for adversarial group to just server hop and get a bunch of sites blocked purely because the mods of those sites are not on 24/7... or just allow for free speech Nah. De-federating is manual. Such an
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by mftrhu 4y ago
An instance set up by Google would be likely de-federated on the next day, and it would be a good thing.
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by mftrhu 4y ago
I don't see anything wrong with the people who manage and pay for the server - usually for themselves and their friends, or because they are passionate about decentralization, and hardly ever because they set out to provide a platfor
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by mftrhu 4y ago
Oh, you probably meant "state capitalist". The definition of that fits to a tee. > State capitalism is an economic system in which the state undertakes business and commercial (i.e. for-profit) economic activity and where the
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by mftrhu 4y ago
> When it comes to the long term physical and mental outcomes of transgender hormonal therapy, we simply don't know. Correction: you don't know anything about the long-term physical and mental outcomes for patients on HRT HRT
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by mftrhu 4y ago
Like "I can't be arsed to engage, on your terms, with culture war bullshit".
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by mftrhu 4y ago
> the levels of testosterone esters that were administered to the female athletes (typically 25mg/week) Comparing generic "testosterone esters" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Androgen_ester - from th
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by mftrhu 4y ago
If you are just "questioning" it for the sake of questioning, throwing shower thoughts out without doing a iota of research into procedures which are a century old? Yes. It's unreasonable for people to ask others to do thei
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by mftrhu 4y ago
It should be ignored until sampling bias is found to be unlikely. Vague suspicions based on anecdotal experience with chronic illness forums are worthless .
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by mftrhu 4y ago
If you really feel the need to engage in culture war bullshit, could you kindly do so in a less boring manner?
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by mftrhu 4y ago
It's from old research by the PIDOOMA Institute - "${minority} is trying to convert our children".
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by mftrhu 4y ago
> “Asian people seem to be physiologically intolerant to milk, is it possible that Asian people are more tolerant to soy than western people in the same way that the inverse is true?” > You: > “MILK BAD SOY GOOD WHERE PROOF” While
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by mftrhu 4y ago
What strong link? "[...] might decrease [...] might increase [...] may impact [...] it's not yet understood [...] there may be slight changes" does not suggest any sort of strong nor obvious link. > That an Asian pe
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by mftrhu 5y ago
> On the other hand, it has the potential for readers to mistake their drivel for substantive discourse. The thing is, not engaging with them - in non-moderated communities - also has the potential for readers to mistake their drivel f
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by mftrhu 5y ago
"Revealed"? I'm sorry? The only person who can display "genuine curiosity" over the nth dimwit making the same set of already thoroughly debunked claims for the hundredth time - claims that get repeated, only inf
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by mftrhu 5y ago
> Increasing acceptance hasn't done anything positive for their depression rates, drug use rates, suicide rates, either. Bold assertion. What are you basing it on, the PIDOOMA institute report? > Trans culture, at least in part
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by mftrhu 5y ago
It's meant to be used in print, and print has bleed. It's too thin, by far, when it is used on screen (or even modern laser printers): see https://www.levien.com/type/cmr/gain.html
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by mftrhu 5y ago
It's funny, because when it came to women's suffrage and the later waves of feminism, people would write the exact same thing you did when referring to the patriarchy - willfully misunderstanding, or not even bothering to understa
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by mftrhu 5y ago
> That is just fucked up and things like GR are still pretty bonkers if you even understanding . Like a guy getting a hole that he has to dilate in order to keep open, and most descriptions of this kind of surgery they are disturbing ev
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by mftrhu 5y ago
> troff - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troff ... why is troff on a list of terminal editors? It can format text for the terminal, sure - and it's quite versatile, as I discovered playing around with it -
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by mftrhu 6y ago
> People say this, but I'll note that humans have lived through "crippling poverty" for most of our 2 million year existence. It is only crippling poverty by today's distortion lens (also a shifting baseline). Humans
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by mftrhu 6y ago
> have you tried using WhatsApp without the Contacts permission? Yes. It works. Reaching out to new people is a PITA, as you have to append their phone number to a an api.whatsapp.com/send?phone= URL and open that on your phone, b
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by mftrhu 6y ago
Ah, yes. An accelerated It Stands To Reason 101 course from the School Of Hard Knocks.
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by mftrhu 6y ago
Far enough that while people with an active sex life can use all sort of weird tools to engage in their fetishes, other [people] can try to justify their knee-jerk reactions by wanking about their evolutionary fitness.
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by mftrhu 6y ago
Indeed. There is a whole subreddit dedicated to documenting instances of people being arrested because of the travesty of justice that is Bill C16: check out https://reddit.com/r/ArrestedCanadaBillC16
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by mftrhu 6y ago
> If you look at Italy, early on they realised there was a conflation going on, and so they did proper studies of some sample of COVID deaths to see why they really died. They concluded only 4% of the patients had no other medical condit
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by mftrhu 6y ago
w3m supported tables and frames, but I'm pretty sure it never supported JS out of the box. There was an experimental w3m-js extension, but I don't think it ever saw much development: the most recent snapshot of that page [1] is f
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by mftrhu 6y ago
Yes. From page 20 of the DSM, > Definition of mental disorder > A mental disorder is a syndrome characterized by clinically significant disturbance in an individual’s cognition, emotion regulation, or behavior that reflects a dysfunct

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