mrec

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by mrec 5mo ago
When I lived there (late 90s) you weren't obligated to pay that tax if you declared that you were an atheist.
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by mrec 5mo ago
Ah, sorry, I misread your previous comment. And yes, the general gender-critical position is that transmen are welcome in women-only spaces, since they're women. Though in practice I wouldn't be surprised if we eventually converge
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by mrec 5mo ago
In the UK, a recent Supreme Court decision has clarified that "sex" in this sort of context refers to biological sex, and is not affected by any shenanigans with birth certificate changes or GRCs. https://en.wikipedia.o
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by mrec 5mo ago
Agreed, and I think that's entirely deliberate. Using the existence of DSDs to try to discredit the sex binary and then leverage that into dismantling sex-based protections.
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by mrec 5mo ago
Yeah, I've bounced off Blender twice now. And I've written a (basic) 3D modeller. I think part of the problem is that pretty much all the tutorial material for Blender seems to be in video form, which is easily my least effectiv
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by mrec 5mo ago
I think we're in severe danger of spiralling toward epistemology here, but there's a huge difference between "nobody knows" in the sense you're using it and "nobody has any idea". Society (or more broadly
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by mrec 5mo ago
"Seems ridiculous" is a very subjective thing, though, and very dependent on context. It can seem ridiculous that a boxer with male physical advantage since puberty (i.e. 5-ARD) can beat the ** out of a female boxer while the worl
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by mrec 5mo ago
Your first para seems utterly bizarre, to the point of nonsensicality. Maybe it would help if you could say what you think "gender" refers to, but at this point I doubt it. Your second para's argument would only be valid if y
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by mrec 5mo ago
> Biological gender is the inconsistent "sex=gender" conception that cranks and conservative grifters operate under. I don't know about cranks and conservative grifters, but it's definitely not a feature of the &quo
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by mrec 5mo ago
Well, "baby girls born with Y chromosomes" is very clearly begging the question, and I'm not sure where you're getting your "millions" figure from. Even the upper estimates of CAIS have it around 1 in 20,000 XY
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by mrec 5mo ago
"Intersex" is a misleading umbrella term for a whole bunch of different DSDs, each of which is 100% specific to one biological sex. And I don't think I've ever seen the term "biological gender"; about the only
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by mrec 5mo ago
Not sure why it has to be German. "Butlerian" seems the obvious choice.
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by mrec 6mo ago
> For example, sometimes the pages randomly start turning, really fast, so I completely lose my place. FWIW, I've had the same issue with my Kindle, and cleaning the screen seemed to fix it reliably.
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by mrec 6mo ago
In case you weren't aware, that in itself is riffing on Greenspun's tenth rule: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_tenth_rule
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by mrec 6mo ago
Or the extreme casualty rates experienced by the (mostly very young) East India Company clerks in Calcutta. From Dalrymple's The Anarchy : "Death, from disease or excess, was a commonplace, and two-thirds of the Company servants
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by mrec 6mo ago
Makes perfect sense; old CRT TVs had the same kind of effect in making low resolutions bearable. (If you think DVD is bad, you'd have loved long-play VHS at around 230p...)
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by mrec 6mo ago
Maybe also worth noting some evidence that ants can apparently pass the mirror test. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_test#Insects When it first came out I don't think anyone quite knew what to make of that,
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by mrec 6mo ago
I don't disagree given your "most" qualifier, but there's a case where every level of hardware would benefit: compression of textures generated at runtime, either via procgen or for e.g. environment maps. This is in a fr
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by mrec 7mo ago
"Office ain't done 'til Wine won't run"?
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by mrec 7mo ago
I dunno, misspelling "grammar" as "grammer" isn't a great look in context.
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by mrec 7mo ago
It's an odd site design. Stories are loaded dynamically by script based on the URL fragment identifier; I'd imagine Reader Mode isn't geared toward that sort of thing. I also wonder why they decided that hiding the scrollbar
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by mrec 7mo ago
Andor is fantastic, but I think it's important to set expectations before going in. Compared to other SW content it's much slower-paced and more restrained/cerebral. Mandalorian didn't do much for me; too gamey/Marv
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by mrec 7mo ago
> Throughout this period, Glass supported himself as a New York cabbie and as a plumber, occupations that often led to unusual encounters. "I had gone to install a dishwasher in a loft in SoHo," he says. "While working, I
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by mrec 8mo ago
I don't have kids myself, but friends have shown Firefly to theirs and I'm happy to report that it still holds up. There's hope for the future yet.
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by mrec 8mo ago
Isn't this just "release candidate" by another name?
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by mrec 8mo ago
What you're describing reminds me very strongly of Here Dragons Abound's "Forever Project": https://heredragonsabound.blogspot.com/2020/02/the-forever-p...
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by mrec 8mo ago
The ECHR isn't actually an EU thing. (It's a Council of Europe thing, which is separate from and predates the ECSC/EEC/EU.)
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by mrec 8mo ago
I was sorely tempted to downvote this for egregious wrongheadedness, but that last line is pure gold. Kudos.
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by mrec 8mo ago
Yup. One early Arthur C Clarke story had plants growing natively on the Moon .
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by mrec 8mo ago
> take a look at Ian McDonald +1. I loved Desolation Road in particular; a sort of 100 Years of Solitude but on Mars and with more than 2 names for its 3000 characters.

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