@splitshockvirus Not sure if she will be my favorite to shoot yet, but she sure is a beauty
@thor what did you do?
While you are right that there are some countries that are far more abusive to transpeople than america, there are also far kinder and more accepting. Thailand as an example.
Other countries being shittier should never be an excuse for our shortcomings. That said i think it is ok to try to work out social complexities like sports fairness if done in good faith. But keep in mid regardless of other coubtries trans people here expiernce extreme abuse and riddicule from other people and that shoukd always be on the forefront of your mind when engaging them. The legal right to have sex reassignment surgery doesnt make the fact that people are constantly abusing thrm go away.
I never know what to #write in this #introduction thing. Maybe because I don't really know who I am or maybe I'm a mixture of many things.
Anyway, my name is Gustavo and I live in #Jundiaí, the city of #grapes, in #Brazil. I am currently a #PhD student in #biochemistry and the #question I am trying to answer is:
Is it possible to use the knowledge of the #plant #circadianclock to increase the efficiency of #weedmanagement in #sorghum crop?
At the same time I trying to answer what is #time?
In between, I make #music and #dance to the #rhythms of #life. It's like @neilhimself says in his profile: "It is too late now!"
And that's it! I joined this instance because I like the #idea behind questions. @freemo seems to have created something special here. Thanks!
It will be a pleasure to meet you all!
@TruthSandwich Possible yea.
@TruthSandwich Ok this one is a mystery.. but it can also be hard to diagnose because notifications need to be generated on the remote server since mastodon doesnt use polling it uses pushes (well the fediverse as a whole really).
@TruthSandwich They are better than scientific, we all know science is a hoax, but polls you can see with your own eyes.
Hey @TruthSandwich this poll showin out of 8,4K people, at least in the fediverse, almost none of them are far-right, and 36% are far-left... If its in a poll it must be true /s
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Thanks for that - you are right, I have no problem at all with Trans people so long as they don't jump down my throat for expressing my opinion.
I don't really have a need to put up with a pile-on over this, or indeed anything else, so I simply block anyone who gets in a strop - I'm here to enjoy myself not to be attacked by hysterical objectors to what I say!
I was hoping that this would be a more reasoned and measured place than the Vulture site - I was wrong!
It depends largely on who you respond to as well. If someone is far-left or far-right you will usually get a pile on if you try to have any more moderate discussion. Likewise if you know the person and they are largely moderate and willing to discuss their views then you will have a receptive conversation.
If you are just commenting on strangers post you shouldnt be surprised you might be jumping into a group that falls anywhere on the ideological spectrum.
Whether his take is wrong or right (and I think its wrong for a few reasons), it clearly isnt coming from a place of transphobia, at least not so far as anything he expressed would suggest. That said I do think he is wrong due to a more general bit of logic...
Ok so lets assume he is right about the fact that someone born a male and transitioned later will tend to have an advantage... Ok so if thats true what your telling me is if someone has a baby girl, and they inject that baby with testosterone at an early age, they will grow up to be a super athelete, and since as an adult they will have normal testosterone, but the effects linger from being a baby, they would be entierly legal to compete in the woman's division, and as I stated some sort of super athlete due to their childhood doping.
So what you've proven is the opposite of what you intended. You proved that a system which divides male-female based on their hormone levels in adulthood OR their birth sex, either system is invalid and easily gamed from either end... therefore you have proven the very need for a system that no longer divides athletes based on birth sex, and therefore must adapt fairly to transpeople somehow.
It is heartbreaking that the UK government mistreated Alan Turing. Many AI tech enthusiasts may not be aware of his contributions to the field. In 1950, Turing developed a test for artificial intelligence that is still used today, making him a valuable asset in computer science. Everyone should honor his legacy and memory. RIP, Alan.
So after a quick read while the data is formulated in quite a few ways, none of it seems to show how many of the nonvoters prefer neither candidate, vs prefering trump, vs prefering some other candidate.. in fact I dont even see "neither/no candidate" as a result in the data at all.
Im not going to go out of my way to get around paywalls, if you provide the link, sure ill look.. But generally any news agency that is for-profit is already discredited in my view going in since they clearly have a motivation to be biased if/when it gets them more views, which equates to more money, so they tend towards sensationalism and one-sideded ness as a result... regardless i will read your gift link.
I cant look at the article, I tried, it was pay walled.
The title however suggests it doesnt address the discussion.. it says they "handed trump the election"... which is probably some 2-party nonsense, but regardless if its true its not the same as saying non-voters thought Trump was the superior candidate, or a good candidate.
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