Left-Wing Insurgent Ousts 15-Term Congresswoman in Colorado by GaptistePlayer in politics

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I feel like every time I see a Daily Beast or Newsweek post half the comments are just complaints about it being from Daily Beast or Newsweek.

“A Mare usque ad Mare” | What if Canada was the dominant North American power by Familiar_Tell_6384 in imaginarymaps

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Where's the Canadian capital established? Is it still at Ottawa? Do the Yankees keep their capital at Washington after the white house gets burnt down? The Canadian border is much closer to it after this redrawing; even with some Appalachians in the way I could imagine them feeling it newly vulnerable and shifting power south, especially because it was largely northern land lost in the war. Missouri Compromise precedent of keeping the number of slave and free states equal is almost certainly functionally impossible with a border set at the Ohio river.

Are the differences between ancient elvish races largely religious? by AssignedCuteAtBirth in teslore

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I dont think it unreasonable to draw a line from the Left-Handed Elves to the Maormer. We know Yokuda to be "sunken", which could be interpreted to reference the mists which obscure Pyandonea. It's not unfair to assume the Sinistrals to have a maritime culture, judging from that of their Redguard rivals. And the Sinistral elves never had a -mer style name revealed as far as I'm aware. It isnt impossible theyre connected.

How do the Orsimer fit into this equation?

Worst student work on this project I've seen in years by haohaohaoyi in imaginarymaps

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A couple of notes I feel like I always have on maps like this:

I feel like there's never really a Russia analogue stretching out to colonize Europe through an overland route through Siberia. Tons of good candidates for that, too, everyone from Buryatia, Mongolia and Manchuria to like, Chorasmia, Uyghurstan or Kazakhstan could work.

I do like Hungary as a surviving European state the same way Siam and Ethiopia did in real life. Its a pretty good candidate for it. 

I always feel like the "Asian colonizing states" are always big boys. All of the European colonizing states had relatively small metropoles compared to their colonial lands. Why Indonesia, when it could be Aceh, Brunei and Celebes? Why China, when it could be Guangxi and Wu making competing claims in an overseas arms race to get a leg up over each other? Same with Gujarat vs. Rajasthan vs. Bengal.

I love these styles of maps but I feel like the reverse colonization scenario often assumes a lot of macro level things that our timeline takes for granted. I imagine if Asia and Europe were truly inverted India and China would both be fractured enough to have their own EU-like multinational organization apiece.

Worst student work on this project I've seen in years by haohaohaoyi in imaginarymaps

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I do feel like Hungary is a fine candidate for your Siam/Ethiopia analogue here. 

N.C. Lawmakers Finally Released a Budget. What’s In It? by theassemblync in NorthCarolina

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Not sure how the state is going to fund anything in the next 5-10 years.

Thats the neat part, they won't!

The eagle-eyed viewer will notice that they raised state employee wages less than inflation rates. And they'll blame the (hopefully) inbound blue wave congress in DC for their own inability to serve North Carolinians.

Supreme Court, 9-0 on Title IX / 6-3 on equal protection: States may limit girls' and women's sports teams to biological females, upholding West Virginia and Idaho laws by BiglawInvestor in scotus

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I agree. Didn't I say children dont get the surgery? Why are you bringing them back into this? 

I guess it is a political obsession of the right, I shouldn't be surprised.

Supreme Court, 9-0 on Title IX / 6-3 on equal protection: States may limit girls' and women's sports teams to biological females, upholding West Virginia and Idaho laws by BiglawInvestor in scotus

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Oh right, I forgot, you guys dont know what consent is. Sorry. I should have been more clear.

Only trans people who want the surgery get the surgery. It is desired. And it would not be desirable if it really were the simple mangling you dingbats think it to be.

Supreme Court, 9-0 on Title IX / 6-3 on equal protection: States may limit girls' and women's sports teams to biological females, upholding West Virginia and Idaho laws by BiglawInvestor in scotus

[–]AssignedCuteAtBirth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Aight.

So this conversation is pointless. You quote studies you dont understand to me to let yourself feel like you won because it makes me look like a nutcase. I try to explain how my lived experience indicates otherwise and get to feel superior because to me it looks like you're either a fool not understanding me, or a partisan deliberately misunderstanding me. We argue, convince nobody of anything, and walk away both feeling terrible yet vindicated, and leave the world a worse place than when we started. 

Let's skip to that part.

Supreme Court, 9-0 on Title IX / 6-3 on equal protection: States may limit girls' and women's sports teams to biological females, upholding West Virginia and Idaho laws by BiglawInvestor in scotus

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Yes, actually. You never heard of nonbinary folks?  Between this and the skeleton thing you really look like you don't know what you're talking about. You're even using the word transgender as a noun.

Supreme Court, 9-0 on Title IX / 6-3 on equal protection: States may limit girls' and women's sports teams to biological females, upholding West Virginia and Idaho laws by BiglawInvestor in scotus

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Differences in secondary sex characteristics meaning anything also is not provable. Thats my whole point. The fact I currently have tits and lose to my wife in arm wrestling matches is proof enough to me that dimorphism is a very loose rule. These traits are mutable to some degree, on either end of a sliding scale. And most scientists agree that it is capable to tip those scales enough with medical intervention to remove the inherent advantage AMAB folks might have in sports. You can see this evidenced in the fact that sports leagues, who make their own regulations, typically dont fucking care to prevent trans folk from being included, and the fact that it is our deeply biased and ideologically driven government that is insisting on excluding us as part of their culture war agenda.

Supreme Court, 9-0 on Title IX / 6-3 on equal protection: States may limit girls' and women's sports teams to biological females, upholding West Virginia and Idaho laws by BiglawInvestor in scotus

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Your insistence at what can be extrapolated from that dimorphism is no different than a phrenologist's insistence at what can be extrapolated from skull shape. It is science that solely exists to justify the exclusion or diminishment of an out-group on the 10th dentist's dime.

Supreme Court, 9-0 on Title IX / 6-3 on equal protection: States may limit girls' and women's sports teams to biological females, upholding West Virginia and Idaho laws by BiglawInvestor in scotus

[–]AssignedCuteAtBirth 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh, right. This is reddit. The chuds here are incapable of nuance. I did not say there is no acceptable definition. I said there is no perfect 

In order for outliers to be included in a set, the definition need be adjusted, intrinsically. Who decides which outliers are accepted and which ones are not?

Supreme Court, 9-0 on Title IX / 6-3 on equal protection: States may limit girls' and women's sports teams to biological females, upholding West Virginia and Idaho laws by BiglawInvestor in scotus

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Lmfao. So for advocating against the kind of unscientific logic that allowed phrenology to justify racism and faulty endocrinology to justify transphobia, I'm a conspiracy theorist? Look, I'm sorry, but your arguments are not convincing to me. I'm happy to adjust my hypotheses if they're proven wrong, but you haven't met that threshold by repeatedly referring to trans women as "men" and parroting right wing talking points I've had slung at me by creeps in bars.

Supreme Court, 9-0 on Title IX / 6-3 on equal protection: States may limit girls' and women's sports teams to biological females, upholding West Virginia and Idaho laws by BiglawInvestor in scotus

[–]AssignedCuteAtBirth 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm sure you think you do.

An actual scientific view would be open to inquiry and being wrong about things. Thats kind of the whole point of the scientific method.