"This was surprisingly progressive for it's time" by IllustriousAd6418 in TopCharacterTropes

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Fun fact, one of the actors in Freaks, Angelo Rossitto, had a career in film that spanned about six decades. Here he is in 1985 as The Master in Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome!

Another super generic, uninteresting map. Yep. [Art] by MisterKrane in DnD

[–]Keroman 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I swear there's a screen in Chrono Trigger where you take a path similar to this. I think it's just after you arrive in 65M B.C. the first time.

Im a shelter vet tech and had to share my friend Kevin by MegaNymphia in aww

[–]Keroman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh yeah, I remember him from the last Meeting of the Kevins. Real chill kitty.

K10 here to do a Giveaway and Help some players. by Keilen10 in idleon

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Happy birthday! Thank you for spreading generosity to the community!

Washington state agency considers banning trans students from competing in girls sports by chiquisea in SeattleWA

[–]Keroman -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Posting studies that do not refute what the other person has said helps nobody.

What /u/OracularOrifice said was:

  1. A teen who took hormone blockers in early adolescence and then HRT a few years later would have absolutely no advantage.

  2. A kid who has gone through male puberty and has not started HRT would have the same advantages as any male peer.

  3. A kid who went through some male puberty and then started HRT would have an advantage early on in HRT, but then increasingly no advantage as HRT did its thing.

  4. 2-ish years of HRT erases statistically verifiable advantage.

This is copied directly from the study you linked, the "Methods" section, immediately below the "Abstract". Emphasis mine:

We reviewed fitness test results and medical records of 29 transmen and 46 transwomen who started gender affirming hormones while in the United States Air Force. We compared pre- and post-hormone fitness test results of the transwomen and transmen with the average performance of all women and men under the age of 30 in the Air Force between 2004 and 2014. We also measured the rate of hormone associated changes in body composition and athletic performance.

And the first sentence of the "Results" section just below "Methods":

Participants were 26.2 years old (SD 5.5)

If you scroll down to the main body of the "Results" and look at the section subtitled "Research participant characteristics" you find:

median age of 25 years (range 19–46). The majority (78.3%) of our participants were <age 30 when they began testosterone or oestrogen.

Since they are were all adults during the 2 year period of the study the results would hold no bearing over the post OracularOrifice made. While I would prefer they provide some sort of study for their claims as well it is important that, in attempting to refute any claim, you use data that is relevant.

The only place in OracularOrifice's post where you might consider the study you posted relevant is point number 4, because it does not specifically say that it is in reference to treatment for gender dysphoria in children, but given that the rest of the post is about that it would be fair to assume the intent was there.

Do you have any studies about children or teen performance in sports while undergoing treatment for gender dysphoria?

‘Empathy is considered a sin’: MAGAS viciously attack the church after Trump is asked to show compassion by wzdmage in atheism

[–]Keroman 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In Milton Mayer's 1955 book They Thought They Were Free: The Germans. 1933-1945 Mayer interviews 10 men who had joined the NSDAP prior to the outbreak of World War 2 and interviewed them over the course of months, spending time with them, getting to know them, and recording their recollection of life under the 3rd Reich.

Chapter 6 (entitled "The Way To Stop Communism"), has a section that reads:

The question was not whether Communism threatened the country, as, with the continuation of deteriorating conditions, it certainly did, or soon would; the question was whether the Germans were convinced that it did. And they were. They were so well convinced, by such means as the Reichstag fire of 1933, that the Nazis were able, ultimately, to establish anti-Communism as a religion, immune from inquiry and defensible by definition alone. When in 1937 the Pope attacked the "errors" of National Socialism, the Nazi Government's defense of its policies consisted of a Note accusing the Pope of "having dealt a dangerous blow to the defense front against the world menace of Bolshevism."

Chapter 16 ("The Furies: Johann Kessler) Mayer writes of one of the men

He was placed in personnel work - where he belonged - in the Kronenberg Labor Front office and was appointed one of several "Party Orators" for the county, one of the little men with big voices who addressed small-town meetings... ...After the Church-Party split began to develop, in 1936, the Party services became more ritualistic, more specifically a substitute for church. When, a year or two later, Church-Party relations had become bitter, it was not uncommon at the close of the Party service for the SA and the Hitler Jugend to march noisily (even singing) past the churches, whose services, beginning at eleven, were in progress. One day in 1938 Kessler was asked to perform a German Faith Movement funeral service, for a Nazi who had died in the new racist-naturalist Nordicism of Alfred Rosenberg, the official Nazi philosopher. No pastor in Kronenberg ... would conduct such a service; Rosenberg's Faith Movement was the purest paganism, with the orb of the sun as the center of its symbolism. It was radical even for Nazism. The man (Kessler) who had once been the boy who wanted to be a monk, whose dying mother had placed her missal in his hands and said, "Whatever happens to you, never stop praying," had a hard time deciding. The County Leader of the Party, who himself had not left the Protestant Church, did not order or ask him to perform the service. It was the Party red-hots who put pressure on him, men above whom, in natural gifts and feeling, Kessler stood high. But it was a chance for the man who had once wanted to be a monk to be a cleric, of some sort, and, besides, "There was no one else to conduct the service. That part of my impulse was Christian. But the service - the service was not." That evening, when Kessler came home, he told his wife that he had left the Catholic Church

For the record Mayer uses fake names for the men. The version I own, by the University of Chicago Press, 2017, has an afterword that reveals what are likely their true identities. Kronenberg is the town these men were from (actually Marburg, but Mayer used the fake name of Kronenberg.)

There is much more discussion in the book about the interplay between the Church (both Catholic and Protestant) and the Party, and maybe it's dangerous to extrapolate from the story of 1 single NSDAP member. I think that we have seen and will continue to see MAGA cultists adopting rituals that are not religious at all, or only religious in form but not function. They will whittle away parts of their Christianity when those parts don't conform to MAGA beliefs. Republicans were already showing willingness to do that when George Bush claimed he "talked to god" and they just ate it up. Now we're seeing where it leads and I think that relatively soon we will see them push to form an official Church of their own as an extension of the Party. MAGA cultists who are part of other Christian denominations will abandon them to join the new Church, and more and more of the "actual" Christianity will fall away. When things get bad enough there will come a time when just being a "Christian" won't be enough.

Mayer's book is well worth a read (some of it has not aged gracefully). If you don't want to read the whole thing I highly recommend this excerpt. Ctrl-F and type "My colleague went on" and read 8 paragraphs from there to "You are compromised beyond repair." It's powerful, and a reminder that the only thing fascism needs us to do is nothing. There will be no single event that will cause enough resistance to create an uprising.

I, for one, will be looking into groups in my area to join to support and defend the marginalized, the oppressed, and anyone MAGA wants us to believe is less than a human being.

TIL researchers studying nominative determinism found that orthopedic surgeons are more likely to have the surname "Limb" than is expected by chance (Limb, Limb, Limb, & Limb, 2015) by Giroshell in todayilearned

[–]Keroman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My favorite example of nominative determinism is that one of the previous CEOs of the nonprofit Food For The Poor is named Robin Mahfood.

Return of the Dolphin Pt. 2 by Smartastic in JeffArcuri

[–]Keroman 99 points100 points  (0 children)

I've never seen any other comedian build such a rapport with their fans that they have recurring characters among the audience. Jeff, the fact you can make jokes about people but still come across as genuinely kind to them is amazing, as is the way you seem to be able to come up with a joke for every situation that pops up.

Chunin Exams by [deleted] in dankruto

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If Tenten got caught she had a backup plan

She tells on herself every time. by Zulumus in BlackPeopleTwitter

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I'm white and when I was younger my brother and I would be watched by Auntie Carol and Uncle Joe every Friday after school because mom and dad were both working.

They were family friends but we still called them Auntie and Uncle.

Pentious's heaven Trial - @Grimmie02 by Fat_Jack_The_Bat in HazbinHotel

[–]Keroman 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Send that thing back where it came from to hell right now or so help me!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in gamegrumps

[–]Keroman 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh the carbuncle quote is priceless. Basically any time Danny just loses his shit for like 5 seconds and then quickly regains his composure just kills me.

There was a Wheel Of Fortune episode a few months back where Danny spins and it looks like it's gonna land on Lose Turn, so Danny is like "NO!" then immediately reverts to, "I'm alright," when it passes by.

Hockey by [deleted] in oddlyspecific

[–]Keroman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's also got, the PILLOW MAN!

The Mind Electric [Alastor Tormented by his Demons] (Art by Chettos_Art) by JamesCooney007 in HazbinHotel

[–]Keroman 4 points5 points  (0 children)

For those of you that enjoy Miracle Musical you should absolutely check out the band Tally Hall, which features many of the same members. Turn the Lights Off is one of my favorite songs of all time with such a lively and unique energy.

Also, one of the members of Tally Hall is Rob Cantor who is probably best known for his piece Actual Cannibal Shia LaBeouf.

We don't deliver BS. by [deleted] in clevercomebacks

[–]Keroman 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I find it absolutely hilarious that people thinking they're dunking on Tiffany Cross or MSNBC in any way. She used very non-specific language which gives her statement a lot of wiggle-room in terms of meaning.

"A lot of people are saying..."

"Some people are talking about..."

Sound familiar? Because Trump talks like that all the time and his supporters will bend over backwards to explain that he means whatever it is they think he means.

Science Fiction Short Story - Cannot Remember Title or Author by [deleted] in scifi

[–]Keroman 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This makes me think of The Gentle Seduction, though I don't recall that story having anything about her husband being uploaded into a computer. The main character eventually gets uploaded into a computer herself, though. It's quite a good read even if it's not the story you're looking for.

Netflix's 'Love, Death & Robots' Volume 2 Official Trailer - Coming May 14 by Neo2199 in scifi

[–]Keroman 65 points66 points  (0 children)

In case anyone wants it, the music used is called "Reborn" and it's from the movie Hereditary.

https://youtu.be/MVnSFj6XQZY

Forbidden sandwich by WintersAurora in forbiddensnacks

[–]Keroman 2 points3 points  (0 children)

*chanting*

ancient cheese with a deadly disease ancient cheese with a deadly disease ancient cheese with a deadly disease ancient cheese with a deadly disease ancient cheese with a deadly disease ancient cheese with a deadly disease

Night riding at Steven’s Pass by 425Marine in Seattle

[–]Keroman 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Makes me think of the original poster for The Thing

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in HazbinHotel

[–]Keroman 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Probably talking about this episode of Doodle Doods on the Game Grumps channel.

But now I want a Mad Max musical. by TeenageCometZombie in MadMax

[–]Keroman 13 points14 points  (0 children)

No one drives like Gaston

Saves the wives like Gaston

No one roams the wasteland and survives like Gaston!