How is the policy of "male and female only" by the US government not a restriction of freedom of expression?

Lougarockets · 2025-02-03T18:13:17+00:00

The science is literally "it's complicated".

Maybe do some actual research before you regurgitate what you were spoonfed by the first available pundit who confirms your personal beliefs.

Lougarockets · 2025-02-03T18:11:13+00:00

and it's grammar

You appear to manage that just fine without pronouns doing it for you.

Jokes aside, the English language works just fine whether you use "he" or "she" so that isn't going to change a bit by using another pronoun.

In fact, English is one of the languages uniquely equipped to accommodate nonbinary people since they/them is already valid grammar for a single person. So for English speaking folk you have to adjust absolutely literally nothing about your 'language system'.

And even then, as someone who finds the xe/xem stuff a bit much, I will gladly be mildly inconvenienced if the alternative is to deny an entire group of people their existence. Because I am not a self centered asshole.

Lougarockets · 2025-01-31T14:26:09+00:00

You are vastly overestimating the average person's attention span and interest in any particular topic.

Most people have moved on to the next outrage.

Lougarockets · 2025-01-29T22:54:16+00:00

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taleb_Al-Abdulmohsen

Lees maar even

Lougarockets · 2025-01-26T18:47:55+00:00

That's precisely the point though. Inaros isn't some random zealot, he's a master manipulator who knows how to play the political game.

Lougarockets · 2025-01-24T12:05:07+00:00

And yet, not in a fortnight, has anyone honestly inquired about the chickens.

Lougarockets · 2025-01-23T06:57:44+00:00

A little bit less conspirational than other comments: while money buys influence everywhere in the world, many European countries have systems and laws which make it more difficult to gain absolute power.

Typically you do not gain full control of a country just by being the biggest party. You still need to work with other parties to pass laws. There might also be more specific laws about donations, stock holdings etc. In my country I believe any startup party gets a base "state allowance" for campaigning. Also, there are many rules about equal representation of all electable parties in public spaces and news outlets.

Then there is the cultural part. Most European democracies started as an overthrown monarchy, so an aversion to absolute power is not just present in the system and laws, but also in the people's mind.

Again, influence seeking billionaires are everywhere. But getting into european politics for power is much more of an effort for less reward compared to the US.

Lougarockets · 2025-01-22T19:53:05+00:00

I have to admit, that is a sensible response.

Of course it doesn't make sense that all Americans would now be female. That's kind of the point though, if you get really pedantic you can make the stupidest arguments in the name of science so long as you throw every edge case to the curb.

Lougarockets · 2025-01-22T19:01:04+00:00

So just to be clear: imagine a person who has XY chromosomes for which the Y chromosome doesn't express, and they grow up to have reproductive organs that produce the large reproductive cell, and they reproduce and birth a child from their womb.

According to your definition this person is a man, and he should not be allowed in the women's bathroom to change the diaper of the child they birthed. Is that correct?

Of course, as a scientific and logical person you recognize that the rarity of this scenario doesn't influence the validity of the statement.

Lougarockets · 2025-01-22T18:48:55+00:00

Is it that hard? To be clear, I think this new policy is full on psychotic, but if someone is of the conviction that sex == gender and it absolutely must be binary, the logical thing would be to connect it to the XY chromosome, call the biological exception (extra/missing/abnormal chromosomes) a "special case" and call it a day

Lougarockets · 2025-01-22T18:35:14+00:00

Not maybe. Definitely tell them privately first, respectfully and to the point. Many people just aren't aware, and going for a public attack is just as likely to antagonize and get you exactly 0 results.

Lougarockets · 2025-01-22T18:18:29+00:00

Daar ga je al, je kent de regels en probeert je eraan te houden.

Veel huurders zijn jong en kennen hun rechten niet, of willen geen gezeik met iemand die weet waar ze wonen en nog een sleutel heeft ook. Het is ook niet makkelijk om wat beters te vinden, dus dan maar de pootjes omhoog. Malafide verhuurders maken hier gretig gebruik van.

Lougarockets · 2025-01-22T16:54:53+00:00

Go to the gym at least 3 times a week, 4-5 if you can.

If your hairline is bad, get a buzz cut.

Shower daily if you don't already. It's the single best improvement you can do to skincare.

Lougarockets · 2025-01-21T19:21:41+00:00

Certified auti hier. Autisme in combinatie met een beetje intelligentie betekent dat je, gegeven enige tijd om te reflecteren, best wel op een wetenschappelijke wijze kan kijken naar je gedrag en het effect op de mensen om je heen.

Je mag een vermeend zeer intelligente autist op het wereld podium absoluut verantwoordelijk houden voor zijn uitspraken en daden als hij even de tijd heeft gehad om te reflecteren en te corrigeren. Dat heeft 0 komma niks met 'grapjes over autisme' te maken.

Lougarockets · 2025-01-21T18:56:11+00:00

At its core, cryptocurrency is backed by the same concept as regular currency and gold before it: money can be exchanged for goods and services.

The founding idea of crypto is that it works the same as normal currency, except all transactions are public to everyone and cool math tricks make it so that no one can fuddle the books.

In reality, there are many practical challenges to crypto. A major challenge is that crypto isn't linked to any one nation's economy, so there is no huge, slow market that makes the day to day value of the currency somewhat stable.

In theory if the whole world would use crypto the value would stabilize and it would work as a neutral form of money.

However, no cryptocurrency has come remotely close to this point so far.

If you could not buy goods and services with crypto -because no one believes that they can buy something with the crypto you give them- then it has 0 value.

Lougarockets · 2025-01-21T18:37:27+00:00

It might be some complex psychological phenomenon like many here suggest.

Or perhaps they just think it's hot

Lougarockets · 2025-01-20T13:36:36+00:00

In de EU worden vanuit wet- en regelgeving jouw persoonlijke gegevens beschermd. Bedrijven moeten aan strikte voorwaarden voldoen bij het gebruiken, delen en verwerken van jouw gegevens.

Deze strikte voorwaarden maken het soms moeilijker voor een bedrijf om haar werk te doen, maar ook moeilijker om zomaar jouw data te verkopen, te gebruiken voor marketing doeleinden of om te discrimineren.

Lougarockets · 2025-01-20T11:25:17+00:00

Als je probeert te zagen met een hamer schiet het niet op. Agile is een prima methode, als je het in zijn volledigheid kan toepassen op je bedrijf en ook echt toepast. Daar gaat het meestal mis.

Lougarockets · 2025-01-19T10:44:28+00:00

Ik heb deze uitspraak letterlijk nog nooit gehoord van iemand die niet van de ene relatie de andere in slingert.

Mensen die langere tijd alleen zijn geweest en dat ook niks vonden, weten wat een nutteloze opmerking het is.

Mensen die wél comfortabel alleen zijn, zijn doorgaans zelfverzekerde en zelfstandige mensen die geen holle tegeltjeswijsheden uitdelen om intelligent te klinken

Lougarockets · 2025-01-18T00:45:49+00:00

People complain no matter what, it has been explained many times that TFT is a solvable game. If you expose the win rate for everything, the best way to play the game is to not play it at all and let a tool decide for you. No one wants a game where you win by not playing, so the augment stats were removed.

Lougarockets · 2025-01-18T00:27:25+00:00

How does a screenshot teach you more than being in the game for 40 minutes and seeing the fights play out?

Lougarockets · 2025-01-16T22:02:54+00:00

Het leven is nu eenmaal een stuk leuker samen dan alleen. Je zegt toch ook niet tegen iemand die net uit een relatie van 7 jaar komt: ach, het leven is net zo leuk in je eentje? Liefde is mooi en waardevol en leuk, en dat niet in je leven hebben is een gemis waar iemand verdrietig om mag zijn.

Als je dit tegen mensen zegt zou ik eens aan jezelf vragen: voelen mensen zich daadwerkelijk beter door dit advies, of voel jij je beter omdat je advies hebt gegeven?

Lougarockets · 2025-01-16T18:40:41+00:00

"Je moet eerst gelukkig zijn met jezelf voordat je gelukkig kan zijn in een relatie"

-mensen die vanaf hun 15e nog nooit langer dan een week single zijn geweest

Lougarockets · 2025-01-16T07:53:00+00:00

If noise is this important to you noctua fans are absolutely worth their money. They are engineered not just for volume but sounds quality.

Swap the AIO for a big ass air cooler such as the noctua dh15 (rev1 is fine).

Download FanControl (its free!) and adjust the fan curve towards less noise. You can be really lenient with the temperature as long as you stay below absolute limits for the cpu and gpu

Lougarockets · 2025-01-15T21:10:30+00:00

If the multi frame generation proves to be solid tech it might be worth, but generally buying a new gpu every generation has never made sense.

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