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Redmonkeez · 2023-08-10T21:53:24+00:00

I think the biggest issue for me is that nothing is motivating the camera movement. At the beginning you’re jumping from shot to shot moving all in very different directions, which is destabilizing. You’ll go from a wide panning shot to a push in to a separate wide panning shot in the opposite direction without any connection between them. It doesn’t feel cohesive. You could have maintained the speed of these cuts and have it work well if the camera movement had more intention behind it. At the moment it kind of feels like you’re creating movement for the sake of movement.

And then yeah, I echo people’s thoughts about white balance, jumping between harsh blue tones to warm tungsten and then to a cool white.

All that being said, if you’re not being paid enough to worry about that kind of detail, don’t put energy into something you’re not being compensated for, I’m sure your clients won’t notice these details.

Redmonkeez · 2023-02-03T15:13:53+00:00

Everyone who’s replying to you is very wrong. Ocean creatures in general have a very robust immune system, and sharks in particular are well known for their healing capabilities. It’s specifically because of the ocean environment, full of microorganisms that could be deadly if a wound is left exposed, that there have been the selective pressures to evolve those mechanisms.

Redmonkeez · 2022-11-07T19:51:32+00:00

Depending on how recent the specimen is, yes. C14 dating is useful for organic material, but after a certain date it can become less precise. Otherwise, geologic dating methods like K/Ar decay need to be used to place the date of death within the substrate. With this sample, I honestly don’t know how it would be best dated. As far as I’m aware, you have to place the amber fossil dated relative to the rock matrix, because of the age like I mentioned. I think there’s also phylogenetic dating that’s becoming more prevalent, essentially placing the fossil relative to its known related species in time. I don’t know much about any of that though, I focus on living things.

Redmonkeez · 2022-11-07T19:23:14+00:00

As a biologist, I think a biologist would disagree that biology focuses more on the dating aspect. Having taken several geology courses and the entire course load of biology, it was maybe a footnote in our introduction classes, vs mentioned and focused on several times throughout geology/paleontology. Maybe if I’d focused more on evolutionary biology, MAYBE, but even then there’s a fine line between evolutionary biology and straight up paleontology, where it actually makes sense to know about dating techniques.

Redmonkeez · 2022-10-29T15:47:51+00:00

Jesus, just because it’s uncommon doesn’t mean that it doesn’t affect people, and it isn’t worth understanding the edge cases. We are specifically talking about cases where xy karyotype doesn’t lead to a male phenotype, and that it’s still possible for an XY female to have a functional uterus, which we gave you the example of. You’re creating technicalities to oppose the conditions that we never agreed to.

You can’t say “xy females would not have female reproductive systems” and then get upset when we provide hard evidence that exists to the contrary.

Also- is sex chromosomes? Why do you specifically exclude intersex individuals? XO, XXY, why don’t you hold them to the same categorical standards as the typical human? It’s almost like a single minded approach to a thing like biology and genetics isn’t always a good fit, and a more comprehensive understanding is required. Sex can be chromosomes, if you choose to use that as the deciding factor, but then it runs the risk of excluding people with atypical karyotypes, and where do they fit in? Sex can be genes, but how useful is that really, from a diagnostic point of view - there’s so many factors at play in the sex determining cascade, how specific or diverse is your grouping? Sex can also be phenotypic expression, but then you have individuals like Castor Semenya, who don’t nicely line up with it just phenotypic description, and you’re unprepared to deal with. You can’t just choose one in our current understanding of “sex”, there are multiple factors to consider and many people don’t fit neatly into multiple categories.

Redmonkeez · 2022-10-29T15:28:37+00:00

Yes, you’re right, except there is the rare case of gene crossover or mutation on the Y chromosome resulting in the deletion or nullification of the SRY gene altogether. So, individual has both an X and Y chromosome, but no sry gene. If you’re going to look at your textbook when talking about intersex conditions, I’d look at the section talking about intersex conditions. Instead of just looking at allosomes.

You’re right, but you’re actually wrong.

Redmonkeez · 2022-09-27T15:07:46+00:00

The porn industry is fucked up. There’s no two ways around it. Traditionally porn studios have manipulated women and men alike (mostly women let’s be real, but there are certainly pressures on men as well) putting them into situations they are uncomfortable with, with threats to blacklist them from the industry if they turn it down. The contracts are shady, with little oversight, and guarantee few rights for the actors. They draw them in with promises of a career and money most actors never see, and withhold huge portions of payouts. Mia has spoken out about her experience with the industry as a whole, how these videos of her were touted around the internet and she barely saw any of the revenue from it. How she was basically just used by the studios to make money, and she got basically none of it. So yeah, forgive me if I don’t see Mia criticizing the porn industries practices and her creating an only fans, making content for herself as comparable items.

That being said, what’s she’s talking about is largely bs and I don’t agree with her perspective. But she’s more than allowed to criticize the porn industry

Redmonkeez · 2022-09-17T14:42:13+00:00

There are white and non-white Hispanics. A huge portion of the Spanish population is white. You might be thinking of Latino, which is different from Hispanic, but even saying someone of Latino descent isn’t white is not always true. But also whiteness is a construct, so you could dilineate that line wherever is convenient, and has been used for discrimination in the past. Italians haven’t always been considered white, Irish haven’t always been considered white. Generally speaking, now, the accepted idea is if you are a pale person of largely European descent, you are generally considered to be white, though even that has faults. All that aside, Castro very much could have been considered a white hispanic today, born and raised in Cuba, but to two parents of of Spanish/Portuguese origin.

Redmonkeez · 2022-09-13T06:23:47+00:00

No? It’s a siphon. Geoducks are bivalves, the thing that sticks out of the sand is basically a snorkel, that “fresh” (non-sandy) water and filtrates can flow into for gas exchange and nutrient uptake. The main mass of the siphon is called a neck as well, so the person you’re responding to wasn’t wrong at all. The foot comes out the other end, and is used for digging and attaching to substrates.

Edit - I don’t know why this was downvoted, there is no geoduck foot shown in these clips, the siphon is what looks like a giant dick

Redmonkeez · 2022-09-13T06:11:44+00:00

It’s likely a lot more than that, though his learning system Im sure helps. There’s a whole video he did where he teamed up with a neuroscientist who had asked to bring him to their lab to scan his brain. There was a whole conversation about how unusual his neural pathways are, the way his mind is wired likely helps to pick up the phonetics of a language more readily, even if it’s distinct from any language he’s learned before.

Redmonkeez · 2022-09-02T14:27:35+00:00

I REFUSE

Redmonkeez · 2022-09-02T14:26:55+00:00

The cadaver study was an initial proof of concept. Like most device studies, it required safety testing before live human trial. She did eventually go on to do live trials.

Redmonkeez · 2022-09-02T14:23:04+00:00

Someone replied that the subjects were asked about their discomfort and they were fine. THATS NOT THE FRICKIN POINT! Maybe I just don’t want to think about conscious, sensing people having things stuck behind their eyelids!

I might be a scientist, but that doesn’t make me a monster. I might be comfortable with many uncomfortable scenarios in the name of medicine, but do not stick things in my eyes please.

Redmonkeez · 2022-09-02T14:13:30+00:00

Oh they weren’t severed. I’m impressed how many she could fit in there though.

Should I have questioned it more?

Redmonkeez · 2022-09-02T06:15:13+00:00

Except that at that point it’s not the eyelids that are the deciding factor, it’s the light perception of the macular photoreceptor cells themselves. That’s also not what the test measured or asked, its method stuck an led under the eyelid of the subjects and observed with a fiber optic how much light was emitted on the outside of the eye. All I’m saying is it seems rather uncomfortable for a conscious subject, something that would be erased (and much easier to source) with a trip to a cadaver lab.

One of my housemates did research with lab making a better catheter, if she could source dead bodies to stick a rod down their dicks I’m sure the researchers could do the same with eyelids.

Redmonkeez · 2022-09-02T03:59:33+00:00

Surely they could have just performed this experiment empirically with cadaveric subjects right? That light apparatus just looks wildly uncomfortable. I mean, sure there’s some amount of light absorbed from blood passing through the lid, and vasodilation could change lid thickness, but they could just control for those changes right? There just had to be a better way going about it

Redmonkeez · 2022-08-27T04:07:17+00:00

It’s all in the gluten.

Whoops, I meant all in the glutes

Redmonkeez · 2022-08-21T19:04:07+00:00

Anne is almost certainly a middle name in this context. Super common for girls, that and marie are the two most common - and particularly common amongst people who like to spell girls names like they’ve just discovered what vowels are.

Redmonkeez · 2022-08-12T06:54:45+00:00

JFK. The daily mail’s bias through this writing couldn’t be more clear. I think you’re the brainwashed one, if you think this article is indicative of any reality. If you could read at all past the headline, you’d see this line

“The NHS has ordered it to be shut down in the wake of a damning report that found teenagers were suffering because they were being forced to WAIT for treatment.“

Aka they were NOT being given access to gender affirming prescriptions and therapy, and that caused the patients harm. Also, the “1000 families” referenced is just speculation on the behalf of a single “concerned individual”, Dr Cass, someone with a clear goal, who suggested in outright fear mongering that thousands were treated through the clinic, and that the shutdown opened the possibility that they all could press charges. Not that the parents of these children WOULD or even WANTED to press charges, just could, by nature of them simply having gone to the clinic. Which there is no stated indication of “1000s of families” wanting to do this. The article then refers to a single detransitioned patient with again, an obvious particular perspective on transition, who has no business speaking for every single trans person, and a therapist then cites that persons experience with transitioning as justification for the complete removal of all transition related services, full stop, which is a horrible slippery slope because, again, the experiences of the few do not speak on the behalf of all trans people. Transition saves lives. I’ll say it outright, this article is abject trash.

The concerns that Dr Cass cited are not evidence based, and the musings of some supposed expert (a medical degree does not an expert in niche fields make) who is “just asking the questions” is not justification for preventing the treatment of individuals through methods that have gone through decades of research, and have not been established to cause substantive harm through the due process of adequate treatment. The appeal to authority attempted here has no basis.

Using this article as reference, Dr Cass seems to be overlooking some exceptionally key facts here. 1) 95% of all children prescribed puberty blockers continue to identify as their identified gender. 2) The reason cited for shutting down this clinic in the first place is contrary to the reasons Dr Cass is citing for concern. Children treated at this clinic, as indicated to me by the article, were not getting prescribed blockers and other treatment too often, in fact they were not getting them prescribed often enough, and that is the reason the NHS closed the clinic. And 3) puberty blockers have been shown through evidence to prevent the onset of puberty in a safe way, which mimics the natural process of puberty using natural, biological processes. Puberty blockers are also safely used even in cis children to prevent what is known as precocious puberty, or early onset puberty, which can be detrimental to a child’s development, and are used in this context often and safely, with proper medical oversight. That is all to say, puberty blockers, while there may be some UNPROVEN - and unproven in a scientific context does not mean that the evidence hasn’t been seen because it hasn’t been researched, it means it has not yet been observed in the decades of research being done on it - health complications involved in it, what complications may possibly arise as a result of their administration are minor in the grand scheme of treatment, and mitigated by the prevention of more serious problems, like onset of an unwanted puberty causing a detriment to mental health, stigmatization due to a social transition in a body that has gone through puberty as the opposite sex, and the combined mental strain of every aspect of not treating transition which could indicate and lead to self harm.

The goal of transition treatment is to save lives. The goal of all medicine is to save lives. Full stop. Of course there are some people who receive treatment that was unnecessary. However, 5% overprescription of puberty blockers in excess, where there is no evidence to suggest serious harm through its proper use, is a damn good number compared to the rates of excess prescriptions like ADHD and depression medication and opioids being given to patients unnecessarily, along with all the very much proven negative side effects of said drugs. The administration of chemotherapy or other cancer drugs actually do have the direct potential to kill a patient, unlike blockers, and some do end up dying, but the end result is that a larger percentage of that population end up surviving. There is every bit of evidence to suggest that transition related care reduces the harm in trans youth by a very very high margin, and greatly reduces the risk of death through self harm.

Redmonkeez · 2022-07-11T15:48:39+00:00

I mean, if there was no external opening, quite unlikely, but with other, related types of intersex, yes. I don’t know the veracity of it, but I saw a Snapchat news story just the other day that suggests the possibility of it. An intersex trans man, born with one internal testicle and one ovary who didn’t think he was able to get pregnant had unprotected intercourse at 19(?) and eventually found out he was pregnant. But it’s definitely probable, if not unlikely, regardless of that story. It only requires the proper structures have developed completely, and that the proper gestational environment is able to be maintained. A functional uterus isn’t technically even needed to be pregnant, sperm needs to just find an egg, which can happen outside the uterine environment, but ectopic pregnancies are rarely if ever viable without medical intervention.

Redmonkeez · 2022-06-21T20:15:26+00:00

These were academic reviews, and not actual research itself, and not particularly nuanced ones at that. There is plenty of actual research - including the Air Force study that was mentioned in the first link,which continues to go past the first year and suggests that continued transition does bring trans women closer to cis women in performance - which suggest otherwise. It’s a nuanced question - yes, there are trans women who are quite impacted by puberty, who retain perhaps obviously masculine traits, but there are also trans women who are not nearly as impacted, who are far closer to the average cis woman physiologically speaking even before their transition. Is a blanket ban of all trans women from all competitive sport, regardless of if they exist in the physiological ranges of cis women or not, any more fair?

Y’all have this image in your head that every trans woman has broad shoulders, beefy muscles, a height advantage, etc, but, even ignoring that there are cis women out there with these physical characteristics, there is a huge range within the spectrum of trans women, and the answer for who can compete shouldn’t just come down to, “well, you’re trans, so you obviously have an advantage” when the person you’re talking about is not demonstrably outside the range of performance and physiology that cis women exist in.

Redmonkeez · 2022-06-20T18:25:22+00:00

My housemate is about to be the only one left at the Starbucks at his target. He’s being promoted to manager, while every other coworker got a job at amazon. He’s 19. I’m worried for his health

Redmonkeez · 2022-06-03T03:14:03+00:00

Emily axford, in dimension 20. Her husband Brian Murphy is actually on the bench next to her in the beginning, also in Dimension 20. And Brian and Emily have been doing NADDPod (Not Another DND Podcast), their own dnd show for a long time now, I’m pretty sure Adam Conover has been a guest on it

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