AmericanSaxeCoburgGothic
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AmericanSaxeCoburgGothic
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2mo ago
Ineffective was not the right word, but it seems that some of the tests give a lot of false positives. If using it to screen embryos you'd delete a lot of healthy ones. If you have a limited number of embryos or a high rate of failure of embryo to pregnancy it might not be wise to use this as screening criteria.
AmericanSaxeCoburgGothic
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5mo ago
I feel I have made my opinion known, as restrictive and irrational as it is. I don't see what benefits are of further discussion.
AmericanSaxeCoburgGothic
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5mo ago
I'm against all of it and think adding layers of qualifiers pointless.
My comment was more in response to an earlier one of yours
"Would you deny your 14 year old daughter a life free from financial concern?"
AmericanSaxeCoburgGothic
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6mo ago
· Edited 6mo ago
So in your view the current model where mostly unlimited animal testing is allowed, we should instead jump to human embryos, edit them and allow them to grow as fetuses, and as humans under comparable conditions and then test the editing results through IQ tests? Or do you think that editing of embryos should be allowed for research but not allowed to progress further toward human birth?
Edit: Or do you see embryo editing as something that should be allowed as it exists in its current state that should be completely allowed with no exceptions like elective surgery totally separate from medicine entirely?
AmericanSaxeCoburgGothic
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6mo ago
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Aren't there already gene therapies being developed? Isn't it instead that testing on human subjects is subject to agreed upon international standards? I think you can do this research but you are subject to Institutional Review Boards or your country equivalent. I don't see any involvement of neo-luddites in preventing this research, unless you consider human rights to be a stumbling block.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_Helsinki
AmericanSaxeCoburgGothic
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6mo ago
With such a damning comment, do you know any Aboriginal Australians?
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1mo ago
I have similar experiences. I also think being the organizer is a thankless job but one people appreciate even if they never say it. I've seen first-hand that friendships are people who show up. That being said its only you who can say whether its worth the effort.
AmericanSaxeCoburgGothic
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2mo ago
For pregnancy prescreening the effectiveness of the tests have been called into question. Embryos are different but might suffer from the same issues?
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/01/upshot/pregnancy-birth-genetic-testing.html
AmericanSaxeCoburgGothic
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5mo ago
Its meaning is 'both' not 'or' social stature here is conferred by adultstatus.
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5mo ago
The invalidating feature to me is her age. The status of being adult is what is causing these relationships to be coercive and manipulative. Taylor Swift with other adults (regardless of status of either adult) is not considered since age difference is not a factor.
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5mo ago
I do not see the correlation between attending concerts and sexual activity with the performer. While underage fans might desire such a sexual relationship, for the reasons I spelled out before if the adult allows or facilitates such activity it's sexual coercion and manipulation by the mere fact that one party is an adult and the other is a fourteen year old.
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5mo ago
I don't see how the 'quality' of person involved is a rebuttal to my argument. I said it was based on age. The difference in age for any adult and a fourteen year-old nullifies any idea of consent on the side of the child. Children who don't have jobs, can't drive and are subject to curfew are open to sexual coercion from any adult.
AmericanSaxeCoburgGothic
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5mo ago
Instead of bringing up Taylor Swift you should have brought up R. Kelly he demonstrates your point better.
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7mo ago
Its not American, but the song 'We throw parties you throw knives' by Los Campesinos mainly for the lyrics.
"We throw parties, you throw knives, its all the same if the fizzy drinks are nice"
"There's red stains all over the place, it's not blood it's cherryaid"
Mainly I feel it captures how charmed American life is and unconcerned with problems that don't immediately affect us, with a superiority complex towards outsiders.
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9mo ago
Adidas Moves, and not very often.
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1yr ago
Its like a world-wide Dutch Disease where the industry of focus is some technology/ finance and some select entertainment sectors; and all other occupations not tangentially related won't keep up with inflation.
AmericanSaxeCoburgGothic
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1yr ago
Chatting with ChatGPT would only increase the training data!
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1yr ago
Portmanteau of Grant Woods painting and a royal dynasty.
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1mo ago
One scene that stuck with me is from the book 'A Death in Holy Orders' by P.D. James where the end confession letter has the lines:" ...In this senseless age where we witness the death of culture, beauty what are we to do? ... Like a child building sand castles to stem the tide we are doomed and powerless against the rot tearing the system down... In the end I joined the barbarians...." My words and paraphrasing do not do her words justice.
AmericanSaxeCoburgGothic
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1mo ago
The full phrase is to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
AmericanSaxeCoburgGothic
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1mo ago
When I was younger I had a low opinion of my appearance. But then as I got older and looked back at my younger photos I realized I actually looked good (not great but much better than I had thought). The thinking then became if my earlier opinion was wrong then my current self- opinion of my appearance could also be wrong. People much uglier and less fit than me had much higher self-esteem; and I truly think anyone working toward self-improvement is eminently positive.
Right now is the youngest you'll ever be from this point forward. As I've gotten older and advanced more in my career I've cared less what other people think and gained much more self-confidence, part of that is having the self-confidence to go out to events alone (art galleries, concerts etc.), and recognizing that I want to be around people even though I don't want to necessarily befriend them.
I sometimes also view other with their own families or in relationships and can feel quite low when I feel that avenue is inaccessible to me; what has helped me is to 'accept the things I cannot change' and also to support those friends and family who have their own families.
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5mo ago
Replace 'billionaire' or 'Taylor Swift' with gym coach, music teacher or religious leader, I still think the age and status difference between a child and an adult makes such an agreement coercive.
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5mo ago
Keeping your facts the same, your arguments are an apology for child sexual abuse.
Children cannot give consent.
In the myriad of child sexual abuse cases that have been reported in the news, statuary rape is certainly among them.
Are you of the opinion that the morality of statutory rape is contingent on monetary compensation to the victims?
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6mo ago
I just started Pale Fire by Nabokov. Just finished Vagabounds by Hao Jingfang, translated by Ken Liu.
Hard disagree. I tuned in late, but that foul that caused her to foul out in that Iowa game was was very questionable in my opinion, and I thought she handled that much more maturely than star college athletes usually do. I did tune in late though, and I'm sucker for those eyelashes.
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