Joyful
9mo ago
yandex also just has great image search, for whatever reason. maybe because it isn't passing everything through a pc puree
Joyful
9mo ago
Does Kagi do the same political filtering on search like google and duckduck? (sorry, I mean, "helpful weeding out of misinformation")
Joyful
9mo ago
Also, would any drug addict voluntarily undergo treatment that would leave them as addicted as before but without any ability to get a fix? How is it supposed to work to solve the problem?
There is a medication that works this way for alcohol and some alcoholics do willingly take it.
A pill means you only need self control 2 minutes a day rather than 24 hours a day.
Joyful
9mo ago
Kamala wants to unleash her inner prosecutor and roll around in the mud with Trump.... sounds better in the shower than it does in real life.
Phrasing.
Joyful
9mo ago
I took a moment to look this up. An example of an old-timey rate, In Sweden and Finland in 1800, for example, around 900 mothers died for every 100,000 live births. That's about 1% per birth, so if you had more than 10 pregnancies (which a married young rich woman might as you say) maybe you could get lifetime risks around 10%.
There are still countries in africa where more than 1 in 20 women can expect to die in childbirth.
Joyful
9mo ago
The governments purposes for tracking sex should not be about the feelings of the individual being tracked, but about keeping accurate records for the census, crime, and other statistics. I'd say that having a listed sex other than your apparent (actual) one is a major problem.
Joyful
10mo ago
The simple cheating case which sex testing exists to catch (a non-intersex cis man entering a female event) has never happened in the Olympics - and as far as I am aware it hasn't happened in international-level athletics either.
Trans identified males (non-intersex) taking over female sports has been happening at all levels of competition (including international) for several years now.
Documents the phenomenon closely, with citations.
Number of Female Athletes 717 Number of Medals* 1055 Number of Competitions 522 Number of Sports 37
Joyful
10mo ago
The IOC didn't test him. The IBA did. They are trying very hard to not get sued for revealing sensitive medical information.
Neither of the XY competitors even pretend to live as women.
Joyful
10mo ago
Because a man punching a woman shouldn't be an Olympic sport. Its much more visceral than the three XY males that took the medals in one event during the 2016 olympics.
Images like this are powerful.
https://twitter.com/HazelAppleyard_/status/1820091385199865963
The fact that he groped his first opponent after the match was terrible too.
Too many people didn't care about "just" the women losing out on scholarships, victories, and fame. Too many people don't seem to care about the injuries suffered by teenaged girls playing soccer, rugby or volleyball with much stronger males. But here we have a dude punching a woman in the face so finally more people are saying "you know what, maybe thats not fair".
Joyful
10mo ago
What is this kind of thinking called? The gist is "what my opponent should want (which is what I want) according to this value he says he holds rather than what he really wants." I also think of this as the "good republican" as written by aaron sorkin where his republicans that you like are only republican in ways he can agree with or at least understand and the opinions he hates are reserved to bad/stupid characters.
Examples (sorry if these aren't the best, but I think I show the logical twist):
"Democrats should be opposed to abortion because they think everyone has equal value in our society, even the unwanted and unaffordable children of the poor. (Alternately Rawlings Veil)".
"Republicans should support lots of immigration to push down labor costs so they can make more money."
I found myself drifting into this mode of thinking earlier in the gaza war ("Qatar should declare themselves opposed to terrorism and seize the bank accounts of the Hamas leaders because hey free billions and goodwill as the continued reasonable center of the middle east") and I was wondering whether there was a name for it.
Joyful
10mo ago
Something like readwise? Any tool that grabs pages and stores them with all of the junk stripped out might work for you.
Joyful
10mo ago
I think you mis-estimate the views of the silent majority here. Plenty of people find Trump distasteful but not evil.
Siding with massacring terrorists who started a war is wrong, no matter how many of their own children they throw in front of their armories to get blown up. "Ceasefire Now" is telling Israel to accept getting wiped off the map for the crime of being a successful western country when marxists hate them.
Joyful
10mo ago
Thanks for explaining the full thought process behind the moderation. I was confused by his comment that his comments were in moderator jail.
Joyful
11mo ago
It will be interesting to hear the real report. Either they eliminated the threat in under four seconds or it took 20.
Joyful
11mo ago
I read glassnosers comment as meaning "the drop didn't happen before the debate" not the difference between during/after.
Joyful
1yr ago
Try uninstalling the app to make it less palatable. Forcing yourself to use the normal interface on your phone will definitely slow and annoy you.
Joyful
1yr ago
Agreed. Ponder (Stibbons? great reference) what are you doing to reduce your own interactions with social media and cell phone addictions? Where are you going to get to know new people in person, to date or connect meaningfully with?
It sounds like you also have some anxiety about money. What things about wealth are really bothering you?
Joyful
1yr ago
After you have had one c-section you basically have to go that route for future pregnancies (otherwise you risk rupture of the scar tissue during labor). She's also probably a geriatric pregnancy at this point, which has its own issues.
Joyful
1yr ago
nd 2+ years studying to get the highest possible score on an exam they get to take one time so you had to be sure. Now they just try to pass. Now a lot of that exam was stuff that "doesn't really matter" (ex: biochem pathways) but the incentive shift was absolutely massive.
The article mentions that they also changed the curriculum from two years of coursework to one.
Joyful
1yr ago
This comment made me think some about how I specifically see the civilizations/countries of the world.
I probably would say 1st world (anglosphere, rich europe), 2nd world (poor europe), developing, won't develop.
For many contexts thinking of the islamic countries as a group also occurs. I'd say to me China counts as the most important developing country (although with their current problems that economic position could easily backslide for the rest of my life) and india somewhere in the middle of the developing countries. Not a "can't develop" like most of SSA but not of special note. Something like indonesia.
There is a hypothesis that vitamin c is only necessary for digesting/using carbs, and that is why inuit/carnivore diets seem to do fine without it.
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