SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
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SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
24m ago
One big issue is the difference between the, for lack of better labels, the meaningfully transsexual transgender person, and the the "trender" transgender person.
IMO an even more problematic issue that confounds all discussions about transgenderism is that trans people are treated as one group instead of being separated into people on autism spectrum and the rest. Every "non-famous" MTF person (ie. I've run into them in real life / specific FB groups / other forums in person instead of reading about them from some source) I know of are obviously on the spectrum, many of them are deeply weird in other ways and they have stereotypical hardcore male intellectual interests (to the extent that some tech groups have multiple orders of magnitude more MTF people than actual women). Not surprisingly none seem to have shown any indication of feeling "woman trapped in a man's body" as kids / teenagers / young adults. I have a hard time believing their experience or behavior matches particularly closely to the "modal" MTF group who felt they were born into the wrong gender from young age.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
41m ago
Some root factor makes people both more likely to be non-cis AND more likely to be
non-cissexually assaulted
Am I really the only one who sees an obvious link?
It's autism. Being on the autism spectrum is massively more common among people who are trans (particularly MTF in modern world). Likewise not understanding social cues and being generally weird exposes one to all sorts of issues (and then there's the combination of autism spectrum running in families and how that may affect the previous generation or two's behavior towards future victims...).
Also this being Aella's survey, it almost certainly has a massive self selection bias for people on the spectrum so that's a huge confounding factor.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
6hr ago
plenty of shots of their analog synths if you enjoy such things.
I spot at least two Minimoogs (the main one and another under it), an Arp Odyssey and of course two of their custom made electronic drumsets. It's wild that they managed to get all those different sound fx live from just a couple of synths with absolutely no patch memory. Also there doesn't seem to be any sequencing which would have formed the backbone of any more modern performance. And the Odyssey of course goes out of tune around 6:55 (synths from that era weren't exactly known for their tuning stability particularly under hot stage lights).
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
6hr ago
My biggest regret when working for a couple of months in Germany some 20 years ago was that I never had the opportunity to listen to Autobahn while driving on the autobahn because my coworker's car stereo was broken. Particularly as I was working on directly synthesizer related tech.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
1d ago
Believe it or not, "Americans" is also a category of people you aren't allowed to just say "You're a bunch of demons" about.
I take it you’ll also be banning anyone who does the same about Europeans, right? Right? (Who am I kidding, of course you won’t)
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
2d ago
Is there any way for me to verify that I'm actually getting an honest response from an LLM, and that it's not just telegraphing back whatever I already implied when prompting it?
Why would you assume a literal text predictor to not telegraph back what you implied when prompting?
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
3d ago
TIL I live in the world’s wokest country. FML.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
4d ago
as likes and payments and praise come immediately after a sexual display or act
I’m pretty sure they come immediately during the act. At least based on a few ripped videos I’ve seen where the (literal) cash machine sounds start going wild when the action gets hot.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
4d ago
Luckily for them, AI is already freeing them from the tyranny of human providers!
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
6d ago
After that it moved firmly into The Jerry Springer Show-territory.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
7d ago
an early 2000s internet meme so old that I think it literally predated the term "internet meme"
Ahem
The term "meme" was coined in 1976. That's three decades earlier than Chuck Norris Facts which appeared in early 2005. As far as old school internet memes go, Chuck Norris Facts is almost something of a newcomer compared to eg. All Your Base Are Belong To Us which did the rounds starting from 1999.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
7d ago
But would that make it revenge porn?
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
7d ago
The plot gets plottier.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
7d ago
What the actual…
When I lost a lot of weight a decade ago and was around 188 lbs, even doctors were telling me that I had no reason to lose more weight. And I’m 5’11.
To Underpants Bomber Gnomes obviously.
For real, the Iran "plan" seems to be about as well planned as the Underpants Gnomes' plan in that episode.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
7d ago
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Bomb Iran
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???
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Profit
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
7d ago
If the answer is that we have to make massive changes to the entire structure of higher education in the US
But you don't! Don't touch high schools. Don't touch colleges.
Only change med school to admit based on entrance exam that tests qualifications for studying medicine (ie. a bunch of medicine textbooks) and having graduated high school. Nothing more. Afterall, med school admission is already an entirely separate track (due to requiring a college degree or significant studies).
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
8d ago
If your answer is "because the schools outright don't want to", then you should go and actually say it. Otherwise you're just stuck in a "We have to do it like this because this is how we do it"-loop that leads to absolutely nowhere.
I still don't see any reason that would prevent those med schools from just doing it if they wanted to. Which student is going to say "No, I'll just go and do a pointless and expensive intermediate degree instead and only then apply to what I actually want to study." Having entrance exams certainly doesn't seem to be any problem for various art schools that award university degrees, so there doesn't appear to be any fundamental limit to that.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
8d ago
Talking to you on this topic is remarkable because you seem totally convinced that everything in medicine is exempt from fundamental economic laws like supply and demand, it's impossible to change anything that touches doctors without making things worse
This is really just an example of the more general very common phenomenon where Americans (and yes, it's specifically Americans who do this) will treat their current system as an unchangeable law of nature when presented with "why don't you do X like this large group of countries?" instead of actually engaging with the question.
It's a strangely pervasive attitude that I've noticed it time and again ever since I first got internet access 30 years ago (first when it came to internet access and then mobile plans).
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
8d ago
What does that have to do with committing at 16?
Finish high school at 18-19, study medicine for 5-6 years, become a doctor like in Europe. This discussion is afterall about eliminating the pointless separate undergrad degree that artificially lenghtens that time in US.
Over here the entry to study medicine is based on the nation wide matriculation exam and an entrance exam. The only time off is a couple of months in the spring of last year of high school to study for those exams (where the matriculation study is more or less considered part of the high school itself). In the good old days (ie. until around a decade ago), this would apply to most university level subjects. The only time "off" for studying for the entrance exams is around a month and half, certainly not an entire year (unless you are a middling student with delusions of higher performance or just too lazy to study that year in which case you probably won't get in after a gap year either).
Up until the winter of final year the only preparation you have to ensure is to take enough math courses (because math applies for anything remotely STEM-like) and whatever other subjects that give points for entrance (or are relevant in the exam). Thus the only extras you'd need to go from "pure engineering route" (ie. max math, physics & chemistry) to medicine would be a handful of extra biology courses, a fairly trivial undertaking for anyone actually capable of thriving in med school and something you'd probably do out of interest anyway if you were such person.
I don't see any reason why med school in the US couldn't use a similar combination of SAT scores and a dedicated entrance exam if they wanted to. Move the exam date slightly later, have the high school graduation in May and there's really nothing that would prevent a similar entrance exam based system.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
8d ago
When even the guy responsible for organizing SS genocidal tactics and supressing the Warsaw uprising thinks the guy is too far gone, that's really saying something:
"Guderian was supported by SS-Obergruppenführer Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, the overall commander of the forces pacifying Warsaw (and Dirlewanger's own former superior officer in Belarus)"
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
8d ago
Why would someone need to commit to being a doctor at the age of 16 instead of at the end of / after high school?
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
8d ago
Hence the (largely rhetorical) question. Imagine that Futurama meme on top.
Very much so, as I just wrote in another comment.
A cishet couple I know have a fancy multimonitor remote work setup and a large My Little Pony collection in their respective studies which I find funny for fitting stereotypes about men vs women so well. No points for guessing which room is closer to every MtF person I've ever known IRL or online (hint: it's not the one with the MLP collection).
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