Tarnstellung
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Tarnstellung
5d ago
What kind of "recognition" does Rowling support? Because what you're saying sounds like treating trans women as men in every respect socially, and I'm pretty sure that's what Rowling advocates. She doesn't even use people's preferred pronouns, and I don't see what that has to do with protecting (cis) women's spaces.
I guess an in-between position could be imprisoning trans people instead of calling for their extermination.
Tarnstellung
6d ago
when we have such a recent example of a Democrat-controlled federal government actively making the problem worse just a few years ago.
There was very little fiscal policy could do to reduce inflation. The COVID inflation wave was 100% central banks going crazy. Politicians got punished for it worldwide, from Biden to Boris, because voters are too stupid to understand this.
Tarnstellung
6d ago
The argument that the US pays for Europe's defence is stupid because American defence spending mostly goes towards fighting its own pointless wars. Europe would be no less safe if the US hadn't started the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and most recently Iran. Europeans wouldn't object if the US were to halve its defence spending, bringing it in line with Europe, with the savings being found in not starting pointless wars.
When Europe actually had to step up to fund Ukraine, it did. It has sent more aid to Ukraine than the US.
Tarnstellung
6d ago
Rowling isn't remotely "moderate" on trans people. She's about as far right as you can get short of calling for their extermination. For an actual moderate, look at Jesse Singal.
Tarnstellung
6d ago
NATO doesn't have fees.
Tarnstellung
6d ago
here is the intelligence that they would use it on US soil.
The intelligence would have to be fabricated because that is ludicrous. Iran seeks nukes primarily for self-defence against Israel. If the US were to simply back out of the Middle East, that would be a major boon to world stability. If Iran were to get nukes, that would be a major boon to world stability, because suddenly you'd have MAD and neither side would start a large-scale war. What does not benefit world stability is starting a large-scale war and disrupting one of the most important shipping corridors in the world.
Tarnstellung
6d ago
Evidently American voters disagree with you.
Tarnstellung
6d ago
Colorado and Washington passed propositions against trans girls participating in school sports, and Colorado additionally to ban gender surgeries for minors.
Those are both rather milquetoast "anti-trans" policies. As someone who considers himself 100% pro–trans rights, I don't care about the former (I realize this is an unusual position in my camp, but I can't bring myself to care about it in either direction, and it's a huge drain on political capital), and totally support the latter. Surgeries, unlike hormones/puberty blockers, are not time-sensitive.
Tarnstellung
2mo ago
it's hypocritical to criticise conversatives trying to get Fun Home removed from a college syllabus while also defending students' boycotting a screening of the film American Sniper
Isn't the major difference here that removing a book from a syllabus prevents others from reading it, while boycotting a film only prevents yourself from seeing it? People taking the course that covers the book are presumably doing so of their own accord.
Tarnstellung
3mo ago
Why does it matter how they arrived? They'd been there for over a century, all the deportees had been born there, it was their homeland.
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3mo ago
Why does it matter how they arrived? They'd been there for over a century, all the deportees had been born there, it was their homeland.
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3mo ago
The Chagos islands had a human population that was forcibly removed to build a military base.
Tarnstellung
3mo ago
"Better" from the perspective of how severely the crime should be punished.
Tarnstellung
3mo ago
It does mean exactly that. A subpopulation with that one individual will have a mean equal to that individual's value. A subpopulation with one individual 3 SD above the mean and one 2 SD above the mean will have a mean of 2.5 SD above the mean. And so on when adding more individuals.
This is assuming the datapoints are simple numbers. Are you aiming for some kind of more complicated causal process?
Tarnstellung
3mo ago
I don't understand. If they're all "out on the far point of the curve for the greater population", doesn't that imply they have a higher mean?
Tarnstellung
3mo ago
Lifted pickup trucks. Nobody drives off-road. Nobody. It's not a real thing people do at the scale where you would need any kind of rig to do it beyond a Subaru Outback with good tires. But I can't go anywhere without seeing trucks that have been lifted to the point where they handle like hell, at a cost of thousands of dollars.
The widely accepted theory is that it's to compensate for a small penis.
Tarnstellung
3mo ago
At least in Alameda County.
Yeah, that would do it!
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3mo ago
children regress to the mean somewhat even with highly-filtered parents
If you select a subpopulation from a population, the children of the subpopulation will regress to the mean of the subpopulation, not the entire population.
Tarnstellung
3mo ago
an Palestinian majority in Israel would turn the country into a failed state
What makes you say that? I know you're not into HBD, and Palestinians aren't a low-IQ population anyway – Palestinian Christians in Israel are more successful than Jews. If the concern is that they'd path-dependence their way into an Egypt/Algeria-type situation, presumably the preexisting institutions inherited from Israel would prevent that.
and result in a genocide
Can be prevented by an international peacekeeping force deployed to keep things in control until they stop hating each other.
Tarnstellung
3mo ago
Meanwhile, the Palestinians don't want it, because... I'm not sure if you've noticed, but the Palestinians hate the Jews.
The Palestinians' current hatred for the Jews is a product of Israel's actions for the past 80 years. In 1948, Palestinians were advocating a one-state solution, and the Zionists were opposed to it. There is no reason to believe anything bad would have happened to the Jews if the Palestinians had got their way, given that Arabs had already coexisted peacefully with Jews for over a millennium. The Zionists just wanted a Jewish state as an ideological axiom.
One of the reasons why Israeli Jews don't want a one-state solution is because they - still correctly - believe that the most likely result of that would be a lot of dead Jews.
It's doable with an international peacekeeping force to keep things in control until they stop hating each other.
Pritt, 36, is a public school teacher who represents the 50th District in Fayette County. He served as assistant majority leader prior to his arrest. (...)
The complaint said that Pritt began communicating with the girl when she was in eighth grade in 2024 through the online game Roblox then later on Snapchat. (...)
Pritt also sent sexually explicit photos of himself and requested that the girl send nude photos of herself through Snapchat. (...)
The complaint said that Pritt later initiated a physical relationship with the minor and requested that she meet him in his classroom at Oak Hill High School to engage in sexual activity at least five to ten times.
The comments on Reddit are gloatingly pointing out that Pritt is neither trans or otherwise LGBT, nor a drag queen, but a father of four married to a woman, and, of course, a Republican.
What is interesting is that Pritt was initially elected as a Democrat in 2022, switched to the Republican Party in 2023, and was re-elected in 2024 as a Republican. Someone commenting on his recent arrest on Reddit described him as "the same asshole that switched parties and platforms after getting elected", apparently not realizing that, for the Democrats, this was, in retrospect, a most beneficial move.
One thing that is unclear is that he "requested that she meet him in his classroom at Oak Hill High School to engage in sexual activity at least five to ten times". People on Reddit are reading this as saying that they met up and had sex five to ten times, but it could also be interpreted as saying that he was just pushy about meeting up, but that they didn't actually meet up. Am I being autistic with this reading or what? Not that asking an eighth-grader for sex and her refusing is any better than having sex with her.
Tarnstellung
3mo ago
Also, I find it very odd how many smart people I know don’t reread good books or rewatch good films or tv shows.
I don't have the time to read and watch all the things I'm interested in once.
Tarnstellung
4mo ago
Honestly, despite the impressive age of your account, you don't seem very adept at handling disputes. With all due respect, what were you expecting to achieve by posting on the talk page? No one is going to see your comment and get inspired to edit the article. The proper way to do this is to go in guns blazing: boldly make your edit and then explain it on talk. (I know you're aware of WP:BOLD, but I'm linking it for the benefit of any other potential readers.) Then the onus is on them to dispute it. (There was no clear preexisting consensus which you would be going against – the discussion from 2025 is ambiguous.) Instead, you got three replies, in order: one non sequitur, one agreeing with you and one disagreeing with you. Now there is no consensus either way, and you may have spoiled your chance to make the edit. You can still try, but it's going to be harder to justify now.
I speak from years of experience fighting excessive wokeness on Wikipedia. (While I acknowledge that the policy of not including the former names of people who weren't notable before transitioning may be regarded as "woke", I don't consider it excessive.) Yes, you're supposed to assume good faith, but in reality, when it comes to controversial topics like this, few people are actually editing because of a disinterested desire to spread knowledge. It's agendaposting all the way down.
You also didn't cite the guideline I quoted above, with the bolded bit, but apparently found another gender identity guideline? Not sure why there are two and they seem to disagree with each other. (There's a third one, too??? They need to get this sorted.)
The language of the guideline I quoted plainly supports keeping "Jack". I suppose you could dispute what it means to be "known under" a name, but if it's their legal name and is widely used in reliable sources, I would say they are "known under" that name. The guidelines talk about former names, but by all accounts, "Jack" was the current name at the time of reporting.
Maybe for some people gender dysphoria goes away, but for many it never does. "John 50" is a meme for a reason. I mean, the claim that it will go away eventually is unfalsifiable, but at some point you can be reasonably confident. Do you think there's some kind of fancy psychotherapy, or maybe medication of some kind, that could free more people of dysphoria, that is being slept on?
You don't need to tell me that; I arguably was one.
Define "never". Took over a decade for me.
I'm going to need you to clarify what exactly your condition was, because "phantom-limb gender dysphoria" doesn't mean anything. In any case, I can provide anecdotes of people "repping" (repressing) for over a decade until they gave in.
We are doing transitions with transition therapy as it really exists, not Culture Cycle clarketech. If transition therapy as it really exists doesn't help actual life outcomes, then it shouldn't be the standard of care (with obvious knock-on effects regarding public funding for it, regarding medical advice to dysphoria sufferers, regarding letting minors do it, and regarding family-court judgements).
It's imperfect now, but it's going to improve as technology advances, and it's only going to improve if we keep doing it. The fact that it's imperfect now and doesn't work for everyone is no reason to give up, otherwise we wouldn't have most of modern medicine.
Philosophical arguments about whether trans women are "really" women are largely separate from the question of how they should be treated, though of course there is a strong correlation between people's views on these two questions.
A "moderate" position could be that trans women aren't "really" women, but that they should be treated as if they were. A slightly less "moderate" position could be that trans women shouldn't be allowed in "women's spaces", but we should still use their preferred pronouns. And so forth. Rowling doesn't even support using people's preferred pronouns. She believes trans women should be treated exactly like men; that they should not be given any recognition whatsoever. How is this "moderate"? What would be a less "moderate" stance that still comes short of advocating trans people's extermination? Advocating their imprisonment instead, I guess?
Is there actually anything in the Quran directed at trans people specifically? Iran is fairly progressive on trans rights. I don't think that would be possible if the Quran said trans people should be thrown off buildings.
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