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by houstonn 3y ago
Free speech
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by houstonn 3y ago
Sad to hear that a country is anti-science. As Richard Dawkins recently clarified, "As a biologist, there are 2 sexes. And that's all there is to it." It's binary and there is no exception. People that claim otherwise ar
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by houstonn 3y ago
A censor convinced you that you were wrong. You weren't necessarily wrong at all. You may have been correct the first time. And what is correct when it comes to art? Who is this person to tell you, the artist, that your art is wrong? B
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by houstonn 4y ago
> In modern times, what makes authoritarian rule difficult and unstable is the western nations' neo-colonial ruling class (most on HN) who are hell bent on exporting their superior democratic ways. The attempted colonization of the
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by houstonn 4y ago
From Coinbase's post: For anyone who understands how NFTs and blockchains work, this is clearly not possible. Apple’s proprietary In-App Purchase system does not support crypto so we couldn’t comply even if we tried. This is akin to Ap
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by houstonn 4y ago
That's a category error. Developmental sex disorders (DSDs) are variations of anatomy, not variations of sex. The existence of intersex people does not change the fact that sex is binary. Sex is defined by gametes. Intermediate gametes
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by houstonn 4y ago
How will this stack up compared to the Year 2000 bug? Better? Worse?
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by houstonn 4y ago
It's not even accommodation to small minorities, it's accommodation to an ideology. Activists push this conflation to make it appear about minorities and not their ideology. They present it as though minorities all have the same o
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by houstonn 4y ago
0.018% https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12476264/
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by houstonn 4y ago
That argument is a fundamental misunderstanding about the nature of biological sex, which is connected to the distinct type of gametes (sex cells) that an organism produces. As a broad concept, males are the sex that produce small gametes (
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by houstonn 4y ago
Biology is crystal clear on this. There are 2 sexes, one with small mobile gametes and the other with large, immobile ones. It's binary.
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by houstonn 4y ago
President Biden on Nord Stream 2 Pipeline if Russia Invades Ukraine: "We will bring an end to it." When asked how he will do that. "We will, uh, I promise you we will be able to do it". https://www.youtube.com
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by houstonn 4y ago
34% of white Americans who applied to colleges or universities admit to lying about being a racial minority on their application 48% of people who lied claimed to be Native American 3/4 of people who faked being a racial minority on th
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by houstonn 4y ago
"This was funded by a group started by three rich Americans who became concerned about climate change after their houses in Malibu were threatened by wildfires in 2018. I'm not making this up. Two are heirs (a Getty and a Kennedy)
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by houstonn 4y ago
What are the lies that we know to be lies?
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by houstonn 4y ago
Given the incentives, it's an obvious outcome. This occurs in the United States as well. 34% of white Americans who applied to colleges or universities admit to lying about being a racial minority on their application 48% of people who
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by houstonn 4y ago
It is typical. Here is a recent illustration of one from a blue check that attracted a lot of attention but was not removed. https://twitter.com/TalbertSwan/status/1581103527585120257
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by houstonn 4y ago
It's more of a story of a famous artist who thinks for himself and has been marginalized for years as a result. Every time he says something that deviates from the accepted narrative, he is attacked and dismissed as "crazy",
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by houstonn 4y ago
It is interesting how stimulus checks and PPP aren't treated the same way. However, debt forgiveness is not the same. The government did not compel students into debt. They did compel businesses to close and people to lose their income
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by houstonn 4y ago
People are so used to watching billions of dollars go missing or wasted that it has become background noise.
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by houstonn 4y ago
Only a small portion of that massive omnibus law, and every massive omnibus bill, is needed. The remainder is made up of special interest lobbying and donor class favors.
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by houstonn 4y ago
To demonstrate your case, consider what Yellen said earlier this week on Tuesday, October 11th: "I'm not seeing anything in the markets that causes me to be concerned." The next day, October 12th: "I'm concerned abo
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by houstonn 4y ago
What % of recipients was that?
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by houstonn 4y ago
Hypergamy is nonsense? I think you're confusing an opinion or desired reality with data and observed reality. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypergamy
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by houstonn 4y ago
More Orwellian still, they edited articles that contained data inconvenient to the politically correct narrative and elite ideology. Edit: Here's an example. “I’m bisexual.” REALITY: 80% of self-identified bisexuals are only interested
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by houstonn 4y ago
When people run out of real problems they create fake ones.
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by houstonn 4y ago
No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame.
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by houstonn 4y ago
Satoshi's largest error was not making Bitcoin private by default and it strikes me as out of character given his/her level of commitment to being anonymous.
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by houstonn 4y ago
Not along a particular channel, but right to hear is an important principle. As Frederick Douglass, a former slave and writer, wisely stated, “To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the right of the hearer as well as those o
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by houstonn 4y ago
Of all the example images Verge could have chosen for this article, why did they choose the one they chose? Apologies if this is too OT.

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