juletide

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by juletide 3y ago
> hence the self-centeredness of thinking one is entitled to having children, resorting to all sorts of immoral technologies to have them Huh? I'm confused how you reconcile this (seeming) attack on fertility treatment with the pro-
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by juletide 3y ago
In what ways do you think it is wrong?
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by juletide 4y ago
> To my mind, though, it’s important not to minimize the gravity of the fateful decision by conflating it with everything that preceded it. I confess to taking this sort of conflation extremely personally. For eight years now, the rap ag
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by juletide 5y ago
"In recent months, Russia has once again been in the headlines for all the wrong reasons, with the US and Western media loudly proclaiming (since November) that Russia is planning an imminent invasion of the Ukraine, though Russia has
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by juletide 5y ago
My statement wasn't "things that disproportionally affect people based on sex"; it was specifically "policies [that] have outcomes that disproportionately burden women." This is a pretty common conception of the te
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by juletide 5y ago
It is not women vs men. However, anti-choice policies do have outcomes that disproportionately burden women, which is another way of saying such policies are misogynistic, which is... sexism. You can argue sexism only counts as such if th
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by juletide 5y ago
I think it's useful to consider that many women may not be comfortable naming or formally accusing her rapist (for reasons that include, way more often than you'd think, that a family member is her rapist and she still lives at
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by juletide 5y ago
(1) Women are perfectly capable of supporting policies that have materially misogynistic outcomes. I agree some of the mainstream rhetoric doesn't emphasize this in the interest of pithiness and such, but this strikes me as an odd comp
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by juletide 6y ago
...but people aren't allergic to other humans? I don't understand the point of this hypothetical that does not occur in reality?
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by juletide 6y ago
fyi, "cis" generally means "your gender identity = the gender you were assigned at birth", as opposed to being trans. it's possible to be gay + trans, or gay + cis, etc, but being gay doesn't describe anything
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by juletide 6y ago
Why exactly were you arguing so vociferously when all this information was available just one click away , at the link the other user provided? This kind of comment (being unwilling to do even the most basic research before pontificating o
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by juletide 7y ago
Natural selection is not the only force that shapes evolution. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Evolution_of_Beauty ...tends to imply that beauty standards can, in fact, be quite tightly bound to a culture.
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by juletide 7y ago
On a related note, there's an app that will identify bird species based on photos that you upload ( http://merlin.allaboutbirds.org/photo-id/ ), and it's powered by "Visipedia", a collaboration betwee
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by juletide 7y ago
Actually, recent research indicates that these two species began differentiating themselves a long time ago, but their lineages have since converged: they now interbreed freely and there's no reliable way to tell the two species apar
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by juletide 11y ago
Okay. The phrase is in pretty wide use with more casual implications (googling “be respectful of your reader’s time” brings up a lot of marketing email advice pages, for instance), but obviously it's not in as wide of use as I’d thoug
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by juletide 11y ago
I’m not quite sure how sharing an anecdote about how I, personally, found it difficult to find information in a particular email conveys a “sense of entitlement”—perhaps my phrasing didn’t come across well? The “respectful of my time” thin
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by juletide 11y ago
Counter-anecdote: I got the email, was excited to see that Starfighter was launching soon... but was annoyed that I couldn't quickly skim the rest of the email to get the "tl;dr" version (the basics of what the challenge will
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by juletide 11y ago
"The guy has an MD from Duke; I doubt he is as religious as he seems" I don't understand what you're saying here—are you implying that MDs are somehow unlikely to be religious?
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by juletide 12y ago
While I understand where the skepticism comes from, I think it's overly pessimistic to think nothing's changed since your time in the government, or that Recordon won't be able to enact positive change. I've been really
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by juletide 12y ago
Would you mind explaining why that bothers you? It seems innocuous to me.
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by juletide 12y ago
Hilarious. I kind of dig how the "shitty ideas" aspect of it liberates folks to work on dumb-yet-amusing stuff.
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by juletide 13y ago
You could make the gap between those note groups wider and it would become impossible. Even then, it is impossible to play for some—my piano teacher had rather small hands and had to "cheat" by dropping out notes if she was goi
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by juletide 13y ago
Physical property rights and intellectual property rights are different things. Expressing the value of allowing intellectual property rights to expire does not require arguing that physical property rights ought to expire.
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by juletide 13y ago
Tumblr seems to have toyed with this idea a bit in their paid/premium themes section: http://www.tumblr.com/themes/tagged/premium
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by juletide 14y ago
for clarification: I'm fairly certain this piece is meant to be a satire of lifehacker/self-improvement/etc-ish block posts...
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How I Stopped Eating Food(robrhinehart.com)
70 points by juletide 14y ago|43 comments
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by juletide 14y ago
Hi, I hope this isn't too random, but your comment made me smile—please keep doing what you're doing. I was raised by a medical doctor father and a "geeky" older brother—dad was always sharing cool science things with me, and my brother go