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At least in large cities, lots of (mostly young) people are already fully on board with a largely car-free future. It's increasingly common to dream of not owning a car at all, instead of having a dream car. All of my…
Wealthy landowners are not a marginalized group
No. Communists are not nazis. Communists do not advocate for the extermination of any marginalized group. I made it very clear that the opinion being expressed matters here, so I'm not sure why you'd think this is…
So you suggest that everyone can express any opinion, no matter how inflammatory, without any repercussions? To be honest I find an absolute stance on that ridiculous. The questions I would ask are: - what kinds of…
Ah yes. A famous best-selling author featured in the BBC is completely censored and her career is wrecked because... she got some angry tweets? What are you talking about?
Do you have a source on that?
If someone is convinced that black people are inferior to white people, I want them to be afraid to express that. I don't care about hearing evidence on certain subjects, and I want there to be societal repercussions…
> > Not every thought that goes through a person's mind the need be put out into the open immediately. > > Straw man. Doesn't sound like a straw man to me. What is self-censorship if not thinking through what you want…
No it does not. Just another generic "person with huge public reach complains about being criticized for their bigotry" article from the BBC. Somehow these people never see the irony about articles like this being in…
They are: https://mycroft.ai/blog/hey-mycroft-listen-to-me/ Although it hasn't gotten better from my perspective. But until I searched for this, I was totally unaware they've provided an easy way to train your own model…
This is actually how Mycroft handles it, more or less. The wakeword ("hey Mycroft") is done on-device, but everything you say after that is sent to a speech-to-text API. That text is then routed to the appropriate skill…
Yes. It reliably responds to the wakeword ("hey Mycroft") from men, and only responds about 50% of the time to women. When my sister visits, it almost never responded to her for example. And in my personal experience, I…
Depends on what it's used for imo. I've got the same setup and--apart from some sexism in the voice recognition--the basics work flawlessly. Once it's up and running it's trivial to set timers, check the weather, do…
I make an above median software dev salary, I definitely spend time considering $100 vs $0. Also, I now live in a country where I don't pay for most healthcare, so the default is free, which means when I encounter…
This paper casts doubt on the current evidence for "completely reversible" as well as their efficacy without really providing evidence of the opposite. I would invite you to read further studies showing that puberty…
Also this is a source from 2021 estimating the regret rate for gender affirming surgery is ~1% https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8099405/ From 2021 (more recent than 2018 as your #4 source) and not paywalled
From number 3: > increased time since last gender-affirming surgery was associated with reduced mental health treatment (adjusted odds ratio=0.92, 95% CI=0.87, 0.98). > In this first total population study of…
Are you trying to say that people under 18 should never receive any surgery because they can't consent? This comment chain is about gender affirming surgeries and _doctors_, not DIY HRT so I won't respond to that
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At least in large cities, lots of (mostly young) people are already fully on board with a largely car-free future. It's increasingly common to dream of not owning a car at all, instead of having a dream car. All of my…
Wealthy landowners are not a marginalized group
No. Communists are not nazis. Communists do not advocate for the extermination of any marginalized group. I made it very clear that the opinion being expressed matters here, so I'm not sure why you'd think this is…
So you suggest that everyone can express any opinion, no matter how inflammatory, without any repercussions? To be honest I find an absolute stance on that ridiculous. The questions I would ask are: - what kinds of…
Ah yes. A famous best-selling author featured in the BBC is completely censored and her career is wrecked because... she got some angry tweets? What are you talking about?
Do you have a source on that?
If someone is convinced that black people are inferior to white people, I want them to be afraid to express that. I don't care about hearing evidence on certain subjects, and I want there to be societal repercussions…
> > Not every thought that goes through a person's mind the need be put out into the open immediately. > > Straw man. Doesn't sound like a straw man to me. What is self-censorship if not thinking through what you want…
No it does not. Just another generic "person with huge public reach complains about being criticized for their bigotry" article from the BBC. Somehow these people never see the irony about articles like this being in…
They are: https://mycroft.ai/blog/hey-mycroft-listen-to-me/ Although it hasn't gotten better from my perspective. But until I searched for this, I was totally unaware they've provided an easy way to train your own model…
This is actually how Mycroft handles it, more or less. The wakeword ("hey Mycroft") is done on-device, but everything you say after that is sent to a speech-to-text API. That text is then routed to the appropriate skill…
Yes. It reliably responds to the wakeword ("hey Mycroft") from men, and only responds about 50% of the time to women. When my sister visits, it almost never responded to her for example. And in my personal experience, I…
Depends on what it's used for imo. I've got the same setup and--apart from some sexism in the voice recognition--the basics work flawlessly. Once it's up and running it's trivial to set timers, check the weather, do…
I make an above median software dev salary, I definitely spend time considering $100 vs $0. Also, I now live in a country where I don't pay for most healthcare, so the default is free, which means when I encounter…
This paper casts doubt on the current evidence for "completely reversible" as well as their efficacy without really providing evidence of the opposite. I would invite you to read further studies showing that puberty…
Also this is a source from 2021 estimating the regret rate for gender affirming surgery is ~1% https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8099405/ From 2021 (more recent than 2018 as your #4 source) and not paywalled
From number 3: > increased time since last gender-affirming surgery was associated with reduced mental health treatment (adjusted odds ratio=0.92, 95% CI=0.87, 0.98). > In this first total population study of…
Are you trying to say that people under 18 should never receive any surgery because they can't consent? This comment chain is about gender affirming surgeries and _doctors_, not DIY HRT so I won't respond to that