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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…
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
It is hard to find good numbers on detrans minors, simply because there are so few minors who transition in the first place. But here's one study showing that the regret rate for gender affirming surgery in general is…
Except that people undergoing these surgeries do so willingly, face massive barriers to ensure they are thinking clearly and understand the consequences, show minimal regret rates, often have to undergo extensive…
It's seemed pretty obvious to me that the military's recruitment issues are just because young people morally object to it. I (25) grew up in the shadow of 9/11, seeing the US invade other countries on false premises…
I normally agree that western athiests over-focus on rejecting a monotheistic abrahamic god, but how do you see this particular article being different if the author had a more global worldview? For instance the analogy…
I work on the Platform team at my company, and so we do a lot of internal tech support. It's a daily struggle to get people to ask good questions, provide details, provide links when possible, etc... Sometimes it's…
Could you elaborate about your experience more? I'm looking for a new laptop in the next few months and I'm basically debating between the Librem 14 and Framework. My criteria would be - Repairability/longevity -…
So how do we decide what to study, and who funds what studies? How will the results be communicated to people who lack scientific literacy? What will we do with the results and how will they be published? With or…
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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…
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
It is hard to find good numbers on detrans minors, simply because there are so few minors who transition in the first place. But here's one study showing that the regret rate for gender affirming surgery in general is…
Except that people undergoing these surgeries do so willingly, face massive barriers to ensure they are thinking clearly and understand the consequences, show minimal regret rates, often have to undergo extensive…
It's seemed pretty obvious to me that the military's recruitment issues are just because young people morally object to it. I (25) grew up in the shadow of 9/11, seeing the US invade other countries on false premises…
I normally agree that western athiests over-focus on rejecting a monotheistic abrahamic god, but how do you see this particular article being different if the author had a more global worldview? For instance the analogy…
I work on the Platform team at my company, and so we do a lot of internal tech support. It's a daily struggle to get people to ask good questions, provide details, provide links when possible, etc... Sometimes it's…
Could you elaborate about your experience more? I'm looking for a new laptop in the next few months and I'm basically debating between the Librem 14 and Framework. My criteria would be - Repairability/longevity -…
So how do we decide what to study, and who funds what studies? How will the results be communicated to people who lack scientific literacy? What will we do with the results and how will they be published? With or…