Andrew Flanders

> it isn't just one man. It's one man and all his willing ass-kissers.

isn't that always the case?

Elon can buy twitter, but he can't make people use it

Are there rich people in Nebraska? Maybe a few, but once you were to drain their accounts, you'd be back where you started.

missing ankle chains

> They really should remove the recline feature.

it warms my heart to know this will never happen

I think autism can coincide with a lack of empathy, singular focus, a poor work life balance, and awkward physicality. but fundamentally he's just a maniac.

is racism the only possible reason why there can be different health outcomes among social groups? is there really no other conceivable possibility?

If they suspend elections or interfere with Federal resources in 2026, I'd say so. What this looks like to me is what one should expect from having all three branches of the government controlled by a party that dislikes government in general.

r/seattle is very left, r/seattlewa is right leaning

I'm ready for a Dem to run on a platform of sucking all of the oxygen out of red states, and nothing more.

That's not intuition anymore, that would be ordinary knowledge.

The terms I used are also correct. I'm concerned that this bothers you so much.

I can't see the post you responded to, what research paper are you coming out against?

playing sports is hard work, mentally and physicaly. for a person not to give it their all is not a great ask. if a trans person is worried about the optics of dominating in a sport, that could motivate them to put in less than 100%. they might value the social aspect more than winning.

intuition and vibes are pretty much the same thing

it sounds a bit like "sissy", from a stylistic perspective I'm just not very fond of it

The truth is that there might not be so many of them that it's that hard to believe. still a very small sample size in general. you can't come up with a strong hypothesis about why it is the way it is, but you accept a particular interpretation of the data wholeheartedly.

Natal men also tend to have greater lung capacity, larger bones, stronger cardio and tendons, and larger hands and gripping strength. HRT would not diminish many advantages, so it is suprising that you would observe no advantage. It's fair to wonder if they restrain themselves, for sportsmanship.

It's not "very intuitive" that's for sure.

Pre or post puberty HRT makes a big difference, as well as the duration of time they have been on HRT.

It's not intuitive that HRT would entirely change a person's physical ability to resemble the opposite sex, when they had physically grown up as one gender or the other. That would be like magic.

In general I think it's a lot less problematic to compared trans and natal genders when the trans person has undergone HRT, and there are specific descriptions of that, as compared to trans people who have not undergone any HRT.

The Air Force study is not quite as you described, the trans men didn't out perform natal men, except for sit-ups, after HRT. The trans women still slightly out performed natal women after HRT. Still surprising to me, but also different from how you characterized it.

I was thinking Republicans would do it, but President Musk would be very against it. Now we see how fiscal conservatism worms is way back into a populist Republican party. Reagan is looking up from hell with a twinkle in his eye.

Thanks, but after having read it, I think to say trans women are at a disadvantage is probably too sweeping of a statement based on what little data the study provided. I was hoping there was something suggesting a causal factor, but the study wasn't intended to provide that info.

I think there should be ISO standards / overreaching laws for just about everything that is sized slightly different for the sole purpose of

1) making you buy a new one when it wears out

2) locking you into a brand

Primary offender is storage containers.

Solve your problems by solving your problems.

> There was a study that a trans friend of mine shared today that showed trans women athletes are actually at a disadvantage

Can you point me to that? I'm interested in seeing the specifics. Seems counter intuitive.

I wonder what the fallout will be. I'd assume higher operating costs overall, higher prices, a dining scene that is increasingly upscale oriented, leading to a further feeling of class division inside and outside of city limits.

It's fun to see game theory play out like this.

a model is just a tool to help understand reality, and his prediction rate is still far above 50%.