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God Father of AI Wins Physics Nobel Prize AlphaFold Wins Chemistry Nobel Prize Not only are AI jobs commanding the highest salaries, now they are taking all the science prestige. Start working on your differential vector calculus now or you'll be eating cat food while the rich that do use robots to hunt you for sport.

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Where was any of this mentioned in this thread?

Growing up prior to 2010 I knew 3 trans people, one in college and 2 skydivers (if you discount drag shows I was in attendance). Current Google numbers state something like a fraction of 1% identify as transgender. IIRC in the past it was something like 1 in 30,0000. At any rate it's probably between 1 in 100 and 1 in 30,000. That is way way lower than 1 in 5 you see in some younger populations. My argument was the current trans movement is trying to protect 1 in 100 at best at the expense of the 1 in 5.

In the example above I noted lots of classes of trans people. One of the many I noted were perverts. These are trans only for the opportunity of invading women's spaces. I allowed many other types of trans for a variety of reasons.

Why would I relate more with this example?

If you want a 6'2" 230 lbs dude in the women's room I can see why you're so defensive. It's typically used in that context.

Sure and then we grow babies in a lab? The point was utilitarian. You have 1 legitimate non-malevolent trans person for every 300 kids doing it to be fashionable. If there were 1 nice cisgendered male for every 300 rapists, then yeah it would be the same.

It is different because everyone puts it under a single umbrella and you get labeled a bigot for pointing it out.

A particularly unattractive trans that doesn't pass as their identified gender.

If they pass as cis yes, if they are a troon no. There are trans people that fall into that group.

I was talking totally about trans only. Under the tra s umbrella there are at least two groups susceptible to social pressure. One a homosexual who would rather change genders than endure social pressure as well as, girls identifying as boys to get attention. I was stating encouraging trans and being accepting at the broad level may be at the expense of those two groups since they seem to be in much larger numbers than legitimate trans. In addition, there are malevolent groups within the umbrella that should also not be encouraged.

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Because you live in a society. Your actions are observed and interpreted by others.

Put another way, you are treating the civil rights of several groups as if they are the same and assuming there is some linear movement in terms of rights of these groups. It's not clear to me that's a fair comparison or correct Just looking at trans as an umbrella there are dozens of different groups. There are several studies that show a teenage girl that would have had anorexia in 2010 is now identifying as a boy. There are also legitimate homosexuals that will grow out of their gender associations. There are the perverts, men identifying as women to gain access to women's spaces. Finally, there are legitimate conditions like Androgen insensitivity, various chromosome abnormalities, and gender dysphoria. I'm not clear any of them deserve extra or equal treatment or should be encouraged. I have a friend with a 13 year old daughter. Five of her classmates in a class of 25 came out as trans. That looks like something in the environment is encouraging it and not something that's equivalent to what African Americans experienced in the sixties.

You are thinking past the sale. Those movements had long fought battles. Despite your assumptions we live in Whig history there is no reason we couldn't start following the Taliban and throwing people off roofs.

I thought it was notable a magazine like the Atlantic would publish anything like this. Two years ago you'd never see an article in the corporate press mentioning Europe has backed off puberty blockers, or any such dissenting opinion.

LOL. Every corporate job, practically every ad campaign has woke stuff now. Though it has backed off a touch from 2020 highs. Avoiding it is still impossible.

The Atlantic is far-right?

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/08/glaad-hrc-gay-rights-movement-obsolescence/679402/ As gay people have become more fully integrated into the mainstream of American life, prominent activist groups have excelled at perpetuating themselves. The Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s leading LGBTQ advocacy organization, issues a highly publicized Corporate Equality Index and, like GLAAD, accepts donations from the businesses it scrutinizes. It and other groups constantly gin up publicity on the faulty premise that life in the United States keeps getting worse for LGBTQ people. Last year, HRC declared, for the first time in its more than four-decade history, a “national state of emergency for LGBTQ+ Americans”—an absurd pronouncement that diminishes not only the suffering of the thousands of gay men lost to AIDS but also the terrible treatment endured by LGBTQ people in the 64 countries where homosexuality is illegal and in some cases punishable by death. Flailing about for relevance since the legalization of same-sex marriage, many gay-rights groups pivoted to a related but fundamentally different cause: transgender rights. Rather than emulate the movement’s past approach—seeking allies across the political spectrum and accepting compromise as a precondition for legal and social progress—they have taken hard-line left-wing positions. LGBTQ groups repeat the mantra “the science is settled” on the extremely complex and fraught subject of youth gender medicine and insist that anyone who questions the provision of puberty blockers to gender-dysphoric children is transphobic. They continue to spread this message even as many European countries have backed away from such treatments after concluding that the evidence supporting them is weak. The reflexive promotion of major medical interventions for minors should be a red flag for gay men and lesbians, considering the research indicating that many gender-distressed and gender-nonconforming children grow up to be gay.

> The 5 largest ethnic groups in Perry County, AL are Black or African American (Non-Hispanic) (70.1%), White (Non-Hispanic) (28.4%), > Green County 80% African American > Claiborne 87% African American Would keep going but looks like the trend would continue in the top 10.

> MLK states, "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." One of the departures from this lovely quote, which explains wokeness post 2018 is that you can't judge by the content of character anymore. If someone is shitting in the street or using heroin in a kids playground, then you just don't know their trauma. Have some empathy! If stores are getting looted, you just don't know what adversity minority communities have faced. If naked men are blowing each other at Folsom Street parade or SF pride, that's just their culture. Stop being a bigot. Cultural standards need not apply equally. In addition, intersectionality which you kind of touched on above. It's not enough to be an ally of African Americans or gays. Now you need to consider the situation of trans Puerto Ricans raised by foster parents. Thousands of classes of things to worry about. Opportunity cost is real. If you have $100,000 to spend on racial justice, now you have to distribute it to every class. Each one gets $1 instead of one or two issues getting significant funding and attention. Sure be nice to the trans skydiver and understand them, but there is a practical matter when you start to apply policy at a global level to make sure all groups have equal representation. Another hallmark of woke is the focus on things like women's representation in video games. Instead of funding more women in science they concern themselves with how a video game character is clothed. https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/looting-chicago-after-george-floyd-s-death-ruined-our-store-ncna1231806

You put the bay leaf in the tomato sauce first for long summer with garlic. After you sear your ground venison harvested with the above suppressors you add a small half bay leaf at the end for layered depth of flavor.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-very-fine-people/ > Despite Trump's explicit condemnation of neo-Nazis and white nationalists, the majority of far-right leaders and groups received the speech positively.

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