GreyEyedGhost

Why are you surprised that the really expensive item isn't used for utility purposes? Why do you think its use wouldn't change if it was cheap?

Before aluminum was cheap to refine, it was used for cutlery and other displays of opulence. After it became cheaper, we used it everywhere.

Gold has plenty of uses, besides being shiny and easy to work with. Imagine if all your electronics used gold traces because they were so cheap. Imagine if the windows of your car were coated in gold like on an airplane so you could easily defrost them in the winter rather than blowing air at it in the front and potentially distracting lines in the back. Imagine if gold was the filling of choice since it has a similar expansion rate to teeth. Gold has a number of applications in space. Ever wonder why the JWST is that color?

There are plenty of things gold would be excellent for if it wasn't so expensive.

And to that, I'll reiterate my second paragraph previously.

There are certainly issues with sport categories that are designed to be for something other than the elite in their field, but I don't expect nuance from the same groups that banned a boxer because she wasn't sufficiently attractive.

So this test probably won't catch someone who is XY, but missing the SRY gene. I'm not sure if it will detect a mutated SRY gene, and I don't pretend to be an expert. I also can't be sure if thos test will catch someone who is XX with an SRY gene, which is also a thing, nor if it will catch XX/XY mosaicism. And those are the easy ones.

The fact of the matter is, internationally competitive athletes are a group of 0.1% or less, and people with abnormal sex genes, let alone abnormal genes in general, fall into the 0.5% to 1% category. What do you think the overlap is in two groups of outliers?

Edit: Extra reading. Note the 24 genetic variations (that we know of) that count as intersex.

Sure, but do you think that's the test they're doing? Are they testing for the various SRY mutations? Multiple X chromosomes? Multiple Y? Genes that impact hormone regulation?

There are certainly issues with sport categories that are designed to be for something other than the elite in their field, but I don't expect nuance from the same groups that banned a boxer because she wasn't sufficiently attractive.

I don't, but I can provide an article with the infographic included.

Because numerous people around the world have been using cutting edge research for decades to study these things, observing their effects in actual people, means that I honestly don't give a fuck if you "buy the idea". Your feelings, opinions, and armchair assessments on this topic are worthless.

Pearls in pig slop, I know. They reference another article, give the asteroid name, give a list of expected metals to be found, and wrap it in a lovely Fox News bow of some pundit giving his idea of what that all means for the rest of us. As journalism goes, it's top tier for Fox.

Just because the words are too big for you to understand doesn't mean what they're describing isn't real.

I think "enough gold to completely destroy the gold industry (as a precious metal)" is close enough to "made of gold" for me.