wizardbeard

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[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (7 children)

"Biological male" is a meaningless term

I hate being that guy, but that's false on a number of levels. If it was meaningless, hormone treatments and puberty blockers wouldn't be something ever needed as part of treatment for dysphoria or transistioning.

There's different bone structure signs often used in identification of cadavers and fossils. Different natural hormonal balances effect body growth and muscle development. They effect health risk factors and medical treatment in emergencies. Medical professionals don't ask about biological sex just because they want to trigger someone's dysphoria, they ask because it has measurable effects on treatment options.

There are measurable, quantifiable differences that can't be hand waved away by the idea that someone is merely assigned a gender at birth. To claim otherwise is to claim that people requiring medical intervention for their dysphoria are faking or overemphasizing the necessity for them, and that simply changing their clothes should be enough. Biological sex is something that unfortunately exists outside of the purely social contstructs around gender and gender presentation.


I don't have a solution in regards to the sports competition thing, and I hate with every fiber of my being that this shit has become a rallying cry for transphobes, but ignoring facts about the biological reality of sexual dipmorphism is denying that people can even have a mismatch between their biological sex and gender.

I understand the feeling that it doesn't matter in nearly every situation in life, but when it comes to medicine and body development, if biological sex didn't exist or matter than how could anyone need anything more than declaring their pronouns and changing how they dress?

It's possible to go too far and end up in a place that deny the realities that cause dysphoria in the first place, and you're there.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 11 months ago

I think I get what you mean. It simply doesn't control well outside of deadeye mode where you stop time and effectively pick your shots out in first person with a laser pointer.

It's classic GTA lackluster gunplay. Point your character in the general direction of the enemy, then spam the fire button until the bad guy falls down.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 11 months ago (3 children)

There's a lot of historical reasons why we can't just snap our fingers and magically eliminate gun posession in the US, plus an incredibly small population of people living out in the wilder spaces of the US who have legitimate need for them in terms of protection of themselves and farm animals from wildlife.

The main issue though is that the cat has been out of the bag for so long, there's not really any way to claw guns back from the public's hands without costly military intervention on our own soil, which is political suicide.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 11 months ago

Some real tyler the creator energy

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Camera makes some amount of sense. Can be used to keep it from running over wires, or getting caught up in something like a loose curtain. Stuff that would be difficult to handle with non-visual sensors.

Microphone? Oh hell no. No purpose.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 11 months ago

Was a Lab Assistant for the first Programming class for a Comp Sci degree, back in the very early 2010's. Helping some of the students get set up with the IDE was... special.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 11 months ago

Beyond all the other great suggestions, you can use the games browser on co-optimus to help narrow things down.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Pretty sure The Stanley Parable has some achievements like that. Like don't play the game for 5 years then open it again or something.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 11 months ago

Flash carts are available for every major cartridge based console and handheld at this point, and for a good amount of the non-major ones as well.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

How did you not know about the "Windows 7 mode" in 8 by the time of release? Wasn't that sorted out in the preview builds?

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 11 months ago

I can't imagine any member of that team actually having dealt with elderly in cognitive decline. Maybe if they had and they're also a sociopath?

You can't treat people as a basic series of inputs and outputs, put simulated social interactions in get health and happiness.

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