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Feel free to AMA about picking a pet/reptiles in general, I have a lot of recommendations for that!

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  • Did you choose to eat meat?

    Yes.

    What’s your logic?

    There is none, I wholly accept that it is entirely illogical and unethical. I am addicted to the flavor. If I could have the flavors and textures without the killing i would switch in a heartbeat, however.

    Which animals?

    Any so long as it is delicious. Even human as long as the human wanted it and was not killed for the meat.

    Would you eat dog?

    Yes. It’s no different than pig in my eyes.

    These questions probably don’t work on me because I was raised in a vegan/vegetarian restaurant as a child.





  • I don’t care what discovery magazine says. It’s wrong.

    On what basis? Is that a fact or your opinion?

    Here’s the original source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1087184599911295?via=ihub

    This is my field of expertise.

    Herpetology is my field, do you specifically study reproduction?

    Intersex is not another sex category as much as your want it to be.

    Why not? I don’t want it to be, it just seems to be as a matter of fact, by your definition, they produce two gametes, that makes them a third option no?

    It’s a defect. Plain and simple.

    You couldn’t explain why it’s a defect. This is just your opinion. You gave an example of a defect with sterility, but intersex people are not necessarily sterile. How do you make intersex a defect as a matter of fact, rather than your opinion?

    There are only two sexes in human biology. This isn’t a debate.

    Except for the thing you call a defect based entirely (it seems) on your opinion. It can really go either way, you just want it to go a certain way because you have feelings involved in it. I don’t, that’s why I can be objective and say, this isn’t necessarily a defect and can count.

    This isn’t a debate. This is how it’s taught and it’s taught this way for a reason.

    Except it isn’t taught that way at higher levels, because things are often more complex than they are at the simple levels, for the same reason species is taught as things that can’t interbreed at the lower levels.

    Do you know the definition of a species? You don’t seem to know the difference between fact and opinion.





  • Sex is binary. It’s taught in biology in binary.

    Yes, except for hermaphrodytes and when you get more into the weeds it kinda breaks down… like a lot of basic concepts in biology.

    Species are taught as things that cannot interbreed, but you also will realize that falls apart along close analysis.

    Trust science.

    No. Science is all about skepticism, you don’t have to trust science, that’s the whole point! You make reproducible, repeatable predictions precisely so that you do not have to trust science. Science is not a faith.

    Sex is a classification for reproduction and not feelings.

    You’re the one that seems to have feelings blocking your ability to process this.

    Sex is a classification that needs improvement to accurately describe the totality of reproduction. Large/small gametes is not a perfect definition that describes the totality of things very well.

    Here’s an example: https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/why-this-fungus-has-over-20-000-sexes

    Also, definitions are not made through science, in fact, definitions are just used by scientists to do science. A scientist has defined many things, but they didn’t define them through reproducible repeatable experiments, they just went with what they felt was best. You’re protecting a definition for no real reason, you’re not defending science.


  • Communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyztoMemes@lemmy.mlStop dividing the left!
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    That isn’t good evidence, we don’t have a large sample size and the culture can vary highly depending on the conditions at the start.

    One country, even 10 countries, would not be a scientific study.

    I think in the us it’d be possible to have a party that supports universal healthcare. Sure they’d still be libs but that would still massively help.


  • Should we also make science more Christian-inclusive?

    Yes, being more inclusive is always good.

    Avoid teaching things that are offensive to them?

    No, but nobody said we should do that, so, what’s your point?

    That would surely increase the number of scientists.

    We aren’t increasing it at all costs, we’re just finding ways to increase it by being kind to one another.

    No, because that would be silly.

    Yeah, that would be silly… but nobody is arguing for it and this is entirely a strawman.

    Science doesn’t care how you identify.

    Humans do science, humans should care.


  • The definition you’re pushing is incoherent garbage. If there’s actually a better definition, great. Yours isn’t it.

    All definitions are incoherent garbage, is the problem, that’s why they’re trying to make new better ones. Failing to make a better one doesn’t mean it isn’t worth attempting.

    My definition stands, sex is not binary, because of intersex people, even by that definition, that’s one of many possible definitions, how do you know you have the best one?

    What do you think my definition is, and what are its flaws?

    I’m not going to wade through a bunch of garbage. You couldn’t even be arsed to figure out that the author isn’t a serious academic and won’t stand behind her own work before citing it. Find real citations first. A shit poll isn’t a citation either

    Okay, but they still stand.


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    All it does is make the political bribery slightly more expensive.

    I disagree, i think it makes it possible for 3rd parties to succeed, maybe not in practice, but at least theoretically, which is a worthwhile change. But let’s grant that that’s all it does… that’s still a good thing and not worth opposing.

    At a deeper level, representative elections always result in an oligarchy. The wealthy / economically dominant classes are the only ones who have enough money / prestige to finance their campaigns and win the popularity contest. It makes any political system based on elections nothing more than political theatre.

    Yup, I agree with all this, but i don’t see it as a reason to oppose better election systems.



  • As an XFCE user, I dislike the reputation that xfce is only useful for low end old hardware.

    We’re talking about specifically for beginners, it’s not nearly as good for beginners as KDE is. You like xfce because you’re used to it and it works for you, but KDE supports a vastly wider variety of usecases, for example, try having two-screen setup with one screen having a 4k display at 144hz, and the other a 1080p screen at 60hz

    This will be impossible to get working properly on xfce. There’s not even a warning, it’ll just act very strangely without explaining itself.

    there’s also the same issues with security that cinnamon has. XFCE does work, but there’s no reason to recommend it to someone who doesn’t already use/like it over KDE.