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cbnotfromthereon Olympic Committee bars transgender athletes from women’s events

Do you really need a citation to understand that biological males perform better than biological females at basically any imaginable sport?

cbnotfromthereon Despite social pressure, boys and girls still prefer gender-typical toys

I have ABSOLUTELY seen many young girls (3-7 yo) playing with sticks or similar objects as if they are babies / dolls.

In communist Romania of my youth, where toys were sparse.

In Egypt nowadays, in poor families who can't pay for toys.

cbnotfromthereon Cheerleader’s Snapchat rant leads to ‘momentous’ Supreme Court case on speech

"Probably because one of those two is a religious statement, while another one is a political statement."

Why would biological facts be considered "political statements"? (assuming gender = biological sex, which is the usual usage from regular talk to identity papers throughout the world).

cbnotfromthereon Apple has threatened to ban Parler from the App Store

"Plotting armed violence to overturn a legitimate election result isn't"

There are already laws and means to deal with plotting armed violence. None of them include (or should include) banning the phone company / app company / phone maker / etc.

cbnotfromthereon Russia gives Edward Snowden permanent residency

I can absolutely assure you that in each and every European country the person leaving must show his/her passport.

cbnotfromthereon YouTube bans Stefan Molyneux, David Duke, Richard Spencer for hate speech

"Someone being nationalist for a race"

This makes literally no sense.

cbnotfromthereon Y Combinator Abruptly Shutters YC China

This sort of moral relativism and whataboutism is repugnant.

cbnotfromthereon Still Manufacturing Consent: An Interview with Noam Chomsky

Using CNN to confirm Chomsky is like using RT to confirm Putin.

cbnotfromthereon Dealing with China Isn’t Worth the Moral Cost

Your account was created 6 days ago.

cbnotfromthereon The China Cultural Clash

"I want to point out that Morey's HK tweet is out of line"

Which part of freedom of speech is still unclear even after supposedly you've "lived in the US for over a decade"???

"and doesn't deserve NBA's endorsement."

The NBA did not endorse nor reject Morey's words.

cbnotfromthereon The China Cultural Clash

"Twitter, Facebook, and any other entity that deplatformed Alex Jones are private companies and can deplatform whoever they want"

Would you feel the same way if the deplatforming was done by, say, AT&T, Verizon, or T-Mobile? Because Twitter and Facebook specifically get the same protection as if they are communication pipes (as opposed to being publishers).

cbnotfromthereon High finance is wrecking the economy and the planet, but it won't reform itself

" the communities that outlaw it (the whole of Islam, old style communism)"

I lived almost 20 years in communist Romania, I can assure you interest aka "usury" was not banned at all.

cbnotfromthereon Ask HN: Cool stuff that's still completely unregulated?

Cybernetics has nothing at all to do with cyborg implants.

cbnotfromthereon The West’s failed fight against China’s ‘Cloud Hopper’ hackers

"Ukraine is not part of Europe."

Ukraine is 100% part of Europe, as per any conceivable map or definition of Europe.

cbnotfromthereon France's Basque Region Creates Its Own Currency

" In Barcelona, capital of Catalunya, most of what you'll hear is Spanish, not Catalan."

Sorry if I may seem pedantic, but there is no such thing as "Spanish" language (at least not inside Spain).

The language you are talking about is actually called "castellano" (Castilian).

cbnotfromthereon Lexical Distance Among Languages of Europe (2015)

Written norwegian is almost phonetic

Your claim is literally absurd.

http://www.learn-norwegian.net/pronunciation/pronunciation.h...

cbnotfromthereon Julian Assange Deserves First Amendment Protection

" America is a net evil force in the world, and its illegal wars must be stopped at all costs."

How about you move to Russia or Venezuela and stop USA's illegal wars at any cost from there?

cbnotfromthereon Julian Assange Deserves First Amendment Protection

You seem to willingly confusing "assassinations" with "acts of war".

Anwar Al-Awlaki was unquestionably an enemy combatant due to his overt belonging to a non-state actor engaged in military combat with the United States.

cbnotfromthereon Julian Assange Deserves First Amendment Protection

So basically you want the process to be judged by the outcome, not by... the process.

That's not how the legal system works and that's not how ANY legals system COULD work, because it would require the process to be finalized and the outcome known before any legal enforcing to happen).

Basically you're bringing an utterly irrational viewpoint to the discussion then you end up with " we can make rational value judgements".

cbnotfromthereon Julian Assange Deserves First Amendment Protection

"Actually if a cop finds evidence of a crime without a warrant when one is required,(or any illegal means) it won't be admissible, so I'm not sure where you are coming from."

"Exigent circumstances" are, from the perspective of the law, the equivalent of a warrant, thus making any proofs legal.

cbnotfromthereon Something on Mars Is Producing Gas Usually Made by Living Things on Earth

Large meteor hits throwing debris into space, some of it landing on other planets.

cbnotfromthereon San Diego Implemented City-Wide Streetlight Surveillance

"I meant Eastern (members of) European Union (EEU) vs Western (members of) European Union (WEU)"

If so then you made another mistake :-) as Ukraine is not a member state of the European Union.

[EEU vs WEU] You could see it sometimes abbreviated that way."

Please don't read my comment as aggressive but I have NEVER seen such abbreviated form.

"Eurasian union (I thought that one was largely defunct anyway?)"

This entity is very much alive and kicking (usually as much as Vladimir Putin wants it to be). The EEU presidency is held throughout 2019 by Armenia.

cbnotfromthereon San Diego Implemented City-Wide Streetlight Surveillance

"You can still observe it even in FANG that is specifically poaching people from EEU for dirty work (e.g. building internal censorship tools led by Ukrainian/Romanian/non-US devs)."

Romania is not and never was part of the EEU aka Eurasian Economic Union https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasian_Economic_Union

cbnotfromthereon The Guardians of the French Language Are Deadlocked

"He was from île de paris"

There is no "île de Paris" in France.

cbnotfromthereon By the book: reflections on an Indian childhood reading Soviet hardbacks

Lenin called this "useful idiots".

The Non-Aligned Movement was part and parcel "Soviet lite".

cbnotfromthereon California declared drought free for first time in seven years

You implied this when claiming the rich are buying all the water rights.

cbnotfromthereon California declared drought free for first time in seven years

California never had a market for water / water rights, so your extreme left imagination is left without data to back it up.

At all.