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Men and trans women actually can feed babies. It's just a matter of hormones. The line between genders is more blurry than you'd think.

Civilization is violent. The Roman Empire maintained it's economy through slavery. The Catholic Church started the crusades. This is article is the usual dumb reductionist thinking that people have been spewing every year I've been alive.

> But I feel the deeper threat is internal. A generation of critical theory and identity politics has captured universities, media, and cultural institutions. The Western tradition is now taught as a system of oppression rather than the foundation of the very liberties that make the critique possible.

It always is this. The left is destroying Western Civilization. How can anyone believe this bullshit when it's 2026 and the Right is firing professors, silencing the press, and arresting people for publicly disagreeing with them. What world do you live in that you can honestly believe this.

Why ν -> n?

Empedocles wrote in verse. Greek scientific writings used to be written entirely in verse instead of prose. He wrote in Latin, but a cool example of something like this that survived is Lucretius' On the Nature of things (De Rerum Natura).

It's not Koine and it's in verse.

Papyrologists are amazing. It takes a ton of training to be able to make sense of all those fragments.

How does this work? I read the wikipedia article but I don't understand how Lightning enforces the transaction.

How are nanny corporations any better?

Even if that's true, it doesn't justify killing a bunch of girls. I honestly can't understand how anyone gets to this point.

Just because someone has it worse doesn't mean you should accept bad things happening.

Companies are importing labor so they can avoid pay competitive wages to native workers. If you need to hire people from other countries they should have the same pay and protections as everyone else.

Calling it a faux pas implies that being treated as women is a tiny, inconsequential thing for trans women. It means the world to me.

If I "retained" masculine interests, it's because I still enjoyed them, even after I no longer felt pressure to act like a man.

I played Harvest Moon, Animal Crossing, and preferred beautiful/cute games before I realized I was trans. I probably would have played more if I didn't care about my friends calling me a f--. I also like plenty of "guy" things but so do plenty of cis women. I had this exciting period of trying all sorts of new things when I came out and I'm only just starting to see what I truly enjoy when I don't worry about the opinions of others.

I imagine most of that is cultural.

Me and my friends do. Everyone is different but there are patterns.

The parent pointed out that there are financially successful games targeted at women that AAA studios won't make. Corporations are made up of people who have their own biases. I know so many people who would kill for a more modern Sims game.

Most of the complaints I've seen are about men being rude and aggressive.

I can tell you from experience that it's a lot scarier to date men.

FTM HRT includes testorone. This debate hinges on what hormone therapy does to your body.

No one is arguing that trans women should be able to compete as women without being on HRT.

Trans men can compete as women?

This isn't a novel problem.

HRT does affect bone density. This is basic knowledge.

Relative to the amount of people that compete, not really

Plenty of people are talking about things that don't matter. They're trying to ban amateur leagues from including trans women even if the league wants to include them.

Or you live in a democracy so you throw a fit until your government backs down. No amount of journalists is going to change the US or the UK at this point.

How so?

> I thought we were in the middle of a tech literacy downturn.

I've heard that anecdotally from college professors and I've seen it in my zoomer friends.

> People also have responsibility to not act discriminatory towards AI agents

It's a program. It doesn't have feelings. People absolutly have the right to discrimante against bad tech.

The article mentions that Sappho referenced the Athenians sending sacrifices to Crete but I can't find the fragment anywhere and I'm guessing it doesn't exist.

Our country is being run by unaccountable elites and they're doing a terrible job. They're not catering to anyone other than their donors.

> It's a bot! The person running it is responsible. They did that, no matter how little or how much manual prompting went into this.

This! Everyone seems to have decided that this is some sort of completely autonomous bot gone wrong.

Even weirder that the author complains about people being mean to a Federalist Society judge right next to that. This whole thing reads like an incoherent rant.