andrewflanders.bsky.social
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> it isn't just one man. It's one man and all his willing ass-kissers.
isn't that always the case?
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Elon can buy twitter, but he can't make people use it
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Are there rich people in Nebraska? Maybe a few, but once you were to drain their accounts, you'd be back where you started.
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missing ankle chains
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> They really should remove the recline feature.
it warms my heart to know this will never happen
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I think autism can coincide with a lack of empathy, singular focus, a poor work life balance, and awkward physicality. but fundamentally he's just a maniac.
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is racism the only possible reason why there can be different health outcomes among social groups? is there really no other conceivable possibility?
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If they suspend elections or interfere with Federal resources in 2026, I'd say so. What this looks like to me is what one should expect from having all three branches of the government controlled by a party that dislikes government in general.
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r/seattle is very left, r/seattlewa is right leaning
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I'm ready for a Dem to run on a platform of sucking all of the oxygen out of red states, and nothing more.
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That's not intuition anymore, that would be ordinary knowledge.
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The terms I used are also correct. I'm concerned that this bothers you so much.
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I can't see the post you responded to, what research paper are you coming out against?
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playing sports is hard work, mentally and physicaly. for a person not to give it their all is not a great ask. if a trans person is worried about the optics of dominating in a sport, that could motivate them to put in less than 100%. they might value the social aspect more than winning.
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intuition and vibes are pretty much the same thing
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it sounds a bit like "sissy", from a stylistic perspective I'm just not very fond of it
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The truth is that there might not be so many of them that it's that hard to believe. still a very small sample size in general. you can't come up with a strong hypothesis about why it is the way it is, but you accept a particular interpretation of the data wholeheartedly.
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Natal men also tend to have greater lung capacity, larger bones, stronger cardio and tendons, and larger hands and gripping strength. HRT would not diminish many advantages, so it is suprising that you would observe no advantage. It's fair to wonder if they restrain themselves, for sportsmanship.
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It's not "very intuitive" that's for sure.
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Pre or post puberty HRT makes a big difference, as well as the duration of time they have been on HRT.
It's not intuitive that HRT would entirely change a person's physical ability to resemble the opposite sex, when they had physically grown up as one gender or the other. That would be like magic.
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In general I think it's a lot less problematic to compared trans and natal genders when the trans person has undergone HRT, and there are specific descriptions of that, as compared to trans people who have not undergone any HRT.
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The Air Force study is not quite as you described, the trans men didn't out perform natal men, except for sit-ups, after HRT. The trans women still slightly out performed natal women after HRT. Still surprising to me, but also different from how you characterized it.
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I was thinking Republicans would do it, but President Musk would be very against it. Now we see how fiscal conservatism worms is way back into a populist Republican party. Reagan is looking up from hell with a twinkle in his eye.
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Thanks, but after having read it, I think to say trans women are at a disadvantage is probably too sweeping of a statement based on what little data the study provided. I was hoping there was something suggesting a causal factor, but the study wasn't intended to provide that info.
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I think there should be ISO standards / overreaching laws for just about everything that is sized slightly different for the sole purpose of
1) making you buy a new one when it wears out
2) locking you into a brand
Primary offender is storage containers.
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Solve your problems by solving your problems.
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> There was a study that a trans friend of mine shared today that showed trans women athletes are actually at a disadvantage
Can you point me to that? I'm interested in seeing the specifics. Seems counter intuitive.
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I wonder what the fallout will be. I'd assume higher operating costs overall, higher prices, a dining scene that is increasingly upscale oriented, leading to a further feeling of class division inside and outside of city limits.
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It's fun to see game theory play out like this.
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a model is just a tool to help understand reality, and his prediction rate is still far above 50%.
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The people who said his model were wrong were no more correct then his claim that it was right. it is impossible to know why his model failed, in fact it is impossible to know precisely why Trump got more votes.
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I think that's a mischarization of his retort. he was right that people didn't understand his model, after all it is his model. it means it is model was wrong, especially if it leaves room for ambiguity. but the definition of a model is that it is only an approximation of reality.
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The stupid people out there love to see highly educated people make mistakes. They feel that it validates their decision to be know-nothings.
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Tell me you placed a huge bet based on Lichtman's prediction without telling me.
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbutus...
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If health care is to be guaranteed, we need to do something about the other side of the equation: smoking, drinking, drug abuse, over eating, sedentary living, poor sleep habits, poor hygiene and whatever I've missed that serve to drive up the collective costs.
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The #1 cost in healthcare is administrative - paper work proving that every penny spent was necessary.
Maybe there is a way to lower administrative costs specifically, without sliding into the "tragedy of the commons" issues that countries with socialized healthcare face.
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> basic human rights
Can you tell me of one human right that is not also a basic human right?
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> Healthcare should not be a money making business
Suppose we say cars are too expensive, can we just extend that logic to the automotive industry?
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If Musk had real leverage over him it would bother him, but Trump could tell him to pound dirt and it wouldn't matter at this point.
Too old to make any long-term business deals, can't run after this term.
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And I want to also say that so far I've been unimpressed with conduct from the Left on Bluesky, likely due to young age.
So quick to condone extrajudicial killing for political benefit, or throw elected officials out on the street because they have a cancer diagnosis - or who are merely old.
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> Focus on the substance instead of the semantics
OK, I would wager he will live and be able to perform his duties at least another year. And when he's unable, they will elect someone else to be the ranking member, maybe it will be AOC.
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So old people aren't real people. Noted.
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I have no idea why Connolly was chosen, but I dont agree with holding his cancer diagnosis against him without having any idea what sort of stage he's at with treatment and progression.
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> terminal brain tumor
The prognosis for esophageal cancer and a brain tumor might not be the same. It depends on the specifics of the cancer. If he has reason to believe he has at least a couple good years with treatment, there's no reason he ought not work.
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Jamie Raskin is also battling cancer but I didn't see any similar comments made about him
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> House Democrats just picked someone who is literally dying to be ranking member of a powerful watchdog committee
so how much longer does he have? surely you have a number right
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> if he's given a powerful position he can't wield
"if" he can't
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it just drizzles, they said