Schadrach

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[–] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Of course you have no right, he makes a big point about talking about the difference between slavery of the protected (which would be met with aggressive response from the private security they pay for) and slavery of the unprotected (aka poor, and thus are not paying private security to not be enslaved) which is apparently acceptable.

[–] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

And, the sites end up eating battery.

Yeah, but they would have done that in 2005 too, if you were using them on a device with a battery.

[–] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 week ago

Why I said usually. Most gay men and most straight women are the exceptions.

[–] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 week ago

VBNMW was always "we want to give you a shitty candidate, you'll vote for it and you'll like it."

[–] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I would assume they meant "of boobs", but you present an interesting question of terminology. Unfortunately it begs the question, what exactly would we mean by "on boobs" in this context, so that we can question if "off boobs" is it's opposite?

Also, boobs. The answer to boobs is usually yes.

[–] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The truck owners I know, myself included, use them all the time for towing and like the added utility having the bed as as secondary feature.

Then you put it beside a truck from 30 years ago that's a quarter the overall size but has the same bed capacity and towing power along with much better visibility instead of not being able to see the child you're about to run over. And then you understand what people mean when they say massive trucks - giant ridiculously unnecessary things that are all about being a status symbol and dodging regulations rather than practicality.

[–] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 week ago

I don't know, I wouldn't mind also being able to tell it to start to preheat while I'm on my way home. Would save a chunk of time if I could literally walk in the door and throw the food in the oven without the extra wait for it to preheat which is usually long enough to be annoying but not long enough to do anything else.

[–] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Correct.

Since math is a language and is itself described by language, that folds all the natural sciences (as they are described by math) into social constructs as well, and since engineering is just applied science, engineering is a social construct. Which means that civil engineers assign whether or not a bridge will hold under a given load and conditions, as opposed to it being some properties of the bridge itself independent of the language being used to describe it that determine what loads and conditions it can successfully operate under? No?

Sex is the same way. Sex predates language. Sex predates humans. Sex predates the entirety of organisms we would classify under Kingdom Animalia. It predates any living thing complex enough to have a language. It exists independent of the language used to describe it. You can easily make the argument that's not true for gender, because unlike sex it doesn't exist outside the language and societal structures built around it.

[–] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

You underestimate the number of people you wouldn't class as intelligent. If no one wanted massive trucks, they would have disappeared off the market within a couple of years because they wouldn't sell. They're ridiculous, inefficient hulks that basically no one really needs but they sell, so they continue being made.

[–] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

is still a social construct in that it's a label made up in order to explain

By that logic, literally everything that can be described with language is a social construct.

often non-consensually 'correcting' them.

I am against the medically unnecessary cutting of children's genitals in all cases. Whether it's FGM, "correcting" intersex kids (in cases where it's not going to cause problems with things like urination), routine circumcision, etc.

[–] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 1 week ago (6 children)

they assign sex

I hate the use of the word assign, but it doesn't fit with what doctors are doing. Sex is a biological rather than social construct. They're looking at how you are, and trying to identify what your reproductive organs are. It's like saying a doctor assigns you a medical condition rather than diagnosing a condition that is already present.

[–] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 weeks ago

Best I can give him is that she got the job at least partially because she's a black woman. Putting a black woman in SCOTUS was a campaign promise. One made early enough that I doubt he had Jackson already in mind when he made it. She's presumably the most qualified black woman his admin could find, if not the most qualified candidate overall.

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