Eatspancakes84 @ Eatspancakes84 @lemmy.world

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Yeah, because tariffs are only reserved to large competitors on the world stage like, check notes, Canada?

That’s a fair point. To my understanding the science is not clear if transition started pre-puberty, though I think it is pretty clear if transition happened after puberty. You are also absolutely right that in practice the problem (if you consider it as such) concerns very few cases. I think my only point was that having an open (instead of a men’s) section would circumvent both the possible exclusion of transgender people, and the controversy of those born as men, participating in women’s competition.

Many sports are divided in a women’s and an open competition. In the open competition any genetic advantage goes (hence the name open), whereas the women’s competition is restricted to people with a specific trait. In such a context I think it’s totally valid to restrict the women’s competition to “born with vagina”. Transgender (both M->F and F->M) can continue to compete in the open section.

Sports that are instead divided in a men’s and women’s section are more problematic, because they may completely block transgender people from competing at all levels, which is very exclusionary. I don’t see a particularly good solution for these sports, apart from changing sections to “open” vs “women’s “.

Finally, I do not see a role for genetic testing (born with vagina, but XY for instance). People make life decisions based on the gender they believe they are. Takebacks based on genetic tests that could occur in far advanced stage of an athlete’s career is completely unfair.

Tbf driving old cars until the end of their lifetime is also an environmentally friendly choice, since there are quite large emissions associated with producing a car.

It’s not about serving China’s interest so much as no longer serving American interest. As an example, Biden persuaded its partners in Europe and East Asia to exclude China from crucial chip technology. If China changes its approach to Ukraine sharing this technology with them should be on the table. There’s is simply no longer any reason for Europe to be part of this Cold War-like tension between the US and China, when it’s Russia that is our main concern.

Trade creates value in both countries, so by extension tariffs destroy value in both countries. Since Canada is much smaller than the US (in population), the tariffs hurt Canada more than the US. There is good reason for Canada to be extremely upset, and counter tariffs on the US are well justified.

Leaving NATO is crazy, but not as crazy as leaving the UN. Via the security council the US is one of 5 nations with veto power on the most important decisions the UN makes. Why on earth would you give that up?

I have a suggestion: since the vaccine is not safe, why don’t we do a lockdown? /s

You don’t need measles parties. The virus is so contagious you more or less can get it by looking at an infected person if you are not already immune.

Mandatory pro-GMO video https://youtu.be/7TmcXYp8xu4 TLDR: all our food is genetically manipulated. GMO is simply a method to make better targeted interventions.

There are criteria to joining the EU that Ukraine is nowhere near matching (obviously, since they are at war). By the way, when are DC/PR becoming states?

Are you kidding? The major achievement of the pact has been to stop wars among its members, something that the US highly appreciated after the WW. All presidents up to Trump have been in strong favour of the EU, and EU expansion. Obama campaigned against Brexit. Bush junior strongly pushed for expansion into Eastern Europe. They all realised how much they benefited from having strong allies. Incredible how quickly that lesson has been forgotten.

There absolutely is. Any mass, no matter how small, will turn into a black hole when sufficiently compressed.

Did they ask about “siding with Russia over Ukraine”, or “Making peace in Ukraine in three weeks”? Yes framing matters, and obviously people support policies that are framed like “eliminating fraud and waste in government expenditure “. Wonder how that position is affected if you add the subclause “by kids that come straight out of high school “.

I am really lost here. Is the idea to attract the exact same (super niche) readership as the wall street journal? We know from this election that there are very few voters in this domain, since this is exactly the type of voter Harris tried (and failed to) attract.

Somewhat ironically we have gone from the very bad outcome of for-profit media, to the even worse outcome of newspapers as personal vanity projects for out of touch billionaires.

I guess?? In case of a medical emergency they would typically try to make an emergency landing (I hope??). So how did this person die, and how certain were they that they could not recessitate? Did it happen over sea or land? Honestly it raises a ton of questions.

I feel like this post doesn’t give enough credit to Europeans who also killed millions of native Americans before the US was even founded.

Seriously, Facebook was not even the first Social Media of it’s type. Truly bizarre that this guy has earned so much.

Raising the debt ceiling requires only 50 votes I think. Besides the article is about the house. I don’t see any reason why Dems help out the GOP if they can’t stop defectors.