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Gender is a synonim for sex. It is also used when speaking about words - in some languages, words have a gender.

Rejecting science (biology in this case) is one major component of religion. Others are dogma (a set of principles that are taken as axioms and never contested, eg gender can be whatever you want it to be), heresy (eg offering a scientific view that differs from dogma, like the fact that biology presents two genders), censorship and apostasy (removing such an article for disagreeing with the dogma, regardless of scientific facts).

Seems to me like Dawkins slightly overreacted, but it's understandable because he did so based on the religious-like fervor exhibited by those who would remove an article published by a biologist, debating biological classification, because they disagree with its implications.

For all the talk about the unscientific right, it seems to me like the left ignores science just as much when it's not what they want to hear - what their group has already agreed to be true. This video comes to mind: https://youtu.be/zB_OApdxcno

It's common knowledge that biking down the everest will kill you. Why do so many people think 1 billion bikes won't destroy our mountains?

OP, banning cars over 5000lbs will quickly bring you back to the medieval age. Your supermarket will only have 2 types of bread, from the 2 closest bakeries. There will be no meats or vegetables other than what your neighbors are planting. You will wear clothes made from the wool of the sheep you're raising, because there's no fucking way in hell anyone will get cotton from point A where it's being farmed to point B where it's being processed to point C where it's being made into clothes to point D where it's sold to you, not without a car. Your economy would shit itself and implode within days. Stock market would crash and depression would follow.

But yeah, sure, just ban cars over 5000lbs. What can go wrong?

I shit on Israel and their propaganda department

Hey, thanks for taking the time to write that out, it's a cool bit of context to better understand why you guys have votes for some jobs.

Since some people are getting a paywall I'll post the article text here:

Richard Dawkins has resigned from an atheism foundation over its “imposition” of a “new religion” of transgenderism.

Prof Dawkins, the evolutionary biologist and atheist, stepped down from the board of the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) on Saturday after it censored an article supporting the belief that gender is biological.

Prof Dawkins accused the group of caving to the “hysterical squeals” of cancel culture after it deleted the article from its website, saying it was a “mistake” to have published it.

His resignation followed that of two other scientists, Jerry Coyne and Steven Pinker, who accused the foundation of imposing an ideology with the “dogma, blasphemy, and heretics” of a religion.

The scientists’ resignations come after FFRF’s Freethought Now! website published a piece last month by Kat Grant, entitled “What is a Woman?”, which argued that “any attempt to define womanhood on biological terms is inadequate” and that “a woman is whoever she says she is”.

In response to the piece, Prof Coyne, a fellow board member and biologist, wrote an article last week called “Biology is not Bigotry”, in which he defended “the biological definition of ‘woman’ based on gamete type” – or reproductive cells.

However, FFRF later pulled the article after a backlash and released a lengthy statement apologising for the “distress” it had caused.

“Despite our best efforts to champion reason and equality, mistakes can happen, and this incident is a reminder of the importance of constant reflection and growth,” co-presidents Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor wrote.

“Publishing this post was an error of judgment, and we have decided to remove it as it does not reflect our values and principles. We regret any distress caused by this post and are committed to ensuring it doesn’t happen again.”

‘Quasi-religious’ ideology

Following the atheist foundation’s decision to unpublish his article, Prof Coyne accused the group of peddling a “quasi-religious” ideology.

“That is a censorious behavior I cannot abide,” he wrote in an email. “I was simply promoting a biological rather than a psychological definition of sex, and I do not understand why you would consider that ‘distressing’ and also an attempt to hurt LGBTQIA+ people, which I would never do.”

“The gender ideology which caused you to take down my article is itself quasi-religious, having many aspects of religions and cults, including dogma, blasphemy, belief in what is palpably untrue (‘a woman is whoever she says she is’), apostasy, and a tendency to ignore science when it contradicts a preferred ideology.”

Prof Pinker, the US-Canadian psychologist, announced his resignation from the board by lamenting that the FFRF was “no longer a defender of freedom from religion but the imposer of a new religion, complete with dogma, blasphemy, and heretics”.

Prof Dawkins described publishing Grant’s “silly and unscientific” article as a “minor error of judgment”, but that the decision to remove Prof Coyne’s rebuttal was “an act of unseemly panic”.

He continued: “Moreover, to summarily take it down without even informing the author of your intention was an act of lamentable discourtesy to a member of your own advisory board. A board which I now leave with regret.”

Grant is a non-binary author and fellow at the FFRF, focusing on state versus Church issues that specifically impact the LGBTQ-plus community.

In their November article, Grant argued a woman cannot be defined as someone with a vagina, uterus or the ability to conceive, as this would exclude intersex people, women who have hysterectomies and those who have gone through menopause.

Grant claimed using biology to define female identity is “inadequate” and alleged that the views of groups who have fought against gender ideology “disregard both medical science and lived experience”.

‘New definition of woman’

In his response to Grant’s article, Prof Coyne accused the author of attempting “to force ideology onto nature” in order to “concoct a new definition of ‘woman’”.

“Why should sex be changeable while other physical traits cannot? Feelings don’t create reality,” he wrote. “Instead, in biology ‘sex’ is traditionally defined by the size and mobility of reproductive cells.

“It is not ‘transphobic’ to accept the biological reality of binary sex and to reject concepts based on ideology. One should never have to choose between scientific reality and trans rights.”

Founded in 1976, the FFRF is a US non-profit that promotes the separation of church and state.

Ms Laurie Gaylor, the FFRF president, said: “We have had the greatest respect for Richard Dawkins and Steven Pinker, and are grateful that they sat on our honorary board for so many years. 

“We do not feel that support for LGBTQ rights against the religious backlash in the United States is mission creep. This growing difference of opinion probably made such a parting inevitable.”

I'm sorry sir, but skyrim belongs to the nords. May I interest you in a ticket to the imperial city instead?

lol not even 25 years in the game, what a noob

Ah, gotcha. I'm not familiar with this chain, so I wrongly extrapolated from what others do where I'm from. So they're just randomly putting butter next to beer then I guess.

The beer&wine section starts there. The portion until the sign is part of another section, that OP never bothered to include in the pic. Presumably the dairy section.

Put another way: if you're coming from the beer&wine section, the sign probably says "dairy".

Either that or the store people just fucked up.

Your house is this drawer. Think about it.

That's a great argument until you realize the rest of the country (the part that didn't speak) literally couldn't decide which is worse or just didn't care. So they did speak, and what they said was "hwbennfswbebnsjdjbdbshdukabw".

Time to stop the Israeli social experiment, or whatever the fuck it was that they tried to do.

Need for speed heat is like 4 bucks, as a former 13yo boy I woulda liked it

... any discrepancies in the use of "year" as a 4 digit number vs a 5 digit number, are entirely a display issue (front end).

That's exactly how I read the meme. It would still require a change.

Whether that is displayed to you correctly or not, doesn't matter in the slightest. The machine will function even if you see some weird shit,

I'm not sure if this is some nihilistic stuff, or you really think this. Of course nothing actually matters. The program will still work even if the time is uint32 instead of uint64. The machine of course will still work as well. Shit, your life will go on. The earth continues to spin and this will for sure not cause the heat death of the universe. But aside from actual crashes and some functionality bugs, UI issues should be the ones you worry about the most. If your users are a bank and they need to date the contracts, and you only offer 3 digits for the year? I think you'll agree with me that if users don't like using your program, it's a useless program.

Biden could...

He won't.

And nothing of value was lost.

Taking out the evil CEO of a multi-billion dollar company built to take advantage of people makes him less of a spoiled rich kid than some random cunt getting on the internet and spouting his opinions like anyone gives a shit.

if I'm understanding you correctly, what you're saying is this man has a billion dollars in assets but he needs them to do his work which is beneficial for people.

I'm not sure this is really the correct description of the situation. I'm not trying to be pedantic, but the fact that his company is valued at 1 billion doesn't mean the assets are worth 1 billion.

People have assigned this value to the company based on assets, yes, and on the workforce and etc. But they are also assigning value to the company based on what direction they think the company will be lead. Ask yourself this - if their CEO is a genius who has proven time and again that he can make magic happen with very little worth of value, wouldn't you invest in him? Wouldn't you say his company, while maybe poor and shit today, will probably be worth a billion dollars soon thanks to its leadership?

Two issues come from this, both that I don't think you account for - because you argue for workers owning the company in a co-op-like situation, or the CEO selling assets the company doesn't need in order to put that billion to good use:

1. If the CEO starts dumping stock - so will everyone else. Selling stock means you don't think the company is that valuable. If you don't trust it, why should I? The company's price would tank, and so would any potential it has
2. If workers are the decision makers, not the genius CEO that everyone trusts to lead - guess how much I'm investing in a company ran by faceless dudes that I don't trust. Exactly $0. You make this company a co-op and you guarantee the main attraction about it is no longer attractive. And at that point if I'm the CEO I'm out anyway - you obviously don't trust my leadership enough to let me run the company, why would I ever want to stay? But good luck competing against the face of rockets with your cute little co-op that gets no funding and can't pay it's employees.

My point is - you want to reap the benefits of capitalism and investments in the stock market, while living in a socialist utopia where your actions on the market don't have consequences. I'm not sure that'll work.