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Uh oh, I wonder what Bonna Shejve would say.

Intelligence is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.

Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

Distinction is inventing a fruit salad that a variety of tomato can fit into.

So is it "what's between your legs" that makes sex, or is it gametes?

Hermaphroditism exists, clitoromegaly and micropenis exist (and can be remarkably hard to tell apart), CAIS exists where gametes and anatomy can literally contradict each other in the same individual.

It seems like you're about to say "there is a third group that has 'neither' as a sex" (which is true) but you immediately shy away from that conclusion and revert to anatomy.

The whole existence of "abnormal" is a normal part of evolution, amd in fact it is why we could become what we are today. Genetics and transcription are not fixed systems in place since 1 billion MYA, they mutate and cluster and without that mutation process none of it could ever exist. Without an in-between sex, the system of sexuality cannot develop and all animals just stay reproducing asexually forever. It's not something with a fixed or deep cosmic meaning, it's literally a bunch of accumulated errors that end up coincidentally making something that's internally coherent most of the time.

DNA codes for RNA
RNA signals to proteins
Proteins give us our characteristics

DNA does not give us our characteristics directly. That is "basic biology". Any interference of this process causes a change of outcome.

Leaving aside the terms of "you have to stop shooting now but we only have to stop shooting 12 hours from now", how many times has Israel kept a ceasefire?

And how many times has the United States kept a formal deal in geopolitics?

periodic reminder that when they say "peace" they mean obedience

Depending on perspective, those two affective nouns could be switched.

Neither of these teams is at bat.

Yes, but the wording sounds more like "I'm eager to put my time to productive use".

double sunset tho

Those are 2 different questions with 2 different answers.

First one, maybe 25%.

Second one, maybe 2%.

Moonies BTFO by spike in Thai parallel gay marriage

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Do it, Donnie! Put the 100% tariffs on BRICS countries and Spain.

The tradition of anti-intellectualism goes back a long way. Certainly to Nixon and to Goldwater as a candidate, probably even further than that.

It's not a bug in America, it's a feature.

I installed Lemmy, hoping it'll be a good alternative

So what made you install Lemmy

If you interact with a website through an app, you are ceding both functionality and power. Angry Birds is an app, Signal is an app, Reddit and Lemmy are websites with URLs and you are duplicating the function of a browser if you use anything else.

I'd heard of Lemmy (and Raddle) since the late 2010s, and put them in the "things I'd like to pivot to at some point" category. The main subreddit that I posted on (a transgressive mix of edgy, caring, partisan, and weird) was quarantined and then finally banned in 2020. As a result I quit using reddit altogether, but after a few months I poked around and realized people from that sub had started a forked instance of Lemmy as a refuge.

The one thing that's lackluster is the search function. Everything else is superior.

If you can post this everywhere, and end up getting Trump to see it, you might be able to drive a wedge between Trump and Elon... sooner than would otherwise happen.

The lint filter that they recommend cleaning after each use, or a different filter?

National Assembly says "We oppose trying to turn the country into an outright dictatorship, that was bad... but we're not going to punish you for it."

He'll do it again when he's more prepared. Trump team is taking notes too.

Good question.

If the one party is founded and sustained by people who are sworn enemies of said corporate interests, there ensues an existential power struggle between the party and the corporations (foreign, domestic, or most often both), that typically ends up reaching beyond the borders of the country in question.

If the one party quickly becomes captured by foreign interests, chances are the party was founded with that intention.

Apply this lens to the last 107-119 years of history, and most of it will become much clearer.

So who watches the watchers? In a way we all do. But instead of this being a mere idealistic aphorism, there are mechanisms in place to ensure it. We enculturate people to value equality and not valorize themselves above others, we minimize the potential benefits of corruption and keep the punishments consistent, we ensure that the watcher is not a lifelong position, we ensure that watchers do not become a separate class, we subject the watchers to oversight and approval of those who are watched, and we set up the processes so that they only function when people are working together.

This is so much more extensive than the asymmetric and byzantine setup that passes for "checks and balances" in liberal democracies. Is it still possible for things to go awry as a few bad actors try to bend the framework to favor themselves? Yes, absolutely. And that is a challenge to the people setting up the framework, to keep the wrong people out initially and to make it strong enough that it can keep its integrity once the founders are gone.

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