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gunplagirl posted...

RiKuToTheMiGhtY posted...

Transwomen having more testosterone because they are biologically male is what gives them an unfair advantage.

Lance, Barry, and Jon cheated by taking steroids, by having more testosterone because they are male is cheating when they are competing in a all female event when they are male. Just cause these transwomen identify as female does not mean they should be able to compete with real girls/women due to the biological advantage they have.

Against other males these two are weak as fuck but against women they do have an advantage.

@gunplagirl

Hormone replacement therapy, even as a teenager they'd still be on enough testosterone blockers that they'd have less t. Or none at all since they could very well have been young enough to get puberty blockers before they got far enough through first puberty.

Only 1 in 4 would ever be able to emulate female testosterone levels. The other 3 in 4 would always be higher.
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clearaflagrantj posted...

Muffinz0rz posted...

didn't you get this exact topic to like 100+

Similar topic, she was drunk when she said it the last time, she repeated herself sober this time.

BignutzisBack posted...

how long have you been together

Two years

Yeah, drop her like a rock.
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gunplagirl posted...

Howl posted...

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NinjaWarrior455 posted...

Hard to come up with a solution that will satisfy everyone, and banning transgenders from gendered sports altogether is not a solution.

Yes it is. People should not have to change the entire way they do everything for less than 1% of the population.

Title IX says "hello there"

Title IX does not apply to transgender students anymore. President Obama issued guidelines that added protections for them, then last year President Trump rescinded them.

https://education.findlaw.com/discrimination-harassment-at-school/title-ix-protections-for-transgender-students.html

"The U.S. Department of Education under the Obama administration issued guidelinesclarifying that Title IX's prohibition against sex-based discrimination extends to claims of discrimination based on gender identity. But in early 2017, those guidelines were recinded by the Trump administration. "

I guess the Gavin Grimm decision totally doesn't matter?

Or are you going to say "wait until it hits the supreme court" knowing that's year(s) off?

Given the current makeup of the court, I want it to go to the Supreme Court tomorrow. You wont like the outcome.
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gunplagirl posted...

Howl posted...

NinjaWarrior455 posted...

Hard to come up with a solution that will satisfy everyone, and banning transgenders from gendered sports altogether is not a solution.

Yes it is. People should not have to change the entire way they do everything for less than 1% of the population.

Title IX says "hello there"

50 > 1. Also, this is the very antithesis of Title IX. If feminists were not also liberals, we would have heard all about this by now.
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At my company, I have to post something to the effect of This is my personal opinion and is not representative of the opinions or facts of company when I want to comment about them on social media. I wonder if this guy would have been okay if he did the same.
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Congrats on the completion of residency. Im sure the tablet is also interesting.
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Krojen posted...

C7D posted...

I always thought Griner was more male than female.

Her voice...

Yes, she both sounds like and looks like a guy, complete with the Adams Apple.
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I always thought Griner was more male than female.
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andel posted...

not really fair but kinda hard to come up with a middle ground

The solution might be to reintegrate the genders within sports. Of course, 50 percent of all people will no longer be able to compete but the fraction of 1 percent who feel they were born in the wrong body will get to participate if they are good enough. In this case, they would not have been. Thats progress, right?
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RiKuToTheMiGhtY posted...

So two boys won in a girls competition, I feel bad for all the real girls who practiced and trained for this. I also wonder if feminists will have anything to say about two males winning instead of actual girls.

This robbed two girls of victory and I doubt some of the parents are happy about this bullshit.

Feminists have been largely silent about the transgender issue... Some men have thought feminists hate men for a long time. Apparently, they have no issue with men who want to be women. This further cements the thoughts of those men.
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Those times arent even that fast. They likely wouldnt even place if they ran with their counterparts, other biological males.
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Coffeebeanz posted...

ImTheMacheteGuy posted...

Coffeebeanz posted...

BignutzisBack posted...

coffeebeanz destroying users ITT, wew lad

I'm not trying to burn people, but the fact that the people most likely to bitch about health care fairness are the least likely to actually engage in the brass tacks discussions really grinds my gears. It's really easy to say "everyone deserves health care every time" and then dodge ethical questions regarding overuse and patient responsibility.

The most common response is to toss out the "your health is not your fault" line as if it's universally true, when it most certainly is not.

COPD is an absolutely perfect example of an incredibly expensive chronic illness that is almost always self-inflicted.

Why not just make tobacco companies pay for those people's insurance?

And drug dealers pay the insurance for addicts who are continually readmitted?

And corn farmers for everyone admitted for obesity related illness.
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Evolician posted...

C7D posted...

I had this happen once. I felt a great degree of pain, but didnt think anything of it. A few minutes later, I got weak in the knees and almost passed out. Im told I lost quite a bit of blood. She asked me if I had finished and I said no. She said thats weird and then large quantities of my blood came out of her. I dont use condoms, happily married, but I did for a week or two after that just to stop the pain.

You just kept having sex after that happened? Didn't take a break for a week or two? >_>

Lots of lube and slow going won the day.
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I had this happen once. I felt a great degree of pain, but didnt think anything of it. A few minutes later, I got weak in the knees and almost passed out. Im told I lost quite a bit of blood. She asked me if I had finished and I said no. She said thats weird and then large quantities of my blood came out of her. I dont use condoms, happily married, but I did for a week or two after that just to stop the pain.
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Coffeebeanz posted...

I'm gonna ask this question again

You have a guy with his tenth admit to the hospital for COPD exacerbation. He smokes two packs per day and always fails to get his antibiotics and inhaled bronchodilators filled by the pharmacy. Every hospitalization lasts at least a week and amounts to a $250k per visit medical bill.

Who pays? When is it time to say enough is enough

Because that is the real ethical problem.

It's easy to say "everyone has a right to health care" and then run away with your fingers in your ears when approached with actual ethical problems.

He cant afford the medicine because he spends $15 a day on cigarettes. Hes probably on public insurance at that point and probably doesnt have to pay more than $50 a month on the medicine. At that point its cheaper to open a pharmacy and give him the drugs when he comes into the ER. Its even cheaper to let him live with the decisions he is making in spite of the fact that it doesnt give people the warm fuzzies.
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I think a robot wouldnt be able to specifically perform my job. That being said, market forces are always at play for continued employment. If people dont buy things because they dont have any money to do so, there would be no demand for the product my company produces.
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DifferentialEquation posted...

hockeybub89 posted...

C7D posted...

hockeybub89 posted...

Don't be born with conditions. Pull yourself up by your embryo straps and form into a perfectly healthy human.

Its really more like lets not spend millions of dollars to further a childs suffering when they have a condition that they wont survive.

For those people, sure. Let's not.

So then why do you get to decide who's worth saving and who's not? How about everyone just pays their own way, and if they can't it's their own problem?

In the instances I am speaking about, the child would die pretty much every time. Im not making a valid judgment on whether or not that is a good thing as it is above my pay grade. The incidence rate of the condition I mentioned is around 5/100000. My wife had 6 patients in a town of around 5000. The cause is largely young pregnant mothers who refuse to stop smoking, drinking, and doing drugs. Then, they want the public to continue to pay for their bone headed decisions they made while pregnant.
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hockeybub89 posted...

Don't be born with conditions. Pull yourself up by your embryo straps and form into a perfectly healthy human.

Its really more like lets not spend millions of dollars to further a childs suffering when they have a condition that they wont survive.
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This is truly unfortunate and only highlights the costs of a carbon economy. I feel for the engineers on this project. Im certain they performed their best efforts. I have been very fortunate in that nothing I have ever designed has failed so far, but statistically speaking, it will happen at some point.
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Coffeebeanz posted...

Part of the problem is that a huge amount of healthcare dollars are spent on preventable illness and chronic illness. I can't tell you how many congestive heart failure and COPD patients I have that are constantly being readmitted monthly because they don't take their home meds. This totally milks the system, since they rack up millions in hospital bills, then leave healthy people stuck paying the bills.

There's a lot of bleeding heart healthcare white knights who are totally unwilling to get their hands dirty and make tough calls about things like this.

My wife was a pediatric nurse for a number of years before she got tired of seeing children dying. One of the conditions she specialized in is Gastroschisis. She never saw a kid make it past about 6 or 7. The parents of children with this condition were usually quite bad. The kids always had 24/7/365 nursing care in addition to the thousands of dollars per week spent on the TPN that was killing them while technically keeping them alive so their parents could continue to collect a welfare check.
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Coffeebeanz posted...

Healthcare is not a commodity that operates with price elasticity and other capitalistic concepts. Insurance companies are an unnecessary middle man, especially in a universal system.

In some countries, it still is. While I was in grad school, a lot of my more wealthy classmates from India told me that they didnt understand the American system for healthcare. They could go to the physician who after diagnostic testing would offer multiple plans for treatment on the basis of what the patient could afford.
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Error1355 posted...

DifferentialEquation posted...

This is just one more example of the poor trying to fuck over the middle class and the rich. "Oh, you worked at a job and saved up money? Well fuck you, I'm just gonna have the government take it from you and spend it on me."

What if you were sick, got a full time job, then applied to get health insurance and they denied you coverage because they know you're going to cost them money.

You're fine with them just going 'go ahead and die, you cost too much for us"?

This is a little disingenuous. You got sick and then you got a job? What were you doing before you got sick? With Cobra and private insurance, it is irresponsible to ever be in a situation where you were not insured.
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Deal. Ill only hug the females since they dont produce the venom.
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bknight posted...

Gangnam Style

I didnt realize South Korea was a part of Japan now.
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Im not really sure. When I worked in Germany, I did once see a woman get hired and go on maternity leave two weeks later for the next two years.
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clearaflagrantj posted...

C7D posted...

Ask your IT department to install Parallels so you can do your job...

There is no IT department, there is only my boss

He's the only authority at this place. Hell I can't even make changes to my computer if they require admin privileges. I asked my boss to increase the timeout to the lock out screen/screensaver and he ignored me. It's stuck at the default 10 minutes.

That sounds pretty bad. Send out some resumes and keep explaining to him why you cant do your job in the mean time.
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Ask your IT department to install Parallels so you can do your job...
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You cant eat enough ice to make that happen. Eating an entire cup of ice would cause your body to burn an extra 40-50 calories in order to maintain its body temperature.
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JCvgluvr posted...

I already paid for a year of eharmony so there's no reason to talk anymore about that. This topic was about whether I'd be wasting my time going to specific gamer girl dating websites. And most people seem to think so.

If anything, maybe I'll try OK Cupid or Plenty of Fish. Are those seen more as hookup websites, though? Because I'm absolutely not interested in that. Serious relationships only, you know?

POF isnt really tailored to any one thing. I averaged a couple of dates a week from that site before I met my wife, also on POF. The town I lived in at the time was much smaller than the one in which you live.
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Messaging multiple women could be 2 or 200. We dont have enough information here. What do you say in your first message?
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I bought Final Fantasy X and Final Fantasy X-2 for the PS2. I traded the Final Fantasy X for some misprinted Yu-Gi-Oh cards several years ago and repurchased the collection for PS3.
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I have a family of 5 and spend 800-1000 on food monthly. That includes taking my lunch to work and sending the kids to school with a packed lunch. The difference in the 800 and 1000 figures are whether we go out to dinner at a nice place or cheap fast food a couple of times a month. I buy most groceries from Aldi.
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You can perform a few basic checks to ensure everything is working properly. At this point in its lifespan, you should be preparing to replace it. Typically corrosion will get to it by now. If it hasnt already, it likely will soon.
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I was in French class. My friends and I thought it had to be some sort of cruel joke. Whenever we saw the second plane hit, we knew it wasnt. One of the friends decided to go into the military as a result of that day.
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TC hates republicans. Are those just republicans who vote or those who stay in the closet and just think some of their ideas are good?
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kinetika_ posted...

Spooking posted...

I just had a wonderful BBQ with my family on this Memorial Day. We also gave thanks to President Trump for turning the economy around and finally having the balls do handle foreign affairs. What a great day it has been. :)

Lmao must be a joke. How was it that gas prices were kept relatively low when obama was in office, and now we're all of the sudden creeping back up to Bush-era prices in less than 2 years of Trump's term? I'm paying $30 more per fill, and about $300 - $500 more a month thanks to this shit sack. Definitely putting more money in my pockets!!

When your economy is in recession, not saying this was entirely Obamas fault, demand for oil is not as inelastic as people often consider it to be.
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Lets be real here. The top reasons women dont want to go out with you are your personality and your social intelligence. As a matter of fact, I would guess that if most of you are living a social life, I.E. getting out and living your life each day outside your home, you probably have at least one woman who is attracted to you.

I met my wife on a dating site. Prior to that, I had been been conditioned that I needed to level myself up to be ready for a relationship. I am 64 in height. At the time, I was an avid runner, now a lifter. I hold a PhD in a STEM field. I had a cute dog that I would take with me to the park. I had a job that paid more than twice the average salary for the area. I drove a flashy car. I didnt understand why I wasnt getting the attention of girls.

When I started dating my now wife, she would get jealous when I was interacting with other women, I said what is your problem? She said the other women were flirting with me. I told her she was nuts and that women had been interacting with me this way for my whole life. Apparently, I had been missing out

These days, the only thing Im trying to level up is my emotional IQ. I want to rank up in my career and need to keep bringing up those soft skills. I do this for myself.
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GunmaN1905 posted...

C7D posted...

GunmaN1905 posted...

Who cares about the phone she has.

Although iPhones are generally an indicator of someone's intelligence.

Most academics I know exclusively use apple products including the iPhone.

Yeah, academics in which fields?

Actually, macOS is decent for programming, but iPhone itself is one of the biggest modern day scams.

I only know chemical and mechanical engineers
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GunmaN1905 posted...

Who cares about the phone she has.

Although iPhones are generally an indicator of someone's intelligence.

Most academics I know exclusively use apple products including the iPhone.
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Aloner posted...

pinky0926 posted...

If only the red pill stuck to "looks and being financially solvent and having self respect are important, work on those".

There are a bunch of STEM nerds on bodybuilding.com who still can't get girls though. At a certain point the raw sexuality of your personality comes into play.

Focusing on your looks, money, status isn't really enough for dating as a dude. Guys also have to know how to attract and approach. It may come naturally to you, but it doesn't to a lot of guys.

Miscers on bodybuilding.com are very trollish. People with muscle tone, a STEM degree, and a pulse dont have any problems finding women on dating websites without ever cold approaching.
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silentwing26x posted...

and yes i know CR changed their tune when they saw reliability issues, but like i said that's because of how the demand is stretching Tesla's capabilities

Toyota owns quite a bit of preferred Tesla stock. In the Toyota, Kaizen system, production is supposed to stop whenever an error is found until it can be fixed. As the model 3 is a new production item, this could explain why they are missing production estimates. They are probably trying to deliver a better quality product.
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silentwing26x posted...

and yes i know CR changed their tune when they saw reliability issues, but like i said that's because of how the demand is stretching Tesla's capabilities

Does Tesla have some reliability issues? Of course they do. It is one of those growing pains that all new car manufacturers have. The price point premium makes them a little more difficult to digest for everyone who uses a Tesla as a primary car though.
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SK8T3R215 posted...

Tesla should just stick with the niche luxury EV market.

I would like to own one of the P100D one day. Alas, Im just an engineer and will have to wait for the used market.
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fan357 posted...

His factories are unsafe. He treats employees at SpaceX like crap. His cars are low quality. Yeah the tech is cool but he's a douche just like all the other fat cats.

One of my friends I met at a conference in grad school is an engineer at Space X. I have never hear him say anything negative about his job or the company.
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silentwing26x posted...

C7D posted...

Investors are tired of sending him blank checks, and the government has no business picking winners and losers in such a large market. Musk has a decent set of ideas. Unfortunately, he would have been better served leveraging his tech to other larger auto manufacturers than starting up his own car brand. It is his narcissism that will lead to the failure of Tesla as a brand.

He literally open sourced Tesla patents for free and forced other automakers to start making electric vehicles

Only half of that sentence is true.
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Investors are tired of sending him blank checks, and the government has no business picking winners and losers in such a large market. Musk has a decent set of ideas. Unfortunately, he would have been better served leveraging his tech to other larger auto manufacturers than starting up his own car brand. It is his narcissism that will lead to the failure of Tesla as a brand.
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