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Topic | Trans people have been allowed in the Olympics since 2003 |
pinky0926 02/08/21 10:20:47 AM #105 | RedJackson posted... Lol Ok. Please explain then with your model why there is not a single female in the history of athletics who has even entered into the top 3000-4000 of men's track times. Presumably since testosterone isn't that big of a deal and it's just the resolve to win that gets people medals, can you explain why in every event women are 10% slower than men? Following this idea, are women just...10% less motivated than men? Are you seriously suggesting that in the history of athletics there's just not been even a single woman ever on the planet who would push herself to the limit like men can? Really? --- CE's Resident Scotsman. https://imgur.com/ILz2ZbV |
Topic | Trans people have been allowed in the Olympics since 2003 |
pinky0926 02/08/21 10:02:19 AM #98 | RedJackson posted... Your evidence is only on paper, there's absolutely nothing on whether or not that testosorone amount is thwarted by a minds ability to persevere If I'm understanding you correctly, are you essentially arguing that physiology and talent are entirely irrelevant next to the pure resolve to win? Bro that's the plot of Bleach. That's not how elite sports works. Secondly are you suggesting we should sanction using performance enhancing drugs on otherwise healthy individuals so that they can win medals better? --- CE's Resident Scotsman. https://imgur.com/ILz2ZbV |
Topic | Trans people have been allowed in the Olympics since 2003 |
pinky0926 02/08/21 9:59:58 AM #97 | Proto_Spark posted... Thats fair. The problems with the study itself are more in line with "she's ignoring a lot of the previous research into the topic" and basically comes down to she started at the conclusion and worked backwards. So in this situation the entire study is organized with malicious intent. True. I'm having a look at these papers in the comments. Am I correct with this one that it suggests that bone mass and density is preserved in the first 1-2 years of transitioning? https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25377496/ Anyway, my takeaway here is that if transitioning after X amount of times removes any perceived "male" performance advantage, then there's no argument anymore to be had. That amount of time (X) would be the marker that should be where MTF athletes compete in the female category, in my view. I just don't think self-ID alone works for sport. I don't think there's any risk of MTF athletes dominating womens sport. Nor do I think there even will be many. Nor do I think that people are transitioning for the purpose of winning medals, that one is the most ridiculous of the lot. But I do think it's very reasonable to consider that at the top level of sport elite athletes (you know, those guys who cheat all the damn time) could easily abuse a well-meaning policy if its not carefully constructed. If elite athletes will risk their health and their credibility to take performance enhancing drugs to win medals, I don't think it's unfeasible that they would abuse a system like this to do so. I.e. a cis athlete could use a loose policy guideline to win in a category they have a better chance in. And I also think if sports have a welfare concern (like rugby seems to), they need to be very, very sure. --- CE's Resident Scotsman. https://imgur.com/ILz2ZbV |
Topic | Trans people have been allowed in the Olympics since 2003 |
pinky0926 02/08/21 9:44:11 AM #93 | Proto_Spark posted... This. It should just be enough to say "this study is wrong because X". I kind of have a problem with the circular reasoning that terf gets thrown around with now. It's used as a hammer to smash the research and not the other way around. Also I'm not sure a reddit thread on /r/gendercynical counts as a peer review dismissal. Another source might be Ross Tucker as above. And I wish this sort of skepticism was applied to the study that Joanna Harper did on distance runners that is quoted every time this thread comes up, but it's not. Edit: I see the comments linking to studies now, gonna have a read. --- CE's Resident Scotsman. https://imgur.com/ILz2ZbV |
Topic | Trans people have been allowed in the Olympics since 2003 |
pinky0926 02/08/21 9:31:27 AM #90 | Here's a thread btw from a sports scientist on the issue. Becomes even more controversial in something like rugby where there's considered a welfare concern and not just an unfairness one: https://twitter.com/Scienceofsport/status/1297915789530497025 --- CE's Resident Scotsman. https://imgur.com/ILz2ZbV |
Topic | Trans people have been allowed in the Olympics since 2003 |
pinky0926 02/08/21 8:57:54 AM #87 | Tyranthraxus posted... What you're calling "male advantage" is actually just "testosterone advantage" and men, even low T 90 year old men have more of it than women on average. Yeah although I put down "male" because people like to make the point that testosterone is not the only driver and that testosterone does not work exactly the same in all individuals (I don't think these are good points when it comes to dismissing T altogether but it's worth noting that it's the effect of testosterone that matters more than the amount of testosterone alone, namely androgenisation).
I think testosterone is a difficult marker for the reason given above - two individuals with the same testosterone can respond differently to it. Testosterone is the key and your receptors are the lock, so to speak. Some people have a broken lock, or a different size lock, etc. But the difference in testosterone is so large between male and female that that is how sport is trying to do it currently. it's controversial and it's not very good, but so far it seems to be the best marker. The issue becomes even more complex when legacy advantages of male puberty can be retained even after testosterone levels are diminished. I.e. if you go through male puberty and then transition and take HRT to bring your T to normal female levels, do you lose all of the physiological changes or just some of them, or most of them? This seems to be the contentious point because there's just not a lot of good studies on trans athletes. --- CE's Resident Scotsman. https://imgur.com/ILz2ZbV |
Topic | Trans people have been allowed in the Olympics since 2003 |
pinky0926 02/08/21 8:33:25 AM #84 | *I'll add to what I just said: if it could be shown conclusively that someone who transitions (MTF) loses the physiological advantages after a certain amount of time and comes into a normal female range, then there's not a problem anymore. And equally if someone starts transitioning before puberty then there's no rational to exclude them either (assuming transitioning before puberty is the ethical choice, and that's not an issue I understand well). Currently it seems there's a lot of woolly research around this area. A couple of badly done studies on trans athletes that come to different conclusions. Some better studies (not on athletes) that show that not all advantages are lost and many are retained to a level that gives a considerable edge. I think it's not wrong for women's sport to demand exclusion until evidence shows that someone who has transitioned has lost their "male" advantage. I don't think it would be correct for sport to allow inclusion until evidence shows. It's a protected category, so if you want to make an evidence-based argument then exclusion should be the default. --- CE's Resident Scotsman. https://imgur.com/ILz2ZbV |
Topic | Trans people have been allowed in the Olympics since 2003 |
pinky0926 02/08/21 8:17:19 AM #81 | Ilishe posted... @logical you made a good and convincing case. There's two problems with this as I see it, one qualitative and one quantitative. The quality is that "short men" is not a protected category. So take basketball as the example: We know that being tall is an advantage in basketball, but we don't have height categories. Why? Because no one has thought "we need to protect the class of short men who are disadvantaged in this sport". You could make an argument to say that we should, but we simply haven't. If there was a short person basketball category in elite sport, we'd have to defend it and prevent people from simply wanting to be in it. We have a women's sports category, so it has to be defended, or justified in some way that makes sense. The second problem is quantitative. All else being equal, being short (or at least, not tall) is not an insurmountable problem in elite basketball. We have the data to show for that. Some basketball players have managed to enter the NBA and compete at that level despite being well under the general height range. But sex? Or specifically, the androgenisation caused by male puberty, driven primarily by testosterone in normal individuals without DSDs? No way. This is a completely insurmountable advantage. There is basically not a single female in the history of any athletic event or weights event who is even in the top 3000 men. The fastest females in history are being beaten by teenage boys and semi elite athletes. We have the data to show for that too. And it doesn't help to make arguments like "but my friend Sarah is faster than me at running". The point isn't to look at atypical examples, or a mediocre male athlete vs an elite female athlete. It's to look at typical, like-for-like examples. And this model basically erases women from elite sport altogether, except in a few fringe cases like equestrian and so on. The point is, having a female category allows women a protected space to compete as equals. When Shelly-Ann Fraser Price won a Olympic gold medal, she did so even though she was 10% slower than Ussain Bolt. We recognise them equally, even if the raw performance is different, because categories create equality in sport. If this category did not exist, there would be no women (trans or cis) competing in any events at any elite level, let alone winning medals. Now you might still argue "so what, trans women are women, let them compete in that protected space". Fine, but then you undermine the reasoning for having that space in the first place (namely the insurmountable male physiological advantage). --- CE's Resident Scotsman. https://imgur.com/ILz2ZbV |
Topic | Trans people have been allowed in the Olympics since 2003 |
pinky0926 02/08/21 8:03:04 AM #78 | This is a bizarre issue because people are using bad science and even just illogical premises to justify ideological or human rights positions they've already landed on. I'm fine with the ideology and the human rights arguments, but state that ahead of time. Don't twist the argument into some weird gaslighting in the form of "there is no difference in male/female biology" or "there is no evidence" or "this is all just too complicated" or "there is no advantage because some women are better than some men". Women's sport is a protected sports category (mens isn't), so obviously it's a contentious issue any time you want to discuss widening the inclusion into that category, and how to define it. To reduce it into "you're either a terf or you're not" style of arguments is intellectually dishonest to a fault. No one should be strapped to a cross for wanting to understand and reason out why these categories exist in sport and how they should be defined. --- CE's Resident Scotsman. https://imgur.com/ILz2ZbV |
Topic | Divinity Original Sin 2 is one of the most punishing RPGs I've ever played. |
pinky0926 02/08/21 6:13:12 AM #12 | |
Topic | Based Ana Kasparian destroying bigots |
pinky0926 02/08/21 5:51:02 AM #6 | God she's intolerable Guess what, "I'm better than a fascist" isn't quite the glowing cover letter you think it is --- CE's Resident Scotsman. https://imgur.com/ILz2ZbV |
Topic | Divinity Original Sin 2 is one of the most punishing RPGs I've ever played. |
pinky0926 02/08/21 5:25:09 AM #10 | UnholyMudcrab posted... I always felt like I wasn't creative enough to play D:OS2 properly. Like, the most creative I ever got was teleporting people places where they would take damage. Then I read about the ways people work circles around the combat system and it just makes my head spin. From what I read it's basically like if you're happy to cheese the combat system, and oddly this seems a genre of game where that's encouraged --- CE's Resident Scotsman. https://imgur.com/ILz2ZbV |
Topic | Divinity Original Sin 2 is one of the most punishing RPGs I've ever played. |
pinky0926 02/08/21 5:01:52 AM #4 | I don't know how anyone can play this game without save scumming tbh, it's too severe and you can't grind or anything --- CE's Resident Scotsman. https://imgur.com/ILz2ZbV |
Topic | Meanwhile, in Australia |
pinky0926 02/08/21 4:48:59 AM #18 | Jesus fuck, Melbourne?! That's like the Portland of Australia. I'd be less surprised if this happened in Queensland or Karratha or something but Melbourne... --- CE's Resident Scotsman. https://imgur.com/ILz2ZbV |
Topic | Divinity Original Sin 2 is one of the most punishing RPGs I've ever played. |
pinky0926 02/08/21 4:38:49 AM #1 | One error of positioning or attack order and you may as well restart the entire fight and backtrack half an hour of progress. Same goes for dialogue choices. I guess this makes it a proper RPG, but it's rare to play a game where just saying the wrong thing will land you in a sudden encounter with someone seriously above your level. Enjoying but man this is difficult and slow --- CE's Resident Scotsman. https://imgur.com/ILz2ZbV |
Topic | Already 12 episodes into One Piece...oh no... |
pinky0926 02/07/21 5:02:52 PM #9 | ssj3vegeta posted... One of us, one of us This Also, I'm surprised you like it already. Standard One Piece fan problem is "This is the best anime ever, but you just need to watch the first 30 or so episodes before it stops sucking" And that is obviously more than enough of a problem for most people --- CE's Resident Scotsman. https://imgur.com/ILz2ZbV |
Topic | Internet pathological liars |
pinky0926 02/07/21 1:02:45 PM #2 | I've never understood people who troll as a full time thing and it genuinely bothers me that some people are so twisted that they'll commit to a fake internet personality for the purpose of mildly annoying some strangers It suggests something seriously off with their brain chemistry --- CE's Resident Scotsman. https://imgur.com/ILz2ZbV |
Topic | My landlord wants to charge a $1000 cleaning fee (I moved out). |
pinky0926 02/07/21 12:49:09 PM #34 | The worst part of this all is that I don't think he's trying to be malicious (weird and naive as that may sound). We've had ongoing issues with this landlord being TOO attentive. Once we mentioned to him that we think we saw a mouse. He texted back immediately saying he would come over and he was at the house in 20 minutes (im pretty sure he lives a 30 minutes drive away). He set up traps everywhere and then randomly vacuumed the entire carpet. He then came back 3 times in the following fortnight to check the traps until we had to send him an email politely asking him to calm the fuck down and stop intruding. This is one example of many where the guy was clearly just very very anally-retentive about his property. I should have known he'd do this. --- CE's Resident Scotsman. https://imgur.com/ILz2ZbV |
Topic | My landlord wants to charge a $1000 cleaning fee (I moved out). |
pinky0926 02/07/21 12:39:24 PM #24 | Solo_Wing posted... At least next time you've learned your lesson to take a video evidence along with a newspaper / common show for that day next time you leave I did all this. To be honest, i think he's just salty that we moved out in the middle of a pandemic when no one is moving into rentals. The cleaning cost is conveniently about a month's rent. --- CE's Resident Scotsman. https://imgur.com/ILz2ZbV |
Topic | My landlord wants to charge a $1000 cleaning fee (I moved out). |
pinky0926 02/07/21 12:30:39 PM #9 | 16-BITTER posted... My favorite landlord story: Fucking scum --- CE's Resident Scotsman. https://imgur.com/ILz2ZbV |
Topic | My landlord wants to charge a $1000 cleaning fee (I moved out). |
pinky0926 02/07/21 12:30:26 PM #7 | onedarksoul posted... Perhaps you should have done this. There's a provision in the lease that he will get a professional cleaner regardless and the cost of this would be around $200, so I figured what the hey, if he's going to get someone in to shampoo the carpet and whatever no matter what I do, no point paying twice for it. I've moved house many times in my life and never had trouble like this, but I should have known with the kind of guy he is. --- CE's Resident Scotsman. https://imgur.com/ILz2ZbV |
Topic | My landlord wants to charge a $1000 cleaning fee (I moved out). |
pinky0926 02/07/21 12:28:10 PM #3 | skermac posted... So why didnt you spend 10 seconds wiping those areas? Naturally it was entirely deliberate, I looked directly at those spots and thought, "I'm just going to leave this, because I hate money" --- CE's Resident Scotsman. https://imgur.com/ILz2ZbV |
Topic | My landlord wants to charge a $1000 cleaning fee (I moved out). |
pinky0926 02/07/21 12:25:08 PM #1 | Before you assume the obvious (i.e. that I am a methhead and I completely trashed the place), here were his comments on the checkout form:
I'm not going to share pictures for obvious reasons but I checked with various friends and they said the place was absolutely sparkling. The photos the landlord sent through were zoomed in to a molecular level of some dust and basic things that would take a 10 second wipe to fix if they were spotted. I have no doubt that if he hires a cleaner they will give the place a 15 minute once over and be done. I'm never renting again. --- CE's Resident Scotsman. https://imgur.com/ILz2ZbV |
Topic | LA Fitness zero initiation $19.99 a month offer |
pinky0926 02/07/21 12:19:15 PM #16 | Bleuets posted... you've only seen the commercials and never been in a planet fitness before, am I right? I've only heard stories on line. No I've never been in one. --- CE's Resident Scotsman. https://imgur.com/ILz2ZbV |
Topic | "Music today is so vapid and shallow. All they talk about is drugs... |
pinky0926 02/07/21 12:00:52 PM #13 | BobanMarjanovic posted... ^^ You can't seriously agree with that troll --- CE's Resident Scotsman. https://imgur.com/ILz2ZbV |
Topic | "Music today is so vapid and shallow. All they talk about is drugs... |
pinky0926 02/07/21 11:38:59 AM #9 | PipeHam posted... It's not that all they talk about today is sex and drugs, Ben Shapiro, is that you --- CE's Resident Scotsman. https://imgur.com/ILz2ZbV |
Topic | It would almost be worth giving Republican voters a free euro trip just once |
pinky0926 02/07/21 9:32:59 AM #20 | Lol at unfairrepresent clutching pearls as usual --- CE's Resident Scotsman. https://imgur.com/ILz2ZbV |
Topic | It would almost be worth giving Republican voters a free euro trip just once |
pinky0926 02/07/21 8:35:47 AM #14 | Ruvan22 posted... Aww why moving out of Scotland? Girlfriend got a good job in England and I can work remotely, basically --- CE's Resident Scotsman. https://imgur.com/ILz2ZbV |
Topic | LA Fitness zero initiation $19.99 a month offer |
pinky0926 02/07/21 7:56:36 AM #5 | I4NRulez posted... Eh, planet fitness is 10 bucks tho. Isn't that the place that is 90% treadmills and if you use the weights with any degree of seriousness an alarm goes off to tell you to stop? --- CE's Resident Scotsman. https://imgur.com/ILz2ZbV |
Topic | It would almost be worth giving Republican voters a free euro trip just once |
pinky0926 02/07/21 7:50:40 AM #5 | Godnorgosh posted... Important part of this strategy is that during the trip they have a medical emergency of some kind and need to go to the hospital So I'm moving to England soon and I'm a pretty annoyed that prescription medication is not free in England (although it's still cheap, and healthcare is still free). In Scotland, all medication is free. Like even if you get chlamydia and you need some antibiotics, it's covered. This is the standard I've come to expect. --- CE's Resident Scotsman. https://imgur.com/ILz2ZbV |
Topic | It would almost be worth giving Republican voters a free euro trip just once |
pinky0926 02/07/21 7:45:00 AM #3 | realtalkguy posted... I love how you excluded your own country because we all know the UK isn't even one of the nice countries lo Yes I realise Americans often want to defensively pull a "but what about YOUR country?" when Brits are critical of the USA but they need to remember, there's nothing british people enjoy more than some quality self-loathing --- CE's Resident Scotsman. https://imgur.com/ILz2ZbV |
Topic | It would almost be worth giving Republican voters a free euro trip just once |
pinky0926 02/07/21 7:38:55 AM #1 | Every working class self-hating american exceptionalist, just give them a couple of weeks around the nicer parts of western europe. Show them germany, denmark, norway, sweden (yes, sweden too). Show them what the evils of socialism really looks like. What countries that prioritise education, healthcare and social infrastructure over the military industrial complex look like. Countries that don't let huge corporations shaft them at every conceivable turn. I feel like you could cure a lot of social ills with that simple exercise. --- CE's Resident Scotsman. https://imgur.com/ILz2ZbV |
Topic | I got memed into getting an RGB mechanical keyboard |
pinky0926 02/07/21 7:32:41 AM #9 | Sounds like that's not what I have then, it c l a c c I'll find out, need to fish it out --- CE's Resident Scotsman. https://imgur.com/ILz2ZbV |
Topic | I got memed into getting an RGB mechanical keyboard |
pinky0926 02/07/21 7:27:06 AM #7 | archedsoul posted... Which exact model with which color switch? Corsair K70 and I think cherry mx. --- CE's Resident Scotsman. https://imgur.com/ILz2ZbV |
Topic | Describe your favourite runin with the police. |
pinky0926 02/07/21 7:24:25 AM #6 | First year of uni, mid 2000s or something. I lived in a pretty affluent area and was renting a room in my wealthy friends' house. I had terrible style then. Dressed totally like a chav. We went on a night out and had come home pretty steaming. I was fumbling with my keys trying to get in. It was a really cold night in Glasgow and I had my hoodie up. A police car pulls up and the polis start asking us what we are doing. I look at them bewildered and say I was just trying to get in my house. They stare at me with a look that suggests they don't believe a word as we continue to try and get the keys in. The cops are about to get out and question us when we finally open the door. We go inside and they hover around for a bit to make sure we're not breaking anything, and then they leave. It occurred to me afterwards that we must have looked like two drug addicts trying to break into a house in a nice neighbourhood. Somewhat ironically, that flat was burgled twice only a couple of months after that. I sort of imagine this brief and ultimately benign run-in is how it must feel for black folk in America but literally all the time --- CE's Resident Scotsman. https://imgur.com/ILz2ZbV |
Topic | Is it true men who look like this can get hot girls in Europe? |
pinky0926 02/07/21 7:20:15 AM #13 | |
Topic | I like to drink milk out of my wonder woman cup |
pinky0926 02/07/21 7:18:01 AM #7 | do you say "I love my wondy mommy milky" every time you take a sip? --- CE's Resident Scotsman. https://imgur.com/ILz2ZbV |
Topic | Is it true men who look like this can get hot girls in Europe? |
pinky0926 02/07/21 7:09:48 AM #9 | winged_weltall posted... I've lived in Europe all my life and can pretty much confirm what pinky said, especially about Eastern Europe. And then you go to somewhere like the North of England or most of Scotland and the men are more attractive than the women but everyone is still chubby and pale but not in a healthy looking way --- CE's Resident Scotsman. https://imgur.com/ILz2ZbV |
Topic | I got memed into getting an RGB mechanical keyboard |
pinky0926 02/07/21 7:08:34 AM #4 | I must say the clack it makes is satisfying. If the keys weren't so damn large and they didn't sit so high I'd quite enjoy it. But damn it's not a fun keyboard to use unless set up in a permanent position. --- CE's Resident Scotsman. https://imgur.com/ILz2ZbV |
Topic | Is it true men who look like this can get hot girls in Europe? |
pinky0926 02/07/21 7:07:28 AM #6 | Not the most subtle trolling but at least it lets us identify you quickly :) --- CE's Resident Scotsman. https://imgur.com/ILz2ZbV |
Topic | Is it true men who look like this can get hot girls in Europe? |
pinky0926 02/07/21 7:00:52 AM #4 | realtalkguy posted... Old man is still old This may shock you but there's a sizeable population of young women who prefer old men --- CE's Resident Scotsman. https://imgur.com/ILz2ZbV |
Topic | I got memed into getting an RGB mechanical keyboard |
pinky0926 02/07/21 6:52:06 AM #1 | Sure it was cool for like a week to have it sync up to my music But now I have a keyboard that weighs about 10x what a keyboard should, has a wire (a ridiculously thick one) and seems to allow keys to slip off as easily as a silk sock or something. And the action is way too high for any actual serious typing And it was like $100 wtf --- CE's Resident Scotsman. https://imgur.com/ILz2ZbV |
Topic | the guitar chick from genshin impacc |
pinky0926 02/07/21 6:49:09 AM #9 | indica posted... That's very odd. I don't see any connection... I believe the idea is that the kansai accent is supposed to be a bit of a "country" accent in japanese terms, so they just go with that. --- CE's Resident Scotsman. https://imgur.com/ILz2ZbV |
Topic | Is it true men who look like this can get hot girls in Europe? |
pinky0926 02/07/21 6:46:02 AM #2 | I'm not seeing much continuity between the silver fox in the first picture and the walking tumor in the second But to answer your question, Europe is a big place and the quality and cultural norms vary wildly from place to place. In Eastern Europe you will often see overweight thugs with straight up Victoria's Secret level women, though. --- CE's Resident Scotsman. https://imgur.com/ILz2ZbV |
Topic | the guitar chick from genshin impacc |
pinky0926 02/07/21 5:42:07 AM #2 | They do this with anime dubs whenever a character had a kansai accent in the Japanese version too, its odd. --- CE's Resident Scotsman. https://imgur.com/ILz2ZbV |
Topic | 'President Trump was the best thing to happen to Christianity since Jesus.' |
pinky0926 02/06/21 10:58:56 PM #24 | Trump spent more time inside Stormy Daniels than he did in church. These people are a disease. --- CE's Resident Scotsman. https://imgur.com/ILz2ZbV |
Topic | Of these, which is the most compelling evidence that Michael Myers is not human? |
pinky0926 02/06/21 10:54:58 PM #20 | Josiah_Is_Back posted... @Johnny_Nutcase Well said. Michael really is terrifying because nothing suggests he is anything other than a pure eldritch horror. There's no tragic back story or personal grievance or toxic waste or whatever. He just...is. --- CE's Resident Scotsman. https://imgur.com/ILz2ZbV |
Topic | Candace Owens thinking about running for President |
pinky0926 02/06/21 10:37:36 PM #8 | Thighon posted... It's not weirdly. He's a trump supporter alt and is mocking TC Ah --- CE's Resident Scotsman. https://imgur.com/ILz2ZbV |
Topic | Candace Owens thinking about running for President |
pinky0926 02/06/21 10:36:03 PM #5 | David1988 posted... Dont encourage this, remember Trump Exactly this. Republicans have shown they cannot be trusted with electing sane and competent people Also I have you tagged as a trump supporter weirdly --- CE's Resident Scotsman. https://imgur.com/ILz2ZbV |
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