I always have used the Ian knot

You can. I believe that’s how Minecraft Java runs on android. Newer android versions give you terminal access

Kinda glad that someone big is challenging Adobe tbh

They need to do a PHD before getting internet access in my family

The next president they elect can just take over and abolish elections

I think they should install the monarchy again, then hold free and fair elections to elect a prime minister. Essentially just have a constitutional monarchy.

In court…

I feel like techbros want to do exactly what people advise them NOT to do

“Yeah ai is good, but don’t use it for health advice” “Yeah giving an llm complete control of your browser is a bad idea”

Wouldn’t they need to kidnap the King of Denmark for that?

There are a bunch of useful ways. For example, I was toying with a Minecraft server where people start a country and a local llm can come up with a country code based on their country’s name and the ISO-3166 standard in a few minutes

Germanic but learned English from an American

I am autistic and used to be led into believing I was non binary by a friend group. Thankfully I am out of that group. Ironically, they were the most intolerant people I knew (I wouldn’t have cared if they civilly disagreed with me on some issues, but they wouldn’t.) Meanwhile the evangelical church my family had belonged to, that I went to when I was younger, welcomed me back in with open arms despite civilly disagreeing with my identity and view on gender at the time.

I didn’t assert that gender was meaningless. I asserted that from natural reasoning, either it’s meaningless or a biological binary fact. I am criticising people who are both claiming gender is meaningless but also strongly argue for the likes of neopronouns, etc. If gender is non-binary then that idea of a non-binary is essentially a modern concept that’s popped up in the past decades, rather than something you can argue is either a biological binary from the beginning of man or an oppressive social structure built upon sex.

What is it that you think makes it attractive to them? The meds? The surgery? The bigotry they face? The gender dysphoria? Is it the chosen family because many of them were disowned by their biological one? The shorter life spans? The increased chance of having violence visited upon them? They go through these things because not doing so would be worse for them personally.

Same thing that makes rationing, hiding in air raid shelters, having men in you and your friends family sent home in boxes, or terrorist attacks, constantly looking behind you, getting searched, etc.

That’s very enlightening and thought-provoking material. The detransition figures about people being abandoned is disturbing. Thank you for this.

As for the mental health issues- some could argue that the Gender Dysphoria causes these issues, and that these issues are side effects of Gender Dysphoria. So I’m not too sure if existing mental health issues invalidates gender dysphoria.

I never said the trans experience was attractive. However, some people make it an aesthetic and romanticise it. Although I don’t think the average transgender person does this. People also romanticise difficult periods in time such as the Second World War or the Troubles in Northern Ireland. I’m just trying to figure things out. I guess a third position is then that “gender is meaningless, but just play along”. Possibly similar to a position of “there is no objective morality, just play along” which I cannot seemingly rationalise. Abolishing the idea of gender entirely seems more rational ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

Most children and teenagers with gender dysphoria grow out of it on their own.

Do you have statistics to back this up?

Giving children and teens easy access to strong drugs that will affect their whole future life

Do puberty blockers have this effect?

Gender dysphoria rarely comes alone, usually it’s comorbid with a bunch of other psychological issues. Then transition is often presented as the one treatment that will fix everything. It often fails to do that.

Any more statistics?

No other mental health issue has that kind of political clout and rigid ideology attached to it. The political activism has glued itself to radical ideas.

Scientific research into trans issues has become difficult to conduct, because if you have the „wrong“ results, you might not have a career and be labeled transphobic. In the end it’s trans people themselves who suffer the most from this.

I would agree that this is something that we should be concerned about. I think a recent example was the Cass report in the UK.

I don’t understand how you can’t? Society constructed it, so it exists. Take a rudimentary construction.

Sure, you can be assigned a gender at birth, but if gender is meaningless then why would you feel the need to change it?

A house is different to a factory by most definitions, so they are different. If men and women are equal in capability of skill, then I don’t see why you’d want to change it. Again, I don’t criticise someone’s decision, that’s their decision, but there must be something (not excluding something a dysphoria that could have been present since birth, or saying something stupid like “xyz causes transgender”) causing them to question their gender.

you mean from fallacy

I mean as opposed to ideological reasoning. Natural reasoning is a conclusion that I can come up without any form of ideology or worldview.

Explain the “third thing?” It would really help considering my whole comment is about how I cannot rationalise a third position.

If gender is man-made, I don’t see what positive purpose it serves.

This is my main issue with modern gender theory, honestly. From natural reasoning, either gender is a fixed biological reality, or it’s completely irrelevant, non existent and a man-made concept. Sure, I can respect how other people identify, but if gender is simply a social construct, then I don’t understand how someone could be transgender.

So for someone to feel gender dysphoria, I believe that there should be some form of biological reality; even if we haven’t pinned it down yet. Maybe something to do with what chromosomes or hormones affect the mind compared to the body, or something else causing it ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

Not really my business anyway so I don’t care that much, as long as the person in question is comfortable and healthy, regardless of my understanding.

The Council of Nicæa was in modern-day Türkiye, not Rome. Jesus preached that He is God and that the consciousness of the Holy Spirit. Jesus said “In the Name (singular) of The Father, and of The Son, and of The Holy Spirit”. The Old Testament also has Christophanies- where God appears as a man, like He did to Abraham.

Genesis 18:1-5

And the LORD appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat at the door of his tent in the heat of the day. He lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, three men were standing in front of him. When he saw them, he ran from the tent door to meet them and bowed himself to the earth and said, “O Lord, if I have found favor in your sight, do not pass by your servant. Let a little water be brought, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree, while I bring a morsel of bread, that you may refresh yourselves, and after that you may pass on⁠—since you have come to your servant.” So they said, “Do as you have said.”