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Plus, it's not as if it's the first time a corrupt politician is voted into office. It's not a disqualifiying trait unfortunately, as much as we would...

Thanks! So why aren't the Dems making a deal? Seems they benefit from a split GOP instead of letting them reach a deal where concessions are made on w...

This is going to take while.

Ah, I think there are some tangential benefits so I'd mostly just leave it be. It raises awareness, creates more room for people struggling with these...

There are cognitive differences. Behaviour is learned. So no.

So why doesn't Hakeem Jeffries get it if he consistently gets the most votes?

Personal freedom usually. My body, my choice, kind of thing. Subsidiarity precludes it becoming more readily available in the Netherlands. They can ca...

I think the mainstream position is concerned with that if a person has gender affirming surgery then people should accept it. About the question wheth...

Precisely for the reason I stated. We can be in favour of both social change and gender affirming surgery. The latter is therefore not antithetical to...

That's a false dichotomy though. And we started out with a theory anyway so let's not get carried away with the qualifications shall we? It doesn't ac...

You've got admirers, groupies and sycophants. On the plus side, I've got people who feel really strongly about my online persona. And any attention is...

I have no clue. Could be a strandplevier, so a beach plover in English but the socket's arch is relatively high. The Netherlands has 500 different bir...

I was on one lesser vote before my name was added to it and then the lower votes started to stream in.

Can you share a guidance where you think they're doing this because I just tried to randomly and after spending 30 minutes reading, I couldn't find wh...

That bird isn't even native to the Netherlands! Any way, I just thought your comment about disbelief reflected your background instead of an issue wit...

This one was indeed a bit confusing as I expected her to stand still for a moment but she doesn't, kind of by implication from "somber". I also wonder...

I think we should differentiate with the ideal world and the complex, large nation states we live in. In an ideal world, we have a holistic approach a...

I don't think so because public health policy isn't in the business of resolving social issues. It has to work with the constraints it has and that's ...

I'm not promoting either. I'm promoting having the choice and respecting such choice when it's been made one way or the other. What I don't accept, no...

Because they're harmful. Love how you are now confusing lesbians with gender dysphoria. I hate your parents for fucking up your upbringing.

I agree and at the same time don't. :smile: I do think it is a fix, given the constraints of social circumstances. Not having the option would lead to...

If transsexual regret is a measure for how bad transitioning would be, then the opposite should be true. Since only 8% regret transitioning, transitio...

That mechanism is kind of the point for an Aesop fable so I partly failed in what I was going for. Funnily enough, the two stories I spent less than 3...

Thanks for the kind words. It was inspired by Vera's story and Aesop fables. The moral is, capitalism sucks and its the lack of solidarity among mice ...

Is this written by @"Vera Mont"?

I'm disgusted with your bigotry. Happy? It's tiresome to read posts from someone who doesn't grasp the concepts of proof and evidence. When you're con...

Are you going to spam anecdotal evidence because you realise your arguments are crap?

I see your ability to read hasn't improved. You misrepresent your own research and when I point out biological positivism has been waylaid and that so...

There's people actually studying this, called "criminology" and they've debunked biological positivism a long time ago.The most accepted theories curr...

No, it wouldn't because it distracts from the point that this is an irrelevancy.

They're also 4 times more likely to experience violence so perhaps that's related. The correlation of male-to-female transsexual crime rates and male ...

Not enough tits for it to be Tobias.

Hmmm... I think I missed something first time reading this. https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NSOtYw6KtxY/TteA-Rh77AI/AAAAAAAACog/NcBnAQFLpWY/s1600/Fat-Cats-...

Just intonation is also used in classical music, especially if older than Barok era music. I'm not sure (since I don't play that instrument) but I thi...

Kudos to @"Vera Mont" for what appears to me to be the correct reading. However, the meaning was difficult to divine for me at first reading, which ju...

Well done. I suspect @"Olivier5" is the author.

Can you read? Who did I reply to?

Nice false analogy there. Traits are behaviour not biologically given. You ignore the fact the traits you qualify as feminine or masculine are exhibit...

That doesn't follow at all and what you think isn't a fact so we can ignore that. It's rather well known stereotypical gender traits are expressed by ...

High notes do go "plink". There's just never a "k" sound. The attack of a piano note is too slow to merit a "k" (or "c" in the story) even if I play r...

I thought you liked Spinoza. That's one guy. And I know you positively love me and I pretend to be a guy online.

Neither. Why waste the resources?

I like the idea but at the same time I'm not connecting the sounds to a grand piano and as an avid piano player I do manage to get all sorts of sounds...

I thought the word usage was slightly inconsistent. With Bro and sis but also meticulously and musculature. Especially that last one somehow pulled me...

Those aren't male or female traits but gender stereotypes. You shouldn't confuse the two. That said, it is correct that male gender stereotypes are va...

Ha, thanks! It's not that I don't know the rules (and can apply them correctly about 90% of the time). I see the mistakes in this story but they're no...

That's the only thing I read: science fiction and fantasy, about 20k pages a year. :rofl:

Funny how as a non-native that didn't bother me but if it had been in Dutch it would've annoyed me to no end. It's probably not as jarring because it ...

I just learned a cliff doesn't have to be next to the sea so you really have to be careful when you go cliff diving.

The turtle and the scorpion is the original Aesop fable actually. I borrowed from that in my AI story in the pervious contest where Hep Hastings has a...