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I really wish I knew exactly which statements you were disagreeing with.

Nitpick: approx. half of same sex couples don't need to adopt. Sorry for digression

And so many stories about people shouting at strangers.

Hi. Would you use the phrase lower-caste?

Do you think a potential change would be to stop using that phrase?

So Castes exist but should people start using the phrase different-caste instead of higher-caste, lower-caste, etc.

Scientists choose to argue about things like did Eukarya evolving from Archaea?Imagine having interesting debates about that [0] and then having some numpty tell you that evolution doesn't exist at all.

0 - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096098222...

Nonsense. Inside the global warming field there are loads of different models and predictions and intense debate about different ideas.

There are some outlier models that are ignored by other scientists because of their bad faith assumptions and methodology but that's true of many fields of science like quantum physics and cosmology.

A bunch of dogs just seems like you're going to have otherwise well behaved dogs getting 'yappy' and annoyed at each other. Or worse.

I calculate my comfort level in an office with N dogs would decrease at a rate of N*(N-1)

Because it's not for sale. Even for all the money in Apple's offshore accounts.

The Taiwanese government would block the sale if a sale could even be agreed.

I'm just going to make this up and guess that mothers and women would have the same reaction as men IF the reduction of work hours left them with spare time.

We are dealing with averages here so just going by averages women spend a huge amount of time on non-work household tasks whereas on average men don't. My theory is therefore that women would find a maximum level of satisfaction if they had enough time for non-work tasks + work. And that their satisfaction would be reduced if they had too much time.

Or another totally different theory. Men find satisfaction in our jobs because they distract us from all the other things that we don't want to do. Like cleaning, diy tasks, exercise, or seeing a doctor about that long-term issue.

Agree with you 100% now. I think I should have followed the general rule of keeping quiet in sensitive sub-threads unless you're really adding something to the topic.

I am really confused. Specifically regarding whether you disagree with my general points which I would 100% totally understand or the bracketed statement which would leave me doubting my understanding of any of this topic.

I'd like to say the statement I'm querying is really relevant to my career as I work on back-end systems and my understanding is that it is really important for medical databases to be expanded so that doctors can schedule the right type of medical screening for somebody based on their body. I'm also aware that in certain parts of the world people might not want information stored in databases because they fear persecution based on that stored data.

I was criticising you but didn't mean to offend. I was sure that my bracketed comment was a real thing that doctors have to be aware of and was an example of where science and medicine need to be able to treat a person properly even if they have transitioned. You have really confused me and now I'm worried that this medical issue is taboo or I'm mistaken?

This is a sensitive topic and I think your reply is not well thought out.

There are a few topics such as reproductive health and medical health screening (i.e. Trans-women can get prostate cancer) where science has to study links and possible causation vs correlation without being silenced because it sounds similar to what bigots might say.

If medical scientists are too scared to study health issues around these topics because they are worried about being called a bigot then I can't imagine that will turn out well for everyone.

Is the ratio of teachers to student relevant as well? And perhaps other factors?

I would rephrase that as: 'They are meant to be highly qualified temps with strong work ethics and experience but sometimes they are not so qualified or experienced and sometimes their hard work is not aligned with the company that is ultimately paying them to do something'

The interaction between consultancies and companies is fascinating to me. It's like a weird mix of symbiosis/parasitism that occurs at so many different levels and between so many different types of companies.

And it's tied into issues with hiring and retention of staff so that's interesting as well.

Having said that I don't want anything to do with either side of the interaction. Happy to hear other peoples stories.

Though tough, through thorough thought; a choice

She's a journalist. If you have a problem with that then you probably need to study more history.

If society is 99% people who refuse to associate with a holocaust denier and 1% deniers then what happens?

I am not a philosopher and I have no idea how to reason about situations where individual rights for individuals and groups of individuals clash.

That's cool. I don't mind. I'd prefer it if you didn't try and force me to interact with holocaust deniers. I'm not sure if that's the kind of thing you want to do?

In 'my' free and open society other people are free to have ideas and I am free to avoid interaction with those people who's ideas I won't tolerate. I believe that is what it means to not tolerate holocaust denialism.

I think it's really interesting and not weird at all. Wikipedia has change records which are an absolutely brilliant way of seeing how small edits can change the meaning and intent of a document.

The particular topic is not surprising either because it is very important to modern politics.

The whole concept of an editor war is a fascinating topic in itself.

Hybridisation sounds like a bug not a feature. You get a benefit but with quite an extreme tradeoff.

To be clear I understand that hybrids are current best practice. But the hybrid practice seem antithetical to open source agriculture.

BTW would you say that seed producers have no motivation to develop non-hybrids that will perform as well as hybrids?

I don't think the "developer subculture" is clearly bounded or uniform geographically. You state that the developer subculture has stayed with pro-meritocracy but I think it has changed.

Where could we find a definition to check that we were referring to the same thing?

So like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrenology but for the front of your head rather than the top.

I've just found it's referred to as: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physiognomy

See also:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphology

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmistry

Reading these stories it always helps me to remind myself that the human body contains an estimated 37 trillion cells. The human body is so complex that frankly it's amazing that medical science is making any progress at all curing all this stuff.

Do you have any references for the claim that: "it’s often lost on people that whole vegetables are better than processed patties"? Sounds like a baseless generalisation.

I'm really interesting in the best pricing models for this type of mini-product.

2000 terror attacks a year. That would be 6 a day. I'll bet you can't give me 6 links for the last month.