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But in Django you can do the same thing that doesn't return all rows with `select_related` so it seems kind of like you're not using the features of whatever ORM that is.

Every country is endowed with enough natural renewable resources to service their own needs.

> The countries that are moving away from coal are replacing it with natural gas, nuclear or imported energy/materials. Renewables in some cases but only where the country is endowed with natural energy resources and/or is already rich enough to do so. There are valid reasons why this is not immediately possible for India and China if they are to continue developing.

Incorrect. This isn't even true if you're talking about Australian states, let alone countries.

Across the world, the percentage of fossil fuels used to generate power is dropping. This trend seems likely to continue, and Australians can accelerate it with our economic power. Coal is not required to alleviate poverty. Saying coal is required to alleviate poverty is a hyberbolic and emotional statement.

There's no evidence to suggest that we can't alleviate poverty without coal. We can alleviate poverty any number of ways. Your hyperbolic and emotional assertions about the need for Australia to continue selling coal don't inspire confidence.

We can alleviate poverty without coal.

Keeping global warming under control is important for the economic wellbeing and personal welfare of the people in those countries.

If you excluded metallurgical coal from our exports, we'd still be the largest exporter of coal in the world.

Australia is the largest coal exporter in the world.

I agree that what you say is happening is happening, I think there was some great meta-analysis that showed that p-values were not following a distribution that was statistically possible - like on OkCupid where people that are over 5'10" round up to 6ft.

But I think the underlying reason for the push to publish things - and impactful things are easier to publish, is profit. More hireable grads, more tenured professors publishing papers.

> Combined with industry-wide pressures to publish, the replication crisis was inevitable.

> The replication crisis, if nothing else, has shown that productivity is not intrinsically valuable.

I think this is important to focus on - the point of universities has become to produce profit, and to give people degrees that are profitable, and to appear to be able to do those things. This has very little to do with producing research with verifiable results. It's much more to do with getting students into the funnel by making people with tenure appear as productive as possible.

So your argument is that being offensive to someone isn't the same as being disrespectful? Like, I am genuinely curious about how you're justifying this to yourself.

The behaviour I mentioned above, which runs counter to the "self-reliance" mentioned in an example in the definition.

So do you believe they're absurd?

Toxic masculinity refers to traditional cultural masculine norms that can be harmful to men, women, and society overall; this concept of toxic masculinity is not intended to demonize men or male attributes, but rather to emphasize the harmful effects of conformity to certain traditional masculine ideal behaviors such as dominance, self-reliance, and competition.

Wikipedia

If you understood what toxic masculinity is you'd understand it entirely focuses on behaviour, and how those behaviours build male identity.

You think you aren't, but you are when you say the categories of "male, female and 3rd sex" are appropriate for simplifying the "absurdities". You should show people who fit in your "absurd" minority sexual categories with more respect in future.

1. I wish they were incorporated more into male identity because then maybe the male suicide rate would be lower. I've made an effort to make it a part of my masculinity and so have my friends.

2. I suggest you abandon your quest to read "toxic masculinity" as some evil conspiracy to vilify masculinity.

Ahhhh awesome, so when you were talking about your perspective on the interplay of sex and gender you weren't implying that there was anything inherently, objectively absurd about there being 42 sexes, you were just implying you felt that was absurd for some... personal reason? By the way, there's probably way more than 42 since so many things play into sex characteristics, and some of the measures are continuous rather than discrete.

> You're running around in circles now and thus, there is little point in continuing.

By saying there existed an "overwhelmingly binary" sex spectrum, you implied the existence of a minority, so I'm simply saying to give those people the respect they deserve. That's how I "wish them to act" so it absolutely follows, based on your words, that someone who doesn't "wish to act the way you wish them to" doesn't want to respect those minorities. Easy logical reasoning to follow.

> To imply that those who don't wish to act the way you wish them to don't care about minorities is invidious and not supported by any evidence I've seen.

It is if how I wish them to act is to care about minorities, like for instance the population that is not a part of, in your words, the population that's "overwhelmingly binary" - aka a minority, by definition.

> As are most people until they are compelled.

So you're ok with calling people what they want to be called. Nice!

> You could probably fit all 42 into male and female and cut out a lot absurdities.

Why do you, of all the people in the world, get to decide what is and isn't absurd? Is there a particular scientific method you're using to define absurdity?

> I'd go for 3, male, female and 3rd sex. Come up with a better name if you like.

I'd suggest if you need a better name for people that are neither male nor female you educate yourself. Lumping people into "other" isn't particularly useful for those people or even descriptive.

Seeking out mental health assistance more proactively, discussing mental health with their friends.

I agree. And since I both care about minorities and don't care to deeply interrogate people's medical histories, I'm ok with calling people whatever the heck they want to be called. No skin off my elbows. It'd be pretty silly if we thought the arguably more objective sex characteristics of a person were not binary but thought that their gender had to be binary, wouldn't it?

If there's cases that don't fit the simplistic binary, the more accurate and comprehensive view is that it's not binary.

The concept of toxic masculinity is actually one you ought to be in favour of. Toxic masculinity as a general rule makes no deterministic link between toxicity and being a particular biological sex - of which there are many different configurations.

I'm of the impression that back in 1959 when COBOL was released, with a team of 7 designers with 3 women on it, based off the groundwork laid by Grace Hopper, that the technical skill required to be a programmer was actually much higher, and that the women involved in coding were making very technical decisions about that field.

I've got a philosophy/gender studies background and I +1 this summary. The only point I'd make is that "radical feminist" doesn't necessarily mean anti-trans, and of the radfems I know, the vast majority are actually pro-trans. I get the feeling from news and commentary that radfems are overall welcoming to trans people.

If you're 18 and already know why version control is a good idea, you're very hireable in any number of cities/remote!

What's cool is that if people take a more nuanced view of gender and sex than saying it can be measured by one test with only two options, it means they can't take the narrow view that either of those things are binary. Here's hoping!

I know this, but I also know I struggled with C and Go felt delightfully straightforward.

I have very little experience in compiled languages. Coming to Go after Python was not only a joy, but I was able to easily implement concurrency and improve the performance of my game of life simulation side project by something like 25x.

So to me it feels like they did something right.

I guess maybe there just sometimes being a way to do something right only one way, makes searching for solutions, easier. I contrast that with another language I love, Ruby, where it can sometimes feel like there are so many ways to do things that the language isn't opinionated at all.