peto

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Into the meat grinder!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The lack of pain-empathy in healthcare is mind-blowing. I’m a white man in an excellent position to be listened to, but when I had appendicitis last year getting people to understand that no, I am in crippling pain and I think it’s urgent was far to much hassle for someone in crippling pain. I can’t imagine what it’s like for women.

  I can understand folk getting jaded eventually but I often get the feeling that many people start out not caring.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anne Rice is girl porn.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  ‘vampire smut’ is almost, but not quite redundant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Into the meat grinder!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You probably don’t want to know the details of any science done before… Probably the 90’s?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Religion does not belong to a Democracy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably because we don’t have any democracies, by that definition anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trans women should be allowed in sports, but with strict limitations⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know. Weight alone is likely a poor measure, and one we see exploited in combat sports to the harm and even death of competators. Working that specifically out is a question for sports scientists I think, rather than basing it on the feelings and biases of spectators.

  What I am talking about is the cultural acceptance of sectioned competition, and that it doesn’t reduce the achievements and glory of competators.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trans women should be allowed in sports, but with strict limitations⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I assume you mean something like weight classes in combat sports? No one expects a welterweight to fight a heavyweight. And the existence of either class doesn’t reduce the achievements of anyone not in it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unlike in movies, most smart people aren't good in chess.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Folk always seem to underestimate the effect of training and experience. In a match between two unpracticed players, sure, the more analytically inclined of the two will have an edge. This is true of any game with a strategic component. General intelligence helps but specialist knowledge is better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google pulls bad McDonald’s reviews after Luigi Mangione’s arrest⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As spectacularly problematic as The Mikado is, I’ve not been able to get ‘as some day it may happen’ out of my head for a week now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3004: Wells⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The “This one neat trick big water won’t tell you about” to “the government can’t tell me not to dig my well next to my latrine” pipeline (aquaduct?) is real.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Get good.⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Can push California to 5 syllables if you really want to.