skye
@skye@lemmy.world
- Comment on New Zealand bans puberty blockers for young transgender people 2 weeks ago:
The health consequences, as I said, is something we can deal with as we figure out safer methods for puberty blocking if that turns out to be the case.
I’d rather take puberty blockers being unsafe, find out better ways to deal with this problem later on, and deal with the health problems of existing patients over the alternative.
The alternative is having no patients to treat from puberty blocker issues, because the dysphoria got to them.
You could make the case for any medicine we use in mental healthcare: we don’t understand the risks and longterm effects, but it usually ends up that “adverse health effects way down the line” is preferable to “preventable suicide”.
People spout this same bullshit to be anti vaccines, anti fluorine in water, anti everything they don’t fully understand.
NOTHING. And I mean NOTHING in medicine is ever going to be 100% safe or won’t have side effects or always be understood.
But if you think banning life-saving medicine is better because “what if these people suffer from health issues later” idk what to say.
- Comment on New Zealand bans puberty blockers for young transgender people 2 weeks ago:
it’s clearly justifiable to have children grow up and kill themselves due to gender dysphoria and irreversible body changes instead of giving them the choice to delay the puberty, with an onset of manageable effects, you’re right!
your own wiki page reads all about how the cass report is questionable btw, from critics to research to everything. not just a “minority of experts”.
- Comment on New Zealand bans puberty blockers for young transgender people 2 weeks ago:
the cass review is famously idiotic by now. also mentioning “big pharma” lol.
i will trust any expert that does research and makes sure their research is of quality. Maybe you should listen to your own advice and listen to the experts (actual ones) you disagree with
- Comment on New Zealand bans puberty blockers for young transgender people 2 weeks ago:
kind of the reason why puberty blockers are only given after going through specialists that make sure the kid isn’t just being stupid
- Comment on Moon talk 1 month ago:
And you sound like someone who jumps to conclusions too quickly about people and you can’t comprehend someone not having a reductionist take on generalised human suffering.
I don’t think anyone here is denying people suffer from capitalism, i think they’re just saying capitalism is a factor rather than the only cause, similar to how the Archduke’s assassination was a factor among many in starting WW1.
- Comment on Manic Stew 1 month ago:
Switching Carbonara
- Comment on Who plays like that x_x 2 months ago:
how dare you!? i put pineapple on pizza and DON’T play inverted. don’t compare me to them
- Comment on What's your lämp sign? 5 months ago:
As another virgo, this indeed tracks.
- Comment on kiwis! 5 months ago:
wouldn’t you need to do ‘hail sized pea, hail sized baseball’ etc? otherwise you are comparing the size of hail to other objects, rather than other objects to hail
- Comment on My mom tells me I should cut dad off for cheating on her, am I a bad person for not wanting to do so? 5 months ago:
No one is excusing an affair. People are merely trying to help OOP navigate an emotionally complex situation: wanting to keep contact with their father despite the circumstances, and wondering if their mother’s actions are justifiable or not.
You can do whatever you want, but that does not absolve you of consequences.
I only gave you genuine advice, taking breaks/disengaging is helpful. I cannot force you, ofcourse, there’s only so much I can do.
So please consider above, and have a nice day
- Comment on My mom tells me I should cut dad off for cheating on her, am I a bad person for not wanting to do so? 5 months ago:
If you are this allergic to nuance, I recommend staying away from threads that require logical/rational breakdowns of heavily-emotional topics.
You can’t just jump the gun (having fun blowing up families) about someone just because they answered OOPs question in an impartial manner.
So if you seriously cannot engage with this topic without resuming to attacks, I implore you to take a step back, reasess, and move on to something else.
- Comment on Monty Python predicted social media 6 months ago:
but there are arguments
- Comment on What techniques do bad faith users use online to overwhelm other users in online discussion and arguments? 6 months ago:
cherry picking
- Comment on 7 for me 6 months ago:
1 if its very cold, otherwise pick randomly between 4,5, 19 or 20
- Comment on Choose a number, 1-5! 7 months ago:
- 1 is also nice, every other choice is heresy.
- Comment on 12-year-old Doom 2 challenge map finally beaten after six-hour, 23K-demon grind 7 months ago:
it’s called Nuts, Karl Jobst did a video on it!
- Comment on The dead end of chips: Manufacturing semiconductors consumes as much energy as entire countries 1 year ago:
AI Training, compared to crypto, has at least been used in medicine to:
Create novel proteins based on specific requirements (useful for developing medicine): www.cell.com/chem/fulltext/S2451-9294(23)00139-0?…
Detect possible cancer: hms.harvard.edu/…/new-artificial-intelligence-too….
And there’s many more uses you can easily find if you look into it. Don’t just assume every LLM slop is all what AI is. Even LLMs probably have their use in stuff actually relating to language, such as translation.