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@inthehands @jasonkoebler I would like to second, third, fourth, and especially, diminished fifth this

@skinnylatte I went to the opera recently and they had the words up on a display above the stage 😱🤯😍

@inthehands yeah I had a thought earlier, "maybe now that a lot of rich people have been hurt by it, there will be more effort to respond to climate change"

However I'm not enthusiastic about the probability. I wish I could muster more hope but I can't.

@skinnylatte @johncormier some day, eventually, I'll get to have another taco as good as the taco stand in the town where I previously lived had. Every time you post about tacos I think of them.

@skinnylatte black bean paste is truly a food of the gods

@lukeshu @mjg59 @lxo I honestly don't think we can -properly- deal with the issue until not only have we understood the nuances of how biology influences athletic advantage, but we've -also- had a very frank re-evaluation of how to define fairness in sport, because I think the concept was built on a rotten foundation.

@lukeshu @mjg59 @lxo someone else in this thread argued that the discussion around trans women in sport (n.b. I see you, transmascs, even though the argument doesn't) is solely a right wing talking point. I don't think that's strictly true, it's a right wing talking point because it's something that doesn't have a simple answer and they tell people "we can give you a simple answer (sotto voce: and fuck the people that get caught in the crossfire)". It's a wedge.

@lukeshu @mjg59 @lxo ok, being completely real, that's only the later reason, the -original- reason, at least in the modern sense of competitive sport which basically runs from late 19th century, is that it was unseemly for women to compete at all.

But my main point is that "fairness" drives the need for categories, but the definition was created without looking closely at the edges of those groups. Humans are fuzzy. Drawing straight lines will -always- result in places that don't fit.

@lukeshu @mjg59 @lxo as someone who competes in and organise competitive sporting events, I would say safety isn't the main driving force. The problem is the idea of "fairness", and the cultural perception of sex and gender as binary and fully discrete. We established M/F categories on the grounds that the athletic performance of people labelled "women" was substantially lower than that of those labelled "men", and that putting them together would largely remove any chance of women winning.

@skinnylatte @bouncinglime

They got the video from an Instagram account with a display name of "OnlyFins" 🤣

https://www.instagram.com/evanb_ocean/reel/DCnlVJmxpvP/

@dalias @Weld digital equivalent of a steel ball bearing incoming in 3... 2...

@skinnylatte "joyous" is the feeling I got from every picture of her. Especially out on walks with those cute little booties.

@mekkaokereke @craignicol wait what the fuck? Eating gelato in public is bad how?

@mekkaokereke the "character flaw" people is the same underlying impulse as people who won't vote for cancelling student debt because "I had to deal with it, so why should you have it easier"

@inthehands none of the above, the correct answer is "theft"

@michaelgemar @916253 that doesn't fit the first part of the statement unfortunately

Myers-Briggs is astrology for managers

@ryanc @SiteRelEnby @dioux70 @mos_8502 that also works though these days I'm jaded enough to say "no I won't" without a reason. My device, I don't need one.

@SiteRelEnby @dioux70 @mos_8502 to elaborate slightly in case the implications are not already known - MDM software grants the entity running the service (the employer in this case) a degree of control over what is installed on the device, and visibility in to what happens on it. Possibly complete control and visibility. There's good reason for orgs to want this - but it's absolutely unreasonable for them to expect employees to put it on a personal device. Despite this, many expect it anyway.

@inthehands yeah that whole thing stank to me like a week old kipper