This is what I have been saying for a long time: The essence of being male is to not be female.

I’m not sure what you mean by this, would you mind elaborating ?

They should pay for prophylactic counseling?

Yes, because prevention is superior to treatment after the fact in both outcomes & overall cost.

Though it seems you have a differing understanding of “Medically Necessary” to my own so i suspect we won’t agree on this.

“For profit healthcare” is a misnomer is should be called something like “profit equilibrium maintenance : healthcare edition”

The best outcome for a “for profit” is profit, not healthcare. Given the choice between larger profits and better healthcare outcomes the profit will win out, every time.

AI is far from a force multiplier for software development in it’s current incarnation, could be eventually but not right now.

It’s just magic looking enough to seem enticing to CEO’s and project managers, it’ll even out eventually unless something gets significantly better with the current gen.

AI + “cheap labour”* is absolutely a recipe for disaster in the mid to long term but if you are a CEO and the line is going up in the short term who tf cares about the mid to long term.

*By “cheap labour” i mean inexperienced and/or inappropriately skilled, there are inexpensive devs around who do excellent work, i’m not talking about them.

IMO There is a deep social stigma to seeking help in general, but mental health seems to be more pronounced in how it’s perceived as weakness.

You have the overt “be a man” kind of toxicity that exists but there is a more insidious undercurrent in some cultures as a whole that makes it seem equally unacceptable.

The insidious part is the subtlety and the inclusion that even talking about how you aren’t supposed to talk about it considered the same kind of weakness, making it self-reinforcing.

Fair enough, i could probably also do with being a bit less sarcastic to things that might just be honest mistakes.

As a genuine question, what point are you maintaining, I’ve lost the thread and don’t know which one you mean?

Wait, seriously…no…that can’t possibly be true…

You do understand that the word trump exists outside of the name… Right?

Oh my, im glad you didn’t read the rest of it, so many complicated words.

Good luck, you are absolutely going to need it

You probably want to keep to DM’s if you don’t want conversation on a public message board.

Though I suppose a demonstrated lack of understanding of how public message boards work gives me my answer so, thanks.

Mathematically, probably yes.

Ethically and morally, debatable.

If you are going to be basing arguments on statements of fact your comparison should be factual.

One is subjective opinion and one is relatively objective fact ( assuming actual correctness and there not being some weird exception like a subset language or something ).

Unless you are personally the global arbiter of what is and isn’t homophobia, in which case ignore me.

To be clear, i’m asking a very specific question about a very specific statement.

when you say :

So, yay for you! You got fat by stuffing your giant mouth in an attempt to fill the hole in your brain, and lost the weight. Congratulations. It still has nothing to do with the current state of understanding of human metabolism.

Are you claiming that basic CICO, which is peer reviewed science has “nothing to do with the current state of understanding of human metabolism.”

or was that just poor phrasing ?

Describe “real” rationality ?

I genuinely can’t infer what you mean from that statement.

That’s a lot of words to say “my beliefs trump basic science”.

Peer review reproduction is a bit of a shambles tbh, so not the silver bullet people make it out to be in some fields, agreed.

So let’s leave the science aside for now and focus on what you are proposing.

“Just eat less” is about as productive as “Just don’t be sad” or “Just stop drinking alcohol”, technically correct but woefully inadequate as a practical solution for most people.

edit: before you get even more angry i’m not saying that eating less and exercising more doesn’t work, actually read the statement.

Aside from anecdotes and “trust me bro”, what knowledge have you shared so far, what solutions ?

I’m legitimately willing to listen to something you can even halfway prove.

That’s a problem for sure if you are using it to insinuate that homosexual relationship are bad.

That’s not what is happening here though, which you know ofc.

Being left or right doesn’t change what a false equivalency is neither does describing each side in more detail.

This is

“I’m a left winger, the smooth mostly round seeded fruit that shares a name with the color orange is in fact the same as the road vehicle with four wheels, commonly used for transportation of goods that we normally call a car or ‘automobile’ in the old days”

I mean, I can list the false equivalencies if you like?

To clarify im not saying the point I think you’re trying to make is incorrect (though I do disagree with it), I’m saying you’re doing a bad job of making it.

If you are going to try and put forth or defend a position don’t do it with faulty logic and/or fallacies.

[Attenborough voice]

“And here we see a wild false equivalency in it’s natural habitat. Camouflaged and perfectly suited to it’s environment, it goes unnoticed by many”

“Some humans have started recording the mating calls of this and other closely related cousins in the misinformationum ridiculosus family in hope of harnessing the power of the sounds for themselves, results have been varied”

That sounds exhausting, but potentially hilarious.

I think you can be banned instance wide but i have no idea what kind of shit you’d need to pull to warrant that kind of punitive action.

As far as i know blocking only works one way as well, as in , if they block you they can’t see you, but you can still see them.

Very weird.

Just had a quick look, up to about 4 hours ago they were still playing their solo game of cards against humanity with their own custom deck consisting entirely of fallacies, dogwhistes and scientifically inaccurate “facts”.

So, at least they are consistent …i suppose.

It’s like watching one of those grown-ass men strapped to the gills in munitions throwing an actual toddler tantrum, screaming “I’M FELLING THREATENED” at the 16 year old cashier because they won’t accept their SovCit note as payment.

Entertaining, but somehow still sad.

That’s an interesting perspective.

You think they’d form on their own? or we shouldn’t be getting to the point where they are needed or something else entirely ?

I’m not into any of the assistant ecosystems, they creep me out too much to have them listening in.

I’ve got my HA instance set up for independent VA integrations and I’ve had a few tries and using pi’s with microphone and speaker hats as custom endpoints, they worked okay-ish but it fell by the wayside eventually and i’ve just been waiting on this kind of first party-promoted kind of announcement to get back in to it.

Still shows up for me, though i’m almost certainly blocked by them.

On the plus side that allows me to provide solid reviews for the folks at home without having to dive in to meta-reviews of responses to me.