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Dog heaven is also pig hell. It's a very efficient system.

"The transgender topic" is already weird as a statement (kinda like "the gay agenda", it comes off as only considering it as a political statement?), and "clearly promoted by the bourgeoisie" implies it's bad.

"As far as [...] lgbt flags on government buildings": it's... not far at all? Again, weird statement.

"Biological male" is both wrong for the boxer (she's cis) and generally used for transphobia (trans women on HRT aren't biological males by any reasonable definition). It's also generally conspiratorial.

Overall it's not explicitly transphobic or bad to me, but it shows at minimum a very misinformed perspective.

Here's an archived version of that medium link that doesn't cut off: https://archive.is/FNqUx (and that loads super fast)

Yeah that's fair. I don't quite know why I read that the way I did, but I read the "choosing" as "lives there and isn't actively attempting to move".

And therefore you are

.... do you just expect everybody who lives there to pack up and leave? Even though their entire lives might be there and moving costs a ton?

But there's no "biological" reason for that. In the same way, skirts/dresses being for women and suits/ties being for men, leg hair, haircuts, voice, mannerisms, emotional availability, all get tied one gender or another.

We, in our society, have associated some properties to one of two genders. Some of these properties tend to be associated to one sex (sex being a more "biological" thing (but still not binary or unchangeable!)), but many of them are just expectations we put upon people. This is what "gender is a social construct" means; that the general understanding and intuition about gender is constructed by the society in which we live. Different societies may have more than 2 genders or completely different sets of associations.

Unfortunately these categorizations are bad for a significant portion of the population, including trans people, gender non-confirming people, but even cishet people; how many times have you heard of some act making you "not a real man" (eg crying for a movie)?

Yeah fair enough, I didn't mean to contradict you, more add on to your comment

No, but since Canada can regulate/limit the oil and gas it exports, this is still a useful number.

Imports also need to be counted.

Unfortunately climate change is every country's responsibility to fix, since every bit helps.

"Well and truly over two decades" is definitely true...

https://xkcd.com/2889/

Exxon had a report in the 80s talking about a 1°C rise in "40 years" ie literally right now

... sorry, I don't get it

Ahh, that makes sense. Powers of two are real convenient. Your math is a little wrong though: X != (X & 0xFF) + (X >> 8), but X = (X & 0xFF) + (X >> 8) << 8 The right half can be removed entirely if you're doing modulo 16, since the first 4 bits will always be 0. So it simply becomes X & 15! Much cleaner for sure.