The article is also on the conversation website, with a lot less ads.

... so the compose thing is neat on KDE as well, but how do I write letters with accents from spanish? I tried altgrr + o but instead of ó I get ø

⚠️CW: Class treachery🧵 ⚠️

Delightful

It was honestly a 🎢. I thought I was sympathizing with some1 joking about being competent at something, to outright disinfo op. Glad I did my solidarity 🫡 act. I even engaged in good faith argumentation, praying it wasn't DISOP, but I guess more than one spy is out of a job ╮(︶▽︶)╭

Now I am getting ready to 😴.
The adrenaline hasn't subsided.

Never gotten used to the compose key, instead I use dead keys on the third layer of the Macintosh layout. Then, 3rd layer key + u is the trema dead key for example.

That's a lot of em-dashes.

The author of this article just released a book on this subject. I wonder if it has as many em-dashes as his article.

Well, so long as we don't go through the dimension where the spiders have taken over...

Oh, the anti-science crowd ain't gonna like this.

yes please tell me your sex vector

sal@mander.xyz, why is this now the appropriate community for this post? Or is this one going to get removed, too?

The author is really reaching here.

Defines everything as male or female, then wants to argue that everyone is unique or something... this is pretty trivial truth stuff.

Nobody conforms in reality to any gender ideal, but the ideal of trying do is what motivates a lot of people's social behaviors and expectations for themselves and others. That's why they are ideals. Also why gender identity is so fraught with conflict, because everyone is chasing after some ideal and demanding others do the same as them, often in the context of making themselves sexually appealing.

Biology doesn't have ideals, just traits. And the traits that matter are those that allow you to reproduce. and yeah, in some cultures being more androgynous would be advantageous, in others, not so much. it's all variable.

none of this disputes the fact the vast majority of human beings are male or female biologically. and there a subset that are not.

I will never understand this weird fascination that there has to be two sexes absolutely, or none at all. There are two sexes for the vast majority of species, but not all. Some species can change sex, some can't, some are hermaphrodites, some can produce asexually and sexually, etc.