That is most everyone else.

You'd be surprised how few people go even slightly out of their way to avoid ADs.

... And it makes sense we're the minority, cause if we weren't I guarantee you the industry would be much more rabid in stopping us.

Honestly, yeah.

Gender is someone's outward, public-facing expression. Having it on there to aid identification is not a bad thing IMO.

Whereas sex really feels like more private knowledge that should be restricted to where medically necessary to avoid complications, rather than being forced on your identification for everyone to see.

Because it's a valid method of identification linked to one's personal expression.

Versus the current scenario of sex being on there which can lead you anywhere from awkwardly being outed as trans, to medical complications arising from being misidentified.

No need to be insulting towards them, especially when they weren't insulting you.

Also, you're technically wrong. There definitely are hormones flying about your body even before you're born. All fetuses start as female, and its literally testosterone that causes differentiates towards male (or intersex in some cases). The only reason you don't start puberty as an infant is because those levels normally diminish within the first year after birth, returning again just before puberty begins.

You're kinda right, but unless you're on a gender affirming therapy (like HRT), then those hormones are going to be linked to your sex assigned at birth.

(Though there are plenty of non-hormonal sex-linked differences in drug interactions as well)

And if you are, that's a whole other layer of complication that your medical caregiver would also need to account for when prescribing you certain drugs/medical products.

Edit: Added bracket part.

I don't disagree with you - American pharmaceuticals in particular still seem weirdly gung-ho about excluding female participants from studies. Coming from Europe we routinely have to tell them they're not allowed to do that.

... but I think it's bad faith to say that bad study design makes my point moot, especially when it takes only a few seconds of Googling to find plenty of papers discussing sex-linked effects on drugs/medicinal products.

Heck, here's a literature review of sex-linked effects on the pharmakinetics and pharmacodynamics of various drugs, which even acknowledges the bias towards males in various clinical trials you referred to.

I don't think the paper mentions it, but I imagine throwing intersex people into the mix would render even more related differences. Which is why your assigned sex at birth matters medically, and I think it is dangerous to conflate it with gender identity (which again is your's to express as you please)

Yeah, from working in a medical field - your sex can have a huge effect on the way your body interacts with certain medicines/drugs - and as such I find the trend of conflating Gender and Sex to be rather dangerous.

And it's not just people that started doing it either. I've worked on multiple studies where data entry points have asked for Gender when they very much meant Sex. Again dangerous, because the answer to both is only the same for cis identifying people - and you really don't want to get that wrong.

What you do with your Gender is nobody's business but your own. Express yourself however you please - but if a medical professional is asking your assigned sex at birth, consider they may be doing so to keep you safe.

(For the record I'm not stating either as a binary, I'm aware intersex people exist, and do believe more should be done to accommodate them in medical settings which mostly currently act like they don't exist)

Edit: Somehow the end of my second to last paragraph got replaced by a fullstop. Weird stuff

Right?? My shower should be the cleanest place in my house, it literally gets washed in soap and water every single day - like what do you mean it gets dirty if I don't shower it?!

Like what next, I have to wash my washing machine, cook my oven, boil my boiler??

Bit late to the party, but I would try the r/ROMS GitHub site. I believe their Internet Archive links are still good.

Otherwise, Minerva as long as you're set up for Torrents.

R.I.P. Myrient

5 minutes is paltry. Devs should be required to submit an uncut recording of the first 30 minutes of gameplay from launching via Steam before they can release a game or push an update.

I don't think that's an unreasonable demand, cause if a game can't launch or survive 30 minutes of normal gameplay, it shouldn't be on the store for people to waste their time and/or money on.

Yeah, let's not count our chickens just yet on world events. Though I'd love to hope you're right.

Search and AI are deeply integrated

Oh bullshit. Search engines have existed for over two decades, GenAI has existed for less than 5.

The only "deep integration" is Google's desperation to justify to shareholders that burning their money on AI was worth it by virtue of forcing it down everyone's throats.