because it works perfectly fine if you're not a helpless moron, that's why.

lots of people start their careers through temp job training programs and become permanent hires.

i'm not dumb and niave enough to be lemmy brained to think government programs are inherently flawness and wonderful and private/semi public programs are evil and terrible.

i have what they call 'real life experience' in these matters. instead of being a keyboard warrior who types in all caps and insults people as if this is in anyway helpful of knowledgeable about the world and how it works.

but hey man, it's easy to dwell in ignorance and rage at the world than... make use of resources that are readily available to you to improve your life. including the countless free ones on the internet that are both public and private...

clearly the 'answer' to problems like this is to daydream about a socialist/communist utopia and be angry it doesn't exist and also wish violence upon those who point out to you that it's never going to exist.

other people pay your bills for you. and give you spending money

my own experience is fake and gay.

reaching by calling it 'multidimensional' when the entire article is two dimensional classifications. that's how. the headline is shit.

placement of your gonads or breasts has nothing to do with how male or female you are. what are you talking about? some men develop breasts due to cancer, doesn't change them to become women, they are just men whose breasts developed due to hormonal triggers that are not normally present.

like, I understand the motivation to normalize intersex people by claiming everyone is intersex, but that's not a useful in any way, it's just trivializing things.

I'm more than open to have hormonal cutoffs for sex/gender definitions, but I also understand that is a total other bag of worms once you start doing things that way. It would a more properly scientific way to define male and female, but socially people would lose their fucking minds if that standard was applied to sports or other social controversial areas where sex definition is a sorting mechanism.

We already exclude people based on drug use for tons of things like jobs, sports, etc.

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.

probably end up homeless

dude, lucky you don't live where i live because... they act like that in person where i live. and yeah nobody punches them. they encourage them for being 'brave'. and if you be like 'yeah maybe it's not that bad' they scream in your face.

where i live there really isn't much of a barrier anymore between keyboard tantrums and real life ones... which is precisely why I don't go out less and less. at least once a week I have to watch someone have a tantrum or be really nasty to someone else and it's almost always the same types of comments and reactions as you see on the internet.

it's incredibly cringe. and nobody pushes back because... other people agree with the shitty awful insane entitled crap people pull.

Like i can't even go read a book in a cafe anymore without some insane weirdo being all offended at me. I used to do it like on an almost daily basis and nobody ever bothered me other than to maybe ask me if i liked the book... now they come up to me unprompted and tell me how what I'm reading is racist/sexist/evil because it's... classic lit from the 19th century and I am 'spreading' evil by reading these book sin public... it's strait up 'evil spirits' medieval type shit, except I'm the witch.

I used to have this... then the woke nutbags came along and decided all that mattered about you was your minor disagreements and you were a demonic evil person. I miss those days.

in real life. but i live in a 'progressive' city full of people who have very reactionary attitudes. 10 years ago nobody cared about these things, and now it's like all they razor focus on and they are super presumptive of.

i literally went out to a place last night i used to hang out at with some friends.... and the stereotypical woke person came up to me and told me I was 'being problematic by taking up the corner' or something, and I was like 'yeah I'm trying to just do my thing here and not bother anyone' and then they proceeded to tell me how i had to move because i was making them uncomfortable by doing my own thing and it bothered them. I rolled my eyes and they went away and I just decided to leave because it's like... I get it you don't want me to be here because I'm don't look like you and it upsets you, even if I am literally just chilling and being nice. but since I take care of myself and am comfortable being quiet and chilling, i'm a 'threat' now.

and way too many of my old friends have become that person... the 'concerned' person who thinks me eating a tuna fish sandwich means I'm now a 'bad person'. It's like, why bother interacting with you at all ever? all they live for is being miserable and whiny and blaming other people for their feelings.

you're not missing much.

whenever i go to a live show these days i'm like one of 5 people over the age of 30, and everyone else looks like a teenager who is still growing.

all national mythology and culture is fictional duders.

people still believe in it though.

ever hear of Horatio Alger?

I will miss Steam gift cards