@CreeAnt @Transgendertrd @SuellaBraverman So beware anything (or anybody) that tries to rise by knocking competing things (or people) down.
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Heather Chapman
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@CreeAnt @Transgendertrd @SuellaBraverman "Trans" is an artificial, socially constructed concept, a symptom exhibited by those who are painfully unmoored from reality. Those promoting it attempt to prove its legitimacy by trying to destroy the existing links to reality that all humanity's older concepts have naturally.
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Well said @SuellaBraverman.
And to the man who worries about the children who are really experiencing gender dysphoria: how do you think children are learning they've got 'gender dysphoria'? And why didn't children suffer from this condition a decade ago?
GB News@GBNEWS
'We are seeing full blown politicised indoctrination in our schools, in violation of the law.' Reform MP Suella Braverman says pupils are being taught 'one-sided' views about gender in British schools.
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@doublebo7 @PhilosophyOfPhy Maybe there was a countdown, but it could have exploded . . .
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@PhilosophyOfPhy The shot was easily accomplished as Burke could see the countdown clock over the cameraman’s shoulder and just read out his pre-rehearsed script to coincide with the launch. Not rocket science
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This legendary sequence from the 1978 BBC series Connections is often remembered as the "greatest shot in television history," it actually shows the launch of the Voyager 2 space probe atop a Titan IIIE rocket.
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@PhilosophyOfPhy Wow, I'll bet that was one happy camera crew, to have pulled off timing an only-one-chance shot like that!!
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@ostensiblygay This sure beats my own experience of "music enrichment" back in grade school: I was handed two sticks to rhythmically tap to the beat of a disco version of The 5th. I so hated that! Zero beauty.
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@beechchap This is like Bradley Cooper playing Leonard Bernstein! I kind of marvel that they don't perceive the acute dangers of so many pointed sticks being agitated in the air.
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I challenge you to watch this and not get totally into it!
The Best@Thebestfigen
Who says classical music is boring...
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Heather Chapman retweetledi
I was in Sacramento yesterday and I can’t tell you how grotesque it is that detransitioners like @JonniSkinner and @LJDetrans have to bare their souls, their trauma, details about their bodies, all in a noble & brave attempt to prevent another child from this harm, just to have those assholes on the committee NOT ASK A SINGLE QUESTION.
They sat there, tried to ignore every word (I saw their faces though, they failed at that task), then read their pre-written speeches, congratulated themselves on standing up to big, bad Trump or being kind or whatever lie they tell themselves, and voted to move the bill supporting the chemical castration of kids forward.
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We used to know this: Most gender non conforming kids grow up to be gay. We need more brave and beautiful gay men like @thepearjoseph to stand up for the next generation of young gay boys. Stop transing away the gay!
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Well, I am fairly certain I was arguing with a bot here. What a way to waste one's limited time on earth. sigh . . .
Jeanmarie S. Bartosz@SamanthaBartosz
@beechchap @TTExulansic @genspect @TrueTeller2024 Court-appointed guardians are assigned in numerous circumstances and usually act with court oversight. And gender reassignment surgery is not conducted on minors under recognized standards of care.
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The attempted boycott below invites an important point.
Trans youth research largely consists of surveys of activists' online networks. The more such research requires activist approval, the *less* validity there can be in the body of evidence they *do* approve of.
It would be by discussing and debating the (alleged) short-comings of studies that would let the best research win. But blocking such studies keeps it possible that the research one does see only looks the way it does because it's the only research permitted to exist to be seen.
In evidence-based medicine, publication bias is a central aspect for assessing evidence quality (Balshem et al., 2011). jclinepi.com/article/S0895-…
Diversity must include diversity of ideas. Otherwise, it remains skin-deep.
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@TrueTeller2024 @SamanthaBartosz @TTExulansic @genspect Yes, the wise know that they don't know enough; and the foolish are so smug. I'm so very sorry that it was your fate to be a wiser mother than many of us mothers, @TrueTeller2024.
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@beechchap @SamanthaBartosz @TTExulansic @genspect Some people live in the bubble of their beliefs—how they think things are supposed to be. But for some, reality eventually hits with such force that the pain of realization becomes almost unbearable.
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Interesting to note how two different clips from this video and having them each go viral online might result in passionate arguments about the true shape of that piece . . .
Physics In History@PhysInHistory
When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. - Max Planck (1858 - 1947)
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@SamanthaBartosz @TTExulansic @genspect I think Elvira Syed @TrueTeller2024 would laugh to the point of bitter tears at your foolish confidence in "assigned guardians" and their effectiveness at protecting mentally vulnerable people from gender quacks.
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@beechchap @TTExulansic @genspect Folks who are mentally unable to provide informed consent typically are assigned a guardian for that purpose.
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@LingPyktel Well, that's a bit of fallacious reasoning, based on a combination of "the great man" theory & a failure to consider how simultaneous invention has happened many times in human history. If not Gates or Allen, it would have been someone else sooner or later.
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If the administration at Lakeside, a Seattle private high school didn’t decide to buy a computer with the money from moms ‘s Rummage sale at the very early days, Bill Gates and Paul Allen wouldn’t have a chance to play on it, Certainly, we wouldn’t see Microsoft company today
Benjamin Ryan@benryanwriter
Research indicates that we retain knowledge better when reading on paper rather than on screens. So it stands to reason that professors would advocate for reading printed books.
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@SamanthaBartosz @TTExulansic @genspect If you are at all interested in understanding why I find your assertion that assigning a guardian protects vulnerable people from this medical scandal laughable, I'm happy to refer you to several high-quality sources of information. Otherwise, good luck to ya'.
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By the same token, there are a lot of people with talent & years of training in the performing arts who I very much wish would stop dabbling in political punditry, economic analysis, medical science research, educational policy, or advising parents on how to rear their children.
Dr. Clown, PhD@DrClownPhD
This message is approved by Gary Oldman.
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One of the best lessons in popular culture and how we all carry the conceit that we're so special . . . or it's a demonstration of how a wondrous range of patterns can be generated by one set of a 4 simple elemental things (like the ATGC making DNA).
Rock'n Roll of All@rocknrollofall
He claimed every pop song is the same and then proved it in the most legendary way possible.
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@SamanthaBartosz @TTExulansic @genspect What about when the individual in question is incapable of making a rational decision, due to having been misinformed or simply being mentally incapable due to youth or illness or disability -- or, as is the case with many, unable to consent due to all 3 factors?
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@beechchap @TTExulansic @genspect It’s a transgender person’s decision to undergo gender reassignment surgery in consultation with their doctor including informed consent. It is a private decision. “We” don’t have a voice in the decision.
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