Mark - he/him - GAD | MDD | ADHD
@unluckywanderer.bsky.social
I cannot imagine happiness, for I am under no delusions of my circumstances.
PhD student in psychology at the University of Adelaide.
PhD student in psychology at the University of Adelaide.
I feel like, at a certain point, even /b/ banned bronyposting. Or am I misremembering?
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December 6, 2025 at 8:20 AM
I feel like, at a certain point, even /b/ banned bronyposting. Or am I misremembering?
Best guess is the supreme court will refuse to rule and cite the "it's not illegal when the president does it" ruling.
December 6, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Best guess is the supreme court will refuse to rule and cite the "it's not illegal when the president does it" ruling.
You do realise the average person has an above average number of arms, legs, fingers, and toes, right?
December 5, 2025 at 11:14 AM
You do realise the average person has an above average number of arms, legs, fingers, and toes, right?
They don't provide names in case studies. And you would know which case studies I am talking about if you knew what you were talking about.
December 4, 2025 at 9:02 PM
They don't provide names in case studies. And you would know which case studies I am talking about if you knew what you were talking about.
That most have does not mean that they must have. You are confusing normative expectations with the messiness that is biology. This is why I asked if you are a creationist. You are either expecting some conformity to an imaginary form or assuming that there is a design.
December 4, 2025 at 9:01 PM
That most have does not mean that they must have. You are confusing normative expectations with the messiness that is biology. This is why I asked if you are a creationist. You are either expecting some conformity to an imaginary form or assuming that there is a design.
There has been and it does make my point. Your binary system does not work as there are more than two options. It cannot be one or the other and sometimes a third thing, because that is not how binaries work, but it is how biology works: it's not a binary, not matter how much it suits your ideology.
December 4, 2025 at 1:33 PM
There has been and it does make my point. Your binary system does not work as there are more than two options. It cannot be one or the other and sometimes a third thing, because that is not how binaries work, but it is how biology works: it's not a binary, not matter how much it suits your ideology.
Right, so you just deny reality at this point. No point in discussing a topic if you cannot grapple with reality as it is.
December 4, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Right, so you just deny reality at this point. No point in discussing a topic if you cannot grapple with reality as it is.
But, also, thank you for admitting that you are just using an arbitrary system - as I said, I am using what biology *does*, not what I want it to do because of my ideological motivations.
December 4, 2025 at 9:25 AM
But, also, thank you for admitting that you are just using an arbitrary system - as I said, I am using what biology *does*, not what I want it to do because of my ideological motivations.
Then there are still 3 potential outcomes in your system: sperm, egg, both.
December 4, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Then there are still 3 potential outcomes in your system: sperm, egg, both.
I am counting what biology does, not what I want it to do so it fits into an ideologically motivated construct.
December 4, 2025 at 8:49 AM
I am counting what biology does, not what I want it to do so it fits into an ideologically motivated construct.
Incredibly obvious things like there are four possible outcomes for what gametes people may produce (sperm, egg, both, none)?
If you are going to base your sexual categorisation system on production, you have to actually reckon with the reality of what happens.
If you are going to base your sexual categorisation system on production, you have to actually reckon with the reality of what happens.
December 4, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Incredibly obvious things like there are four possible outcomes for what gametes people may produce (sperm, egg, both, none)?
If you are going to base your sexual categorisation system on production, you have to actually reckon with the reality of what happens.
If you are going to base your sexual categorisation system on production, you have to actually reckon with the reality of what happens.
Just because I have thought through the implications of what you believe more so than what you have?
December 4, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Just because I have thought through the implications of what you believe more so than what you have?
They are "arranged" that way? Are you a creationist? Are you attempting to provide intent to nature?
That many do does not mean that they must or intend to.
That many do does not mean that they must or intend to.
December 4, 2025 at 5:59 AM
They are "arranged" that way? Are you a creationist? Are you attempting to provide intent to nature?
That many do does not mean that they must or intend to.
That many do does not mean that they must or intend to.
There are 4 potential options for human gamete production: sperm, egg, none, both.
Choosing to exclude the last two because it doesn't fit your world view does not stop them from existing.
Choosing to exclude the last two because it doesn't fit your world view does not stop them from existing.
December 3, 2025 at 11:29 PM
There are 4 potential options for human gamete production: sperm, egg, none, both.
Choosing to exclude the last two because it doesn't fit your world view does not stop them from existing.
Choosing to exclude the last two because it doesn't fit your world view does not stop them from existing.
It is if the system you use categorises male or female on the basis of gamete production. As explained above, a binary system is 0s and 1s. If there is a third output, it isn't a binary system.
But I am sure you have an ad hoc categorisation system for when gamete production fails as a basis.
But I am sure you have an ad hoc categorisation system for when gamete production fails as a basis.
December 3, 2025 at 11:07 PM
It is if the system you use categorises male or female on the basis of gamete production. As explained above, a binary system is 0s and 1s. If there is a third output, it isn't a binary system.
But I am sure you have an ad hoc categorisation system for when gamete production fails as a basis.
But I am sure you have an ad hoc categorisation system for when gamete production fails as a basis.
Can't wait to hear from those states in which child brides are legal become up in arts about this change. Wonder which way their votes usually go...
November 13, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Can't wait to hear from those states in which child brides are legal become up in arts about this change. Wonder which way their votes usually go...
Except their version of the Tea Party came before Mamdani was even elected. Not saying they won't have a similar backlash, but it does not bode well for how much more the conservative news media will be going to radicalising their base.
November 5, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Except their version of the Tea Party came before Mamdani was even elected. Not saying they won't have a similar backlash, but it does not bode well for how much more the conservative news media will be going to radicalising their base.
Probably because people can imagine a table with 100 cards on it easier than a room with 100 doors 😆
November 1, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Probably because people can imagine a table with 100 cards on it easier than a room with 100 doors 😆
When you first picked, your odds were 1/100.
But now? You don't have a 50/50 chance if you change your selection, it's closer to 99/100 (if I remember it correctly) if you change your pick, and a 1/100 if you don't.
But now? You don't have a 50/50 chance if you change your selection, it's closer to 99/100 (if I remember it correctly) if you change your pick, and a 1/100 if you don't.
October 31, 2025 at 4:42 AM
When you first picked, your odds were 1/100.
But now? You don't have a 50/50 chance if you change your selection, it's closer to 99/100 (if I remember it correctly) if you change your pick, and a 1/100 if you don't.
But now? You don't have a 50/50 chance if you change your selection, it's closer to 99/100 (if I remember it correctly) if you change your pick, and a 1/100 if you don't.
The best explainer I have seen is when you up the number of doors (e.g. to 100).
You pick a random door, and I will open 98 doors. Do you change your pick?
Of course you do, because the doors I opened are not random, and neither is the door I left closed that wasn't your pick.
You pick a random door, and I will open 98 doors. Do you change your pick?
Of course you do, because the doors I opened are not random, and neither is the door I left closed that wasn't your pick.
October 31, 2025 at 4:42 AM
The best explainer I have seen is when you up the number of doors (e.g. to 100).
You pick a random door, and I will open 98 doors. Do you change your pick?
Of course you do, because the doors I opened are not random, and neither is the door I left closed that wasn't your pick.
You pick a random door, and I will open 98 doors. Do you change your pick?
Of course you do, because the doors I opened are not random, and neither is the door I left closed that wasn't your pick.
The truth is that they are perfectly capable of keeping the dam in working order, but that costs money and, as enshittification has shown us, providing a worse product that people stop using is perfectly acceptable if it means they still make money in the process. 4/4
October 7, 2025 at 2:49 AM
The truth is that they are perfectly capable of keeping the dam in working order, but that costs money and, as enshittification has shown us, providing a worse product that people stop using is perfectly acceptable if it means they still make money in the process. 4/4
Social media organisations will refuse to see the cracks in the dam, will put a coat of paint over those cracks when it is now a structural fissure, and will act as if the coat of paint fixed the problem well after the dam has broken, or deny responsibility that it was even their dam that broke. 3/
October 7, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Social media organisations will refuse to see the cracks in the dam, will put a coat of paint over those cracks when it is now a structural fissure, and will act as if the coat of paint fixed the problem well after the dam has broken, or deny responsibility that it was even their dam that broke. 3/
Such people know how to game the system in such a way that social media organisations can look at each individual drop of water and find no problem, despite people pointing out that it is currently flooding. 2/
October 7, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Such people know how to game the system in such a way that social media organisations can look at each individual drop of water and find no problem, despite people pointing out that it is currently flooding. 2/