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and make computers solve funky math problems that simulate things that usually fly, blow up, or go into outer space. My dad told me he could tell that I liked rockets and aeroplanes when I was five years old, so he didn't push me to go into medicine. I did observe a few operations and assisted at more than a few autopsies. Most of the kids I grew up with wanted to be singers or rock stars.
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Kathleen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Anybody, It's not that I don't want to hear your > opinions, but I would like to hear more about you, > yourself. > > When I read your comments abut Kabul months ago, I > was very impressed by you--your intelligence. > > But as an exmo, I'd like to hear more about your > reasons f
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I don't think that's "love" in any way, shape or form. The Inquisition claimed they acted out of "love," but they knew they were just imposing their will by force "The Name Of The Rose" Confession From Torture https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iFSTUnf8xQ You have to be a cold, totally detached psychopath to get up every day and ruin lives for no reason.
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How would you know how to hate them?
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Imagine if your first thought every day is to decide who to condemn, who to rant against, who to proscribe, eliminate, or destroy. Why? Fear? Shame? Anger? A shark eats because it is hungry. It doesn't hate you. It won't normally take a bite out of you -- unless you just happen to look like what it normally eats if wearing a shiny, sparkly swimsuit or if you look like a seal in the w
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annexation_Bill_of_1866
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It wouldn't work anyway. Many Red states take in more than they pay in taxes, and they couldn't make it economically on their own -- no matter how much they talk about secession.
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When you are in a relationship with someone you don't want to be with, it's time for a divorce. Religious fundies and racists want an all-white, all "christian," authoritarian, fascist state surrounded by walls and minefields like North Korea, so let's just give it to them. Cut out the Southeast, cut Florida in half, and let all the fundies and haters move there and get them out
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https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/aug/06/violation-of-dignity-football-star-had-to-strip-publicly-to-prove-she-was-female The international footballer Tabitha Chawinga is calling on Malawi’s football authorities to introduce safeguards to protect women from abuse at all levels of the game. Chawinga, who became the first woman from Malawi to sign for a European football
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Done & Done Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > You aren't getting it. I"m not excluding anyone. > Don't say I am. I am saying there are more > people's rights involved here than your agenda is > allowing. You are a dog with a bone and not > considering anything but your bone. > > AND. I am not avoiding anything. Stop twi
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who are genetically and anatomically male but with a vaginal opening or with ambiguous genitalia, and most didn't know they were like this until they were teens. Are you going to exclude them too? How are you going to avoid a "who is fit to be female" aesthetic subjective situation?
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10671179/Trans-cyclist-Emily-Bridges-BARRED-national-championships.html EXCLUSIVE: Aunt of trans rider Emily Bridges slams 'unfair' decision to ban her from race after female competitors threatened to boycott event - as Sharron Davies says 'It's not transphobic to want fair sport, it's anti-female to not' Emily began hormone therapy in 2021 and w
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and if they do, they will probably be re-purposed for other uses. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trajan%27s_Market Mormonism is a cult with relatively few followers.
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Horse paste for COVID is horse poop. You might as well resort to chanting Nirvana songs and burning incense under mistletoe in the light of the full moon. Get vaccinated, keep washing your hands, and wear a mask in crowds. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ivermectin-covid-patients-study_n_624509fae4b0d8266aa77126 Ivermectin, an anti-parasitic drug often used to deworm horses and cattle
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Lot's Wife Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I will not take up your challenge and try to > design a system that can account for all the > variations in human biology and psychology. As > I've written above, that is above my pay grade > (and educational qualifications). All I'm saying > is that a reflexive protection of one category of &g
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LW, we're not so far apart on this. But First -- Full Disclosure: I have known a few transpeople. A gender non-conforming gay girl and two trans guys lived in my dorm, one of whom was a classmate who killed himself along with his trans girlfriend in a double suicide. I went to their joint funeral. Later, I worked with both trans male and trans female colleagues, and I've also had a transw
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But on this, I'm on the right side of history :)
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that had scenes from the Holocaust. This was back in the 80s when must-see broadcast TV was still dominant. Later, when I was in school, Yugoslavia broke up and there were scenes of people behind barbed wire on CNN straight out of "Schindler's List" -- only this wasn't a movie. I swore to myself that when my time came, I would not be silent -- and I would do every thing I could
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All the "outrage" is about "boys" being "converted" and replacing girls in... sport / pageants / acting or anything they want to scream about, they aren't talking about trans guys -- who face even more difficult medical challenges and ostracism from fundie gynaecologists, etc. This goes back to my point about men wanting to define women so they can control them
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While it remains to be seen what will happen with trans athletes (and no one seems to care about trans guys, just trans girls), there is just too much hate. I have tried and tried to understand what motivates these fundies and I can't. I don't want to live in a "same-same-same" world that's like a twisted version of "Leave It To Beaver" or "Sally, Dick, And Jan
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More likely than not, Lia Thomas will be banned from competition. She was one of the first, she's an adult, and she essentially came out of nowhere and won championships. But the "victory" will be a Pyrric one for fundies. There are teens alive now who have virtually known no other life except as one living as their innate gender, and your won't know or be able to tell them apa
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I'm going to continue to call out hatred, bigotry, intolerance, and discrimination -- death threats or not :) Note how he uses religion to justify his hate. https://www.rawstory.com/former-mississippi-gop-lawmaker-doubles-down-on-unhinged-call-for-transgender-allies-to-face-firing-squad/ https://www.mississippifreepress.org/22283/ex-gop-gov-candidate-calls-for-firing-squad-for-trans-righ
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Right now, it looks like at least a quarter to a third of the population just might collaborate.
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Lot's Wife Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Making policy in the dark is usually a bad idea. In that we agree.
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