If they’re allowed to team up on him, sure. XD

You missed my point.

If the argument is that unfair competition due to “biological advantages” should be reduced then I agree. Sports should be segregated by performance classes and open to all genders.

But if the point of segregating sports is to make space for women in sports, then excluding trans women is nothing more than discrimination on par with excluding black or disabled women. Trans women deserve not to have to play with the boys too.

Okay, to begin, you ought to have just linked to the study, not given us an extra step with an article referencing the study.

https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/56/22/1292

Frankly, if you think you can draw a generalizable comparison of athletic performance from a study on 45 non-athletes (that very conspicuously doesn’t include any trans men), from grip strength and treadmill performance alone then you shouldn’t be doing any generalizing.

Here’s a more comprehensive study on a similar number of actual athletes (including trans men):

https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/bjsports/early/2024/04/10/bjsports-2023-108029.full.pdf

Here’s it’s conclusion:

This research compares transgender male and transgender female athletes to their cisgender counterparts. Compared with cisgender women, transgender women have decreased lung function, increasing their work in breathing. Regardless of fat-free mass distribution, transgender women performed worse on the countermovement jump than cisgender women and men. Although transgender women have comparable absolute V̇O2 max values to cisgender women, when normalised for body weight, transgender women’s cardiovascular fitness is lower than cisgender men and women. Therefore, this research shows the potential complexity of transgender athlete physiology and its effects on the laboratory measures of physical performance. A long-term longitudinal study is needed to confirm whether these findings are directly related to gender-affirming hormone therapy owing to the study’s shortcomings, particularly its cross-sectional design and limited sample size, which make confirming the causal effect of gender-affirmative care on sports performance problematic.

So you’re saying that people like Michael Phelps should be excluded from competing in sports due to the famous athelete’s “biological advantages”?

Sadly. You’re correct. The existence of people like me is a wedge issue. >_<

Yeah, once you know to look for gaze-directing design you’ll start seeing it everywhere. In movies and shows especially, a big factor in cinematography lies in how well the director can lead the audience’s focus.

To oversimplify, it makes the image seem more balanced.

The audience for this image is folks who can read English and are therefore habituated to parse text and images from left to right. By having the figure on the left use their distant hand, they avoid becoming the dominant figure in the image, thus emphasizing the figure on the right and leading the eye toward it. This keeps the eye-path from stagnating on the left-hand figure, improving the perception of balance between them even though it contradicts our expectations about the gesture.

This meme is entirely accurate.

Same. I’m still a bit dysphoric about my voice. =/

Running a clinic or a hospital requires slightly different skills than you might find in a normal Business Administration course.

To oversimplify, they use the same type of encryption as you might see on a chip-enabled credit card.

Cloning the card isn’t enough, you’d also have to clone a specialized key-signing chip to correctly respond to authentication requests.

Apply anyway, the worst they can say is no.

I’m taking that gig as soon as I get an offer.

I already fled Texas to start hormone therapy, and I’ll flee Colorado for foreign shores in a heartbeat.

Minor point, these staffers resigned from the USDS after it was renamed to DOGE. The institution has already been replaced.

Short version, they made a new kind of digital quantum qubit where the previous state of the art required a lot of analog sensors and controls. This means the equipment needed to hook up the qubits is simpler, and they’re hoping to build on this design to make scalable quantum computers that can support many more qubits than current techniques.

Not a huge breakthrough on its own outside of a very niche academic field, but a necessary step towards really expanding on the capabilities of the tech.

Pretend they are Republicans and start breaking the rules.

Also, the immunity wanes over time. You can get tested for the antibodies and get a booster if necessary.

Hell, surface coatings to protect against rust are a multi-billion industry and they often require very specific application methods and even a little deviation can fuck up the bond.

“Accelerationism” is the only viable “ism” when the government is designed to be responsive to the needs of the money rather than those of the people and the media is nothing but propaganda for the obscenely wealthy.

There’s no way to fix the system from the inside. The only way out is through.

You’re not wrong, but something like this is well within the capabilities of private companies like ArianeSpace or SpaceX. Also, the stakes are just a city-killer asteroid, failure is entirely an option when there’s plenty of time to evacuate the impact zone.