ℛ𝒶𝓋ℯ𝓃

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Joined 2 years ago
Cake day: June 11th, 2023
  • ℛ𝒶𝓋ℯ𝓃toWorld News@quokk.au•Athletics governing body to require DNA tests for women’s sports
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    4 days ago

    It also heavily depends on what hormones if any the transgender woman is on. Monotherapy increases estrogen count well above cis female levels, and both monotherapy and via T blockers reduce testosterone so drastically that agab has absolutely no role in overall strength. I had moderate muscle mass and a very lean build before transitioning (from amateur climbing and track), and quickly lost all of that within four months on monotherapy even with regular gym attendance. My leg strength stayed about the same but overall build and gains are exactly on par with my cisgender peers now. The point being I’m not sure one can even argue that they could train on natural T before transitioning to gain an advantage, as maintaining that muscle mass is near impossible. And if policing hormonal levels becomes a thing if low-dosage is a concern, then many cisgender women would also be barred for competing due to naturally high testosterone.

  • ℛ𝒶𝓋ℯ𝓃toPolitical Memes@lemmy.world•Hoist the Colours High! 🏴‍☠️
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    16 days ago

    I think memes can be used in well-known cases of bigotry to better remind a wider audience of our society’s issues. Maybe it shouldn’t have been used if this was something new (I feel many prefer a proper report or article if some well-known celebrity is newly found to be hateful), but in this case we’ve all seen this tweet a thousand times by now. Those who dislike political memes can just block it, and humor has been used effectively for centuries (if not longer) to bring awareness to important political issues. If it’s a sensitivity issue, the slur could be censored, but it hits harder to leave no ambiguity in what she said.

  • ℛ𝒶𝓋ℯ𝓃toThe Onion@midwest.social•"Twitter was definitely cyber attacked!" says guy whose rockets and cars explode on the regularEnglish
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    19 days ago

    Actual Space Systems Engineer here (and not for SpaceX): Yes. One of the more recent ones had a communications failure, and self-destructed to make sure it had very little chance at causing the damage the above people have their arses in a knot over. It’s rapid prototyping. Why?

    NASA projects run overbudget and over deadline because they’re trying to get it perfect in the first few launches. That’s only part of the problem, but it’s a significant part. Look at Artemis: 1) launch, 2) launch to the moon, 3) launch to the moon for a long duration stay with humans. That takes so much time and money and simulation and testing of everything that even a government has trouble. So what do they do? They adapt, extend deadlines, increase funding, etc.

    Private industries don’t have that luxury. If SpaceX decided to run Starship 500x overbudget to get it right in the first few attempts, they’d be bankrupt. How do you remedy this?

    Give it your best guess, strap a bunch of sensors to it, watch it (probably) explode (which really is any failure, as it’s required to explode for safety if it can’t land), use that data to improve the design, and then try again a few hundred times until it doesn’t explode anymore.

    And in the end, it’s cheaper than spending years predicting every mode of failure and preventing them like NASA does. It’s a different mode of operation, because industry and government have different resources and norms down to the way the project is structured from a leadership point-of-view.

    And that’s why commercial rockets are supposed to explode.

    (All this said, Fuck Muskrat)