Viewing profile — knaekhoved

> and are also one of the ones that can be changed later Frankensteinian surgical mutilation is not really "changing genitals".

In excess of 99.98% of people have the genitals naively predicted by their chromosomes. This is one of the closest-to-perfectly-binary phenomena that exists in nature.

A family member is. And no, I'm not.

Language ought to "cleave reality at the joints" - i.e. approximate an information-theoretically optimal encoding. If you start screwing over the 99.9%ile case to slightly improve …

Stop using intersex people (who have extremely rare physiological diseases) as a political tool to justify transsexual ideology, when >99% of transsexuals do not have any such dise…

Your example contradicts the claim. They say "assigned male at birth" rather than "male", because they believe you can be a female even if you were assigned male at birth.

Hiding comments from 99.5% of users is functionally the same as deleting them.

The EU can certainly claim any absurd jurisdiction they like, but how are they planning to enforce this? Ultimately it seems the primary thing they can do is censor Discord from EU…

If I accept money from a Chinese guy, that doesn't make me subject to Chinese law.

Which international governments? Why would the US agree to impose an EU fine, and under what legal basis?

My question as well. Can a non-EU company simply refuse to pay, and also refuse to block users from the EU? I wonder if the EU would decide to block access to the foreign service a…

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I recently saw a giant plush coca-cola can with the text changed to "cloaca" in some guy's car. Is that a known joke? I thought it was pretty funny

My moral belief is that being blasted with blinding amounts of light amounts to trespass and/or assault, and fully justifies a forceful response against the source of aggression (n…

The dynamic here is fairly straightforward. When you have new growth industries like tech, there are a lot of badly-protected resources available. There is a class of people (often…

I live in the bay area

What is up with the fact that like 95% of people in "polyamorous" relationships have a very identifiable set of phenotypes? A lot of them are pudgy, low muscle mass, pasty, etc. No…

I think ken's mansion in florida has more to do with the company's move from chicago to miami after people kept getting mugged in chicago.