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About Women's sports One current hot-topic culture war issue is whether or not trans females should be allowed in female sports. Depending on the sport and what rules there are for trans females you may or may not be able to quality for the female category and maintain an advantage over cis...

Why you want to stay out of the US The political situation in the united states does seem to be very unstable and difficult to predict. It's not clear what's going to happen or what the winners will be, usage of the legal system against political opponents of the state is to be expected, we can...

Why the World Needs China’s Covid-Zero Policy The alternative is a massive surge in infections and deaths that could bring global supply chains to a halt, sending inflation higher. Over the past two years, China’s zero-tolerance policy of lockdowns, mass testing, and strict border quarantines...

https://archive.md/EuUFV https://archive.md/OPDbj Here are some reactions to the transmaxxing flyer (from 2021) https://archive.md/h9vrk https://archive.md/DkdoD The case for woman = Adult Human Female https://archive.md/wKjhl

Here are some recent ones regarding transmaxxing, not really worth reading https://archive.is/MIHNJ https://archive.is/BY1Kz https://archive.is/cOFGi https://archive.is/1iUf2 https://archive.is/sXGSI https://archive.is/b4JJX

How accurate are the official chinese figures? Plenty of people try to cope claiming china had a massive covid-19 death-toll that they are somehow hiden, there has of course hever been any good evidence for that, instead independent studies have found the government stats to be rather accurate...

Pure elite rule example with 63 senators (sub-optimal) Note that this is just one example of how the ideal system might look like for some scenario. The actual ideal system will depend on the situation in the area that needs to be governed. Citizen classes consist of a letter (A to F) and a...

About speedrunning Speedrunning at a high level is extremely tedious, you end up having to run the same game over and over again without knowing if you will even make any real progress. In-addition even if you make some record people might just forget about you completely. I do not see the fun...

How to stop people from using addictive drugs The only effective way to stop this is to physically stop people from using these drugs. Just trying to go after the drug-dealers is dommed to failure, people badly addictive will then just end up stealing to get money so they can buy the drugs they...

chief epidemiologist: China not to adjust dynamic zero-COVID policy for the time being This while most democracies couldn't even control the initial wariant with R0 of 2, omicron has R0 of 8. Wu Zunyou, China's CDC chief epidemiologist As long as China has no new measures to prevent the...

Why lockdowns failed to stop the spread The first obvious issue was that they were often used as a panic measure to prevent hospitals from getting overwhelmed instead of doing them in an attempt to eradicate the virus. For that reason it's not surprising that late lockdowns are associated with...

Corporations The by far most successful form of collectevism is collective ownership over individual corporations. The issue with publictly traded companies is that then the ones holding the shares (allowing them to vote) will often have nothing to do with the corporation itself. If we instead...

Suicide prevention People should not be allowed to just kill themselves, if someone is at risk of that they need to be monitored. Monitoring individuals at risk of harming themselves or others does not require depriving them of basic freedoms, they will still be allowed to live their lives, it's...

STI eradication People should be able to enjoy sex with strangers without risking serious infection. The obvious solution is to simply eradicate these diseases and this is very much possible via authoritarianism, you do aggressive testing and restrictions to get rid of these things, it's not...

Embracing authoritarianism The solution is obvious, we need a strong and capable government. There should not be any limits when it comes to government power and the ruling elite should be firmly in charge, they will decide what if anything the public will be allowed to vote on, they will select...

Individualism and atomization For most of human history people lived in small/medium tribes where they were tightly bonded genetically and culturally. Then people had to fight as a team against competing tribes where they losing tribes likely would have their males killed and their females made...

Kaizo mario world 3 review As with Kaizo mario games in general you often need very precise inputs or you will die. What makes kaizo 3 challanging is that there is only a single checkpoint per level so unless you cheat by using save-states playing it will be very tedius and frustrating for most...

UK date: vaccinated are under 60 are now dying more This is interesting but is this really due to the vaccine? covid-datascience.com/post/what-do-uk-data-say-about-real-world-impact-of-vaccines-on-all-cause-deaths If we look at the under 60 group we see that older people are vaccinated to a...

Non-covid mortality While the pfizer study didn't find fewer deaths among the vaccinated compared to controls that does not mean these vaccines have not saved a lot of lives, their sample size was rather small so more people in the vaccinated group might be nothing more than a coincidence. A...

Factors to consider when evaluating a system of governance These factors will not be constant, they will depend on what type of decision it is and who you are as an individual (whether or not you and people genetically close to you benefit). 0. Accuracy You want the government to make the right...