Curious about most things other than soccer, whisky, and Star Wars

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Any party stupid enough to gift Rayner an intellectual tap-in must surely question their own average intelligence?
Today’s vote at the Green Party Conference crosses a line and is rightly being condemned across the political spectrum. Labour will continue working to ensure Jewish communities are safe and have their rights upheld. We must rid our society of the scourge of antisemitism.
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It’s weird that anyone could think there’s even the germ of a coherent argument here. Rees-Mogg’s question is easily answered, but this is just a set of rather disconnected (and mainly irrelevant) facts which don’t come close to answering it
There’s no point on here trying to have any form of debate - the algorithms alone make it pointless to make time to do so as would legitimise that behaviour. But there is another point of view. Posting this here to show it does exist and not going to be cowed by the seeming blood sport of abuse so many seem now to think the public realm.
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Miller is so stupid that he just blocks anyone disagreeing with him. He knows all scientific evidence proves him wrong, and he’s now just left howling into the wind
Still men, they don’t lose their bone structure. They also retain the advantage of their w angle which gives them more driving power.
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I’m so sleepless that I tried watching baseball. The subtle interaction of the fourth out rule with the retouch rule made me appreciate what Jane Austen saw in the game. 10/10, and hope it’s always this good👍
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There are many who’d be happy to engage intelligently, but you appear to have accidentally turned off replies
I wrote about the WTA's new sex-testing policy and why this kind of policy, dreamt up in Nazi Germany and abandoned by sports a quarter of a century ago, brings about far more harms than anyone arguing for the policy seems to want to engage with observer.co.uk/news/sport/ar…
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This once-in-a-lifetime cheek swab looks for the "make male" SRY gene. If found, there would be further investigation. As with other bodies (eg IOC), XY athletes with DSD conditions that prevented male pubertal development would be eligible to compete in female competition. bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics…
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And there we have it. A man as usual resorting to the threat of physical violence when realizes he has no coherent argument
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😂 Listen. I don’t intentionally try to be a pot stirrer. That’s never really the goal however I don’t mind jumping in the ring with people who are being nasty. Cause my gloves work too.
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Nobody cares about offending you. You have no coherent argument, so you blocked replies. People just think you are rather dim
How they think they’re offending me // how I feel
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It’s an SRY screen, not a testosterone test. But of course this bloke wants to wallow in his ignorance, so he’s turned off replies
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Oh my. When Djokovic turns it on, it’s like a different game
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I don’t bother posting much but this is weird. I asked him a question and he immediately blocked. I guess some blokes are a bit delicate
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It’s probably just me, but I have to fast forward past David Tennant’s TV ads for MoneySuperMarket, because I can’t see his face without being reminded of his repulsive views about women, and his jokes about sexual assault
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This is the core of the answer. People should be free to hold whatever crazy metaphysical views they fancy about UFOs or lizard people or TWAW. But everyone else should probably approach all of their other views with a degree of caution
People will believe anything once they believe some men are women. They might as well defend any other beliefs once they've made that first step.
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You’ve blocked me in this one. Do you want to try again
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We can’t, because you’ve blocked me. You may or may not have a rational argument, but it’s quite sad that you can’t even acknowledge material reality
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And another person has no intelligent argument, so resorts to blocking. These people are not worth listening to
Interesting. So do you believe that humans are fundamentally different from all other animals?
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Walter Plinge retweeted
Interesting. So do you believe that humans are fundamentally different from all other animals?
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I’m often cheaply snarky about philosophy because philosophy can only ever be about motivated reasoning. But Pike is seriously worth listening to, here cutting through the tangled thorns of this question
I don't have too much to say about #Parkrun, except that I completely support the actions of @wsusportsunion. (Yeah, long post follows) I don't think much hangs on the slightly annoying 'is it a race?' question. Some people certainly treat it as a race and some people don't. (I think it's a race, but I don't think anything much hangs on this point.) What we all know is that it has *categories*. The point of those categories is to distinguish male performances from female performances, else why have them? It would be coherent to abolish timings, results, and categories, but I think that would be a great shame. It's not coherent to have categories designed to distinguish between the performances from people with two types of bodies, and then turn a blind eye when people with male bodies register times in the female category. Women - adult human females - *deserve* fair results at all levels of sport. Men get them at Parkrun, why shouldn't women? You don't have to provide categorised results, or any results at all. But if you do, you should try to ensure that they are fair. Four more things: No one is 'banned', obviously. There is no 'enforcement' issue, obviously. The ADF are not my cup of tea, and I deplore many of their policies and actions in the US. I also deplore the misogynistic attacks, here and elsewhere, on Sharron, Tracey, and particularly on @mara_yamauchi who is as courageous and tenacious as, well, the most tenacious thing you can think of: maybe a honey badger? (I mean this in a good way, Mara!) I hope the legal threat works, and that Parkrun changes its policy to one that is properly respectful of women. There. I said I didn't have much to say.
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I don’t understand why you blocked me from replying. Do you have any coherent reply?
So you understood material reality ten years ago, but then somehow stopped understanding it?
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