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ByteJunk

@ ByteJunk @lemmy.world

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  • bored

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  • A throwback to the OG troll that wouldnt let you cross the bridge.

  • Intersex people face high levels of violence in Europe

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  • The report only covers Europe, but its conclusions do not mirror yours:

    Intersex people are the only LGBTIQ group that has not experienced a drop in discrimination since an earlier survey in 2019.

  • Intersex people face high levels of violence in Europe

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  • To be honest, I'm confused about this too.

    How are 40% of respondents being harassed at work for being intersex? How do people even find out?

    Only about 30% of the people surveyed identify as cis, and around 15% describe their orientation as heterosexual, so I'm sure that they definitely face many of the same struggles that the LGBTQIA+ community faces as a whole.

    But why would discrimination at large be decreasing, except for intersex people? Maybe they're feeling more empowered to come out, and people don't know how to react?I would even expect, if anything, that bigots would be more understanding of someone for whom Nature made life "visibly" harder, but maybe I'm just naive.

    In any case, it doesn't seem like the study sheds enough light on this, hopefully more studies will follow so that we can find a way to do better.

  • Education doesn't increase intelligence by making people memorize things, but by constantly reminding people that they might be wrong.

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  • I don't think it's related to patterns, it's the methodology.

    Sure, there's some groundwork that needs to be memorized in different fields, but this is like learning your first words. These are necessary so that we can communicate with each other, and they serve as building blocks upon all rest is built upon.

    Everything else we are mostly taught by learning how some old guy came up with an answer, making clever use of the tools that we also have.

    After a while it sort of clicks that there's a method to the madness, you build up and up until you get to the moon, and you get this feeling that anything can be explained logically - we might not know how yet, but surely it will be at some point.

    Unless it's quantum physics, fuck that.

    It feels like there's a lot of people who skipped these building steps, maybe they were just memorizing stuff to get by the exams without exercising their brains on the methods to reach those solutions, or were simply never taught, and now they just don't have the tools to make sense of what's around them, and will blindly follow a monster that assures them that they'll be ok as long as they do this or that...

  • Feral children are everywhere

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  • I'm confused with ages here, have we standardized this?

    • Greatest Generation (born roughly 1901–1927)
    • Silent Generation (1928–1945)
    • Baby Boomers (1946–1964)
    • Generation X (1965–1980)
    • Millennials (1981–1996)
    • Generation Z (1997–2012)
    • Generation Alpha (born around 2013–2024)
    • Generation Beta (2025–2039)

  • NATO on High Alert as Russian Drone Violates Romanian Airspace

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  • The US has been in that same war since WW2, but it never came to direct blows, and likely won't come to any time soon.

    NATO is a defense pact to deter war, not to go looking for one, so have a sit and eat something.

  • DEI, more like DIED

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  • That's the joke I was making, brother.

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    They're not wrong 🤷

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  • With enough sugar and cooking anything becomes a jam, change my mind.

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    They're not wrong 🤷

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  • They're tasty too, but if you're chopping them up, be careful not to splatter.

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    Who could have predicted this???

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  • A tragedy really, why couldn't he be a black drag queen or some trans person, or at the very least gay in like a flashy and obvious way? At some point the good, honest people of America might start questioning who is actually the problem...

    /s just in case it wasn't obvious.

  • DEI, more like DIED

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  • The shooter was perhaps afraid of missing the brain.

  • knowing the current right wing, solid chance this could be real

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  • Sucked off one too many guns, maybe.

  • Empathy for me, but not for thee

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  • No. Nobody is "owed" empathy, you garner it through your actions and circumstances, which is why I and millions of people have absolutely zero empathy for this scumbag. This is a very simple case of you reap what you sow.

    Murder can never be condoned or accepted, and it must be met with the appropriate consequences. I do however understand what would lead someone to believe their only hope for a future would be to put a bullet through this guy's neck.

    It's the Luigi situation all over. Nobody condones murder, but we empathise more with the killer than with the asshole who was fucking us over.

  • seriously?!

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  • That would belittle the powerful message being sent here - a peaceful protest about a peaceful protest being repressed is being repressed.

    Also I assume there were a ton of cops around the guy.

  • Typical

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  • Yep yep, we're agreeing, sorry if I made it sound like we're not.

  • Same, I don't get this sport at all ha ha!

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  • I'm afraid to ask, but is the winner the first one to come up with a brown finger?

  • Typical

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  • Yes, it's satire, but the thing with satire is that it ridicules something real.

    It's like that "toddlers and tiaras" crap, at that point you're way past what any sane person considers reasonable and you're just abusing your kid and their right to privacy for your own ends - be it social recognition, or sympathy, or outright profit. It's disgusting.

  • seriously?!

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  • Encouragement

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  • Stop selling it already.

    Wednesday, probably.