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did anyone miss work yesterday because their Iphone alarm didn't work, what an excellent excuse.

What do you mean?

i knew it! you dont know (or dont "want" to know) the difference between sex and gender.

Well, yeah he should, but that's indepedent from asking for your opinion of the quality of an opera production. Going by his recent interaction/communication attempts, I'll try a left field theory of him trying to get to a friendship (without benefits) relationship. I think that's the most benign reading.

Robert was bad at governance. Robb Stark started a rebellion. Ned was ineffective as the hand. Jon’s treason hurt the Watch.

yes and medieval rulers rarely tried anyway at least in medieval europe, they needed a strong nobility for the system to function

Many people have prophetic dreams and know the story of Azor Ahai. One of them had the economic means to send the dragon eggs.

Have I said anything about chromosomes? Lets talk about the gametes. Have I said anything about genes? Lets talk about gametes, which the cited paper notes: Who has talked about genes? We're talking gonads. But here, from the cited paper: This paper clearly accepts that there are males and females, and that a DSD does not change them into some different thing. DSDs are Disorders of Sex Development, for anyone who does not know. None of this posits that these DSDs turn people into something else -- gives a female functional testes or a male functional ovaries -- because that's not how any of this works. Caster Semanya is perhaps the most famous example of an athlete with a DSD, and medical reports revealed she has internal testes (small gamete producers) and no uterus or ovaries (big gamete producers). She is biologically male, as the IOC acknowledged. Sexuality and biological sex are not the same thing. The big gametes and the little gametes lead to no confusion in something like 99.8% of cases (maybe more). The 46,XY disorder that Semanya has tends to be detected by puberty, at least in the west, but in her case it was not. Now, if you'd ask me, should her yearly physical include screenings for testicular and prostate cancer or screenings for breast cancer and cervical cancer, well, the former seems like it'd be more useful based on what we know of her biological sex. I don't know where this puts her in an NHS ward.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was originally a BBC radio play. And then a TV miniseries. Likewise, Dune only became popular after the David Lynch movie.

Maybe. Fucking Paul Allen.

What's this about the US Congress intervening in the Andretti rejection?

I guess she was used to it... I would be seriously worried about the mental state of the women this would work on... Also you forget one small detail: I'm German. We don't talk to strangers unless we have a very good reason to do so. That goes doubly for asking someone out. Which is why, at least in my view, the only valid angles are dating apps (where everyone should be on the same page of why they are there) or by befriending people in Real Life and seeing where things go. Heck, even the latter only works in a framework that allows you to meet regularly and get to interact with people. I guess, yes, that's part of the reason I'm trying to go to meetups these days. Right now I only go to a board game evening every Sunday, though notably my only interaction with a woman there as of yet was exchanging awkward grimaces with a shy Russian girl when we arrived early and waited for someone to open a table and collect us. On the other hand regularly going to my favorite park to get out of the house and correct exams there had been more of a drain on my mood, being quite literally surrounded by SO many couples picnicking there, while I just sit there alone, reading or working. There had been a couple of situations where I was close to considering striking up a conversation, but in the end decided against it, again, because it just doesn't seem appropriate to bother strangers. There was one scene where two women suddenly came up and started to play badminton essentially in my face, because there was an empty spot in front of me and I thought about joking whether I need to take cover, as the ball kept landing near me. Oh, and the last weekend there was one odd scene where I retreated to a park bench because I started to get boiled in the sun and after a while a girl sat down beside me, sniffling and typing furiously at her phone as I was busy working through my stack of exams. I couldn't help but glance a few times at her. I suppose I was primed by the amount of kissing couples everywhere being particularly prominent that day and it somehow awakened some primal protector instinct, wondering whether she got stood up or anything, but eventually decided that it could just as well be just an allergy and I shouldn't bother her. What made the scene all the more weird was when I was finished with my exams and stood up to go home, I glanced one last time at her and she looked straight at me. And I may have imagined things, but also putting on a smile. I just awkwardly nodded in return and went my way... Not sure what happened there.

...and a far deal greater self-awareness of his own defects if I recall correctly.

If it were just F1. The issue is with the parent company after the death of Mateschitz.

Well, Patrick Bateman might be someone you could hang out with. Problem is, he has a better moral compass.

Agreed. I sincerely hope you stop making “category” errors and observe the science instead of hurting people reading this just to make a point that is wrong.

Pretty good by Hayes.

When people say ‘transwomen are women’ I take it to mean ‘transwomen should be treated for all intents and purposes as women and I don’t believe in discrimination against them’ I would say that is a pretty reasonable statement and I don’t think too many people would argue against it. Which is why I don’t know why there is an insistence to take it even further by starting to make scientifically inaccurate statements about the nature of sex and biology. I’ve seen this debate play out all over the internet, I’ve seen people make the same basic category errors that Kal made above and I don’t see how it helps anyone to be doing that. It doesn’t help anybody to try to insist that people believe untrue statements, or to argue about things that everyone already understands to be true. That really is a bad hill.

I feel like that if the Palestinian colonizers would just stay in their lane they could have Gaza and the West Bank and no further wars. Sometimes you just have to go on a murder and rape a few thousands of people spree I guess. Much more of a live and live guy myself but maybe I'm an outlier.

This thread requires pictures. These are Siberian Squill. I wish I had as many as are in this picture, but the little guys are working on it. https://h2.commercev3.net/cdn0.dutchbulbs.com/images/500/87960.jpg

Well, everyone says he can go f— himself, and Dua Lipa does have those New Rules, so…we shan’t speculate. Might I also mention that men in general are now incredibly bold. I’ve literally gotten somewhat propositioned on the street, twice in the last two weeks. Last week, at the gas station: Man: How are you doing? Me: doing great, thanks; and you? Him: great. Hey, you wanna go out sometime? Me: (ignores him) Tonight: I was walking-and-talking on the phone at the Battery, which is an entertainment district by my house. I got off the phone and was walking down the sidewalk. A Man at Battery, seemed 100% sober, powered his wheelchair quickly to move up to alongside me. Man at Battery, in power wheelchair, seemed 100% sober: Hey. Do you want to hook up? Perhaps tomorrow, or even tonight? Me: I am seeing someone. Him: Ok. You do have a really nice ass. Say, are we in (city) or (city)? Me: Great question. I know that two blocks that way (west) is (city), but one block (north) is (city) and the rest of it is unincorporated. Him: does it matter to anyone around here? Me: probably only to either (city) for their tax base. Have a great night! I am going to confess that this was SUPER STRANGE to me because he had a health attendant of some sort with him. Who was kind of studiously ignoring this whole interaction. She literally did not look me in the eyes at all, and I am actually really kind of curious as to this whole dynamic. @Toth - you now have a strategy to attempt to apply. I’m sure it’s a numbers game. These men wouldn’t do it if it didn’t work.

'Aight... I feel like this is implicit in the goal of eradicating Hamas- Israel will resume military control of Gaza. I suppose they could declare such intention now, but doesn't refraining from stating such as policy give other states the opportunity to step up and propose administration of Gaza? The U.N. itself, perhaps? Disagree, the policy expectation is clear: Remove Hamas control of Gaza as fast as possible as practically as possible. Acceptance of cost is clear: whatever it takes. The exit strategy is obvious. Elimination of Hamas' operational capacity in Gaza. ... I'll get to the second category at my leisure.

It seems that there will only be 8 episodes this season. The first 2 are about the early part of the season. Eps 3~5 aren't about the men's team. So they have about 4 weeks to finalize eps 6~8. Also, a part of Wrexham's success this season was due to their goalkeeper, Arthur Okonkwo, who's an Arsenal loanee. I'm hoping that he is Arsenal's starter in 2~3 seasons.

Yeah there's some gnarly questions around disclosure/medical privacy at play here in how enforcement can be done. Did the announcement have any details on how they plan to broach this? I'm busy and haven't had the time to look, but this seems awfully prone to patients accusing cis women nurses they don't feel are feminine enough to try get them kicked off the ward. Contrary to what transvestigators would have you believe, they are actually terrible at identifying whether someone is trans.

Am I the only one, that would I find it extremely funny, if she was then approached by two mormons?