Ice Station is sitting on my bookshelf and I think you’re severely underestimating nerds who enjoy over the top action.

New chess grandmaster strat just dropped

Ending the meat industry would result in the extinction of breeds we have engineered for meat and milk production.

Ending factory farming would significantly reduce numbers and increase quality of life for the animals.

My school’s bus, which was used only for sporting events and trips, was an actual prison bus. It still had restraint attachment points and the bars on the windows.

It was brilliant for psyching out the other football teams.

The issue with Vista was almost solely the lack of driver support for anything.

Vista caused a lot of vendors to slowly but surely start updating drivers for their products and enabled Windows 7 to have a much smoother launch.

Really Win7 stands on the shoulders of Vista.

That was my shoplifting tactic when I was a kid.

Well not the backseat part, I hid chocolates in my bike helmet and always bought something like a drink.

All the idiots that didn’t buy anything got caught instantly.

The Vatniks are absolutely stupid enough to try.

Already the vatniks claim they are fighting NATO so if they win then that means they beat NATO and can do it again.

The EU doesn’t have a choice.

They can fight this war in Ukraine or in Poland, it is cheaper to aid Ukraine.

Congrats you just realised the mygov ID is being slowly but surely pushed towards being mandatory for access to any online services.

They perceive they are losing out because of the economy. Look at the places that vote red; they have all lost manufacturing and gone backwards in standard of living.

No the demographics of voters are very real and the Kamala campaign spent virtually no time convincing cis white males that their lives would be better under Kamala.

Virtually everyone votes out of self interest. Trying to convince people to vote out of altruism while they perceive they will be losing out isn’t going to work.

Surely the polarisation of politics, in part due to painting cis white men as colonising evil bastards at every opportunity, has nothing to do with the current state of politics.

I cannot believe I need to spell this out for you.

Nazis are fascists.

Oh no! Leopards ate their faces. What a shame. Who could have seen this coming from fascists.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichskonkordat

Such paragons of morality, they started out by trying to ensure they were the state religion and their priests were a protected class while Jews were being persecuted.

NAZI Germany was Christian and endorsed by the Pope you absolute clown

I didn’t say sex was a spectrum

It helps if you read and comprehend the comment chain to understand what is being discussed before you jump in with ‘I didn’t say that’ when I never claimed you did.

I don’t see why it’s so hard for you to actually read the comment chain. It is right there. You can re-read it at any time.

I think I was fairly clear, it is a binary system that has some rare exceptions.

Saying sex is a binary is saying there are only males and only females.

In healthy examples of mammals where development has occurred normally this is true.

This whole ‘its a spectrum’ argument is like saying humans aren’t bipedal, there’s a spectrum because some people are born without legs! It doesn’t make any sense.

That doesn’t mean that society should refuse to accept, include and support people born without the ability to walk.

I received a refund in 2018 though they have since tried changing their EULA and TOS to make it harder, they have no legal standing to refuse a refund to Australian customers.

I was refunded for around $750 USD IIRC and at one point was in email contact with Will Leverett prior to my refund being approved.

their existence proves that sex isn’t just a binary.

This argument has always struck me as odd as in virtually every other discussion we would accept that the exception ‘proves the rule’.

Humans have two hands, except when they don’t due to something impacting fetal development.

Humans have two kidneys, except when they don’t due to an error in fetal development or as a result of disease or injury.

There’s diversity to sex that requires a more complicated scheme to account for everybody.

Or just let the exceptions be exceptions with no social stigma rather than refusing to recognise that the vast majority of humans, and mammals, can be accurately identified as one of two distinct sexes.