StringJunky

It's often a psychosomatic effect from some mental conflict imo. The other activities weren't a sufficient committed distraction to take your mind off the ultimately nebulous pain. I tested myself with a yellow Smartie once, after telling myself repeatedly it was a super-duper analgesic, and it worked a treat.

Abortion is a luxury of the relatively rich. They can afford to not have them. In economically poor countries, children are required to help their elders in old age. That's the de facto support system there. Why do those unborn in affluent societies need to be saved, and their parents 'supported' when they aren't wanted? Is there some moral imperative to save every fertilised egg? Perhaps that altruistic support-energy is better directed at those babies already born in Africa etc.

Non-athletic transgenders are undergoing radical surgeries and endocrine treatments all the time, somewhere. Athletic trans are also doing these things on their own initiative. All professional bodies are trying to do is see if it fits in their criteria, and if not, then they are trying to establish a satisfactory level. Trans-people aren't doing anything that's considered 'onerous' to them. You seem to be projecting your internal issues as though they were theirs. Stop worrying for them, and let them get on with it... as they will anyway. Where it is potentially onerous is on the likes of Caster Semenya. She's a super-fit androgyne.

What is the exact wavelength of the colour yellow? Answer: It's a range between 570-585nm, but there is no clearly delineated line in to orange. In case it's gone over your head, things get fuzzy and merged the more details/resolution we pursue.

So what, we aren't keeping count. Each conflict is tragedy for everyone. The involved local populations rarely have a say whether they will fight. I'm sure nobody here is enjoying reading of the deaths of conscripted and regular Russian soldiers, who are dying for the vanity project of a powerful few. Military personnel do as they are told. A fighting unit cannot be effective unless everyone is precisely on the same page. Unfortunately, this can mean doing bad things if the commanders are bad. This is the case with Russia. e2a Let's not forget that only a very few, counting on one hand few, knew what was happening in the lead up to the war. Most of the Russian personnel thought the mobilisation was an exercise.

I like this. I like the thinking that even though one tries to create limited categories, there is always a 'reject' category (outliers) for things that don't conform to the prescribed categories. It's basically saying life is probabilistic, with some determinism, and generally can only be described in statistical terms. Absolutist, arbitrary positions can't reflect nature.

And you run, and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking Racing around to come up behind you again The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older Shorter of breath and one day closer to death Time - Pink Floyd Thought I'd cheer you up.

In this thread, I see nobody engaging in virtue signalling. If they were, they wouldn't be thinking as hard as they clearly are. Clearly a political subject from hereon because the biological aspects have been answered as far as present knowledge allow that we know of.

Yeah, democracy:

Everyone has their version of 'equilibrium', just as they have their own version of 'extreme'. It's what suits them. It's why we have science. An astrophysicist pontificates on something out of his expertise and you cite him?

Merde.

Izal toilet paper was just as bad in the British public toilets.

The two mentioned were the ones often cited in UK papers iirc.

When anyone puts 'Truth' in a name, you know they are lying. Trump's Truth Social site comes to mind.

Which has caused adverse climate change. I don't think scientists are going to wait to see if climate sceptics are right. Because we'll be fkd.

I'm thinking self-reference is another virtual memory space, a cumulative, more durable record, but still plastic, that represents the identity.

Yes, the vocal minority. The squeaky wheel gets the grease. I will refer to TERFs in future.

It worked fairly well until relatively recently. Much of this is political and an extension of feminist discontent with the direction these kinds of activities are taking, in contravention of their exclusionary aims. Feminists want to exclude, and LGBTQA+ just want to be included. Guess which side I'm on.

If the program routine for that ability wasn't already there and evolved it in the course of its operations, I think so. That would be functional-plasticity in action

My point was, if you sufficiently restrict your vision, put blinkers on, everything 'looks' hunky-dory.

Fuck the talented elites, like Semenya then.

You mean those that were judged to be women... and the natural outliers excluded, cue the present-day furore with Caster Semenya, their contemporaries and others preceding them throughout elite sport history.

Pseudo-Galileo's live on. Narcissism is everywhere.

That plays into the oft-unspoken exclusionary feminist trope of separate but equal. That didn't work very well dealing with racism in the 20th century... did it?

In the converse, there's plenty of trans-males accepting testosterone that undergo the full transition. Sex hormone therapy is a widely accepted method on both sides of the transition spectrum outside sports. It's not hard to extrapolate that to sports. Testosterone targets only reflect the knowledge of today, not in the future, as more information is collected and understood in the context of elite sports. Only empirical testing and observation will find meaningful ways of inclusion. That answers your earlier question to me that I and others have repeated quite a few times.