Notices by 🎓 Dr. Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org), page 59

@zevahs wellll.. i dont know anything about google forms, so I cant really say.. but if you want to do a webapp there are a ton of options for you. I presume this app would need a front end and a back end?

@timorl Ill check it out when i get a chance, thank you.

But bear in mind an actual ideological stance is, usually, born out of lack of understanding. But thanks to confirmation bias is not cured by giving the person understanding, in fact, it prevents them from being able to understand in the first place.

@timorl Like most people who sound like her im not sure she really knows what she believes. She just doesnt understand the english words for sex and gender most likely and assumes they are the same thing.

@Bibi Its greatto have you. I look forward to hearing your views on scotland and what is going on (I just learned of the exodus a few minutes ago).

What is your STEM background and interests? You might want to share that as an introduction so I can boost it.

@n0btc first I heard of it and there doesnt seem to be much movement on the fediverse network yet...

So apparently J.K. Rowling went from feminist idol to TERF this week.

While I myself am very vocally anti-sexist I must admit as a community the majority of feminists will throw you under a bus the second you step one ideological toe out of line. She backed that horse through much of her modern career trying to pander to the feminist community to increase her fame in insincere and largely meaningless gestures. She made her bed and now she has to lie in it.

Personally this is why I am so blunt and willing to discuss or consider unpopular ideological views in any group. I know this will be the outcome no matter how hard I try so might as well be intellectually sincere in my public evaluations of the world.

With that said I'm not clear on J.K.'s actual opinion beyond a few vague tweets so I cant say if the attacks have any justification.

She does seem to think sex is immutable, strictly speaking she is right, it is the genders that trans-people change, not their sex. But the ore important aspect is that unless you are a medical doctor talking about someones genitalia then any use of pronouns you choose or the word "male" and "female" are and have historically been references to gender not sex.

So while her statement strictly speaking was a bit of a non-point, it does suggest she is rather clueless as to the linguistic and underlying considerations of the discussion.

So apparently J.K. Rowling went from feminist idol to TERF this week.

While I myself am very vocally anti-sexist I must admit as a community the majority of feminists will throw you under a bus the second you step one ideological toe out of line. She backed that horse through much of her modern career trying to pander to the feminist community to increase her fame in insincere and largely meaningless gestures. She made her bed and now she has to lie in it.

Personally this is why I am so blunt and willing to discuss or consider unpopular ideological views in any group. I know this will be the outcome no matter how hard I try so might as well be intellectually sincere in my public evaluations of the world.

"If you want to know what a man’s like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals." -- Sirius Black

#HarryPotter #quote

@design_RG

My statement was one of ideas not semantics.

Two masses falling of equal mass fall at exactly the same speed with absolutely no prejudice or bias between them.. one of the many examples of perfect fairness

@maison_faim

@Karthikdeva By the way I should point out that while it is perfectly rational to dismiss someone who claims evidence of seeing an angel, obviously, in terms of evidence keep in mind that is basically a position not based on any evidence either way on your part. Just supposition on what really happened, which while reasonable isnt any more provable usually

@maison_faim It is absolutely perfectly fair, without exception. The universe just has very different criteria for what is fair than you do.

@Karthikdeva Presuming there is a god, and he, and by extension the angels are all power and presuming that the god's intention is that his existance not be objectively verified en masse, then it would be trivial for such a being to ensure that every visitation by an angel would leave no evidence.

I do not agree that it is a lack of understanding, per se. It may be a lack of ability. If the world is just a thought or a whim to a god then he may just make his objective verifiability a fundamental law. As such no amount of understanding would change the fact that we cant "prove" him objectively yet still call on evidence to determine he exists to ourselves.

@CCoinTradingIdeas

Nevermind, you are right Jack was the original source.

@CCoinTradingIdeas

Notice Kaya's tweet occured 14 hours before Jack's showing she was the original source:

https://twitter.com/KayaJones/status/1179224969642938368

@CCoinTradingIdeas HUH? The quote in the original meme was from Kaya Jones, what ever do you mean?

@design_RG

Americans won the war, they also won the right to dictate how we spell things!

If the brits have a problem with that they know where to find us :)

@Sphinx