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They use thorns instead of th, so always attract downvotes when their posts contain words with th in them.

He does in one of the films. He sings a little song while scanning for life forms, then gets scared and hides under a table on an away mission.

An article with half a screenshot and a claim that they're the only media outlet that's seen the half a screenshot isn't the slam dunk you're presenting it as. There's no way to verify or debunk it, as they could have made it up or their source could have made it up, and if it weren't made up, the legal consequences for publishing medical information like that would be worse than the consequences for just making it up.

If it is real, the article's still disengenuously pushing its own narrative, as the medical profession would still consider someone with those results a woman when the rest of their phenotype resembled a woman, but the article claims otherwise. There's no single test that definitively determines biological sex as there are too many factors that influence it, and about 1% of people are some kind of intersex, so would exhibit a mix of traits or have something they could be tested for that gave an obviously wrong answer.

Either way, this whole discussion only strengthens my original point about the integrity of women's sports not being undermined by trans athletes - they're still permitted and not winning anything despite that, and other people generally recognised as cisgender women have bigger advantages while still being able to compete and having been able to compete since the inception of women's sport.

Investors have been happy to incentivise companies to hire idiot CEOs and managers who say the right buzzwords but reduce output by making bad decisions and only hiring people who don't think they're bad decisions, so an automated buzzword-dispensing idiot isn't necessarily going to seem to investors like a downgrade compared to what they think most workers are. They're just as likely to think AI lets them invest in companies where even the lowest tier employees are potential CEO material, and continue not noticing that the per-employee efficiency keeps going down. Data showing that layoffs nearly never pay for themselves doesn't stop stock prices soaring whenever one happens, so I wouldn't expect data showing AI makes companies less profitable to stop stock prices going up when a company announces a new dumb way they'll use it.

There was quite a lag between the variable-rate mortgage rates going up and everything noticeably exploding, so lots of people who were aware there was a real risk of things going tits up decided that it hadn't and therefore wasn't going to and had stopped looking for signs by the time they started to appear.

The sources people cite for Imane Khelif being biologically male are:

• an opponent with a history of forfeiting after a single punch and claiming after the fact that her opponent was cheating and that was why she was forced to forfeit did it again. When she did that in the past with other opponents, there wasn't any assumption that the baseless cheating allegations were on gender/sex grounds.
• The IBA, an infamously corrupt organisation with the infamously corrupt Gazprom as its majority owner disqualified her from a tournament without saying why. There are enough historic allegations of them disqualifying people for refusing to throw matches that it's plausible that the only reason she was disqualified was that she refused to throw a match they wanted to rig.
• JK Rowling said she looked like a man. She does this a lot with a lot of cisgender women due to internalising unrealistic femenine beauty standards.

People have claimed sex testing was done by an accreddited independent lab, but chasing that citation just leads to the IBA saying she was disqualified without elaborating why, which doesn't support the claim.

There's no actual evidence to support the speculation. That doesn't mean it's untrue, but does mean it's unreasonable to present it as fact - there's just as much evidence for alternative speculation, e.g. that she bribed the opponent to forfeit and was disqualified by the IBA because they found she'd bribed people to forfeit in the past, and it would be just as unreasonable to spread that rumour I just invented around as if it were fact.

They might just think he's into vintage fashion and had his eyes altered so he didn't have to damage the antique glasses by replacing the original lenses. It's not like sick bay couldn't put his vision right in a few seconds if he wanted to take the glasses off again.

The discussion on the talk page was basically nuh uh, loads of reputable sources like the Israeli and German governments say there's no evidence of genocide, and even if they're biased, anti-genocide NGOs are more biased because they have to accuse nations of genocide to justify their existence, with people responding to point out that's not how Wikipedia's rules work, and if it were, they'd have to rename the pages on various other genocides because there are very few that no nations deny.

It's probably more risqué than that - with the rise of cam sites and then OnlyFans, plenty of people aren't wearing any underwear at their day job at all.

If you trust Adam Smith, an efficient market would quickly make new goods and services available for the lowest possible price. People are supposed to be incentivised to sell things, and competition is supposed to stop an excessive amount of money being diverted to profits instead of reinvestment and price cuts. There are supposed to be systems in place that ensure that there are always opportunities for competition, but the wealthiest have the most power to erode those mechanisms and the most interest in eroding them, and neoliberals think an Ayn Rand novel is the definitive text on how capitalism works rather than Adam Smith's work, so even if you land in the capitalism makes everyone better off mode, it doesn't last for long before it falls back into fuedalism with extra steps mode.

In the real world, it doesn't even cause a real fairness issue. The Olympics started allowing trans competitors in the 90s, but there's never been a trans medal winner. If there was a real advantage, then you'd expect the best person at some sports in some counties to be trans, so there to be trans athletes competing, and their advantage to put them on the podium. You'd also potentially expect some countries to pad their team with trans people to get more medals. This hasn't happened.

Magnets from Temu were probably just loose in a bag or some bubble wrap with no warning label. People should know they're not food anyway, but defying a warning label wasn't the particular flavour of dumbness exhibited here.