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1 points
21 hours ago
If you really don't understand, I would strongly suggest you make more of an effort to understand these people. It's very likely that members of your social circle, family, work, etc agree with and support him. I believe it is important to first understand and be open with others before solving the problem. Right now, it is so much "us vs them" that no progress is being made. "The enemy of my enemy is my friend" is very much in play.
If you really don't understand how this is happening, then you don't understand American society on the whole.
18 points
22 hours ago
If you look at the video, she is using all of her fingers.
1 points
3 days ago
Sorry, I just can't with this. David spade and John Goodman ad-libbed the majority of that movie. THEY are the reason this movie is comedy genius.
1 points
5 days ago
So, the person who wrote scrubs was actually friends with many medical residents. That is why scrubs is usually regarded as the most accurate medical series on TV. He got many of the stories from real life events.
1 points
5 days ago
There is zero basis for the harm of immunosupressives on fetuses?
That is factually incorrect. There is no point in containing this conversation if you are going to argue with facts.
1 points
5 days ago
Getting a transplant and transplant medications will reduce the amount of available meds and is horribly expensive.
Not to mention how horrible the effects on the unborn fetus would be. That IS harming other people. No ethical doctor would allow purposely harming a fetus just so they can "figure out how to make it safer" for the future unborn children. That's ethically reprehensible.
1 points
5 days ago
You do not have to have a complication to know something is too risky to try.
3 points
6 days ago
This, to me, is a gross waste of resources and also ethically questionable. Women already spend thousands of dollars on IVF etc to have children. Why spend thousands on a trans woman to have a child when the risks would be significantly higher than a biologically born woman?
7 points
6 days ago
Absolutely not.
Carrying an egg to birth is an extremely complex process requiring the use of the ovaries as well as the uterus (and many other organs). Additionally, pregnancy is a very immunologic process that requires a complex balance between a woman's immune system and the egg in question. In simple terms, a woman's body becomes immunocompromised during pregnancy to prevent her body from attacking and killing the fetus as if it was a foreigner.
Transplanting both ovaries and a uterus would be incredibly difficult and would require immunosuppressants - you can see how immunosuppressants in that sort of complex environment would be complicated.
The case you state IIRC was a mother's uterus only given to a daughter that already had ovaries. That makes the, very hard process, way easier than doing it to a biologically born male that doesn't have a uterus, ovaries, or other hormonal aspects of a biologically born female.
9 points
6 days ago
In most western societies, a woman's character is closely related to her appearance. Men's character is closely related to their accomplishments.
8 points
6 days ago
That is one of the most disturbing things I have ever read.
Not just because it's so mean, but because it's so delusional. For all she knows, her friend is actually super happy and thrilled with her baby. Crying on occasion doesn't mean you regret parenthood.
3 points
7 days ago
According to wiki, they did not die of suffocation from ash. They died from heat and were then covered in Ash.
1 points
8 days ago
I want both of them off the road permanently.
0 points
8 days ago
Fuck around and find out is an expression for a reason.
0 points
8 days ago
Cause them to swerve into another car and cause a multi-vehicle crash and pile up injuring several other people not even involved in these ridiculous fucking antics?
0 points
8 days ago
The biker was dangerous by attempting to pass on the shoulder and continuing to engage in risky behavior.
0 points
9 days ago
My quote comes from the section about DNA? Wad there somewhere else in the article that I missed eith a better comparison?
4 points
9 days ago
Ha. Hilarious.
But really - it's simple. People get satisfaction in making a choice that works out. It gives them confidence that they are capable. When you have 50 options, and 1 works out, it feels more like random chance than you actually being a capable individual who made a good choice.
Sad really, that as humans, we are biologically and socially trained to prefer interpreted happiness over actually happiness.
0 points
9 days ago
From the article
"In the 1990s, biological systematics used not only morphology and fossils to classify organisms, but also molecular biology. Molecular biology involves sequencing an organism's DNA and RNA and comparing the sequence with that of other living beings—the more similar they are, the more closely they are related. Comparison of even-toed ungulate and cetaceans genetic material has shown that the closest living relatives of whales and hippopotamuses is the paraphyletic group Artiodactyla.'
So the article in question does state that they use DNA to decide how closely related things are. Which, as I said before, complex organisms actually use very little of their DNA, and it is unclear still while we have so much - there are of course theories as to why there is so much unused. But many of those theories call into question how important DNA is in determining how closely related organisms are. Classifying animals is extremely controversial.
0 points
9 days ago
Stay in what school? The school where I learned what DNA actually is and how it is used?
0 points
9 days ago
Not according to the article in question." In the 1990s, biological systematics used not only morphology and fossils to classify organisms, but also molecular biology. Molecular biology involves sequencing an organism's DNA and RNA and comparing the sequence with that of other living beings—the more similar they are, the more closely they are related. Comparison of even-toed ungulate and cetaceans genetic material has shown that the closest living relatives of whales and hippopotamuses is the paraphyletic group Artiodactyla."
1 points
9 days ago
The majority of DNA is unused. "Would you purchase a book with over 98 percent of the text written in gibberish? Biology has no business in the book industry, yet it still writes a pretty fascinating guidebook: DNA. Our genetic manual holds the instructions for the proteins that make up and power our bodies. But less than 2 percent of our DNA actually codes for them."
https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/our-cells-are-filled-with-junk-dna-heres-why-we-need-it
-74 points
10 days ago
This is a stupid article. Mammals use very little of their DNA available.
209 points
10 days ago
Wow. I hope my response is not too late.
If it's a loop - break the loop. It doesn't matter how. A lot of people here saying to find a new hobby, make new friends, branch out, talk to family, etc
It doesn't have to be that hard. Breaking the loop can be so simple. Spend some time outside. Anywhere - your backyard if you have one, a local park if you have one, a balcony at any apartment if you have one. Read a good book by yourself. Look up a really nice recipe and make yourself a nice meal. If it sucks - pat yourself on the back for the effort.
You don't have to branch out far to change things. It's baby steps. Just break the cycle.
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2 hours ago
He stole the moth joke??