Israfil

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  1. Yes. But the alternative is homelessness or prison. That's what Marx called the reserve army of labor. If you complain about the turd you're given to eat by your employer, someone starving will take your place and eat it for you.
  2. You have no idea how deep is your last quote. I would be someone completely different if it wasn`t English fluency.
  3. Some countries are more isolated from good content than others. Piracy is also a means to get country restricted information for many people.
  4. Your song lyrics reminded me about this one: Gitchy, gitchy Ooh la la Da doo ron ron You won't get far I'm machine I'm obsolete In the land of the free Lobotomy I wanna suck, I wanna lick I want to cry and I want to spit Tears of pleasure Tears of pain They trickle down your face the same It's how you look Not how you feel A city of glass With no heart If I had a tail I'd own the night If I had a tail I'd swat the flies Yeah, oh oh, oh oh, oh oh Yeah, oh oh, oh oh, oh oh Gitchy, gitchy Ooh la la Da doo ron ron It won't get far Animals in The midnight zone When you own the world You're always home Get your hands dirty Roll up them sleeves Brainwashed or true believers? Buy flash cars Diamond rings Expensive holes to bury things I'm machine I'm obsolete In the land of the free Immortality If I had a tail I'd own the place If I had a tail I'd swat the flies Oh-oh-oh, oh oh, oh oh, oh oh Oh-oh-oh, oh oh, oh oh, oh oh See me dancing on the stars See me dance If I have a tail I will control the night If I have a tail I will control the night If I have a tail I will control the night
  5. Technically is a thing that is known or proven to be true. The possibility of knowledge or proof of statements is not epistemologically evident.
  6. You're not on the same path as them.
  7. You are framing the discussion around this "net negative" and "net positive" thing as if you could objectively measure utility in the first place. Secondly, his message is not positive, the fact that he inspires some people to do good things comes more from a place of self-hatred than self-love ("hurr durr, you're a brokie, clean my shoes and take the lettuce of my burger). People transmuting this into positive outcomes talk more about who's listening, rather than who's speaking. Lastly, he sells you something and does another thing. He talks about degenerates, being one. He tells you to start a business, and he literally got rich by going into the gray market. I listened to a lot of Tate, until I understood how he got his money. He's simply a grifter. A very smart one, but a grifter nonetheless.
  8. "Net positive" is nearly impossible to measure and I'm pretty sure it doesn't relate to Andrew tate. A guy that brags that he acquired millions through hustling young naive people and manipulating women is just a grifter. I know that god loves Andrew Tate as much as the girls he used, but still, from a non-absolute perspective, he's a douchebag.
  9. I'm gonna kidnap your ass, sedate you, and donate both of your kidneys to people that are dying if they don't get one. I'll be cruel, but hey, the value I added was greater than the harm I caused, so you should be okay.
  10. The problem of underdetermination states that for any given set of evidence, there are multiple theories that fit the evidence. Let's not even go into the possibility of a "fact" itself
  11. I just read the article you linked. Pay attention to the Strengths and Weaknesses of the study, by the author: Strengths of this study include its large sample size and representation of a broad geographic area of the United States. It is the first study in which associations between pubertal suppression for transgender youth and suicidality are examined. Limitations include the study’s cross-sectional design, which does not allow for determination of causation. Longitudinal clinical trials are needed to better understand the efficacy of pubertal suppression. Because the 2015 USTS data do not contain the relevant variables, we were unable to examine associations between access to pubertal suppression and degree of body dysphoria in this study. Notably, past studies have revealed that body image difficulties persist through pubertal suppression and remit only after administration of gender-affirming hormone therapy with estrogen or testosterone.11 It is also limited by its nonprobability sample design. Future researchers should work toward the collection of population-based survey data that include variables related to gender-affirming medical interventions. Of note, because pubertal suppression for transgender youth is a relatively recent intervention, some participants might not have known that these interventions existed and thus would not have reported ever wanting them. Had these individuals known about pubertal suppression, it is possible that they might have desired it. Because we do not have data on whether individuals who did not desire pubertal suppression would have wanted it had they known about it, we restricted our analysis to those who reported ever desiring pubertal suppression. Reverse causation cannot be ruled out: it is plausible that those without suicidal ideation had better mental health when seeking care and thus were more likely to be considered eligible for pubertal suppression. The Endocrine Society guidelines for pubertal suppression eligibility recommend that other mental health concerns be “reasonably well controlled.”7 Because this study includes only adults who identify as transgender, it does not include outcomes for people who may have initiated pubertal suppression and subsequently no longer identify as transgender. Notably, however, a recent study from the Netherlands of 812 adolescents with gender dysphoria revealed that only 1.9% of adolescents who initiated pubertal suppression discontinued this treatment without proceeding to gender-affirming hormone therapy with estrogen or testosterone.25 I'm not denying that gender-affirming treatment is beneficial to trans people. What I'm pointing out is that I don't think that a 13-year-old person is mature enough to make this decision. Gender is an important part of life, but so is cardiovascular health, not having osteoporosis and brain development. The kid doesn't have completely developed long-term reasoning because the part of the brain that does that is developed precisely with puberty. So they might say they're happy because they are more aligned with the gender they identify with, but don't understand the long-term effects of this treatment.
  12. I was referring to the article I posted, not yours.
  13. A variety of factors come into play when you talk about mental health. Suicide ideation could end by any other type of element. How many of those people remained in therapy? How many were taking antidepressants? How many got out of an environment that was causing that ideation? I say that you don't understand science because you don't. If you don't control other variables, you cannot infer that the puberty blockers were the specific cause of solving that ideation. If you don't study other people who didn't take them and compare the results, you don't know shit about puberty blockers. The only thing you know is that suicide ideation went down.
  14. I read the entire thing. The conclusion was written by the author. He can write whatever the fuck he wants. I don't think the data points to 1% regret, simply by the way he defined regret. Correlation does not imply causation. The study doesn't compare people that didn't transition or only socially transitioned. You cannot infer from it that it was the puberty blockers. You clearly don't know how science works. Instead of blindly trusting your local "scientist" read the data and make your own inferences, instead of blindly accepting his stance on any given subject. His definition of regret is questionable at best and ideological at worst. But doing that interpretation work involves being intellectually honest and due diligence, two things you, unfortunately, continuously prove yourself to be on the short side.
  15. I linked the research there. The 1% statistic came from a very sketchy definition. But I trust the Bunny didn't argue out of mere confirmation bias and actually scrolled down for 2 seconds and clicked on the link below the internet article that had the study that substantiated it.
  16. I'm talking about hormone therapy. If you give testosterone to a 13-year-old for 5 years, they'll have a heart attack before 40. Puberty blockers affect bone density, brain development and fertility. Besides, you should dig deeper into your research: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8099405/ The way this study defines "regret" excludes many people that underwent surgery and did not achieve what they wanted, he even states it in a piece of the article: "In the present review, nearly half of the patients experienced major regret (based on Pfäfflin classification), meaning that they underwent or desire de-transition surgery, that will never pass through the same process again, and/or experience increase of gender dysphoria from the new gender. One study found that 10 of 14 patients with regret underwent de-transition surgeries (8 mastectomies, 2 vaginectomies, 2 phalloplasties, 2 testicular implants removal, and 1 breast augmentation) for reasons of social regret, true regret or feeling non-binary.23 On the other hand, based on the Kuiper and Cohen Kettenis’ classification, half of the patients in this review had clear regret and uncertain regret. This means that they freely expressed their regret toward the procedure, but some had role reversal to the former gender and others did not. Interestingly, Pfäfflin concluded that from a clinical standpoint, transgender patients suffered from many forms of minor regrets after GAS, all of which have a temporary course.20 This is an important consideration meaning that the actual true regret rate will always remain uncertain, as temporarity and types of regret can bring a huge challenge for assessment." I am not against transition whatsoever. I'm just stating that kids don't have the discernment to choose to transition. They do not understand the consequences and the current guidelines for gender dysphoria treatment lean heavily on promoting the most invasive treatment available i.e: puberty blockers, HRT, and Gender Affirming Surgery. My only take is that this treatment is actually harmful and should only be undertaken after heavy therapeutical follow-up, which is not the norm, many people go to the therapist, get an assessment of gender dysphoria in two or three sessions, and proceed to surgery or HRT. Is it that absurd to defend that children don't have the maturity to take this life-changing decision?
  17. Sometimes individuals pronounce words with the intention of causing surprise, through unexpected discourse. A common reaction to this type of statement is laughter. We call this interaction a joke.
  18. I understood what you said. I don't think it was correct, and since this is a place for discussion I pointed it out.
  19. I'm for this. I can call them whatever they want, and use the pronouns they prefer. I'm just not for chemically castrating someone that doesn't have the maturity to do a fucking tattoo just because they're saying they want to.
  20. He's in pain for being judged as an evil being.
  21. This is fitting for this forum: