Acamon @ Acamon @lemmy.world

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Gender-affirming care massively reduces the difference, but transwomen are still likely to be faster than AFAB women:

Prior to gender affirming hormones, transwomen performed 31% more push-ups and 15% more sit-ups in 1 min and ran 1.5 miles 21% faster than their female counterparts. After 2 years of taking feminising hormones, the push-up and sit-up differences disappeared but transwomen were still 12% faster. Prior to gender affirming hormones, transmen performed 43% fewer push-ups and ran 1.5 miles 15% slower than their male counterparts. After 1 year of taking masculinising hormones, there was no longer a difference in push-ups or run times, and the number of sit-ups performed in 1 min by transmen exceeded the average performance of their male counterparts.

But what season you're born in also influences your strength and fitness:

There were significant main effects of birth-month for cardiorespiratory fitness (F=4.54, p<0.001), strength (F=6.81, p<0.001) and power (F=3.67, p<0.001). Children born in November were fitter and more powerful than those born at other times, particularly the summer months (April, May and June). October-born children were stronger than those born in all months except September and November. This relationship was evident despite controlling for decimal age and despite no significant inter-month differences in anthropometric characteristics.

So maybe it's not fair for all those poor summer babies to compete against unfairly blessed autumn athletes?

Amazing. Next you need a small automated arm to turn the dial and run through the combinations!

Also, have you tried listening as you turn? With some of the cheaper rotary locks you can just barely hear the first correct letter click into place.

I think women are very interested in sex, and pre-modern times the stereotype was that women were the horny gender.

But I think what you're describing is more about gendered social norms in conversation. The fact that (some) groups of men don't talk about sex that openly is because sexual prowess is tied up with social status and most men wouldn't feel comfortable discussing sexual problems, failing to satisfy their partners, not really enjoying sex or anything like that for fear it makes them less of a man. And because of that, guys talking about how much sex they're having, or how they tried this new thing and their lady went wild for it, kinda come across like they're bragging.

Yeah, I got into a discussion on this topic and my suggestion is that sports split on other categories, not just gender. Boxing already does weight classes, which is good, more sports should do that. Can't we have sports for people under 5'8"? I'm sure there's lots of shortkings who'd love to compete seriously in a league where there height wasnt an detriment.

This approach seemed to offend both sides of the trans sports debate.

Looking at this data Norway seems to have low levels of economic inequality, low rates of poverty, and a high median disposable income (behind Luxembourg but around that of France and Austria).

Its far from perfect, but I imagine social inequality for stuff like gender and race is pretty low, officially speaking at least. I get the feeling that Scandinavians can be a big negative about foreigners, but I have zero firsthand knowledge on that.

I guess my parents did a pretty good job of not swearing in front of us when we were young. By the time we were teens they stopped pretending, but by that time we were old enough to understand when it was appropriate to swear.

The problem with little kids using curse words is that they often can't understand the social situation. And the whole point of curse words is they're attention grabbing. It's like giving your little brat an air horn, but one you can't even confiscate.

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Think he looks pretty good!

They're already paying for fossil fuels (7$ trillion worldwide)

Ah yes, concise is not my strength. I avoided getting into the etymology of 'meta' and how it comes from an ancient librarian dealing with untitled manuscripts... So thought I was doing well!

When I heard it used back in the days if collectible card games, it seemed like it was describing the abstract 'game' rather than a particular game between two players. So a particular card (or weapon or ship) can be good within a game, depending on your opponent or play style. But sometimes a card or strategy is found by the community to be highly effective so in the 'metagame' it comes to dominate.

New cards would come out and change the meta. Even if you don't buy then or use them, knowing that they exist and are effective changes how other players build decks and so you might need to change your play style to adapt to the new metagame.

They might ban it, but if its diy there's little they can do to actually enforce it. People can 3d print guns or make bombs because you can't control basic tech. Making a mobile device is harder because the carriers could try and detect unofficial access. But even having a device that's only for wifi is better than allowing the goverrment to constantly monitor everything their citizens do and say online.

Meeting other people's friends groups (as you described meeting your partner's friends) is a great way to shortcut that awkwardness. Its not just that someone else has done the hard work of filtering folks out, but that people are just on better form when with friends. Part of the problem of making friends in random social events is most people are either a bit awkward or putting on a social 'mask', which makes it harder to actually identify the people you'd like once you got past that.

My wife social circle has a bunch of people who entered as someone's partner for a whole, but stayed friends with us after they broke up (even if there was a delicate period post-split where we hung out with them both, but never together).

We really need to come up with some DIYable devices. A future where most nation states insist in this sort of backdoor feels distressingly inevitable at this stage...

Glad that you're a human! The worst part about the rise in bot posts is that it creates an atmosphere of distrust. The fact that you've commented, and hopefully don't delete your account in a few hours, is very reassuring.

I still think someone going to jail for posting a meme is beyond mildlyinfuriating. But that's a matter of opinion.

This is more than mildlyinfuriating. Also, this new account has posted ten times in its first hour. Mostly politics.

Given what we've seen in the last few weeks about the scale of paid actors using social media to increase tensions and divisions, I'm getting very sick of this kinda behaviour.

I fucking hate CK and the way the American right is using this story to push their agenda. But that doesn't mean I want to see bots trying using that to reaction to push our buttons.

https://lemmy.world/post/39499201 https://lemmy.world/post/39490841 https://lemmy.world/post/39379258 https://lemmy.world/post/39401080 https://lemmy.world/post/39443812 https://lemmy.world/post/39251915 https://lemmy.world/post/39294224 https://lemmy.world/post/38937776 https://lemmy.world/post/38770260

Just looking at the last 20 posts (including this one), these 9 are all links to ragebait news stories from accounts that are now deleted and have similar random usernames. Of the remaining 11, one is a weird downvoted post from a deleted account, 2 are politics posts but from active users. Just over a quarter of the posts are actually about interesting/useful information.

Yeah, I know what you mean. Asking people to join and then not be able post seems a bit shit. Same with the light moderation in most communities, when there's a comparatively low level of posts, do we really want to be removing posts for being "off topic"?

But I also think that can backfire. I'm pretty close to leaving YSK and mildlyinfuriating because it feels that half the posts are just variations on politics. The tagine of "YSK" is a place for all the things to make your life easier. Looking back through the last 20 posts >75% are to do with politics, bad people and their misdeeds. I hate Boris Johnson, and people should be told he's a corrupt ass hole, but we have communities for politics which is where that belongs.

Ragebait is always going to do well, it's how our brains are wired. So if we don't want all communities to end up being mostly "this is bad, you should be angry and sad" then we need stricter moderation. It's a mistake to think more posts = more content. If most of the main communities of lemmy are overrun by these kinds of posts, the only new users it's going to attract are people who want that, and the problem snowballs.

It's not weird to think about the other paths you could have gone down. But I would avoiding feeling too much regret. If something genuinely seems interesting to you, make it part of your current life, even just as a hobby or side project. Remembering that we are more than just our current selves is important for not getting swallowed by the grind.

If it's feeling envy about the better life some alternate you has, try to keep in mind that nothing is simple. Although other choices might seem appealing in abstract, maybe they'd also lead to more problems. Sure, you could have been a doctor, but maybe the stress would have driven you to burnout and opiate addiction (69% of doctors misuse prescription substances).

I'd also say, that as I get older, I feel like I hit different "Save Points" that prevent to much regret. I chose to study philosophy instead of law, which means I'm a lot less rich than I might have been, but I would trade my weird, chilled friends from uni for the bunch of competitive over achievers I would have been "friends" with if I'd gone down that route. I met my spouse during a stressful period in my life, completing a degree for a profession I no longer work in. I could see that whole period of study as a complete waste of time, but if I'd never met the person I married the my life would be incomparably poorer.

I like games where I name the main character, often the main character has a title or nickname that npcs use as well (the Dragonborn, the Avatar) but if I know they have a name in the story then it's feels a bit weird to change it. So, Link is Link. But when I player Chrono Trigger for the first time recently I had (somehow) not heard much about it, so I renamed Crono (also it's a horrible misspelling and kinda dull name, so happy to change it).