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Cake day: June 20th, 2023

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  • You can and should read the full report here. Several experts and researchers who work in a variety of fields relevant to gender and youth healthcare reviewed hundreds of studies, commissioned several literature reviews, and conducted thousands of interviews with gender diverse children, their families and healthcare providers to reach their conclusions.

    To dismiss them as “conservatives who just hate other humans” and handwave away a 388-page report that took more than 3 years to complete by vaguely gesturing at some nondescript “statistics” would be extremely shortsighted.




  • I expect that Elon or some other famous person is going to use Dogecoin again to scam their fans and make a quick buck in the near future.

    I like that Ethereum’s system changed to use far less energy and thus emit less carbon.

    I guess Monero can be useful if you want to buy drugs online or whatever, which I’m fine with.

    I know that some people feel really strongly about crypto, either positively or negatively, but I’m mostly disinterested. It’s not going to become a particularly useful currency any time soon and it’s way too volatile, so if I ever decide to invest in something I’ll pick normal stocks instead.


  • An example of why this is incorrrect.

    If a card is the ace of spades, it is black.

    A card is black if and only if it is the ace of spades.

    There are other conditions under which B (a card is black) can happen, so the second statement is not true.

    A conclusion that would be correct is “If a card is not black, it is not the ace of spades.”. The condition is that if A is true B will also always be true, so if B is false we can be sure that A is false as well - i.e. “If not B, not A”.






  • The UK is truly becoming a fascist hellhole.

    “You’re allowed to protest, but only between 5PM and 6PM and you must get a permit and also don’t bother anyone or make too much noise and also you must walk at the right speed otherwise you’re just being a meanie and we’re going to arrest you >:(”

    While I think some of Just Stop Oil’s previous antics were counterproductive to the public image of climate activists, arresting someone because they didn’t protest “at the right speed” is ridiculous. The whole point of protests is to be disruptive and bring attention to the protesters and their cause, and this is an incredibly mild way of doing it.



  • By “escape illusions” do you mean not falling for and being able to overcome false beliefs?

    I’d say you should familiarize yourself with logical fallacies and cognitive biases, and to become accustomed with admitting the limits of your knowledge. “I don’t know” is a perfectly reasonable answer, and we shouldn’t jump to conclusions if we don’t have much knowledge on a topic.

    Open-mindedness, intellectual curiosity, rigorousness and humility can help you not fall for false beliefs and keep an open mind to new facts that might contradict what you previously believed.