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Also, Bobby, I think your attitiude comes from thinking of social constructs as something worthy of the word "merely." Social constructs are real and very powerful. Money is a social construct. Gender is a similarly powerful social construct. They are not "merely" social constructs. They are so important and powerful you are willing to heatedly discuss about them online, spending your precious minutes of life on this instead of doing self-actualization. Very important.

"There is clear research that shows that the vast majority of women show less interest for engineering than men." This is ok. The END. Put a stop there. That's my whole argument. If you go further into venturing into saying with certainity about why that is, you will probably make a mistake. We can say our ideas of possible explanations, state our opinions, that's all good, to argue indefinitely defending them, or treating them as some proven truth is foolishness.

Have you read about this topic? First, it's about gender, so it's culture. Then, even on the wikipedia page there are descriptions of people arguing about the 'why's', because they are not obvious, no where are genetics pointed as the main factor as to why. Exactly what I was saying. You noticing the existence of the Gender Equality Paradox, that's great, we are describing reality. You jumping to conclusions as to why, no bueno, that's imagination. Everything. Culture, psychology, genetics, environement, life experience, etc. Both at the individual and collective levels. You are building up an argument as to why you shouldn't say WHY things are for sure, as even experts can disagree for a long time, but also 100% agreement is never needed for science to go forward, science is a dynamic process of discovery and inventivness not a religious dogma. You are doing what you accuse the feminists of. You boil everything down to some stupid patriarchy. Patriarchy is a bullshit explanation. Social reality is way more complex and there are other things that influence these results, as you have mentioned by mentioning the gender equality paradox. No you don't know, you don't even read the books or the current scientific research and it's very visible. My man, you say you want clarity but you are not willing to spend 10 minutes to clarify for yourself what 'gender fluidity' means by reading a wikipedia article about it. Gender-fluid is an identity that an INDIVIDUAL can have, not a fucking concept that everyone's gender is fluid, the hell. It just tells you that there are some individuals who don't have a stable gender identity. SOME. INDIVIDUALS. It is your misunderstanding of the basic meaning of the term 'gender-fluid', you don't even know what it relates to, as I have said above. Just read them for yourself if you care and don't listen to others' opinions. Otherwise, you will just end up as opinionatied as them. Ups, too late. Replication doesn't mean shit. I cannot replicate a tsunami hitting the Fukushima nuclear plant. Does that make the measurements of the impact invalid, because I can't measure it again? The fuck no. Every branch of science has a subbranch called Methodology and it deals solely with the problem of how to construct the research and do it properly. The replication problem you describe is meant to describe the shit that happens in STEM science, for example in chemistry, where mainly Chinese or Indian researchers mass-produce papers with fake results - they fail to prove something but write it worked to get money and points for publication, etc. Social science has different important issues than the replication problem. The problem with skipping them arises when these complexities are absolutely crucial for understanig the topic.

This is toxic spirituality. I would give you a kick to the ass if I ever had some permanent medical condition and you told to my face that I wished to be born with problems.

No no no man, you don't have proof for all that, now you are doing not more nuance, but more bias. You can't say it's because of genetics, because you DON'T KNOW that. You don't know causation and many other things. It's safe to always just share the insight of HOW you see things to be and not WHY they are this way. Because without you being a researcher on the topic or directly citing some advanced paper, your reasons why will probably be very ungrounded. It's hard to explain the 'why' in most topics in social science. Stay aware that if you do hypotethical, ungrounded 'why's' then yours are as good as the opposite side's. Also you are mixing gender and sex all the time. Women this, women that, yes but being a woman is a cultural thing, culture makes up what being a woman means. It's what you do, not what you are. What it entails changes across time and cultures. "Do men have such encouragement from society? Nope. They become engineers at large because of their neurological wiring." Obviously they do. If you are a man then you get social acceptance of your choice and family support, etc. Lots of encouragement. My only thing I want you to take with you after this conversation. Get comfortable with not-knowing and don't assume you know why society looks a certain way, stay grounded with your observations. Some Peter Ralston would do you good and many other people at these forums.

This is such bullshit man, go study any social science at an uni, and then tell us how it is, not before doing that.

@Alexop If you read her then you should be aware of the distinction between sex and gender. On average, being of certain sex gives you advanteges in certain career like engineering. No-one disputes it. The same goes for an acquired cultural gender. "Men are more suited for engineering roles, and women are for nurses." If you think that this exact sentence wouldn't be published in a book, that's only if it were read in strawmanning-manner as completely lacking nuance, thus factually wrong. Nuance being it's only true on average, there's many women who excel in engineering roles. Another nuance would be what Bobby thinks about proportions of this tendency, true proportions can be scientifically found out more or less. Another is the inclusion of factors why is it so, not only sex but also the whole fucking society. No wonder less women are crane operators when all the safety equipment, etc is desgined male-sized. The same goes for rifles in the military, etc. Nuance and context, then you can say it.

Your numbers are straight out of ass. As a sociologist I have to oppose such statements. About your last statement. Clearly, you have not read much literature or even any literature on the topic and just share your imaginations about what is in the books and not what actually is in there. Start with some Judith Butler or something.

@Bobby_2021 The problem is her depression and bipolar. For me it was hell to even simply take care care of a person with a severe bipolar sympotoms for 1 day, and I was done, I can't imagine strain it would make on people who interact with that person everyday and on the person themsleves.

@Davino how the hell is 2-fluoro meth less toxic than MDMA I press the Doubt button, just based on the name. 4-AcO-DMT is the same as mushrooms in my experience and all the other psychedelics can get very deep, depending on the set and setting.

@Inliytened1 you are aware that the Old Testament stories are not accurate representations of history, right? Right??

All that is justified. What is not is the last chapters of this story. As I have said, they were bullied and became a bully themsleves.

@Inliytened1 You are biased and don't know history. Jews are not some uniquely prosecuted people when we speak of history thousands of years back. Back then, every people had outlandish founding myths. Who Israelites were fighting the most were othere -ites peoples who were their cousins. They were not migrating much, could be considered normal for that period. They were not the only people who migrated around the world. Somehow I feel if Freddy Merucry's people, Zoroastrians, suddenly organized and started grabbing land violently from other people, you wouldn't be defending them that they lost their original land. What the hell even is original land. That's such a biased concept. No country has original land in this world. Everything had been stolen because homo sapiens were not the first apes to migrate out of Africa. And for a long time humans weren't settling, they were just traveling around, and traveling around, for tens of thousands of years! Israel is abusing the power it have been given after the WWII. As a whole, they are acting like a bullied child becoming a bully themselves. They are at least as guilty as Russia is of its today's wars. In both countires there's no seen resistance to the aggressive actions of its leaders.

You are so wrong. Black people are humans. Robots are not. For this analogy to be consistent with your views you would need to replace robots with pigs or giant alien spiders. Which, when you look at it, shows that my position is sober and yours is promoting coping instead of building a healthy society.

The fuck you are wrong. We are biological creatures, humans, and not even close to some trans-human or post-human times were anyone would be okay with that bullshit. Some interesting things may happen, but in no way a robot will ever fully substitute for biological humans. Also, Love is about accepting the imperfections. And Life is about growing up and maturing. Way sooner AI can be an assistant, coach and therapist in one that helps people grow than substituting for human connection. That is realistic and healthy. What you propose is coping for the lack of connection. You need to be deep into the rabbit hole of AI not to notice how wrong and off the ideas you propose sound to an average person.

@Leo Gura There is a very popular drug forum named after popular TV series that is doing legality research in all of Europe right now.

@Leo Gura Yes, he has more CDs that are only that. I have listened to two of his CDs, so two at least.

@Thought Art You think 7% is a lot or not a lot? I think it's a small number. Especially for Canada, a country initially built on migration.

@Nivsch No it's not Israel not being "careful enough." They are fucking reckless on purpose, killing innocent lives, bringing misery. Israelis had been the assholes for a very long-time. If you treat all Palestinian as sub-humans and potential terrorists for decades, you get way more terrorists than you would get by treating them decently, with dignity, as different people, but equals. But no, you treat them as rats, and then, oh, how convenient, they bite back, and then you exterminate them. This is the zoomed-out view of the situation. Israel deserves international scrutiny, just like Russia has deserved its sanctions with its conquests. Israel is the more powerful actor, thus more responsibility lies on its shoulder. And let me tell you, it's not dealing with these responsibility skillfully. This is a mess. It's actually twisted how you defend Israel's government and military actions as sensible. Tell me, what is the goal of this aggression on Palestinian people? Do you really believe this goal is achievable? Through the means currently used? Delusional. Old Testament stories played out live once again. Jews coming to the so-called Promised Land and killing out its current inhabitants. Guys, the fuck when did you forget the "don't kill" commandment?

@Nivsch The thing is they are not doing the human shield strategy! Not at that scale. And also, there are international laws regarding what to do when the opponent is using the "human shield strategy." Let me tell you, it's not to fucking bomb doctors without borders and other international aid workers.

The hell is this AI image on the thumbnail of the video in the first post. @StarStruck You are not in a pickle. You are the one who acts cringe (based on this post and your other behaviors, of course I can't be sure, as I haven't witnessed the conversation you had with your friend) and shutting up about this topic in conversations with distant friends is indeed the right and socially calibrated thing to do.

@Thought Art synthetic before any contact with air is pure as snow. Here's a photo from chemistry forums:

@Chooky It's fresh and clean, it can get more color with exposure to light or air. Freshly made pure DMT for example is completely white as snow, but gets color with time.

Do you know how it had happened that Spain introduced such policy? Is that because of tourist-based economy in big swaths of the country or what?

Guys, you use some low-quality, unfitted condoms. I sometimes even prefer the condom over the no-condom sex. And can't imagine it slipping off during the act. Different penis' shapes I guess.