Nobody in the entire thread could be arsed to actually read the blog post but not far in they tell you...
An open source Vulkan driver on Windows opens up a number of possibilities: a shared codebase across platforms, easier debugging and experimentation, faster turnaround on fixes, and a path for the community (e.g., game developers) to report problems or contribute improvements that benefit everyone regardless of operating system.
Perhaps you'll start to feel/understand what's going on, and the possible paths that lead to the desire for gender change.
I had to come back and see how this thread developed. Was not disappointed. Of all the back and forth I think these are the most important statement you've made. I still believe, based on all my experience trying, you'll never educate those that are convinced they are correct, but at least maybe you can get them to show an ounce of compassion.
This is starting to feel like one of those online discussions that goes around in circles and doesn't accomplish very much at all.
Because you two are arguing two different things.
OK I've read all this and I'm still not seeing what these '17 types of brain' have to do with sex of the person in question.
These relate to the experience of gender.
Emphasis mine. Sex and Gender are two different concepts. Sex is a scientific definition, you have male, female, and various forms if intersex. Gender is a social construct that is typically defined by what's between your legs. But not always.
But if gender that you are can be determined unambiguously...that means what they're feeling is objectively different from reality, so by definition it's a delusion.
You're entitled to your opinion, there's mountains of research on the topic, you just don't like the conclusion.
and I've heard absolutely nothing that has persuaded me otherwise
That's a "you" problem.
Think of all the money that could be saved if that class was replaced by AI and their grift was invested in the well-being of normal humans. We could achieve the AI economy that could free so many people from grinding poverty and get a science fiction utopia.
Unfortunately we're going to get the Morloch/Eloi dystopia of H. G. Wells Time Machine, except the elites will consume the underclass. Think of the more recent Harkonnens in Dune.
Ignoring the fact that price fixing is a federal crime, they seem behave similarly to businessjerks with anti-social personality disorder (psychopaths). Is this really the future people want? It doesn't matter, the actual billionaire psychopaths are certain to be thrilled to have machines that are willing to be patently evil on their behalves.
Who gets to decide what's worthless?
Statistics do....
Statistics will tell you the likelihood of a specific degree landing a job and meeting a specific wage threshold. That's not a decision, that's just information that can be used to make decisions.
What's the threshold? "...the absolute highest chance..." is a copout answer. What's the acceptable risk for allowing* someone to get a degree? The degree has to have a 50% chance of being successful before you'll grant them a loan? A 99% chance?
How do you quantify the contributions to society from someone who gets a degree you consider to be "worthless"? We've already agreed that public service jobs are a worthy cause, because we're willing to forgive those loans, what other value-adds should be considered? Who gets to decide what constitutes "value"? Because I can all but guarantee you and I wouldn't agree on that.
Further, how do you answer that question when it's a degree that didn't exist before? There are no statistics on the viability of an "influencer" degree.
*And yes, I specifically chose the word "allowing" there. Mainly because there is a zero-percent chance I would have gotten a post-secondary education without access to cheap loans. I, like most of the people my age, missed the "work your way through college" boat.
I wonder how many more campaigns of harassment are ongoing
Look no further then every Trump/DOJ revenge prosecution in the last year, along with the ICE/gestapo masked anonymous death squads, and the concentration camps being built all over the country.
Example: relatives of the NYT reporters who broke the story on the Qatar Trump 747 bribe aircraft being unsafe had their phone records subpoenaed by the FBI.
Don't forget that you are paying for all of it and it's going to get far worse real soon.
I can be thick at times, too.
Ha. Yeah, there are certainly some topics that I'm pretty immovable on as well, but the willingness/openness to accept additional information is still necessary for a functioning society.
The most sophisticated hacks link together several small vulnerabilities before they ultimately break security. Just because it cannot be exploited on it's own doesn't mean it cannot be used as part of an exploit chain.
to people seeking worthless degrees.
Who gets to decide what's worthless?
but no loaning of money to take worthless classes
You do realize how nearly impossible it is to get out of student loans, right? Your options are 1) Pay them back. 2) Go into public service and get them forgiven, or 3) Die before they are paid off.
Your four examples are quite awful jobs.
To you? Obviously, yeah.
Who in hell would want to become that ?
Who the hell would want to be a cop? Or an accountant? Or an actuary? Or a port-a-potty cleaner? Or a miner? Or a farmer? Or a programmer? Or a doctor? Or an X? Or a Y? Or a Z? How many jobs could you come up with that you would absolutely abhor, but are required to have a functional society?
they had not chosen their field
Sounds like they should have went to school for something else, then.
Gender is a social construct
So is politics.
so studying it is equivalent to studying something imaginary?
No. See previous comment. Unless you also see things like Law, Politics, and Religion to be "imaginary" as well.
A hot take, but not entirely wrong.
But not correct, either.
Go deeper
I, for one, appreciate your effort to educate. But unfortunately you're probably wasting your time. My experience in trying to talk reasonably to unreasonable people is that it's generally ineffective. Getting someone to understand and acknowledge that their worldview is incomplete is a difficult task. It's like trying to explain the concept of "born gay" to someone who thinks reading a book about two boy penguins turned their son gay.
This would force every prediction market to...
I wish I shared your optimism. With the Trump Family's integration with these companies, and the current Patriarch running the government like it's his to do with as he pleases, I wouldn't be betting on any meaningful regulation of these "markets" any time soon. But hey, at least if you wanted to there's probably a "contract" out there for you to get in on.
The earth is like a tiny grain of sand, only much, much heavier.
