• newIdentity
    link
    fedilink
    181 year ago

    Just because something is construced/man made doesn’t mean it isn’t real

          • newIdentity
            link
            fedilink
            4
            edit-2
            1 year ago

            Gender identity is wayy to complex for a simple example and it’s at least partially something natural.

            Also I didn’t say that something invented has to be real.

            Even Dragons and Witches are real in their own context. They don’t exist in this world but they exist in the world of the stories being told about them.

          • @[email protected]
            link
            fedilink
            English
            3
            edit-2
            1 year ago

            Biological sex is importantly distinct from gender, and biological sex is quite real and crucial to differentiate in a medical setting.

            I work in biotech. I absolutely understand and agree that a person should be allowed to identify with whatever gender expression they want to.

            But in a clinical context: no. Full stop. Biological - that is, chromosomal and unaltered phenotypic - sex is very often a crucial data point to understand when testing or treating a patient. It’s science. Chemistry and biology do not give a flying fuck about anyone’s feelings or sensibilities on gender identity.

            Edit: as I hoped was very clearly evident from my comment, I am fully aware of the distinction between gender and biological sex. The only reason I even made the comment is because, even at the biotech I work with, sometimes people still conflate sex and gender. Lots of people cross it up all the time - intentionally or unintentionally.

          • @RobertOwnageJunior
            link
            21 year ago

            What do you mean, not real? I don’t like facism, but it’s still real. Saying something isn’t real doesn’t improve it.

  • @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    171 year ago

    This was one of the first posts that made me sign up for Reddit some 10+ years ago. Now I’ve been on Lemmy for a week and I see it again for the first time since.

    I’m choosing to take it as a good sign.

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      41 year ago

      It actually won’t explode, just implode. The process of becoming a red giant is quite gradual even by cosmological standards, taking about a billion years.

      I’d always kind of assumed the sun would hit some point of not having enough fuel to sustain the fusion reactions and everything going to hell pretty quickly, but I suppose it does make sense that it’s a slow process.

  • teft
    link
    fedilink
    21 year ago

    The sun will never explode. In a few billion years it will puff up to a red giant with a circumference somewhere around the orbit of earth or mars when it starts burning helium. After the helium runs out it will lose the outer layers and become a stellar remnant called a white dwarf. It’ll stay that way til it fades to darkness in a few hundred billion years. At no point will it explode as it doesn’t have enough mass to explode.