100 acres is less than a sixth of a square mile, and Bessemer City doesn’t use a ton of electricity, being as rural as it is.

The endangered species is more concerning, but feels solvable if they use environmentally conscious design practices with regards to the waterway.

Idk, I think that new data centers are something of a “necessary evil” in our modern society, and they have to be built somewhere.

I think it’s presumptuous that only a certain income level is going to have access to this. It very much depends on the scalability of the treatment. Nearly everyone in the entire nation got the COVID vaccine, and those that didn’t weren’t due to lack of financial means. Just because you assert this will be reserved for the ultra wealthy doesn’t make it so.

The rest of what you said is borderline unintelligible, but I’ll give it a shot.

Sure, it would probably be difficult to “un-black” a baby or something, as there are a ton of genetic markers that inform what we think of as “blackness.” But just because it’s hard, doesn’t mean it can’t be done.

And you say that Eugenics “is a vocal minority,” which I presume to mean that most people are anti-eugenics. But, as you say, we live in a capitalist hellscape. It would be entirely possible for a billionaire to run a “un-black your baby for a chance to win a million dollars” campaign (a’la the Elon Musk voting drive), and have that take off in a big way.

And all that assumes that people wouldn’t be driven to it by simple desire for conformity. It’s easy to justify a lot of things under the “my child would have a much better life if they just weren’t… fill in the blank.” In the modern climate as an example, there would probably be a lot of Hispanic people saying things like, “my child probably wouldn’t get abducted by ICE if they just were more white passing.” And that’s terrible, obviously, but I guarantee it would happen. Not every mother. Not even a majority. But a good number would.

But what does bodily autonomy mean when this will almost certainly be primarily used in utero? Should I be able to use CRISPR to keep my baby from being born with Downs?

Should I be able to use it to make my baby less prone to other diseases? Make them taller?
Change their race? Add interesting modifications that I think would be cool, like an extra set of arms or gills or something?

What does bodily autonomy mean for a fetus?

I mean, sure, if you ignore all of history. What if I was using CRISPR to prevent a child from being born black or brown?

Hell, what if I used it to keep a kid from being born deaf? The deaf community is one that’s very outspoken about exactly that kind of treatment as a form of eugenics, as it is a potential existential threat to their culture.

I mean, this will be used in utero waaaaay before it’s applied to a full adult human. Far easier to change the cells when there are only a few, and they haven’t already started to effect development.

But it’s hard to get informed consent in utero.

Probably sriracha.

It really really isn’t.

One county in a deep red part of New York had 0 votes for Kamala. That same county had 0 votes for Biden last election. In a state that Kamala won.

This has very, “how come there were 30 points swings in the polls in under an hour” energy that MAGA had when mail-in ballots got processed in Pennsylvania and Arizona in 2020.

But this doesn’t even pass the smell test. Even if it was fraud, why? They just decided to do it in a suspicious way in a state they were never gonna win in the first place? What’s the end game? Why make it zero votes at all? Why do it in New York?

Depends on how you define AI to some degree, but yeah. Protein folding has basically been solved in the past few years with neural-network based AI systems.

I was referring to 2014 when I said that, but it’s neither here nor there. Especially since it’s not like Iran hasn’t been actively shooting missiles at Israel for decades.

And I’m not stan-ing for Israel here. I agree that their behavior has been terrible and has been doing terrible things to their neighbors. But that is in fact something that has changed that could push Iran towards a nuclear option. And as bad as Israel is being, it would still be very very bad if Iran nukes them.

I mean, Russia “hadn’t chosen” to invade Ukraine for decades, and then they did. Things can, and in fact do change.

And it’s not like the past year has been super calm in the region. Israel (who they would almost certainly be using the nukes on) has been popping off. So that seems like a pretty good reason to “now so choose” that wasn’t the case a decade ago (to the same degree).

I think you’re thinking too short term.

If they went for 15yrs before they Extinguish, and they’re able to capture 99% of the newcomers to the space, a lot of the current users will have moved on for various other reasons. So the expectation that things would reset to how they are now is false.

Many, if not most, of the people who are here now likely won’t be in 15+ years just due to generalized attrition.

My immediate reaction as well.

While I don’t disagree that this point is almost exclusively made by trolls, the way you’ve phrased this implies you think they’re correct in pointing out that it’s a contradiction to no support trans-racial people.

Trans-racial people clearly exist to some small degree (Rachel Dolozov being the famous example). Should people be defending her choice to identify as black, since race is just a social construct?

As an example, the lawsuit alleged that Faust and other white, male farmers are charged a $100 “administration fee” to participate in one program that exempts women and minority farmers from paying the same fee. In another example, Faust “participates in a USDA program that guarantees 90% of the value of loans to white farmers, but 95% to women and racial minorities,” according to the report.

While I’m not exactly sympathetic to the “plight of the white man,” it is a little weird (if true) that the USDA can have a “white men only fee” for some programs.

My understanding was that most DEI initiatives were built around breaking up old-boys-clubs by requiring preference for minority businesses when all other factors are considered equal. The above doesn’t really feel like that.

To be fair, that would require 3 sides, as you need to split the “can’t differentiate between sex and nudity” side by gender still.

Perhaps to make the division specifically on secondary sex characteristics? Like, a “with penis” and “without penis” side?

It says in the article they were fine with people who had had bottom surgery using the women’s side. And I’m not sure if that would run afoul of any anti discrimination laws? Idk, it’s a weird case.

Woah, that’s nuts. I feel like most missiles don’t reach target in Israel. Maybe that’s cause most are aimed at Jerusalem and the Iron Dome though?

I mean, “matter”? I guess it doesn’t.

But you were saying things would have been different if they hadn’t all voted for Trump. I was just pointing out that they probably didn’t for the most part.

What percentage of these people do you think voted for Trump in the first place?

I think at the end of the day what we are disagreeing over is the word plausible.

If we both picked a random address somewhere in North America, is it plausible that we would happen to pick the same one? It’s possible, certainly, but vanishingly unlikely. Unlikely to the point that, if we did, I would presume something other than random chance was to blame. That is what I’m contesting here.

I agree that TERFs are orders of magnitude more likely to assault someone than the average person. I agree that assault is proceeded by harassment. I agree that women have been assaulted in recent memory over this very issue.

I agree with everything you’ve said. But none of that makes it “plausible” in the sense that it happening is something I would reasonably expect to happen. The statistical odds of it happening are relevant, in that they are so remote as to make the alternative explanation that it’s satire a vastly more plausible explanation. So much so that, when I read the headline, I immediately knew it was satire, and find it concerning that people didn’t.

Sure, if I orchestrated two TERFs who might be mistaken as trans to go into the same bathroom at the same time, this might be a plausible outcome. But that orchestration is the required step. The scenario where they do go into the bathroom at the same time is the absurd part, and what makes this clearly satire.

And, as an aside, I disagree with you about the mech suits. We do have mechanical exoskeleton prototypes. They’re not very practical for 99% of use cases, so they aren’t really used. But it’s not unfathomable that I could get one and ride it to work sometime in the next decade. It’s certainly not plausible, but it’s something I could make happen if I tried really hard to force it probably. Much like the thing we’re talking about.