#961
bonobos are completely matriarchal and the status of a male rests only in his relationships with other females. once a high ranking male bonobo's mother dies, he completely loses his status in the community because his power was vested entirely in her. #meninism
#962
also, are episomes considered "female reproduction systems?" if so, i have some very controversial things to say about fertility oppression in bacteria.
#963
sorry about all my dumb jokes, i cant help myself
#964

gwarp posted:

bonobos are completely matriarchal and the status of a male rests only in his relationships with other females. once a high ranking male bonobo's mother dies, he completely loses his status in the community because his power was vested entirely in her. #meninism


How is it possible for an entire species to be this beta?

#965
they are very promiscuous, no male knows which child he fathers, so they have i guess what you could call a "communal" life history. there is very little intrapopulation conflict and interpopulation conflict is pretty much unknown. they seem to solve disputes through non-reproductive sexual acts, including homosexual behaviors (female to female is far more common than male to male). this peaceful "society" only exists because of how subordinate males are to females. makes u think...

well you would think monogamy would have lead to equality between the sexes in early human civilizations. but, from what i can remember, monogamy emerged relatively recently in Homo (like 2 mya or something, if not sooner) and modern humans are not entirely monogamous (there is a significant occurrence of polygyny).


none of this has anything to do with feminism though and it would be stupid to think it does.
#966

daddyholes posted:

le_nelson_mandela_face posted:

i'm reading the blog of a guy who's really thoughtful about the problems of liberalism and the race to the bottom of multipolar actors and it's an interesting read until at the end where he goes Therefore The Solution is Omnipotent AI

link



http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/

#967
he's generally got some good stuff on there especially the anti-reactionary faq and the anti-libertarian faq but he's a standard dipshit liberal tech worshiper with middle school opinions about socialism
#968
when i was in middle school and went to PSR (or was it CCD back then?) i decided communism was the only political philosophy consistent with christianity, even if it implied atheism.
#969
my other middle school opinions were that israel was a colonial state that should be dismantled and that 9/11 wasnt that big a deal
#970
also that dude is triggered by social justice people lmao
#971
people who avoid conflict on the internet are so funny to me
#972
i went to an orphanage in tecate, mexico for a presbyterian youth group thing once

we built a chapel and stayed on the orphanage with the kids for about a week

we couldnt use water as it was super scarce, no showers etc

in the town of tecate they did not seem to have fresh water and relied on "water trucks" to supply water for the public

it was middle school so that was a long time ago. things may have changed, but at least you can still buy a tecate beer and think of the good times

#973

c_man posted:

when i was in middle school and went to PSR (or was it CCD back then?) i decided communism was the only political philosophy consistent with christianity, even if it implied atheism.



it was probably ccd and you were objectively correct.

#974

le_nelson_mandela_face posted:

also that dude is triggered by social justice people lmao



you might know this. i feel like the use of "social justice" to mean "anything scary to me" started with glenn beck in like 2009. did that happen before then that you noticed?

#975
CCD is for poseurs. Real Catholics went to parochial schools
#976
real catholics hack their own genitals off. there arent many
#977
Matthew 19:12
#978
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#979
https://twitter.com/Matt_VanDyke/status/568534798429519872
#980
http://www.reddit.com/user/tiny_cumming_toddler?count=25&after=t1_copzvyv

check out this dude. belligerent racist antisemititic tranny from west virginia. i love the internet
#981
*glances at url*

0_0

no thx.
#982

le_nelson_mandela_face posted:

http://www.reddit.com/user/tiny_cumming_toddler?count=25&after=t1_copzvyv

check out this dude. belligerent racist antisemititic tranny from west virginia. i love the internet

#983
http://gawker.com/you-could-rob-all-these-rich-peoples-houses-during-the-1687426396
#984

le_nelson_mandela_face posted:

daddyholes posted:

le_nelson_mandela_face posted:

i'm reading the blog of a guy who's really thoughtful about the problems of liberalism and the race to the bottom of multipolar actors and it's an interesting read until at the end where he goes Therefore The Solution is Omnipotent AI

link

http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/

is there some weird personality cult around this guy? i feel like i see clueless liberals linking to the blog a lot.

#985
http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/01/01/untitled/
#986

Makeshift_Swahili posted:

le_nelson_mandela_face posted:

daddyholes posted:

le_nelson_mandela_face posted:

i'm reading the blog of a guy who's really thoughtful about the problems of liberalism and the race to the bottom of multipolar actors and it's an interesting read until at the end where he goes Therefore The Solution is Omnipotent AI

link

http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/

is there some weird personality cult around this guy? i feel like i see clueless liberals linking to the blog a lot.



he's pretty bright and has some good points especially if you're a STEM liberal but he congenitally Does Not Get It

#987

gyrofry posted:

http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/01/01/untitled/



But let’s be clear. There is a Star Wars metaphor to be made here.

#988

gyrofry posted:

http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/01/01/untitled/



god that's awful lol

#989
i just noticed today my state has a republican governor now. i guess he won an election back in november. its pretty cool being so detached from mainstream politics
#990
my county went hard democrat but it didnt matter because the rest of maryland is rich/middle class racist white people
#991
Living in America, no matter where you are, you are constantly surrounded by racists.
#992
"LE." - HAL 9000, French dub
#993
So.. I've had three sets of genitalia in the past year and a half. Started over a year ago with having SRS, during the procedure the operating surgeon cut into my colon and tried to repair it during the procedure.
I was sent home without a proper backup plan, as the repair failed a week or so after returning home. My local physician had no idea on what to do, and tried to set me up with a local surgeon... who ended performing surgery to bypass the fistula, and giving me an ostomy. They did no measuring or marking of the ostomy site which has lead to its own complications of me /relieving/ myself everywhere when I bend. It's humiliating, and has kept me stuck laying in bed for most of my day.
Shortly after that procedure I was /allowed/ to dilate, but only after my vagina has completely collapsed(and being told it wouldn't be an issue by the operating surgeon). This devastated me, and I have not recovered from it.
Have had several failed procuedres after that to try and fix the fistula site, and most recently I've had a Mcindoe procedure performed to construct a new neo vagina... It's constantly scarring over itself, and has no sensation. So, you know, it's /fixed/ and everything's good?
In the process I've lost the majority of my social support. Most of my time is spent alone, with a caregiver, or at some sort of medically related appointment. It's all left me depressed, hopeless, and suicidal..
#994
our thoughts and prayers are with you as you transition through this difficult time of healing
#995
mods please change xhir name to gloryoat steinem in honor of xhir struggle for femininity.
#996
TyNX2Z1Au5Q
#997

le_nelson_mandela_face posted:

So.. I've had three sets of genitalia in the past year and a half. Started over a year ago with having SRS, during the procedure the operating surgeon cut into my colon and tried to repair it during the procedure.
I was sent home without a proper backup plan, as the repair failed a week or so after returning home. My local physician had no idea on what to do, and tried to set me up with a local surgeon... who ended performing surgery to bypass the fistula, and giving me an ostomy. They did no measuring or marking of the ostomy site which has lead to its own complications of me /relieving/ myself everywhere when I bend. It's humiliating, and has kept me stuck laying in bed for most of my day.
Shortly after that procedure I was /allowed/ to dilate, but only after my vagina has completely collapsed(and being told it wouldn't be an issue by the operating surgeon). This devastated me, and I have not recovered from it.
Have had several failed procuedres after that to try and fix the fistula site, and most recently I've had a Mcindoe procedure performed to construct a new neo vagina... It's constantly scarring over itself, and has no sensation. So, you know, it's /fixed/ and everything's good?
In the process I've lost the majority of my social support. Most of my time is spent alone, with a caregiver, or at some sort of medically related appointment. It's all left me depressed, hopeless, and suicidal..



our understanding of genetics and eukaryotic cell culture is exponentially increasing so that within the next few years we'll probably be able to grow whatever body part a person needs and just stitch it on. sex reassignment surgeries may seem crude now, but they will be flawless within a few years imo.

#998
i disagree. i would actually be very surprised if we see any sort of regeneration-based treatments for tissue beyond things like skin within like 30 or so years, just because of the complexity of the regulatory mechanisms involved
#999
i shouldn't have said "few years." what i meant is that "we know it's there" and "we just have to get there now." but i guess it's like that for everything in science...

once the use of CRISPRs as a tool for DNA modification becomes widespread, the progress of research will explosively increase. it will be so insane to not have to go through the usual bullshit of endonuclease cleaving, insertion, identification, etc. etc. etc. just reference the human genome, pick the gene you want, and have the CRISPR make it for you in any cell you are playing with. if i was a wiser person i would get in on this kind of stuff immediately.

but yeah, you're right. im way too biased by bacteria. a mammalian cell is quite a bit different from e. coli...

shit, i should have thought of that. we can probably just do a reverse transcription of the mRNA of something like a penis cell now and figure out exactly what it is that makes a penis. but how the cells of the penis interact as a tissue itself and the organism as a whole is completely lost to me. dam...

wow, so dumb... how are you even going to have only the genes you find in the cDNA on in the tissue you hope to make for someone...

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#1000
i cant even begin to think how people are able to study that kind of thing. it seems almost impossible.