Communism is a stateless, classless and moneyless society. Of course there need to be structures in place to ensure it stays that way, because having a powerful few would have reintroduced classes. Thats why you need stable, democratic governance, for example federated councils or something similar.

most people rather tune out ‘the noise’ and live their lives being blissfully ignorant

I’d argue that’s not an intrinsic feature of humans, but the result of capitalist alienation. On the one hand, the individual has very little chance to participate in the decision making process, and people are overworked so they barely have the energy or time to do so, even if they wanted to

:3

Proton is just a compatibility layer, not a virtual machine or emulator. So while the specifics vary from game to game, in general, performance is comparable. In my experience it’s just as stable and often faster than on windows (at least on AMD GPUs. But Nvidia has gotten better as well)

Because if it didn’t, we wouldn’t be here having this discussion

This. Treat it like a fancy monitor, and run whatever you need on an external device. You can use an old laptop or a newer raspberry pi

It’s fair to want to learn (and it’s certainly a good skill to have), but the question is what you’d rather see in a large, production environment. Guard rails are usually there for a reason. As for the control: you actually can program memory-unsafe (and in kernel development you often have to!) in Rust. The difference is that in Rust it’s explicitly marked by an unsafe block:

unsafe {
  ...
}

That way you get the same, fine-grained control over low-level processes, but someone else reading your code can at a glace spot where potential memory bugs may be.

In the end, languages are a tool. Especially for personal projects, everyone should just go with what’s fun to them. I personally think it makes sense, logistically, to slowly transition legacy C-based projects to Rust, because it makes onboarding new developers easier, while keeping the same memory safety that requires years of experience otherwise, basically for free. But there’s really no rush to rewrite anything that’s working well in Rust

They explicitly said to build dual power. Or do you believe you can vote your way out of this?

Instead, the US bars people from voting!

The amount of emotions you superimpose

???

highly repeatable avenue to gain an advantage.

who would do this? seriously

What are you trying to say? You’re either saying being trans is a choice (yikes!)

Or you’re saying cis men would go through years of transition, crippling dysphoria from transitioning into the wrong gender, the social ostracization that comes from being transgender in general and a trans athlete in specific, all to… get a potential, marginal advantage? That’s a fantasy.

Either way, I don’t get your point

that’s not how that works, quantum entanglement can not be used to transmit information and thus doesn’t violate causality

HRT is already mandatory to compete at basically every level. The whole “you can just identify as a woman and compete” is scaremongering by transphobes.

Someone can be born a man, reap the benefits of a male puberty(bone structure, height, ect.), then become a trans woman athlete. That is a completely controllable path that circumvents some amount of training and preparation other participants in the sport have to do.

You make it sound like being trans is a choice one can make to give themselves an advantage, and let me just say, yikes. Being trans is not a completely controllable path, just as your height or if you’re left handed is not.

The median trans woman is likely taller than the median cis woman. This does not justify why she should be excluded. We don’t treat other categories like this, either. The median Dutch woman is taller than the median Korean woman. But you don’t see politicians making a fuss about the Dutch in sports, now do you?

My question about trans men was to clarify what you previously called “biologically male”, which you seem to mean “experienced testosterone puberty” (strange definition, but sure)

As for your second point, I’m confused, why are you talking about male athletes now? You’re aware that having experienced testosterone puberty at some point is not the same as having a testosterone dominated body? Muscle density and mass, fat distribution, some cardiovascular effects, and many more things that are associated with testosterone are impermanent, and disappear/shift towards a estrogen-typical distribution when testosterone is suppressed (over the span of 1-2 years, with some variance)

Height and bone structure are some of the few things that don’t change on HRT. Which brings me back to one of my old points: Why should a cis woman that is 1.80m tall be allowed to compete, but a trans woman should not?

They got unbanned, but it eroded trust that it won’t happen again

Not to be confused with “Panzerschokolade” (tank chocolate), distributed in the 1940s, which was chocolate with meth.

Some contributer got flagged by US sanctions based on their IP, I think

That’s a curious definition, as that makes trans men biologically male as well? “Would experience male puberty” is also really, really vague. As I’ve asked before, what about a trans woman that went on puberty blockers early and never got a testosterone puberty?

The only reason I replied to this thread is because you asked for a single example of a trans person dominating a sport

Yes, and I’ve told you that a trans person winning in college sports, while still performing well within the margins of other cis women, is not “dominating a sport”, rather, it would be weird if no trans person won every now and again, because there are a lot of trans people and a lot of people playing sports.

Imagine if people talked about any other group of people in sports like it has been become acceptable to talk about trans women. Did you know that white racists protested against black women participating in sports because they were perceived as “too manly”?

Equating genetic outcomes (e.g. height) and advantages gained through a male or female puberty is a mathematical malpractice. Any advantages gained through male puberty will be seen across an entire biologically male population. Whereas genetic lottery outcomes are less predictable and more sparse.

What do you define as “biologically male” here? This is a term often used by bigots, so I just want to make sure we’re on the same base. Biology isn’t binary, far from it. Intersex people are the ones most often caught up in any sort of gender testing for sports. Most of them don’t even know they are intersex, and find out through some competition excluding them. And what about trans women that went on puberty blockers early, that never went through a testosterone-driven puberty? While the advantage for someone who did go through puberty is debatable and varies from discipline to discipline, for someone who didn’t it’s non-existent. Would you agree that it’s only fair that they should be allowed to compete? Where do you draw the line then?

If the handful of trans athletes are mostly top performers, it could indicate that their participation hinders the competitiveness of the competition.

And you are getting this claim from where, exactly? This is pure conjecture on your part

Once again, the same is true for many other factors. Long legs help to be good at running, I’d presume, but we’re not measuring femurs for college sports. And the variation in top performers does not exist, at least not in the way you’re impling. Trans people are actually statistically underrepresented in competitive sports.

The singular focus on a handful of trans athletes, while actively misgendering those same athletes, is a hate and harassment campaign spread by people who couldn’t care less about fairness in sport.

So someone won at a college competition. About 1% of people are trans, so you’ll see some winners. It’d be weirder if you didn’t. The records stated there, 25s for the women’s 200? The world record has been <22s for decades now. That’s not exactly “dominating a sport”.

But do you notice how everyone quoted in the article is actively transphobic, misgendering her and another athlete? If this was truly about sports, why go to that length? You could have a nuanced, respectful debate about fairness in sport. Yet whenever the topic is trans people, it’s always those that already deny their very existence that are the most ‘concerned about fairness’. This has never been about sport.

This is just a convenient front for the right’s culture war bullshit. Don’t fall for it.